Flutterby™! From 2015-02-01 to 2015-02-28

Well, that day turned in to a long drive up to Lake County and various complications... Argh.

Amelia Marzec - Rewired:

I decided to adapt bone conduction technology into a helmet, in order to share my emerging haptic perception of sound without the necessity of surgery. Re-wired consists of a helmet that leaves the wearer free to roam their environment and experience a physical sensitivity to sound. The helmet contains small, sensitive microphones, signal amplifiers, vibration components, and effects circuits. It adapts to any head shape. Dials to adjust the sound and volume are mounted on the side.

[ related topics: Health Nature and environment ]

It's consistent, they're watering at mid day.

[ related topics: Photography ]

So, wait, Ron Jeremy saw his shadow or somethi...? oh, groundhog, not hedgehog. Never mind.

[ related topics: Woodworking ]

Edit: Runner's World takes apart the study

Ahhh, sloth pays: Your Hardcore Jog May Be as Dangerous as Sitting Around Doing Nothing:

The paper, published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, suggests there may be a point at which exertion becomes dangerous, outweighing the benefits of exercise.

Looks like about 2.4 hours a week or 7MPH.

Dose of Jogging and Long-Term Mortality: The Copenhagen City Heart Study.

the press release at EurekAlert.

(hat tip to Mark Hershberger)

[ related topics: Current Events Education ]

More joys of the transit mall: guy on a power wheelchair with annoyingly loud sound system drowning out my podcast ear buds.

[ related topics: Handicaps & Disabilities Public Transportation ]

I do not understand the attraction to the era of amputations and radium water...

[ related topics: Photography ]

Internet buys guy who walks 21 miles to work a car. Are they gonna pay fuel and upkeep too? He should use that money to move, instead.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Net Culture Automobiles Currency Gambling ]

Yeah, I know, pictures from the Petaluma D Street bridge are trite

[ related topics: Photography ]

New York Times: What's in those supplements? The New York State Attorney General's office is sending cease-and-desist letters:

The authorities said they had conducted tests on top-selling store brands of herbal supplements at four national retailers — GNC, Target, Walgreens and Walmart — and found that four out of five of the products did not contain any of the herbs on their labels. The tests showed that pills labeled medicinal herbs often contained little more than cheap fillers like powdered rice, asparagus and houseplants, and in some cases substances that could be dangerous to those with allergies.

Same story at Washington Post to save you the NYT click

The New York State Attorney General's office cease and desist letters.

Department of Health and Human Services 2012 report on fraud in health supplements.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Law New York ]

George Marsalis on Facebook...

g'night servers

g'night switches, g'night disks and unfixed glitches

g'night devs, with your hair pulled out

g'night sysadmins, with your wits not about

good night, users, lusers, bane of my world; i could do without

good night, sweet Penny, with the phones all tangled about

good night, good Perry, with the hammer and the axe, tackling the router, in a last minute shout

g'night bossman, atm of my world, your "resource" is going out

g'night contractor, the email was short, concise; i'll be doing the needful soon; I promise a shout

g'night recruiter, the cold-calling was awesome, i so liked to chat! when my world is on fire, your call is refreshing, like getting hit with a trout

[ related topics: Pyrotechnics Currency Woodworking ]

RT grace ‏@TH0RlN:

instead of saying "Man up" and "Be a man" say "dragon up" and "Be a dragon." dragons are strong. be aware of dragons and crush gender roles.

RT Mat Johnson ‏@mat_johnson

What happened to Mat?

He died.

How?

He was in meetings all day, and just died.

But I just saw him.

Oh his body's alive; just his soul died.

[ related topics: Woodworking ]

New Adware found in Google Play apps with millions of downloads.

Interesting threat model. And I still never ironed out if that device which was attempting to spam the world that was on my local network around Christmas of 2013 was a cheap Android tablet, or the neighbor's infected computer using my guest WiFi.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Spam broadband Invention and Design Monty Python ]

Because this needs a signal boost: Amelia Greenhall: What it was like to co-found Model View Culture with Shanley Kane.

I have mostly tried to stay quiet on the matter of Shanley. I think she's a troll. In the most recent dust-up I very much had the feeling that defending Shanley from weev was like defending weev from the U.S. Attorney, something we had to do as a matter of principle, but...

Anyway, I've been trying to make a huge effort to not engage trolls, to filter that part of the culture out of my life, because it doesn't generally need to be taking any more of our bandwidth. But I think Ms. Greenhall is worth listening to on her own merits, and because she eloquently says everything I could want to say on this matter.

[ related topics: Weblogs broadband Sociology Law California Culture Pop Culture ]

Re those broken sprinklers yesterday, here's an unirrigated field in the same office park

[ related topics: Photography ]

Shawn suggested a map of nearly every goat in the United States.

Interesting data mashups are fun!

[ related topics: Maps and Mapping ]

One of the more amusing stories of photo copyright I've seen: Copyright dispute ends after the revelation that the two nearly identical pictures were taken by people on the same cruise from slightly different places.

Via MeFi

[ related topics: Photography Copyright/Trademark ]

Mash-ups of Erowid drug trip reports with recruiter conversations. Which is which? https://twitter.com/erowidrecruiter

[ related topics: Health Travel ]

At the Sonoma County Woodworker's Association, presentation by http://www.jeffreydale.com

[ related topics: Woodworking ]

If you got caught up in Worm, the very dark (and very long) teenage superhero serial, the author of that has started writing Pact.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama virus Writing ]

Erotic podcaster Nobilis Read has started a Patreon campaign to turn his podcast into a paying (even if it is token amounts) market.

I have run across a couple of erotic podcasts that I started listening too, but that then suddenly squicked me pretty hard. Nobilis has managed to do everything from pretty vanilla, to pretty close to the edge, but always managed to keep it erotic.

Now if we can just find a way to get more of Chris Lester's Metamor City (not a focus on the erotic, but Nobilis has done a few stories in that universe)...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Erotic Economics ]

A special place in hell for people who omit "use warnings; use strict;" because performance or cluttering httpd/error_log. *Special* place.

[ related topics: Theater & Plays ]

Huh. Found several other disciplines besides raft guiding in which "safety meeting" means... uh... well.... Interesting.

How can Rand Paul make the "children as property" argument for vaccines, but not accept it for abortion? The cognitive dissonance burns.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Sexual Culture Pyrotechnics ]

RT simonpang ‏@simonpang:

This is how App Store ratings work. Welcome to the reality.

[ related topics: Photography Work, productivity and environment Archival ]

The way that recent Android & carrier software updates have broken the Samsung S4 are a good reminder that we need to control our hardware.

[ related topics: Software Engineering ]

RT Violet Blue ® ‏@violetblue:

When I got to the DHS part I actually laughed into my facepalm: White House Debuts Dot-Gov Cyber Enforcement Squad http://www.nextgov.com/cyberse...-cyber-enforcement-squad/104313/

[ related topics: Race Real Estate ]

The Slippery Step-Function: Or, Reasons to be Cheerful.. Peter Watts talks about privacy, and asks:

... if privacy is really dead, why are so many still trying so hard to kill it?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Privacy Mathematics ]

Realization: Client-side JavaScript rendering+API is the same sort of multiple content nightmare that makes RSS/Atom break in weird ways.

[ related topics: Content Management Graphics ]

Color test for bathroom furniture and trim, cherry and red balau

[ related topics: Photography ]

Playing with templates for the bathroom mirror, think I need to go way bigger vertically

[ related topics: Photography ]

Family of Missouri 6-year-old charged with staging kidnapping to teach about stranger danger. The good news is that they correctly showed him that he's in far more danger from family members and acquaintances than from strangers.

[ related topics: Sociology Current Events ]

So the signs outside say "Taco Max" and "Pupusas", the inside says Chaparrita. But: tasty

[ related topics: Photography ]

Aaaand we may have finally reached the tipping point on on-demand vs broadcast: Cable TV viewing declined by more than 12 percent in January

[ related topics: Technology and Culture Television ]

These TVs in gas pumps, playing ads, are seriously not okay. Do not need this sort of audio visual pollution.

[ related topics: Music ]

Google Maps lets you go inside the Tardis: https://maps.google.com/maps?h...=m&cbll=51.492132,-0.192862&z=17

[ related topics: Maps and Mapping ]

Break in the storm

More storm break

[ related topics: Photography ]

Bwahahahaha! I Tried All the Sex in 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Over One Weekend:

... I lie on my stomach and he does his thing as I try to stay awake and say things like, "Ooh, baby, this is so good," and he says stuff like, "Please don't patronize me." It's very sexy.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Plaything with mirror shapes, I think the ellipse is too narrow at the ends

[ related topics: Photography ]

Debunking the cul-de-sac.

[ related topics: Graphic Design ]

The book of Mormon missionary positions.

[ related topics: Books ]

Why yes, Emacs, I did rmdir cwd, but there's no reason to get snippy and not start...

Barely missed the GG101 NB in Petaluma, on the SCT48X instead, which passed the 101 in Cotati. Ahhh, Bay Area transit... sigh.

[ related topics: California Culture Public Transportation ]

Transportation policy: stop sign on a MUP for a gate that hasn't been opened in years

[ related topics: Photography ]

PLOS ONE: Choosing Organic Pesticides over Synthetic Pesticides May Not Effectively Mitigate Environmental Risk in Soybeans.

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations: Title 7 → Subtitle B → Chapter I → Subchapter M → Part 205 → Subpart G, list of synthetic substances allowed in organic production and non-synthetic substances prohibited in organic proudction.

USDA National Organic Program list of allowed and prohibited substances.

If anyone has good sources on what the actual use, run-off, and residual soil levels "pesticides derived from natural sources" <http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/food/organics.htm">allowed by the USDA and EPA are, I'd love to read more. So far I'm just finding a lot of axe grinding.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Food Theater & Plays Work, productivity and environment ]

Missouri House of Representatives HR 99:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we, the members of the Missouri House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth General Assembly, hereby insist that each member of 53 the Missouri Congressional delegation endeavor with "manly firmness" and resolve to totally and completely repeal the Affordable Care Act, settling for no less than a full repeal; and

Via the Columbia Tribune.

[ related topics: Politics Real Estate ]

California Solar Permitting Guidebook

The California Solar Permitting Guidebook is a resource for local governments and permitting agencies to facilitate installation of small solar energy systems. By adopting its recommendations, local governments can reduce permit processing times and increase their output while facilitating local economic development.

[ related topics: California Culture Economics Photovoltaics ]

Actually kind of disappointed that neither "git frob" nor "git munge" are valid commands.

Shadow forwarded along a loophole. I remember some years back a couple of guys tried to use exactly the same loophole regarding mountain biking on single-track in Marin County. The rangers were not amused.

[ related topics: Bay Area Bicycling ]

Ma'am, neither the Tesla nor the handicapped sticker give you the karma to ignore the crosswalk...

[ related topics: Handicaps & Disabilities ]

Proposal to try to proactively find exploited WordPress installs. I think you can do that by just finding WordPress installs.

How the GCHQ's JTRIG unit uses psychology and the internet to destroy the reputations of its targets.

[ related topics: Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Net Culture ]

Santa Rosa: It's pupusa Friday! Noon NW corner of Marlow & W. College.

[ related topics: Heinlein Education ]

Hmmm... Need to check the schedule: Code Across Marin: Code for Marin: Saturday, February 21, 2015 from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM (PST) Fairfax, CA

[ related topics: Bay Area Gambling ]

Because I want to read it later: Why Is My Smart Home So Fucking Dumb?

[ related topics: Handicaps & Disabilities ]

Really? Ad Block Plus for Android saturating my Internet uplink? Removed, but dayumn.

[ related topics: Net Culture ]

So Meuon has graciously found an Ethernet jack and power plug for the Flutterby server for, what, 17 or 18 years now? I think I first put something up on Flutterby.com, moved my web presence over from Chattanooga.net, in 1997, and the blog format started in February of 1998.

This may change shortly, and I'm kind of thinking about what Flutterby.com (and Flutterby.net) should be in the era of FaceTwitSpacePlus.

Anyway, things are in flux, I'll probably move to some sort of shared hosting plan, I definitely like having the augmented brain that the archives and search offer me, and I really appreciate the small community we've formed here (though I miss a few people who haven't checked in for a while... I see petronius and several others on Facebook, and Twitter, but haven't heard from "m" in a while, for instance).

Obviously the easiest thing would be some sort of cheap VM that could just run Ubuntu and I could migrate the whole thing over to, but I'm also thinking that it may be time to re-invent Flutterby in some way.

If anyone has brainstorms, I'm game to hear 'em.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Games Weblogs Chattanooga Community Archival ]

Perfect day to hang out in Fort Mason for Steve and Ascencion's wedding

[ related topics: Photography Marriage ]

I can bemoan the drought, but the weather is awesome for a wedding

[ related topics: Photography Marriage ]

Steve and Ascencion dancing at the wedding

[ related topics: Photography Marriage ]

Looking south over Novato, Mt Tam peeking out from behind Big Rock Ridge

Looking south over Novato, Mt Tam peeking out from behind Big Rock Ridge

[ related topics: Photography ]

Hiking with a 21 year old. Taught him that old guys can climb...

[ related topics: Photography Nature and environment Gambling ]

Looking north to Petaluma

[ related topics: Photography ]

Looking north over the Petaluma River to Mt St Helena

[ related topics: Photography ]

Making some pouring stoppers for my pique bottles

[ related topics: Photography ]

Not perfect, but it'll work...

[ related topics: Photography Work, productivity and environment ]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that it takes longer to raid the parts box than to hit the hardware store

[ related topics: Photography ]

Hardware store run: averted

[ related topics: Photography ]

Never assume that just because the device is unplugged that the power is off...

[ related topics: Photography ]

Fuuuu! TurboTax wants me to install the Windows version to file an amendment for last year. Ugh.

[ related topics: Microsoft ]

Advice for Early-Stage Hardware Startups, which has been oft-quoted for this:

If you’re making less than 1,000 units and they are not nuclear reactors, ask yourself if it’s worth your time.

But has a lot of other stuff. Especially since I've been involved in building a bunch of prototypes for a particular hardware startup recently, and am talking with another...

[ related topics: Quotes Interactive Drama Weblogs ]

A number of things in my life are reminding me of this: Seth Godin: Reject the tyranny of being picked: pick yourself:

It's a cultural instinct to wait to get picked. To seek out the permission and authority that comes from a publisher or talk show host or even a blogger saying, "I pick you." Once you reject that impulse and realize that no one is going to select you--that Prince Charming has chosen another house--then you can actually get to work.

[ related topics: Weblogs Sociology Work, productivity and environment Real Estate ]

Sonoma County folk: is there a cliff somewhere that'd be good for teaching a newbie basic rappelling, belay & vertical rope skills?

I've thought about trying to do this, both for the better laminar flow around the helmet straps giving me better aural awareness when I'm riding, and because there are times when I'm on the bike that I'd like podcasts or music: http://www.slipstreamz.com/ are little wind shields and speakers that clip on your helmet straps to enhance hearing.

[ related topics: Music Bicycling ]

Porting the Flutterby CMS to MySQL to move my blog to hosting from a dedicated server. How do y'all put up with this excuse for a database?

[ related topics: Content Management Weblogs Open Source Databases ]

RT Matt Barcomb ‏@mattbarcomb

"what do you use for mocking these days?"

"I typically stick with dry sarcasm unless over the top vulgarity is a better fit in context"

Charlene leaves town and we blow up the oven... it was really loud...

[ related topics: Photography ]

Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops. Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco from Core Security Technologies suggest that it's easy to alter the "phone home" information in Computrace LoJack for Laptops to hijack the anti-theft service to do one's own nefarious bidding.

And Lenovo has been shipping laptops with "Superfish" adware injection software installed, it hijacks your Google searches and injects ads into them. It apparently installs it's own CA, to allow MitM attacks against any https site(!).

Addendum: EFF: Lenovo is breaking HTTPS security on its recent laptops:

Lenovo has not just injected ads in a wildly inappropriate manner, but engineered a massive security catastrophe for its users. The use of a single certificate for all of the MITM attacks means that all HTTPS security for at least Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari for Windows, on all of these Lenovo laptops, is now broken. If you access your webmail from such a laptop, any network attacker can read your mail as well or steal your password. If you log into your online banking account, any network attacker can pilfer your credentials. All an attacker needs in order to perform these attacks is a copy of the Superfish MITM private key. There is (apparently) a copy of that key inside every Superfish install on every affected Lenovo laptop, which has now been extracted and posted online.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Software Engineering ]

NY Times: My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer:

It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can. ...

Of note especially because we have a 20-something in our lives who's stumbling. His upbringing left him with a lack of tools to face reality, and we had a talk last night about philosophies of finite vs infinite resources. This is a good quick musing on living within the finite.

[ related topics: Theater & Plays Work, productivity and environment Education ]

The Fight for Masculinity in Science Fiction. Well worth a read.

The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle. In case you needed more reasons to not trust your phone.

[ related topics: Law Cryptography ]

If you can read this, Flutterby is now hosted on the Linode VM, migrating off of Buttercups.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Bot tweets "I seriously want to kill people", prompts Dutch police response.

MeFi user GuyZero observes:

The police investigate robot tweets but actual rape threats by people to people go by unremarked?

Huh.

[ related topics: Robotics Law Enforcement ]

Another from Shadow (who's had posting turned on for a long time, but who sends 'em to me anyway): A cool lifting bed design, for storage underneath the mattress: http://imgur.com/uZh71ZW

[ related topics: Graphic Design Furniture ]

Dear "designers" going for low contrast grey text on white: STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!

[ related topics: Race ]

Lots of brush trimming here!

[ related topics: Photography ]

RT Christopher Soghoian ‏@csoghoian:

New rule: Instead of a stock photo of masked-man at a keyboard to show hackers, use the NSA director. More accurate.

[ related topics: Photography Invention and Design Economics Archival ]

House guest texted me about tripping new fire alarms. I'm now realizing that a "silence alarm" feature would have been nice...

[ related topics: Invention and Design Pyrotechnics Real Estate ]

Yeah, some days I'd like to administer some fire...

[ related topics: Photography Pyrotechnics ]

The jokes write themselves: DoD spends $84M a year on Viagra, similar meds.

And meanwhile we can't take care of our injured veterans.

[ related topics: Health ]

Exposing infants to peanuts causes big reduction in peanut allergy, study shows.

One of the lead researchers, Gideon Lack, head of the Department of Pediatric Allergy at King's College London, agreed. "I believe that the findings are robust enough to tell us that if a child is at risk for peanut allergy...that child should immediately, as soon as they develop the first signs, have a skin prick test" for the allergy, he said. If the test is negative, the child "should be encouraged to eat peanuts regularly," Lack said.

If the skin test is positive, the same program could be followed under the supervision of a pediatrician, he said.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Health Food Software Engineering Current Events Television Education ]

Congress is threatening to de-fund the DHS? Be awesome to replace that bunch of public funds pillagers with people enhancing security!

[ related topics: Politics ]

From the College of Marin Community Education flyer: truly, everything old is new again

[ related topics: Photography Invention and Design Bay Area Community Education ]

Google bans 'explicit' adult content from Blogger blogs:

With this move, Blogger -- Google -- isn't eliminating blogs that are raking in porn dough, or exposing innocents to objectionable content.

Google is removing sexual content because it doesn't like people posting it on Google's Internet.

Or, RT OJ ‏@tallglassofoj:

Holy shit Google just dropped the hammer.

CNN: Google will ban pornography from being shown publicly on its Blogger site links to the changes in Google's adult content policy.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Net Culture ]

The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site':

At least one man was found unresponsive in a Homan Square “interview room” and later pronounced dead.

Extrajudicial execution. Beatings. Detention without charge. Anyone remember when the Soviet Union was the bad guys?

[ related topics: Current Events Law Enforcement ]

Fear China: on dealing with some faulty DNS data that caused huge traffic hits.

I've been thinking about this recently, both because while moving Flutterby off of daffodils.flutterby.com I had to look at things like data transfer amounts in various service plans, and because the recent Google squashing of "adult" content on Blogger pages has me thinking more about indieweb principles, and what the next evolution of discussion and sharing might look like.

[ related topics: Community ]

Posner informs pro se litigant that the queen of England did not absolve him of need to pay taxes:

El Bey got his history wrong, Posner writes in his order.

“The Stamp Act was enacted by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1765,” Posner wrote. “It did not relieve Americans of any taxes; on the contrary, it imposed a comprehensive tax on the use of paper by Americans. The Act was not a treaty between Britain and the federal government of the United States, for there was no United States; there were just the 13 British colonies that 11 years later declared independence from Great Britain. There were no federal taxes that the act could have relieved Americans from having to pay. The sovereign of Britain at the time was a king, not a queen; the king’s wife (Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) was Great Britain’s queen but had no governmental authority.”

[ related topics: Politics moron Current Events Marriage Government ]

psst: Don't tell the "social media professionals" that it's an incredulous "What? are you *on fleek* or something?". Let's keep this going!

[ related topics: Journalism and Media ]

LumberJocks: Cherry & Milk Jug Joiners Mallet. Melting milk jugs in a toaster oven to make an HDPE block for the mallet head.

T. Rob: Listening wasn't bad enough:

Owners of Samsung’s “smart” TVs are now reporting that streaming apps running on the TVs are inserting Pepsi ads into user-owned content stored locally on their PCs and NAS drives.  In nearly identical stories, GigaOm and Ars Technica report that this happens for Plex and Foxtel apps running on the TVs.

Of course this is totally consistent with a world where Lenovo defends breaking security and inserting ads as "...every effort to provide a great user experience for our customers."

[ related topics: Current Events Sports ]

Recently dated myself by referencing Eddie Murphy "talking cars". Great example of a technology of the future that wasn't.

QOTD: "...a lot of ... programmers ... have ... spent their entire careers replacing actual code with stuff that looks like code for cover"

[ related topics: Quotes ]

Google's clamp down on "adult" content is probably advertisers thinking you're not an easy mark if you're interested in real humans & sex

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Erotic Sexual Culture Consumerism and advertising ]

if CA SB 192 were for anything other than harassing cyclists, we'd also be asking for helmets for drivers: http://dearestdistrict5.blogsp...e-laws-enacted-for-cyclists.html

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Government ]

"I don't have enough palms or enough faces to respond to the thought process that created this" (me thinking about &f; vs f(); in Perl)

[ related topics: Perl Open Source hubris ]

RT Sad Server ‏@sadserver:

Statistically speaking it's more likely for you to be mauled by a bear than for you to properly secure WordPress.

I know you think you're helping by using the implicit table fields in your INSERT statements, but... [sfx:thwap thwap thwap smash]

[ related topics: Furniture ]

Anti-news: "Cyberwar" is bullshit cooked up to enrich military contractors: http://www.wired.com/2010/03/cyber-war-hype/

[ related topics: History Current Events ]

Warren Buffett on longevity:

Asked to explain the high-sugar, high-salt diet that has somehow enabled him to remain seemingly healthy, Buffett replies: “I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.” The octogenarian adds, “It’s the safest course I can take.”

[ related topics: Drugs Health Food Furniture ]

Reminder, I said "XML is the subset of SGML that Microsoft's developers could understand" in late '90s, if you need a pundit who was right.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Humor Web development Content Management Microsoft moron ]

Harley Davidson's one step closer to selling an electric motorcycle (via Shadow)

Further evidence that the "War On Terror" is creating more Jihad participants than it's killing: ‘Jihadi John’: Islamic State killer is identified as Londoner Mohammed Emwazi.

[ related topics: History ]

So the RSS feed reader of the future is emails from Patreon. Not sure how I feel about that.

[ related topics: Content Management ]

Owner of revenge porn site petitions Google to remove links to his photos.

Brittain has no legal grounds for the complaint, <ahref="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/revenge-porn-boss-wants-google-to-remove-his-identity-related-info/">as Ars Technica, who first spotted the filing, explains. “In this instance,” writes David Kravets, “fair use and general First Amendment principles are on Google’s and the media’s side.”

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography Erotic Sexual Culture Nudity Current Events ]

Sierpinski Hamantaschen: Sierpinskitaschen (First in the world?!)

Moving a link between machines: Simpson Seismic Retrofit Guide (PDF). Looks like exactly the step-by-step guide I should follow.

[ related topics: Douglas Adams ]

Guy on the bus got up and closed the window. Bus is all stuffy. Same guy has been talking on his cell phone the rest of the trip. Ugh.

[ related topics: Wireless Travel Public Transportation ]

Yesterday's Internet: Everybody's too highbrow to admit that they really like rodeo, and far too few people understand color.

[ related topics: Net Culture ]

Thinking about the transaction cost of researching product purchases to reduce information inequality, and how spyware is raising that cost

Fascinating discussion at lunch about remote telemetry and how DHS "anti-terror" mandates are raising the cost of remote state parks.

[ related topics: Community ]

Say what you will about de-funding the DHS, but if I'm going to have taxpayer subsidized theatre, I'd rather it not be security theatre.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Theater & Plays ]

Charges crumble after cell phone video uncovered.

Process server serves papers to cop. Seven police officers lie to try to get process server put up on assault charges. Luckily, process server had videoed the incident.

However, the prosecutors still haven't gone after all of those who lied under oath. The blue wall is strong.

Via Radley Balko in the Washington Post.

[ related topics: Wireless Movies Current Events Video ]