September 2010
27 posts
BlackBerry Playbook Preview Video
(via João Bordalo)
Sadly mostly computer generated “fancyness” and weird “artsy” shots rather than a video of people using the thing.
I’m guessing people at BlackBerry’s marketing department think they need to do more than show the product in order to sell it.
I hate this type of ads.
Lessons of the Chewbacca Incident
Lessons of the Chewbacca Incident « Binary Bonsai
Interesting web traffic statistics. The top news sites on the web compared by the amount of traffic generated and time spent on the article.
I wasn’t very interested in the original article but this one was cool.
Xmarks Sync to be Discontinued
Xmarks Sync to be Discontinued: “Sadly, Xmarks will be shutting down our free browser synchronization service on January 10, 2011. “
(Via Lifehacker)
So much for my cross-browser syncing…
For the umpteenth time, copy 'protection' only...
Editorial: For the umpteenth time, copy ‘protection’ only hurts people who actually buy your product — Engadget: “It’s been said so many times, but I just got stung hard by the DRM bug, and since there’s a ‘Senior Associate Editor’ next to my name somewhere I get to complain about it. Now, if you’re a regular consumer with a modicum of common...
What's Wrong With Schooling (instructionism)
What’s Wrong With Schooling - Unweary: “As long as any educational pursuit approaches learning from this perspective alone, young people will continue to enter the global workforce unprepared for the demands of the modern economy.
I want my children’s minds to be factories for new ideas, not just warehouses of facts and procedures.”
CIA used illegal, inaccurate code to target kill...
CIA used ‘illegal, inaccurate code to target kill drones’ • The Register: “During a conference call the next day, Netezza CEO Jim Baum repeated Shepherd’s claims that national security demanded IISi’s help, according to the deposition. Shepherd suggested the CIA would accept untested code in chunks, Zimmerman said.
‘My reaction was one of stun, amazement that...
This is a news website article about a scientific...
This is a news website article about a scientific finding | Martin Robbins | Science | guardian.co.uk: “In this paragraph I will state the main claim that the research makes, making appropriate use of ‘scare quotes’ to ensure that it’s clear that I have no opinion about this research whatsoever.
In this paragraph I will briefly (because no paragraph should be more than one...
Xiph.org Lectures on Digital Media etc
Xiph.org: Video: “Xiph.Org has undertaken a series of self-produced videos to spread techie-level knowledge about digital media as well as our own work involving new media research.
We’ve just completed the first video in what we hope to be a long, fruitful series about the science and engineering of modern digital media!”
Sadly, it’s only available in weird unsupported...
iTunes' Ping Network Now Works with Your Music...
iTunes’ Ping Network Now Works with Your Music Library: ” at first you could only ‘like’ or ‘post’ songs you’d purchased or found in the iTunes Store. Now Ping explorers can share music from their own libraries.”
Finally now it’s actually functional. Before it was completely useless since I only have 1 album (out of 200ish GB) bought via...
links for 2010-09-24
Project: Starfighter
space shooter:
26 missions over 4 star systems
Primary and Secondary Weapons (including a laser cannon and a charge weapon)
A weapon powerup system
Wingmates
Missions with Primary and Secondary Objectives
A Variety of Missions (Protect, Destroy, etc)
13 different music tracks
Boss battles
(tags: free opensource linux mac...
links for 2010-09-23
Ninite for Linux
Ninite installs multiple apps at once without any hassles.
Choose the apps you want below and then click Get Installer. We make a custom .deb package for Ubuntu that will add the proper APT repositories and keys and then install the apps for you.
(tags: free software linux)
Open source anti-theft...
Password Reuse
I proved this point with netcat and an ftp server almost 10yrs ago. None of the people that watched the demo learned the lesson (afaik)… just can’t be helped.
UN - United Nazis
UN Experts - Israel Flotilla Raid Broke Int’l Law - NYTimes.com: “The U.N. Human Rights Council’s fact-finding mission concluded that Israel’s naval blockade of the Palestinian territory was unlawful because of the humanitarian crisis there, and described the military raid on the flotilla as brutal and disproportionate.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry responded late Wednesday...
Codebits 2010
After attending in 2007 & 2008, skipping 2009 (I was studying in Rome, Italy at the time), I applied for codebits 2010 a couple weeks ago and proposed a talk last week.
Today I got the email saying my application has been accepted.
See you there.
PS: Don’t forget to vote for my talk, The Magical Art Of Extracting Meaning From Data: Data Mining And Machine Learning For The Web....
The Sound of Inevitability: Nintendo loses sales...
Nintendo loses sales chief in face of iPod effect | iPodNN: “Nintendo today said its executive VP of sales and marketing Cammie Dunaway was leaving the company in a possible sign of a shakeup following its struggling game business and competition with Apple.”
Saw that coming years ago. It’s about time.
“Her departure carries significant timing as it comes while the...
Anssi Vanjoki on Android
FT.com / Lex - Nokia: double or quits: “Anssi Vanjoki, outgoing head of Nokia’s smartphone division, likens mobile phone makers that adopt Google’s software to Finnish boys who ‘pee in their pants’ for warmth in the winter. Temporary relief is followed by an even worse predicament.”
(Via Engadget)
links for 2010-09-19
Tweet Nest
A browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for your tweets
(tags: archive backup opensource twitter web software free)
links for 2010-09-17
Machine Learning - igvita.com
(tags: machine-learning ai ruby)
links for 2010-09-15
Amarino - “Android meets Arduino” - Home
Normally smartphone events are tightly coupled to your phone device itself. When your cell phone is ringing, your phone speaker plays a ringtone. When you get a new text message, your phone displays it on its screen. Wouldn’t it be thrilling to make thoses phone events visible somewhere else, on your...
Nokia hires Peter Skillman, former Palm Design VP,...
Nokia hires Peter Skillman, former Palm Design VP, as MeeGo user experience chief (update: confirmed) — Engadget
Smart. WebOS is probably the only OS out there today that even gets remotely close to iOS in terms of user experience. The others OSes, such as Android and Symbian, have more in common with 90’s engineering/scientific calculator machines: too much functionality crammed in...
links for 2010-09-14
mykeepass’s Profile - GitHub
(tags: iphone code programming)
links for 2010-09-11
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
(tags: archive digital free history photography publicdomain images)
Free fonts for both commercial and noncommercial use | FontPark.net
(tags: free fonts typography)
Real-time Collaborative Programming
...
Google Instant
Google Instant: “Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. “
links for 2010-09-08
Heroku | Ruby Cloud Platform as a Service
(tags: cloud ruby rubyonrails hosting programming web development)
wikileakileaks by Gawker
Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Assange Rape Case Reopened: “wikileakileaks.org has been launched by the chief editor of Gawker to give Wikileaks a taste of its own medicine. You can find links to details on the molestation charges there”
I wonder if gizmodo will start offering money for Julian Assange’s “lost” gadgets.
Gawker Media should have “Gawker,...
links for 2010-09-01
samuelclay’s NewsBlur at master - GitHub
(tags: web programming code opensource rss django python software)
Video: Flash on Android Is Shockingly Bad
Video: Flash on Android Is Shockingly Bad:
Lol this is sooooo much like the experience my friends got when they tried to show me flash on their devices - some even tried over 3G and there’s the fact that 80% of all interesting non-adult flash content (TV shows & Movies) is blocked outside of the US. But no matter. It was a painful lesson in patience since I had to stand there and wait...
