Saturday, November 02, 2013 
Three Guys Built a Better Healthcare.gov. (Good old American ingenuity. Hire em! :-)
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Gmail Stays Up as Google Rejects Microsoft DMCA Takedown Notice.
torrentfreak.com 'Let Me Stress How Shocking These NSA Revelations Are': A View From Inside the Defense World.
theatlantic.com It doesn't happen very often when there's a true tech breakthrough, but this is one of those moments.
scripting.com No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.
nytimes.com John Robinson: The opportunity for the News & Record -- reinvent before it's too late.
johnlrobinson.com Then-And-Now Photos Of Anne Frank's Amsterdam Will Stop You In Your Tracks.
huffingtonpost.com
Friday, November 01, 2013
Snowden Asks U.S. to Stop Treating Him Like a Traitor. (Good to see they changed the headline.)
nytimes.com JetBlue and Delta Now Allow Passengers to Gadgets During Takeoff and Landing.
abcnews.go.com NYT: Snowden Appeals to U.S. for Clemency. (Did he actually call it clemency?)
nytimes.com Page by Page, Men Are Stepping Into the 'Lean In' Circle.
nytimes.com Poof! There goes the scaling problem. And the need to raise money or sell the users to advertisers.
scripting.com How to say goodbye to everyone at a party: don't.
kottke.org Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday morning. 2AM becomes 1AM.
timeanddate.com The question of the Internet: Why wasn't I consulted?
ftrain.com Yochai Benkler: Congress should grant Edward Snowden amnesty.
theguardian.com Unprecedented safeguards in place for Sunday's NYC marathon.
amny.com Evernote founder Phil Libin: NSA is undermining consumer confidence.
theguardian.com Lamborghini salesman shatters coast-to-coast 'Cannonball' speed record.
cnn.com Comcast is donating heavily to defeat the mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle.
washingtonpost.com WSJ: It's No iPad, But North Korea's Tablet Isn't a Joke Either.
blogs.wsj.com
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Feminism is for Everyone: The Winning Pitch. Love it. Everyone wins. This works.
3percentconf.com Federal appeals court reinstates most of Texas' abortion restrictions.
foxnews.com Dehumanizing people by turning them into labels is very dangerous stuff.
scripting.com Google wants to dock mystery barge in San Francisco.
news.cnet.com Watch The Guy Who's Been Stealing Banksys Get Arrested.
gothamist.com AWS SDK for JavaScript in the Browser. (Excellent. I have a perfect application for this.)
aws.typepad.com Marc Canter explains multimedia 20 years ago. It's really concise, passionate and powerful.
youtube.com NYT review: 'Ender's Game,' With Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield.
nytimes.com It's the last day of October, and presumably the last day of Banksy's residency. What do we have to look forward to! :-)
banksyny.com FAA: "Allow passengers to safely use their devices in airplane mode, gate-to-gate, by the end of the year."
faa.gov A couple of comments in rebuttal of the Boing Boing piece.
scripting.com FAA to allow tablets and e-readers during all phases of flight.
nbcnews.com FWIW, I'm pretty sure the founder and CEO of Pinterest is male. I heard him speak at YCombinator startup school last year.
My two cents, try flipping the genders in this piece and imagine it was a man making generalizations about women.
medium.com Why Pinterest Is Seriously Valuable (and What It's Teaching Men in Power).
medium.com
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
After Walt Mossberg and David Pogue: Waiting for the Next Great Technology Critic.
newyorker.com Six steps Silicon Valley can take to protect users from NSA spying.
news.cnet.com NFL meets with Native American representatives over use of 'Redskins'.
theguardian.com Do you believe Google didn't know the NSA had hacked their internal network?
wired.com If you really want developer cacophony, lots of crazy innovation, you have to let go of all control.
scripting.com NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say.
washingtonpost.com Hackable and open are the same thing as far as I'm concerned.
scripting.com In a world with a broken 4th Amendment driverless cars sound kind of scary.
fastcoexist.com Driverless Cars Sound Awesome, But The Actual Economic Impact Is Going To Blow Your Mind.
fastcoexist.com Twitter Just Filled Your Feed With Photos. Advertisers Will Be Pleased.
fastcompany.com Are the world's chat apps really worth $48 billion?
usv.com CJR: The failure to factcheck "You can keep it".
cjr.org NSA intercepts Google, Yahoo traffic overseas: report.
reuters.com Buzzfeed: How To Get Tossed Out Of Twitter's Road Show.
buzzfeed.com We're all going to be looking for Plan B at some point, where Plan A is Twitter.
scripting.com Twitter hit with $124 million lawsuit over private stock sale.
reuters.com Johns Hopkins medical unit rarely finds black lung, helping coal industry defeat miners' claims.
publicintegrity.org BTW, people who think they're fighting racism and sexism by being racist and sexist are fools.
It's sad because the piece they were commenting on imho deserved more thought, not such superficial dismissal.
bbs.boingboing.net The comments on last night's Boing Boing piece point out the sexism, racism and ageism in the piece.
bbs.boingboing.net What the hell I've decided to work on my Google-Plus profile. I forgot why I wasn't willing to use it.
plus.google.com Great comment: Tech news is about traffic, not ideas.
scripting.com Astronaut Chris Hadfield ejected from movie theatre for loudly heckling Gravity.
thebeaverton.com
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
We will need a Plan B for linkblogging, soon.
Why Twitter Just Turned Itself Inside Out. (As predicted, it's becoming Facebook. It has to.)
buzzfeed.com Re app.net, see paragraph 5 in this piece. Problem is this: revocable openness.
scripting.com Twitter pulls a Facebook, fills your stream with photos and videos -- but will it help or hurt?
gigaom.com Joe Lhota: Republican Sandy Foes Like Tom Coburn Shouldn't Use NYC As An "ATM".
nydailynews.com I was saying the software they review is like Saturday morning television, not the reviews themselves. It helps to read not skim!
As much as I like the picture, the Boing Boing reviewer read the piece too quickly, and got it wrong.
boingboing.net Man I look pretty damn good in a cowboy hat. Like I mean it. ;-)
boingboing.net StubHub tickets for tomorrow night's World Series Game 6 in Boston. $900 for standing room in right field.
stubhub.com With Twitter getting ready to go public, it seems pretty likely they'll end up in a feature race with Facebook.
scripting.com Democratic Congressman Blows Up At GOP During Obamacare Hearing: 'Are You Really Serious?'.
thinkprogress.org Monthlong Chase Around New York City for Banksy's Street Art.
nytimes.com EFF: Staff Technologist or Senior Staff Technologist.
eff.org Dispatch Adds Unified Inbox, Dropbox Integration, and More.
lifehacker.com Embattled NSA chief Keith Alexander rejects calls to limit agency's power.
theguardian.com Not much substance for people who have their degrees, mates, children, who are living their lives.
scripting.com Report: Tom Coburn Calls Harry Reid 'An Absolute Asshole'. Haha, as if that mattered.
talkingpointsmemo.com There were no bizarre endings involving obstruction or pickoffs, this time.
nytimes.com Tech should be booming with creativity, not just money -- as the movie industry was in the late 20s and 30s.
scripting.com When they started doing software reviews in the early 80s it was with the usual Times flair.
scripting.com New buildings going up on the southern end of Central Park will cast long shadows esp in winter months.
nytimes.com Obviously the people who parachuted into Lower Manhattan on September 30 were part of the Banksy residency.
gawker.com I, for one, am going to miss Banksy when the month is over.
banksyny.com With Warmest Regards: The 12 Most Annoying Email Habits You See Every Day.
fastcompany.com A brief note on why the progressive blog movement failed.
ianwelsh.net The way Dave Grohl thinks about American Idol and musicians is how I feel about hackathons and software.
uproxx.com New York's Newest Skyscraper Is 32 Floors Of Prefab Apartments That Click Together.
fastcoexist.com This Is Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer.
heeris.id.au Ohio Governor Defies G.O.P. With Defense of Social Safety Net.
nytimes.com
Monday, October 28, 2013
William C. Lowe, Who Oversaw Birth of the IBM PC, Dies at 72.
nytimes.com Steve McQueen's Film Is a Box-Office Test Case.
nytimes.com If I wanted to protect my investment in Scripting News, which is a blog, I would have to buy scripting.blog.
scripting.com Biz Stone only had a 3 percent stake in Twitter. For some reason I thought he had a larger share.
qz.com Quartz obtained a copy of Bilton's book ahead of its November 5 release.
qz.com The level playing field is the future of news, not any individual reporter or style of reporter.
nytimes.com Pogue is the best the Times could do? Imho, their failure is lack of imagination, and willingness to risk.
niemanlab.org A huge windfall for ICANN and the owners of the new TLDs.
scripting.com Letting Google have .blog is a bit like selling the henhouse to the fox.
scripting.com ICANN feels the need to create a lot more namespaces, which is imho a bad move.
scripting.com Scripting News: The confusing new domain name system.
scripting.com There's a big race right now to become the 51st state.
npr.org After troops leave, U.S. to lose access to Afghan reconstruction projects worth billions.
washingtonpost.com NYT: The Accidental Pickoff -- Closer's Move Surprised Everyone. (None of this was on the TV coverage.)
nytimes.com Cruise ships keep growing bigger, and more popular.
nytimes.com Scripting News: What's missing in our social networks?
scripting.com At some point the dam will break and there will be a flood of new ideas.
scripting.com After a while your mind drifts, you start looking away as the person is talking wondering if they'll get the hint.
scripting.com
Sunday, October 27, 2013
For Many, Free Subway Rides on Anniversary of Hurricane.
nytimes.com BTW domini domini domini you're all Catholics now.
youtube.com People whose life is in crisis have a hard time seeing anything from anyone else's perspective
scripting.com One of the first software reviews in the NY Times, in 1983, for my "ThinkTank" idea processor.
nytimes.com It's nice to have a smart phone you can take out and start browsing, while they're talking.
scripting.com Bill Keller: Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News?
nytimes.com I wanted a stadium, church, mosque, zoo, high school, arboretum, skating rink, in place of the World Trade Center.
banksyny.com Gawker Kicks Open the Closet, but Its Disclosure Barely Reverberates.
nytimes.com Feminism is for Everyone Competition: The Semifinalists.
vitaminw.co I wonder who's going to be the first to start a talent agency for Internet personalities.
NYT: Lou Reed, Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer, Dies at 71.
nytimes.com New Wes Anderson trailer from SNL.
hulu.com The 4 train to Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx offers great fall views.
nytimes.com You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation.
amazon.com People are weird, but remember, you're a person too.
scripting.com Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71.
rollingstone.com "But enough about me, let's talk about you. What do you think of me?"
youtube.com MLB obstruction rule: Explaining Cardinals' freak Game 3 win.
sbnation.com
Saturday, October 26, 2013
New Yorker: "Twitter is a platform." Big mistake. It's a silo.
newyorker.com "Example of a massive market failure and exactly the kind of situation in which we need government to intervene."
continuations.com I'd love to know what Ron Paul thinks about this. Capitalism is not solving the problem and it's medical.
pbs.org Amazing this isn't front page news. Bigger story than ObamaCare glitches, NSA or insane Repubs.
pbs.org Banksy: The grumpier you are, the more assholes you'll meet..
facebook.com Frontline: Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria.
pbs.org Thousands gather in Washington for anti-NSA 'Stop Watching Us' rally.
theguardian.com Homeland Security agent seizes notes from a reporter who wrote critical stories.
theverge.com Ellis Island to reopen a year after flooding by Hurricane Sandy.
theguardian.com The President just made another tech mistake, saying when the system will work.
washingtonpost.com Banksy's latest: The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
banksyny.com "Toxic men in tech." What a concept. If that's really the way it is, then total war is the only answer.
twitter.com Who's going to do the Bloomberg terminal of open news?
scripting.com Classrooms as Newsrooms: Teaching Journalism in the Real World on Livestream.
new.livestream.com If you use Facebook, please follow me there. I know I should be writing there, but for now I am. Sorry, thanks.
facebook.com This interview opened my mind about evolution and the danger we face as bacteria evolve to route around our defenses.
npr.org When Twitter moves more mainstream will it leave the news maker and producer platform behind?
scripting.com FreshAir: Antibiotics Can't Keep Up With 'Nightmare' Superbugs. #important
npr.org
Friday, October 25, 2013
Mountain bike backflips in Southern Utah.
m.ksl.com The NSA Says an 'Internal Error' Caused Its Outage Not a DDoS Attack.
gizmodo.com Ferrari Won't Comment on Cameron Diaz Having Sex With Their Car in "The Counselor".
motherjones.com I uploaded the last Frontier source I have to a Github repository.
github.com Slate review of The Counselor. Cormac McCarthy all the way. No country for just about everyone.
slate.com Mavericks is also the end of Frontier's 21-year run on the Mac. As well as the OPML Editor.
Apple's new Mac iWork apps: A big step back in workflow automation. #applescript
imore.com Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
news.cnet.com Twitter trying to be something new is risky, like Microsoft trying to make Windows into an iOS competitor.
scripting.com I wrote a gender piece today. Getting a lot of page reads, but no rage. Good.
scripting.com Greenwald ignores the "fourth wall" and talks directly to his readers. An unusual but good technique.
theguardian.com Greenwald asks if European leaders get value from the Snowden leaks, why are they aiding his persecution?
theguardian.com I went to see The Counselor this afternoon. A very unusual movie. That's all I'm going to say for now. ;-)
Business Insider: The Most Important Fact Buried In Twitter's 70-Page Investor Slideshow.
businessinsider.com 2012: How does Google get the right to capture all the goodwill generated in the word blog?
scripting.com Snap.svg: The JavaScript SVG library for the modern web.
snapsvg.io Mike Arrington: Google Should Buy Twitter Before The IPO.
uncrunched.com Scripting News: Obama's gullibility re tech and NSA.
scripting.com Getting to the bottom of HealthCare.gov's flop.
nytimes.com The Hustler Club's spokesperson told us earlier that they plan to remove the gate at some point. #banksy
gothamist.com BBC says men are better than women. (No they didn't they said the opposite.)
bbc.co.uk Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles.
reuters.com If you read an art critic who says Banksy is not political, just do a search. It's powerfully political.
google.com Wikipedia: A "crushing bureaucracy with an often abrasive atmosphere that deters newcomers."
technologyreview.com Bob Barker Pays $1 Million To Bring Elephants To California Sanctuary, Is Moved To Tears.
huffingtonpost.com Letters: Those Blue New York Bikes, to Love and to Hate.
nytimes.com
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Netflix appears to be having a possible service disruption.
news.cnet.com Amtrak passenger tweets details of former NSA director Michael Hayden's off-the-record conversation. #hah
theverge.com NYT review: 'The Counselor,' a Cormac McCarthy Tale of Mostly Evil.
nytimes.com Can Oliver Stone Convince Us to Protest Against the NSA?
adage.com Who Will Tomorrow's Historians Consider Today's Greatest Inventors?
theatlantic.com BBC: Russell Brand has a point. The interviewer won't let him finish a thought.
gawker.com The remaking of the home pages of our blogs to handle news links! What a concept. Long overdue, imho.
scripting.com Marco judges Tuesday's Apple event. Nothing really interesting, lots of repeats. Beating dead horses.
marco.org NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts.
theguardian.com Edward Snowden: This Saturday, Demand an End to the Surveillance State.
aclu.org If a VC firm can innovate in news by giving the people what they want, why can't they?
scripting.com Time Warner Cable Reaches Agreement to Distribute Al Jazeera America.
nytimes.com There are at least some freedom-loving idealists in the US military.
scripting.com Here's The Thing: Robert Osborne. Great podcast interview with host of Turner Classic Movies.
wnyc.org A Year Later, Has The East Coast Learned Anything From Hurricane Sandy?
fastcoexist.com These days the "man of the house" is buying the groceries.
qz.com Internet Domain Name Expansion Now Underway. (Such a bad idea.)
icann.org
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
If you are a black guy in workout clothes and you collapse in a gentrifying neighborhood, you may be a goner.
inthesetimes.com Oil Spill in North Dakota Raises Detection Concerns.
nytimes.com His foot was on the bag but he did not catch the ball. Runner safe.
sbnation.com I've never gotten traffic like I'm getting for the Apple/NSA piece. And almost no flames. Remarkable.
scripting.com BTW, the big point in the Apple/NSA piece is paragraph 4. If you skim it, the conclusion won't make sense.
scripting.com I love the colors in this dusk picture of the NY Marathon finish line, under construction, in Central Park.
twitter.com Last week I had two lunches with friends, one old, one new...
scripting.com Should journalists learn to code? (First they should learn to run a server.)
pandodaily.com Dogs Shaking in Super Slow Motion Will Fix Any Bad Day.
gizmodo.com Union Square Ventures is running a linkblog on their home page. All publications should be doing this.
usv.com Silicon Valley, spy agencies and software sovereignty.
aljazeera.com Could New York City Subways Survive Another Hurricane?
nytimes.com While the public Internet grew, a secret one was built by the US military. But was it actually hidden?
scripting.com Do 500 paid reporters really need to crowd into what amounts to a super-nice Apple Store with a really nice stage?
scripting.com
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
The sheer size of the Snowden leaks are themselves a judgement on the inadequacy of tech journalism.
scripting.com For First Time, Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana.
gallup.com A Stick-On Speaker That Uses Your Windows To Silence Noises Outside.
readability.com Frontline: Has the age of antibiotics come to an end?
pbs.org While we were watching the public Internet grow, a private, secret one was being developed by the US military.
scripting.com Scripting News: The way tech covers Apple is ridiculous.
scripting.com Wired: With David Pogue Hire, Yahoo Joins the Journalism Investment Boom.
wired.com In other words @joanwalsh is wrong about this one. It's more than news, it's a scandal.
salon.com Scripting News: Scientific American and genital mutilation.
scripting.com Maker of Animated GIFs Waits for Offbeat Moments.
nytimes.com David Pogue On Why He's Leaving The Times For Yahoo: 'I'm A Vat Of Creative Juices'.
readability.com Chait is as obsolete as the Repubs. It isn't about race, it's about the world we killed with our way of life.
nymag.com A commenter asks what damage did Bora actually do, other than make people feel uncomfortable.
scripting.com Ted Cruz: Nigerian emailers run Affordable Care Act site. #racism
politico.com
Monday, October 21, 2013
Science online and Science Online: A (Possible) Way Forward.
wired.com I wish that Scientific American could have taken a pioneering approach to this situation.
scripting.com The university open source project becomes its campus in virtual space. Acts as a magnet for tech talent.
scripting.com Every university should be home to an open source development project.
scripting.com
Sunday, October 20, 2013
New idea: CMS in JavaScript running in browser. Huge.
scripting.com I'm the Accidental Owner of a Banksy.
nymag.com NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President.
spiegel.de No Doors Between Subway Cars? M.T.A. May Consider New Model.
nytimes.com Authors Accept Censors' Rules to Sell in China.
nytimes.com Steve Buscemi: 'I hope people remember the shutdown in the next elections'.
theguardian.com Co-working spaces in Bangkok: Hubba.
levels.io I watched Freaks last night on TCM. 1932 was an incredible year for movies. I had never seen it. Wow.
youtube.com It's time to put a CMS into the browser. I think it's totally do-able.
scripting.com Banksy pays $50K for guarded art space.
nypost.com Someday there will be an AirBNB for the super-elite, and this house will be on it.
sothebysrealty.com Victorino's Slam Sends Red Sox to World Series.
nytimes.com New Yorkers will complain about anything. Proof: A NY Times op-ed/rant about the color of our bikes.
nytimes.com Want to go to the World Series on Wednesday? Tickets start at $458. Yow! I'll be watching on TV for sure.
stubhub.com Marina Abramovic Is Putting Her Name on a Center in Hudson, N.Y.
nytimes.com
Saturday, October 19, 2013
At the time of the accident the train was being run in automatic mode under computer control.
bart.gov Edward Snowden: public indifference is the real enemy in the NSA affair.
theguardian.com We can do even better than teach students how to create commercial quality software.
scripting.com Two BART workers killed by train running during strike.
sfgate.com Jack Shafer: Pierre Omidyar and the bottomless optimism of billionaire publishers. (Glad someone's optimistic.)
blogs.reuters.com Scripting News: Every university should be home to an open source development project.
scripting.com When to let go. There comes a point when cancer has got you.
scripting.com Gillmor Gang: Bluetooth Nipple Rings. The funniest video ever, excellent.
techcrunch.com Inside Julian Assange's Alleged Plot to Steal The Fifth Estate Book.
wired.com
Friday, October 18, 2013
Banksy: Are you the sort of person who enjoys going to art galleries but wished they had more gravel in them?
banksyny.com The Weed Fairy Just Stopped By the Gawker Office.
gawker.com North Korea just built the creepiest water park you've ever seen. (Not sure why it's so creepy.)
washingtonpost.com Battle of the new media billionaires: One trying to save something old, one trying to start something new.
paidcontent.org Google tools for media hackers. Good site. We need one for non-Google tools like http://fargo.io/.
google.com Breaking Bad creator says piracy helped the show find new viewers.
theverge.com Adrienne LaFrance: What does Pierre Omidyar see in journalism?
niemanlab.org FlyKly smart bicycle wheel gives riders electric momentum.
news.cnet.com China's bloggers: A frequent topic of conversation among my friends here has been: Who will be arrested next?
nytimes.com After Snowden's leaks, China's Huawei calls for more transparency in the tech industry.
qz.com Marijuana should be legal in California, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom says.
dailynews.com
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Hot new loveseats at a Manhattan multiplex help with the moves at the movies.
nypost.com AMC Theaters Lure Moviegoers With Cushy Recliners.
nytimes.com Alison Lundergan Grimes for U.S. Senate, Kentucky. She's leading McConnell. Wouldn't it be grand if she won?
alisonforkentucky.com Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia.
nytimes.com Mr Condon builds an open-air newsroom in the sky where virtual selves collaborate.
nytimes.com Science blogging scandal: Bora Zivkovic and sexual harassment.
slate.com China's Building Cities So Fast, People Don't Have Time to Move In.
gizmodo.com The Insidious Power of Not-Quite-Harassment.
medium.com The government shutdown wasn't that bad for the politicians. It was terrible for this guy.
washingtonpost.com NY Knicks' Carmelo Anthony says he wants to be a free agent.
nydailynews.com
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
My college had an honor code. They expected 18 year olds to understand and abide by it.
tulane.edu What Redford really means is that Republican voters elect assholes.
cnn.com Redford: Women, young people must save U.S. from men behaving stupidly. #nocomment
cnn.com The transformation of a once dowdy stretch of 57th Street into Billionaires' Row reached new heights.
nytimes.com News orgs not only have expertise at creating news, they are great at consuming it too.
scripting.com In An Artificial Cave 200' Beneath Central Park with Michael Bloomberg.
gizmodo.com Interactive Map: Banksy Tour of NYC.
nymag.com Podcasting grew out of blogging. Carl Malamud and CNN didn't have anything to do with it.
eff.org EFF Files Challenge With Patent Office Against Troll's Podcasting Patent.
eff.org The Skinniest Skyscraper In NYC Is One Step Closer To Reality.
gizmodo.com House Dems Sent Boehner a Message: Strike a Deal and Maybe We Can Help Protect Your Speakership.
motherjones.com Imagine a few years from now what an even-better-Twitter might look like.
scripting.com Milo Yiannopoulos on where the 'women in tech' movement has gone wrong.
kernelmag.com Banksy: A fibreglass replica of Ronald McDonald having his shoes shined by a real live boy.
banksyny.com Scripting News: Pierre and Jeff's excellent ventures.
scripting.com Silicon Valley's Dysfunction Fetish.
nymag.com "The possibility still remains that Banksy isn't so much one person as a very tight-lipped art collective."
gawker.com Omidyar confirms he's funding Glenn Greenwald's new venture.
poynter.org Scripting News: Why men stay silent about sexual harassment.
scripting.com NYT: A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning.
nytimes.com Is there a first class background piece on the Heritage Foundation, since it now appears our fate is in their hands.
Democratic Rep Says He's Unsure If Boehner Or Heritage Is Calling The Shots In The GOP.
talkingpointsmemo.com Ever since Charles Pierce ranted against blogs because well he didn't actually say, I don't take him seriously.
esquire.com Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes.
fastcompany.com I like the idea of using the file system as an object database. Now, how to start developing it?
scripting.com Debt Default Deadline Clear, but Implications Are Not.
nytimes.com
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Just one in five children are 'connected to nature' says study.
bbc.co.uk Stunned Republicans React to Canceled Vote. Boehner's grenade blows up in his pocket.
nationalreview.com Brent Simmons: I was thinking about how I'd implement the Frontier object database were I doing it from scratch.
scripting.com NYT: Racing to See Banksy Graffiti, While It Can Still Be Seen.
nytimes.com Many of the most-pirated movies aren't available for legitimate online purchase.
washingtonpost.com Modeling a Frontier object database as a GitHub repository and vice versa.
scripting.com Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture.
reuters.com Greenwald: "When people hear what it is, there is almost no journalist who would say no to it."
buzzfeed.com Buzzfeed: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization.
buzzfeed.com Lifehacker: How to Find Out If Your Flight Has In-Seat Power Outlets.
lifehacker.com Twitter's changing its direct messaging policy, some journalists are ready to take advantage.
niemanlab.org The Tea Party's not crazy -- they had a plan.
salon.com Terrence Real: I Don't Want to Talk About It -- Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression.
amazon.com Maybe the Repubs will just vote yes and let the rest of us go free. We voted, we want health insurance.
nytimes.com Feminism is for Everyone Competition: The Semifinalists.
vitaminw.co Jane Goodall on Climate Change, Technology, and What Makes Us Different From Chimps.
truth-out.org 1998: Men Stay Silent. (15 years later, men talking about real stuff are met with same simple answer: STFU.)
scripting.com Google reportedly set to unveil its own smartwatch.
news.cnet.com Banksy: A slaughterhouse delivery truck touring the meatpacking district and then citywide for the next two weeks
banksy.co.uk
Monday, October 14, 2013
For shame: Trolls defeat Scientific American, Popular Science.
arstechnica.com Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
wired.com If there's a default, Twitter almost for sure isn't going public.
reuters.com Director of 'The Fifth Estate' responds to Julian Assange's attacks.
theverge.com Ted Cruz Could Force a Debt Default All by Himself. (Except if the President invokes the 14th Amendment.)
businessweek.com The South is holding America hostage.
salon.com
Sunday, October 13, 2013
NYT: A New Weekly Talk Show for Alec Baldwin.
nytimes.com Banksy sells original works worth a fortune for ?38 each in New York booth.
theguardian.com D.C. protestors wave Confederate flag, tell Obama to "put the Quran down".
salon.com Banksy hits New York City, but the city hits back.
theverge.com Banksy was in Central Park yesterday, with a booth selling art? Whoa.
banksyny.com Tech boards are generally a void of technical knowledge.
scripting.com Death in the digital age: Are you prepared?
bbc.co.uk Inside the Conservative Bubble, It Looks Like Ted Cruz Is Winning Big.
theatlantic.com Debt Ceiling: China Calls for World to Be 'De-Americanised."
readability.com Donald Cabana, Warden Who Loathed Death Penalty, Dies at 67.
nytimes.com I hope the president is resolute to not negotiate with terrorists, and I wish the terrorists would get a clue.
nationalreview.com Can Twitter still be special after floating on Wall Street?
theguardian.com Niels Gerson Lohman: Why I will never return to the USA.
dasmag.nl
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Sen. Lindsey Graham is angry. He's frustrated. He's upset. In his own words, he's "very dangerous."
politico.com Food Stamp Debit Cards Not Working in Many States.
nytimes.com Savannah Peterson: Put Me On Your Board.
medium.com You know what else we need? A simple S3 text editor.
scripting.com Often I write several posts on a topic. Trying a new idea, adding a section to an existing post.
scripting.com Scripting News update: Why the JS server editor has to be node.js.
scripting.com EV Grieve: The latest Banksy is on East 7th St.
evgrieve.com Most programmers I know are fairly polite, shy, private sort of people. Like writers.
medium.com The retaliation begins: Google profiles get Schmidt-faced. :-)
news.cnet.com Finally, three good 2013 movies. Enough Said, Linsanity, Gravity.
scripting.com Google search for Carnegie Deli sandwiches. I'm sorry. I couldn't believe what I saw. Had to share. :-)
google.com Interview: Ginger Baker on why the Rolling Stones are not good musicians.
rollingstone.com If you reversed genders in this headline, people would be outraged.
cnn.com Apple now has a Blue Screen of Death, but it's actually *blueberry* and it's lickable.
theregister.co.uk
Friday, October 11, 2013
If arm's length and dumbed-down is the best we can do by going thru journalism, then we have to do it for ourselves.
scripting.com You're Not Just The Product, You're The Ads (And Your Friends Should Thank You). #soylent
techcrunch.com The Culture Paradox of 21st-Century New York.
nytimes.com GeekWeaver Templating Language. #opml wow...
github.com Scripting News: The lost promise of journalism. (Sorry this is so scattered. Lots of pieces.)
scripting.com Mini, personal reviews of: Enough Said, Linsanity and Gravity, all excellent movies, worth seeing. ;-)
scripting.com "I prefer not to point to pieces that are posted on Medium."
scripting.com Salon: Dave Eggers made me quit Twitter.
salon.com Quentin Tarantino: Batman is 'boring' but Lone Ranger 'excellent'.
theguardian.com Getty Images: Edward Snowden Receives The Sam Adams Award in Moscow.
gettyimages.com
Thursday, October 10, 2013
I'd like a super-simple way to write JavaScript code that runs on a server.
scripting.com Banksy in Brooklyn: Beaver claimed by local residents in East New York.
slate.com "This guy is having a hard time" is very different from "he's giving *me* a hard time."
threads2.scripting.com Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
scripting.com "There was a time, I am told, when exes lived in Texas and you could avoid them by moving to Tennessee."
nymag.com Josh Marshall re Flipboard: "You can't eat 'reach' and we can't pay salaries with 'brand awareness'."
talkingpointsmemo.com Book excerpt goes inside Amazon's brutal culture, built around Jeff Bezos' brain.
geekwire.com Paul McCartney free concert in Times Square.
metro.us
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Paul McCartney Surprises Queens High School With Auditorium Rock Show.
rollingstone.com Sen. Ted Cruz Vows Not To Raise Nation's Debt Ceiling Until Union Admits To Losing Civil War.
citizenschwartz.com Asana co-founder: The Way We Work Is Soul-Sucking, But Social Networks Are Not the Fix. #outliners
wired.com This is what MacPaint was like in 1984 when the Mac rolled out.
cloudpaint.com Almost All of America's Nuclear Regulators Are About to Be Furloughed. #thanksrepublicans
gizmodo.com Look At These Bleak Photos Of North Korea's First Ski Resort.
deadspin.com Steve Jobs action figure sports youthful '70s mop top.
news.cnet.com Breaking Bad Was Offered $75 Million for Three More Episodes.
vanityfair.com Snowden Likely to Seek Employment Soon -- Lawyer.
en.ria.ru "Carter is building his personal brand through the Lyft business."
pandodaily.com Republican Party Favorability Sinks to Record Low.
gallup.com Who will play whom in the inevitable movie about Twitter's early years?
qz.com Scripting News: Using OPML to generate a Markdown site.
scripting.com After legalizing marijuana, Washington and Colorado are starting to regulate it.
washingtonpost.com Through Twitter Partnership, Comcast Hopes to Encourage TV Viewing.
nytimes.com Twitter and Comcast's new 'See it' button lets you watch and record TV shows directly from a tweet.
thenextweb.com White House Comms Chief Makes World's Most Racist Twitter Typo.
hypervocal.com Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?
truth-out.org A hackathon where teams come up with designs for a new Twitter that does not have a 140-char limit.
scripting.com The battle to destroy Wikipedia's biggest sockpuppet army.
dailydot.com
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Sarah Lacey: This is why mobs don't appoint public company boards.
pandodaily.com Wonkblog: What's happening in the Treasury bill market today should terrify you.
washingtonpost.com Why Are We Talking About the Debt Ceiling Crisis As If It's Normal Politics?
motherjones.com A Greek Tragedy With Elements of Danger. Carlos Danger.
nytimes.com "Until you generate cash, you must heed investors even when they are wrong."
bhorowitz.com Watch This Girl With Telekinetic Powers Freak Out Coffee Shop Patrons.
gizmodo.com It should be easier to write a greater-than-140 character message in Twitter.
scripting.com Many years ago I lived in Woodside, in Silicon Valley.
scripting.com Why the tech-savvy Obama administration launched a busted healthcare website.
theverge.com Australia's Fastmail secure email service claims it is 'NSA proof'.
theguardian.com
Monday, October 07, 2013
The NSA's Hugely Expensive Utah Data Center Has Major Electrical Problems And Basically Isn't Working.
readability.com 'Truckers for the Constitution' Plan to Slow D.C. Beltway, Arrest Congressmen.
usnews.com Scripting News has been down for about a week, but is coming back now.
scripting.com Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hits AirBnB with subpoena for user data.
nydailynews.com David Byrne: If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent, I'm out of here.
theguardian.com Developers eye gains in tenants and infrastructure following the No. 7 subway extension.
crainsnewyork.com Annual revenues for Koch Industries have been "estimated to be a hundred billion dollars."
en.wikipedia.org Fox News hires tiny little humans to work on gigantic iPads.
boingboing.net This headline translates to "The Koch Brothers have figured out how to profit from a US default."
nationaljournal.com Nowhere in this Politico story do they say that what the Senator is saying is untrue. cc @jayrosen_nyu
politico.com Senate Chaplain Shows His Disapproval During Morning Prayer.
nytimes.com Fed Up on the Prairie, and Voting on Seceding From Colorado.
nytimes.com
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Banksy: A New York delivery truck converted into a mobile garden (includes rainbow, waterfall and butterflies).
banksy.co.uk An appreciation for the Nexus 4, the little smartphone that could.
news.cnet.com Awaiting I.P.O., Twitter Must Deal With Horde of Younger Rivals.
nytimes.com The FBI's Plan For The Millions Worth Of Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road.
forbes.com Ohio this is what the country thinks of you.
youtube.com No thanks to Ohio's 8th congressional district for John Boehner.
en.wikipedia.org Senator Warren made a strong case against the shutdown without blaming white male, privilege or patriarchy.
youtube.com VitaminW, this is wrong. Don't give Boehner to "white males." Lots of good white males. Not fair.
twitter.com Just when you think SNL has no more brilliance left -- this is must-watch, esp if you thought twerking wasn't fun.
youtube.com Colbert King: The tea party resurrects the spirit of the Old Confederacy.
washingtonpost.com Seems hackathons at universities, esp MIT, should be based on open formats and protocols, not corporate APIs.
hackmit.org One Big Doubt Hanging Over Twitter's IPO: Fake Accounts.
online.wsj.com
Saturday, October 05, 2013
The intransigence of Democrats, from Obama on down to red-state senators, has surprised the GOP.
slate.com As MacBook Air ages, Apple rivals show the way to Retina.
news.cnet.com BloggerCon: BloggerCon for Newbies. (This defines the format that made BloggerCon work so well.)
bloggercon.scripting.com The grid for Day 2 of the first BloggerCon, 10 years ago today. Launch of the "unconference" format.
bloggercon.scripting.com About 15% of Americans live in poverty, so why is no one talking about it?
theguardian.com And Then Steve Said, 'Let There Be an iPhone'. (The press portraying leaders of tech as gods must stop.)
nytimes.com In Rural Iowa, Spending, Not the Shutdown, Raises Worry. (Conservative district, enjoying a good local economy.)
nytimes.com I'm glad Tom didn't use gender or race in his takedown of tech.
Tom Forenski on the tech industry's adolescent love affair with itself.
zdnet.com Amanda Palmer's open letter to Sinead O'Connor, re Miley Cyrus.
amandapalmer.net John Boehner Blamed For Shutdown In New 'Temper Tantrum' Ad To Air During Sunday Football.
huffingtonpost.com
Friday, October 04, 2013
Republican who voted for shutdown: "I need my paycheck."
dailykos.com Saw "Enough Said" with James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus with @nakedjen. We both liked it.
en.wikipedia.org "They had no idea what might have led the man to light himself on fire."
nytimes.com 47 Prominent Technologists to NSA Review Panel: We Need Better Technical Oversight.
eff.org This is a profound tweet from @wfrick. So totally true.
twitter.com Science Shows Men and Women Are Both Awful Stereotypes on Facebook.
gawker.com Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside. (Uses Mechanical Turk. Very interesting.)
projects.csail.mit.edu New Diplomatic Avenue Emerges, in 140-Character Bursts.
nytimes.com
Thursday, October 03, 2013
Hot mic catches Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul working out the best shutdown messaging.
slate.com Republicans finally confronting reality: They're trapped!
salon.com New York City's Turbulent Past Comes to Life in Maps.
wired.com Senator Warren makes a strong case for women's issues in a Senate speech.
youtube.com Dear Sinead: You're Doing It Wrong on Miley.
forbes.com Colorado mountain towns readying for recreational tokers.
denverpost.com Kevin Drum is confused by Boehner. Imho a new party is forming, a coalition of non-TP Repubs and Dems.
motherjones.com Salesforce deal could give Evernote a big lift in businesses.
citeworld.com How the 'Failure' Culture of Startups Is Killing Innovation.
wired.com Don't believe anyone who claims to understand the economics of Obamacare.
qz.com Social Networks in a Battle for the Second Screen.
nytimes.com
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Facebook Is Building a 394-Unit Housing Community Near Its Offices.
online.wsj.com Get Back, and Just Let Miley Cyrus Grow Up.
nytimes.com What Stanley Kubrick got wrong about "The Shining".
salon.com Citi Bike program hit with first three personal injury claims.
nydailynews.com We need to disarm the Repubs. The Dems should hold out for total capitulation or no deal.
slate.com Yglesias says Dems should reject clean CR, smart. A condition should be eliminating debt ceiling votes forever.
slate.com New York road rage incident: Biker's wife says SUV driver "paralyzed my husband." Talk about chutzpah! Wow.
cbsnews.com Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online.
wired.com FAA panel: Wi-Fi use is safe during takeoff and landing.
theverge.com
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
There may have been many government shutdowns, but this is the first since the blogosphere.
"When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to Calif, they raised the average intelligence in both states."
math-frolic.blogspot.com KKK rally at Gettysburg National Park canceled because of the federal government shutdown.
rt.com Glitches Snarl Rush to Health Insurance Markets.
nytimes.com Due to the Federal Government shutdown, NOAA.gov and most associated web sites are unavailable.
forecast.weather.gov The world is going to hell in a handbasket (the government shutdown as seen by senior citizens).
blogs.law.harvard.edu Most Popular USB Hub: Anker 7-Port and 9-Port Powered USB 3.0 Hubs.
lifehacker.com Andrew Shell took a stab at wrapping Concord in Adobe Air so it could function as a desktop outliner.
groups.google.com George Will to Leave ABC News for Fox News. The average IQ of both goes up.
nytimes.com Unlike the spying apps, which work flawlessly, apparently.
The user experience side of this would probably have been a good task for the tech industry to do for them.
Because there's so much different exchange software, and it's all so new, it'll take a long time to shake out the glitches.
Sebelius: "Give Us the Same Slack You Give Apple." Wrong thing to say, unless system recovers by tomorrow/
slate.com I love the new look of fivethirtyeight.com, but the feeds still point at the NYT content.
fivethirtyeight.com Dan Shafer: Permanent Shrinkage is Real Conservatives' Goal in Shutdown.
danshaferblog.com LadyBits: I Analyzed a Year of My Reporting for Gender Bias and This Is What I Found.
medium.com Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist who received a 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning.
lizarum.com "As feeds are removed from the OPML list, do you think they should be removed from the user's account?"
dave.smallpict.com How to open up the RSS market with one small feature.
scripting.com Six Headlines About The Government Shutdown That Will Destroy Your Faith In Journalism.
thinkprogress.org "Blame game" reporting is incorrect. The story is this. Repubs try to change our form of government.
readability.com If only the reporters in Washington explained the new form of govt the Repubs envision.
newyorker.com
Monday, September 30, 2013
Congress: The World's 5 Worst Ways To Get Drunk. #enjoy
cracked.com Colorado Ski Towns Get Ready For Legal, Recreational Marijuana For The Upcoming Season.
huffingtonpost.com Simon and Garfunkel: Keep The Customer Satisfied.
youtube.com Campuswide power outage disrupts activities at UC Berkeley.
dailycal.org Why Did Two People Parachute Into Lower Manhattan at 3 A.M.?
gawker.com My friend Jake is selling his house in Woodinville, WA. $475K
redfin.com Former Microsoft privacy chief no longer trusts company.
news.cnet.com How is it that CNN doesn't let me connect with Time-Warner cable? Same company. Huh?
static.scripting.com The pleasant autumn weather disguises a government teetering on the brink.
slate.com How would the U.S. media report on it if it were happening to another country?
slate.com Scripting News: What I learned at the Evernote conference re the RSS market.
dave.smallpict.com August: Breaking Bad has gone off the rails. (At least the last 3 episodes were entertaining, though ridiculous.)
scripting.com Breaking Bad final episode: The plot was totally absurd. (Finally people are coming around to what I wrote.)
slate.com Phil Jones: Has anyone tried embedding Concord in an Android WebView?
groups.google.com Slate: Raising the debt ceiling is not a concession.
slate.com New Yorker: How the Breaking Bad Finale Fell Short.
newyorker.com NYT: The Final Episode of 'Breaking Bad' Leaves One Question Unanswered.
tv.nytimes.com Charles Ferguson: Why I Am Cancelling My Documentary on Hillary Clinton.
huffingtonpost.com
Sunday, September 29, 2013
El Paso (Full-Length Version) - Marty Robbins - YouTube.
m.youtube.com Editing Wikipedia Pages for Med School Credit.
nytimes.com Techmeme thread on angel syndicates. Their rewritten headlines add interesting spin.
techmeme.com Twitter plans to make its IPO filing public this week.
qz.com A platform is "a blueprint for the evolution of a popular software interface or specification."
scripting.com An IFTTT recipe that synchs an Evernote notebook with pointers from my linkblog. And it works! :-)
ifttt.com After Successful Spacecraft Docking, US Orbits Five Satellites.
en.rian.ru Daily News: Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire had knee surgery?over the summer.
nydailynews.com AngelList: What are syndicates?
angel.co My favorite part of Mets culture was the sign guy in the box seats at Shea Stadium in the 60s and 70s.
medium.com One thing that's good about the angel syndicates, is you might see projects funded that VCs wouldn't touch.
avc.com My Android phone, clearly a geek product, wants to translate "Let's go Mets!" into "Let's go meta!"
I like this quote on aging, because it explains it from the inside out.
lifehacker.com Survey: People Don't Like Environmentalist and Feminists.
vitaminw.co Wife of Texas gov says abortion a 'woman's right'.
tv.msnbc.com A Guide to the New Exchanges for Health Insurance.
nytimes.com Stallman: Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before.
wired.com Keeping Your Laptop Plugged in All the Time Will Kill Its Battery Faster.
wired.com A Muslim Prosecutor in Britain, Fighting Forced Marriages and Honor Crimes.
nytimes.com
Saturday, September 28, 2013
The Amazon Warehouses, a tour in pictures. It's a data structure. Allocated by computer.
imgur.com This picture of the Utah mountains with sunlight shining off a big river is pretty nice.
twitter.com The NSA invited ten security academics to their headquarters to hear their side of the story.
cisac.stanford.edu N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens.
nytimes.com Nine inspiring lessons the suffragettes can teach feminists today.
theguardian.com Comic Book Artist Turns Breaking Bad Episodes Into Killer Posters.
wired.com The Stunt That Got Elvis Costello Banned From Saturday Night Live.
openculture.com
Friday, September 27, 2013
New York City says Airbnb is legal (sort of).
gigaom.com Video: A New Twerking World Record Was Just Set In Herald Square. (Why I love NY.)
gothamist.com Kindle changed their iPad UI and I can't find any books other than the one I'm reading. Ridiculous.
dave.smallpict.com Scripting News: Kindle changed their iPad UI. #arrrgh
scripting.com The President could blow up Dallas if the Repbs blow up the world economy. #nukes
theguardian.com Best series finale ever: Six Feet Under. #imho
What Leading Scientists Want You to Know About Today's Frightening Climate Report.
theatlantic.com Marc Canter is doing office hours at the Creamery on 4th and Townsend across from the Caltrain station.
scripting.com Arikia Millikan: "Write for your future self"
medium.com Jimmy Wales To Silicon Valley: Grow Up And Get Over Your Age Bias.
readwrite.com However that said I will always hate the Yankees.
The closing moments of Rivera's career were very sweet and sad at the same time.
nytimes.com Twitter Investors Williams to Branson Await IPO Windfall.
bloomberg.com Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media.
theguardian.com
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Transforming the Old Bay Bridge Into a Park for Adventure Tourists.
gizmodo.com House debt ceiling bill shows why compromise is unthinkable.
slate.com Sources-go-direct is the most important idea about journalism that most journalists don't like/understand.
scripting.com If Rafe had asked me what's different about writing today, I would have said "Sources Go Direct," Rafe.
scripting.com 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2' sounds great. I loved the first one.
movies.nytimes.com Curiosity findings indicate two percent of Mars soil contains water.
news.cnet.com Photographs get new 'front and center' look on Twitter.
news.cnet.com "Harrison Bergeron" is a satirical and dystopian science-fiction short story written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
en.wikipedia.org The virtual-keyboard writing environment is a big step backwards from the rich desktop and laptop environment.
scripting.com Twitter is doing "second screen" deals with TV. Next, they are sure to add a TV screen to Twitter itself. #tvitter
cir.ca And the US will become a banana republic, but one that pays its bills.
Default is so unthinkable that if Congress fails to do its duty, the Presiden will usurp another of their powers.
theatlantic.com The truly scary thing about blowing through the debt limit is that we have no idea what will happen.
theatlantic.com
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
The Rebranding Feminism page on VitaminW has gone 404.
vitaminw.co Lifehacker: Why Evernote Isn't as Streamlined as It's Made Out to Be.
readability.com Could be that the Madeline Albright Twitter account is yet another bot.
gawker.com The term "mansplaining" is one of the most awful conversation-disabling concepts ever invented.
scripting.com Re feminism: Imho, no change can happen without everyone on board, and everyone benefitting.
scripting.com The Ouzo sorbet was from Kokkari in San Francisco.
twitter.com Oracle pulls off stunning comeback in America's Cup.
usatoday.com Automattic Acquires File-Sharing Service Cloudup To Build A Faster Media Library And Enable Co-Editing.
techcrunch.com Miley Cyrus: is twerking worse than cooking meth on Breaking Bad?
theguardian.com Samsung counters iPhone 5S with a golden Galaxy S4.
theverge.com Censors were kept busy all morning as tens of thousands of messages lit up China's popular microblog service.
nytimes.com Popular Science: Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments.
popsci.com
Monday, September 23, 2013
Marco Arment is working on a podcast player app for iOS.
marco.org Fictional NYT story that appears on the NYT site, played a role in last night's Breaking Bad. #spoiler
dealbook.nytimes.com Former F.B.I. Agent Pleads Guilty in Leak to A.P.
nytimes.com Scripting News: Connecting Concord and Ghost? (Both are JavaScript apps, one server, one desktop.)
scripting.com Fancy Node.js-based blogging app Ghost goes live to backers.
arstechnica.com I want my women friends to have everything they're entitled to, and I take a very broad view of that.
scripting.com US leaker Snowden 'wears disguise, in danger': lawyer.
foxnews.com White male white male white male white male white male everything is the fault of every white male.
medium.com Couple Caught Having Reckless Car Sex Seems to Get Off on Being Filmed.
gawker.com Long, Strange Trip Ending for VW's Hippie Van.
nytimes.com What do people in Silicon Valley plan to do once they hit 35 and are officially over the hill?
quora.com
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Slate is looking for a technology blogger.
slate.com All my babies sucking down electricity after a long trip cross the US.
flickr.com Here's the grid for the second day of BloggerCon I. I got the dates wrong, btw. Looks like it was Oct 4-5, 2003.
bloggercon.scripting.com Pito Salas was at Day 1 of BloggerCon I and blogged it! Good man. ;-)
salas.com Writing a Neutral Story About Something So Heartless As the Food Stamp Vote Is Not Good Journalism.
huffingtonpost.com US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina -- secret document.
theguardian.com
Friday, September 20, 2013
October 3 is the ten-year anniversary of the mother of all blogging conferences, BloggerCon.
en.wikipedia.org Jonathan Ferrell shooting death: The perils of stereotype threat.
slate.com BlackBerry Nears the End as Jobs Disappear and Losses Mount.
wired.com Apple, I hope you're happy. You made this little boy cry.
m.youtube.com I wonder if I'm not driving one of its driverless cars when I'm clicking those buttons.
static.scripting.com Chrome has been training me to get rid of this Page(s) Unresponsive dialog about 100 times per day.
static.scripting.com Almost 13 Million Women of Reproductive Age Were Uninsured in 2012.
guttmacher.org Job Title: NSA Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer.
nsa.gov I've learned to listen, even when it's difficult to do so. This did not come easily. Listening is hard.
scripting.com Apple's iOS 7 includes a surprise: a ticket to the next generation of the internet.
qz.com Blogging is different and new these days. (True. A new breed of blogging is rising around Dropbox & Evernote.)
thoughts.smallpict.com The right of the people to keep and bear DOGS shall not be infringed. cc @nakedjen.
en.wikipedia.org "A Man Is Not Old Until Regrets Take the Place of Dreams".
lifehacker.com Klout launches Cinch, a Quora-like iOS app tied to your personal graph.
thenextweb.com A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science.
blog.tedx.com
Thursday, September 19, 2013
iPhone shortages frustrate networks on launch day.
bbc.co.uk Dear Google: Shouldn't You Worry About Your Own Health?
wired.com How an Engineer Earned 1.25 Million Air Miles By Buying Pudding.
gizmodo.com I got my Pebble today and the replacement for my Nexus that crashed. Newly equipped, feel less lost! :-)
getpebble.com California Regulator Passes First Ridesharing Rules, A Big Win For Lyft, SideCar, And Uber.
techcrunch.com Amazon's Delivery Lockers Booted From Local Stores.
wired.com Angelo: Theming Fargo - Editor Version.
xangelo.ca Maybe you'll get an idea from this fresco-style writing. Or maybe it's worthless.
scripting.com Not everyone can say: The Internet Hates Me.
theawl.com Why We Don't Design Our Cities to Withstand 1,000-Year Floods.
gizmodo.com Khosla, 56, said, "People fundamentally stop trying things at about 30. After 45, people basically die." @kteare
news.cnet.com NANA is a comfort food and craft cafe hosted by lovely older ladies from the local area.
kickstarter.com
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Man Spends $140 at McDonald's and Makes "McEverything".
gawker.com People tend to have cartoonish ideas about what's going on inside men.
scripting.com You Just Threw Out a Perfectly Good Gallon of Milk Because You Think the "Sell By" Date Means Something.
m.motherjones.com Four of America's Tallest Towers Will Rise Within Blocks of Each Other.
gizmodo.com It seems a long time since we had a juicy @nakedjen post like this. #beets
nakedjen.com Another summer of great rides. I am becoming the urban biker I never thought in a million years that I'd become.
flickr.com September 18 will henceforth be called "WTF Happened To My iPhone Day."
buzzfeed.com So this isn't a "programmers today are bullshit" type thing. We've always been full of shit.
xangelo.ca Can this startup steal Node from Joyent? VCs bet $8M on it.
venturebeat.com Yes, Mr Reporter, it is your job to get us facts. You #fail the Turing Test for sentient life.
talkingpointsmemo.com The more I think about the merging the first and second screens, the more I think it's got to happen.
scripting.com I'm installing iOS 7 on my iPad. Wish me luck! :-)
imore.com Twitter as the "second screen" is wishful thinking by the TV industry. Twitter will be the only screen.
scripting.com Taliban Announce on Twitter the Killing of Election Official.
nytimes.com That Mind-Bending Phone Call on [Sunday's] Breaking Bad.
newyorker.com Half of the world's self-made women billionaires are from China.
qz.com
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Senators Decry NSA 'Ineptitude,' Call for End to Dragnet Phone Surveillance.
wired.com People sunning today in Battery Park. Perfect biking weather.
flickr.com The biggest tech story in a generation wasn't even reported by tech.
scripting.com There's no doubt that all media is vulnerable to Twitter now.
scripting.com A little video box on the Twitter home page that shows you whatever it is we're all watching.
scripting.com Scripting News: Will the advertisers turn Twitter into TV?
scripting.com Developers, if you're interested in outliners, please listen to this 11-minute podcast I recorded today. Thanks!
scripting.com Scripting News: Why we breed men to be strong and silent.
scripting.com This is the period of time called Hate-on-Men Month/Year/Decade/Century etc.
On planes and trains, everyone prefers to sit next to women. (But not the one who wrote this article.)
slate.com Northampton clown catcher vows to hunt down creepy circus man stalking the streets of East Midlands.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk Creepy clown terrifying residents by standing around on street corners staring at passers-by.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk Empire State Building I.P.O. Plans Speed Up and Would-Be Buyers Flock.
nytimes.com M.T.A. Plans Wi-Fi and Phone Service on Subway Trains. #nyc
nytimes.com My mom has learned how to charge her iPhone and iPad w/o plugging them into her Mac to avoid accidental updates.
scripting.com Gizmodo: Will normal people hate or love the new Apple look and feel?
gizmodo.com iOS 7: Will users respond as they did with Windows 8 by rejecting the update?
dave.smallpict.com Longtime Microsoft Evangelist Jeff Sandquist Joins Twitter As Director Of Platform Partnerships. #wow #congrats
techcrunch.com Will the users shrug it off or even cheer, as Apple expects/hopes?
scripting.com Tomorrow, when iOS 7 ships, we learn how tolerant of change device users are.
scripting.com Scripting News: Important podcast re Concord & GPL.
scripting.com An 11-minute podcast for developers interested in outliners, re how I'd like you to think about Concord.
static.scripting.com We start life with full expressive power, but somehow this gets taken away from us.
scripting.com As we have stereotypes of what makes a good girl, we have them for boys too, preferring strength and silence.
scripting.com Looks like I bought the last Nexus 4. I've been using an old Nokia windows phone, which is actually pretty good.
gizmodo.com Crews Right Cruise Ship in Waters Off Italy.
nytimes.com
Monday, September 16, 2013
Why a disembodied finger can't be used to unlock the Touch ID sensor on the iPhone 5s.
tuaw.com Uncharted Festival of Ideas Oct 25-26. All-star Berkeley cast. What a lineup! ;-)
berkeleyideas.com We all want to be heard. We all despise unnecessary limits. We're all confused about what it's all about.
scripting.com Plans, code, libraries, laws, contracts, rules, principles, docs, manifestos, blogs, podcasts etc.
scripting.com Curious when news orgs drop paywall because of a big news story. Don't people always need access to news?
twitter.com I've long felt that every operating system, web server and web browser should have a great outliner baked-in.
scripting.com Amazon.com: Real Boys' Voices. Thanks to @berzerkeley for recommending. ;-)
amazon.com One chart that explains why the US auto industry is booming. (And it appears to be a subprime bubble.)
qz.com In gender debates, people have a cartoonish view of men. We are complete people, with ideas and emotions, like you.
scripting.com Rat Park experiment upturns conventional wisdom about addiction.
sub.garrytan.com
Sunday, September 15, 2013
At What Point Will The Next Generation Kill The Copyright Monopoly Altogether?
torrentfreak.com NYT: Doctor Sleep Is Stephen King's Sequel to The Shining.
nytimes.com Git is good for devs, but here are 5 tips on making the transition.
gigaom.com Hundreds Unaccounted For After Floods Hit US.
en.rian.ru People With 10k Instagram Followers Stay Free In This Hotel.
gizmodo.com NSA Spies on International Bank Transactions.
spiegel.de Eric Schlosser: If We Don't Slash Our Nukes, "a Major City is Going to be Destroyed."
motherjones.com This Three Minute Commercial Puts Full-Length Hollywood Films to Shame.
gawker.com This glorious and unruly English language that lets everyone in.
theguardian.com Fiona Apple and Chipotle channel Willy Wonka to slam factory farming.
theweek.com
Saturday, September 14, 2013
E-ZPasses Get Read All Over New York (Not Just At Toll Booths).
forbes.com You don't need a quad-core CPU to check your email and play Angry Birds.
jasonlefkowitz.net After Edward Snowden's revelations, why trust US cloud providers?
theguardian.com Just discovered that my dad, who died in 2009, had a Wikipedia author profile.
en.wikipedia.org NY Post: Knicks players fixed games for drug dealer in '80s.
nypost.com Great bike ride, but man -- it just turned to autumn in NYC. F'ing cold. Listened to Fresh Air with Bart Gellman.
npr.org The death of NFC and the potential of the new news bundle.
kiesow.net Apple's iBeacons system will enable purchases, contextual marketing, automated check-ins.
computerworld.com Before buying shows, Netflix checks piracy sites to make sure people are watching. (!)
theverge.com Evan Williams is a perfect example of the audacity you need to make a big idea stick.
scripting.com TechCrunch: Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Lays Out His Plan For The Future Of Media.
techcrunch.com To pull this off you have to have a PhD in Chutzpah.
scripting.com Apple's Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can't 'Take the Fifth'.
wired.com It would have been cool if Twitter had offered shares to its earliest users.
nytimes.com Washington to change rules on where marijuana outlets can locate.
komonews.com The Payday at Twitter Many Were Waiting For.
nytimes.com Girl's Suicide Points to Rise in Apps Used by Cyberbullies.
nytimes.com "Patent troll" claiming playlists and podcasts scores license with SanDisk.
arstechnica.com
Friday, September 13, 2013
"Give up your needs, your poisoned seeds, find yourself elected to a different kind of greed." For @xeni.
scripting.com If Twitter had widgets, this DaylightMap site would make a good one.
daylightmap.com Look for opportunities to make big progress very quickly. News is full of them.
scripting.com Spreepark: The Story of Berlin's Rotting Amusement Park.
spiegel.de A JavaScript library to build websites with objects.
ojjs.org This Woman's Obituary is the Best Thing You'll Read Today.
viralnova.com Mathew Ingram: Why the rush to attack Pax Dickinson makes me nervous.
gigaom.com Q&A; With Pax Dickinson on Tweets, Regrets.
nymag.com Spreepark: The Story Behind Defunct Berlin Amusement Park.
spiegel.de Google's Eric Schmidt says government spying is 'the nature of our society'.
theguardian.com Advice please: I need a cheap Android phone quickly. (Please read the post first, thanks.)
scripting.com Innovation doesn't happen at off-sites or hackathons, brainstorming doesn't work.
scripting.com Innovation doesn't happen in the lab or the board room. It happens "out there" when no one is watching.
scripting.com I first got into the web during the San Francisco newspaper strike in 1994.
scripting.com How NSA's cyber sabotage puts us all at risk.
aclu.org News is inherently innovative. Something just happened. What? If news it's new. "New" is what innovation is.
scripting.com Scripting News: Innovation happens when the gates are down.
scripting.com Scripting News: The government should stay out of journalism.
scripting.com 9 Photos of Grisly Vintage Crime Scenes on Today's NYC Streets.
gizmodo.com Inside Twitter's plan to go public as quickly and quietly as it can.
qz.com Gates appeared to think he could be as agile with a huge company under him as he was when he was starting up.
scripting.com I think DMV must have been Discount Motor Varmints or some such.
Spam call on my cell phone yesterday from 'DMV' my license expired and I'm paying too much for insurance.
mchron.net The "Assange Clause" excludes all serious news orgs. Otherwise they're just rewriting press releases.
theatlanticwire.com iPhone 5c preorders are open: AT&T;, Verizon, T-Mobile and other carriers are now live.
engadget.com Obama Acts Like He Doesn't Know He's an Executive-Power Extremist.
theatlantic.com
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Clapper: Snowden case brings healthy debate; more disclosures to come.
latimes.com Ray Dolby, audio engineer who pioneered noise reduction, dies at 80.
theguardian.com Demoing software: A little nausea can be a good thing.
scripting.com Mayer's 'Treason' Remark Not to be Taken Literally, Says Spokeswoman.
blogs.wsj.com Police Chief Bracknell: George Zimmerman Another Sandy Hook.
mediaite.com Hammerhead simplifies bike navigation through smartphone-connected LED clip.
theverge.com The web didn't need to be conquered by Gates & Company, and in the end it wasn't.
dave.smallpict.com Here's What Went Unmentioned in Putin's New York Times Op-Ed.
newrepublic.com 39 Things We'll Miss About Patriarchy, Which Is Dead. (When will the matriarchy be dead too?)
nymag.com Shield Law Moves Forward, Defines Journalism So That It Leaves Out Wikileaks & Random Bloggers.
techdirt.com Joi Ito & Ethan Zuckerman: The Challenges of Innovation in Big Companies and Newsrooms.
media.mit.edu In a Breathtaking First, NASA Craft Exits the Solar System.
nytimes.com Vermont gov says marijuana will be legal some day.
sfgate.com Dropbox further promoting business angle with new apps hub.
zdnet.com I would have been much more impressed had Zuck said Bezos was his role model.
dave.smallpict.com BigCo's can only be one thing. Good at scale with money and services. Cleverness is the province of upstarts.
scripting.com 20-minute podcast on what Zuck should learn from Bill Gates. Don't repeat the same mistakes! ;-)
static.scripting.com And Bill Gates tried to turn the web into a feature of Office. He had a vision, but it was often very dark.
businessinsider.com CloudFlare CEO: 'Insane' NSA gag order is costing U.S. tech firms customers.
washingtonpost.com Parse: Facebook Buys Its Way Into the Heart of the App World.
wired.com Google Alerts regains RSS delivery option it lost after Google Reader's demise.
thenextweb.com Berlin: New Push for Legal Cannabis Sales.
spiegel.de
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Pax Dickinson: Thought Crime, Public Shaming and Thick Liberty in the Internet Age.
popehat.com Lavabit's Owner Appeals Secret Surveillance Order That Led Him to Shutter Site.
wired.com Your fingerprint isn't a secret; you leave it everywhere you touch.
schneier.com "Nearly everything we see in the U.S. Constitution was in response to an abuse by the British government." #treason
wiki.answers.com Article Three of the United States Constitution is very specific about the limits on what is considered treason.
en.wikipedia.org Prophetic and problematic: "You can't kill democracy, you can only kill people."
inessential.com Brent Simmons on 9/13/01: The passengers on Flight 93 voted to attack the hijackers. #americans
inessential.com New York Times provides new details about NSA backdoor in crypto spec.
arstechnica.com Vladimir Putin: A Plea for Caution From Russia.
nytimes.com Scientists Have Found a Huge Underground Water Reserve in Kenya.
gizmodo.com Video: Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs.
youtube.com What if there was a study that showed that women with bigger breasts were better moms?
google.com How Apple's M7 Chip Makes the iPhone 5S the Ultimate Tracking Device. (All tech will be seen this way from now on.)
gizmodo.com "Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it."
esquire.com 10 breathtaking 360-degree Photo Spheres uploaded by the Google Views community.
thenextweb.com I don't really have anything to say today but I need to add a post to my blog to test the software.
scripting.com NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel.
theguardian.com This is why Anthony Weiner can't have nice things.
slate.com Finally got around to doing a little "hello world" demo of jPlayer with an audio file. Pretty easy.
outliner.smallpicture.com Melanie's photo argues in favor of there being more than one truth.
onthemedia.org The wall that prevented the Hudson River from flooding parts of Lower Manhattan.
nytimes.com Luck and a Shrewd Strategy Fueled de Blasio's Ascension.
nytimes.com Repubs support increase in debt limit only if delay putting his health program into full effect.
nytimes.com
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Colorado first state in country to finalize rules for recreational pot.
denverpost.com NSA: No one "had a full understanding" of 2009 call-checking program.
arstechnica.com This Brutal Obituary Is a Reminder to Be Good to Your Children.
gawker.com Steve Jobs "One more thing..." complete compilation (1999-2011) - YouTube.
m.youtube.com Onion: Apple Unveils Panicked Man With No Ideas.
theonion.com Timelapse of the Imperceptible Effects of Aging Created from Family Portraits by Anthony Cerniello.
thisiscolossal.com I don't think Uncle Steve fully appreciated how much the hobbyists were responsible for Apple's success.
scripting.com Pax Dickinson: Business Insider CTO forced out for sexist, racist tweets.
slate.com We've already seen the Jobs phone. Now it's time for Woz's.
scripting.com Scripting News: Looking for innovation in a smart phone?
scripting.com Why it's so powerless to tell someone to STFU on Twitter.
scripting.com Apple's Reputation For Innovation Is Now Its Greatest Liability.
wired.com Sam Biddle: There's No Such Thing as a Brogrammer.
gizmodo.com Riptide hasn't yet started the discussion I hoped it might.
scripting.com The Times, by hiring programmers, closed itself off to ideas that made startups rich.
scripting.com Ten Things We've Learned About The NSA From A Summer Of Snowden Leaks.
forbes.com Scripting News: Riptide, the Times, programmers & the un-Shorenstein.
scripting.com 11 Architectural Masterworks You Can Rent on Airbnb.
gizmodo.com Outliners are: 1. like a word processor or 2. like a file system or 3. both, like Fargo.
scripting.com Scripting News: Two ways of looking at an outliner.
scripting.com
Monday, September 09, 2013
Your Facebook Posts, Gift-Wrapped In Identity, Will Soon Be Given To Marketers.
techcrunch.com New iPhone to include fingerprint scanner: WSJ.
theverge.com Newlywed Wife Admits Shoving Husband Off Steep Cliff.
gawker.com Fargo: New innovative mobile note-taking feature introduced today -- the arrow pad.
dave.smallpict.com I like that the Riptide site uses a Medium-inspired template.
niemanlab.org Johns Hopkins and the Case of the Missing NSA Blog Post.
propublica.org Cassette tape trend: Perfect price discrimination in band affection.
slate.com "I'm scared of our government and I'm disgusted by what little Silicon Valley has done to fight it."
uncrunched.com Video: The "arrow pad" makes it easy to navigate and reorganize Fargo outlines on tablets such as the iPad.
scripting.com 44 of the world's 72 tallest buildings are cheating.
qz.com Has it occurred to you yet that: Walter White isn't that stupid. #spoilers
scripting.com J-school profs: Are you teaching your students how to use encryption this semester?
mobile.twitter.com
Sunday, September 08, 2013
Manson Whitlock, Typewriter Repairman, Dies at 96.
nytimes.com US Open women's singles finals streaming live now.
usopen.org What it's like to be hated for your sexuality.
youtube.com "Pretty sure Burning Man is the new golf," Christopher Mims, a tech reporter, said in a Twitter message.
nytimes.com Spiegel: NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data.
spiegel.de This Russian Software Is Taking Over the Internet. #nginx
wired.com Scripting News: Rebooting the Internet, starting with a very simple question.
dave.smallpict.com There's a big job in front of us in the technology world, to try to put back together a semblance of security.
scripting.com Chris O'Brien: Why I cut the cable cord and you probably shouldn't.
latimes.com I commend the Guardian for adding technical expertise to team trying to make sense of NSA disclosures.
scripting.com Let's Stop Focusing on Shiny Gadgets and Start Using Tech to Empower People. #amen
wired.com Private Torrent Sites Run Their Own Mini-PRISM to Share Data on Users.
torrentfreak.com
Saturday, September 07, 2013
Internet experts want security revamp after NSA revelations.
reuters.com Compare 1836 and modern-day New York with this interactive map.
io9.com Opinion: Blogging software should be designed by writers.
When it finally turns temperate our souls veer to ecstasy.
scripting.com How to Fight Back in the NSA's War on Encryption.
gizmodo.com New York: In Conversation With Michael Bloomberg.
nymag.com At Virgin America, a Fine Line Between Pizazz and Profit.
nytimes.com Fargo: Six of the Outliner menu commands move into the new Reorg menu.
docs.fargo.io Why, in 2013, many many years into podcasting, do we not have this completely nailed?
dave.smallpict.com Scripting News: Feature request for S3-hosted websites.
scripting.com A great ad about the male heart, finally. Yay men! :-)
youtube.com
Friday, September 06, 2013
Snowden has merely done to the NSA what the NSA has been doing to U.S. citizens and business for decades.
blogs.reuters.com Majority of Tor crypto keys could be broken by NSA, researcher says.
arstechnica.com Swartz report spurs MIT to hold forums on open access, computer crime.
tech.mit.edu Does President Obama Know What In Hell the NSA Is Up To?
reason.com If Approved, Drone Hunting Is Going To Be A Very Popular Sport.
fastcompany.com Mapping Silicon Valley's Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes.
wired.com Rex panders: Please, oh please, Techmeme users. Click on me.
rexblog.com What Is High-Resolution Audio? (Basically -- not MP3 or ear buds.)
gizmodo.com TechCrunch: Journalists Or Startup Shills? You Decide.
theawl.com CJR: A weakened Washington Post, a serious ethical breach.
cjr.org Salesforce unveils Files, a new way to map files across services like Dropbox, Box, and SharePoint.
thenextweb.com Andrew Keen 'The Anti Christ of Silicon Valley'.
sv411.com More Houses Have Computers Than Landlines.
theawl.com Fargo users: It's possible if you were having trouble with Cmd-F and Cmd-G, that v1.21 cures the problem.
docs.fargo.io Doctors and lawyers fight to keep secrets in the cloud.
theverge.com Guys Prank Strangers by Narrating What They Are Doing in a Deep Movie Trailer Voice.
laughingsquid.com Police Arrest Driver Who Raced Around Manhattan.
nytimes.com http://fargo.io/ uses the open source Stanford Javascript Crypto Library to encrypt outlines.
crypto.stanford.edu Another Latin American country mulls letting its people grow pot.
qz.com The Coen Brothers Look Wryly at Their Films.
nytimes.com Sick of swiping your face? Google Glass gets a remote control. (Seems redundant?)
theverge.com The reporters in tech worship VC, I guess, because money is easier to grok than the tech they're supposed to be reporting on?
In Silicon Valley, where VCs are routinely regarded as superstars.
allthingsd.com I'm reading Wool by Hugh Howey, a great read and a great story.
npr.org Tuberculosis Hitched A Ride When Early Humans Left Africa.
npr.org
Thursday, September 05, 2013
Connecting a static JS app running on the desktop to a server, requires an intermediate "proxy" app.
scripting.com Parse: Parse Developer Day Kicks Off with Five New Products.
blog.parse.com Alec Baldwin to Host TV Interview Show on MSNBC.
nytimes.com Judith Daniels was leaning in when Sheryl Sandberg was ten years old.
newyorker.com The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back.
theguardian.com https://harp.io/
Before we had clouds there was "middleware." Turns out we need some again. ;-)
dave.smallpict.com If you're visiting NYC today, congratulations -- you're here on the nicest day of the year! :-)
Scripting News: Services for the static HTML ecosystem.
scripting.com Brutality of Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West.
nytimes.com Video: SF to Oakland on the new Bay Bridge.
youtube.com In Bloomberg's City of Bike Lanes, Data Show, Cabs Gain a Little Speed.
nytimes.com
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Call any vegetable, and the chances are good. The vegetable will respond to you.
youtube.com The real reason women are opting out of Wall Street.
qz.com Denver Post: Victim in DUI crash was Denver marijuana activist Jenny "Kush".
denverpost.com The bug was available to be discovered within minutes, had I just asked the right question.
dave.smallpict.com Jesus Diaz: The first smart watches are as stupid as I imagined.
gizmodo.com Gravity: Official Main Trailer. (Just the trailer is freaky.)
youtube.com Scripting News: How long does it take to find a bug?
scripting.com Chris Anderson: Journalism has become unstuck in time.
niemanlab.org Manjoo Joins Wall Street Journal as Technology Columnist.
blogs.wsj.com Fargo now has a Find command. (Getting back up to speed for the Fall programming season.)
docs.fargo.io Confronted with Attractive Female Opponents, Male Chess Players Take Greater Risks.
blogs.hbr.org Alfonso Cuaron Returns to Bigscreen After Seven Years With 'Gravity'.
variety.com Children learn with greatest enthusiasm in conditions that are almost opposite to those of school.
salon.com Barack Obama raises possibility of new legislation to curb NSA powers.
theguardian.com I'm speaking at the Evernote Conference on Sept 26 in SF. Looking forward! :-)
evernote.com Man there are so many questions Twitter could have asked and this is what they want to know? Really?
about.twitter.com Sony QX100: A Freaky Lens-Camera That Feeds Off Your Smartphone. (Or what to do if you don't have software.)
gizmodo.com Windows is a desktop OS. We still need desktop OSes. But they should fade into the woodwork. Always was so.
businessinsider.com As a white male I have no opinion about this.
medium.com Jonathon Fletcher: forgotten father of the search engine.
bbc.co.uk Having a transgender child won't destroy your family.
slate.com
