December 2010
15 posts
Random thought...
You know, the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is really a story about the perils of privatizing public services…
RIP Rosie The Riveter →
iPhone fragmentation
To say that there is no fragmentation in the iPhone (and I include the iPod Touch in this category) is simply wrong.
Between the 2G, 3G, 3Gs, iPhone 4, and the various iPod Touch models there are:
Two different CPUs (manufacturers, not instruction set)
Three different CPU speeds
Two different GPUs
Two different Screen resolutions
Between three different camera configurations
Four different...
Rule of Thumb...
It isn’t xMas until you cut yourself. Though in this case it wasn’t actually my thumb.
8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study | Wired... →
We discovered that bumblebees can use a combination of colour and spatial relationships in deciding which colour of flower to forage from
And that right there is just cool
“Ergo Cato Yum”
Dog Island →
Dog Island is one of my favorite internet Hoaxes. An island sanctuary where 2,892 live a “natural” lifestyle free from human interference and demands. My favorite part is that the dogs live “lives unfettered by humiliation due to forced public defecation.”
Indeed…
notes on "how to clone delicious in 48 hours" →
I great post on all the things that go into a webapp. It all seems so easy right? Though on a personal note I would vastly simplify #1 by using OpenID and Janrains awesome Engage product for the login Dialog.
TSA misses enormous, loaded .40 calibre handgun in... →
Oh yeah, this makes me feel safe. I have said it before and I will say it again: most of what the TSA does is theater that doesn’t make us safer.
So instead of banning toner carts, I wish they would just focus on what has been proven to work
