Flutterby™! From 2015-03-01 to 2015-03-31

Hanging in the Terrace Grill watching the fire dancers from the Tattoos and Blues festival at Flamingo Hotel

[ related topics: Photography Travel Pyrotechnics ]

Cutting the mirror inset in the bathroom trim

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Fascinating: Web sites have become irrelevant

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Working on wall plates

[ related topics: Photography Work, productivity and environment ]

Marble for Freecycle

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Averages deceive: birth control is better than the NYT credits.

If you want to know why the Middle East hates us, these people are our allies: http://www.independent.co.uk/n...-the-death-penalty-10077877.html

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Current Events ]

Funnier than I thought it'd be: "FYI I'M A GRAPHIC DESIGNER" (YouTube supercut). In a couple of years, this'll be replaced by the "UX" supercut.

[ related topics: Movies ]

The Case Against Cancer Early Detection:

Early detection might remain a laudable goal if it caught some deadly cancers in time to make a difference and didn’t bother anyone. But it is bothering people. Tens of thousands of South Koreans have undergone surgical procedures for cancers that likely would never have threatened their lives, and the overdiagnosis/overtreatment problem exists to varying degrees for every cancer test.

Interesting that we don't have good diagnoses for distinguishing the "rabbits" from the "turtles", the fast growing cancers from the slow growing ones, and that as we're able to detect cancers earlier, we're discovering that many cancers don't persist, or are effectively removed by the natural processes of the body (JAMA Internal Medicine: The Natural History of Invasive Breast Cancers Detected by Screening Mammography)

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Law ]

A really cool procedural texturing water/wave demo

Giant methane storms on Uranus.

The storms are described in a paper recently published in Icarus, with the pre-print available here. After the first observations, the group put out a call to amateur astronomers to see if they could also observed this unusual activity too. They did, and with this information the group built a case to point the Hubble Space telescope at Uranus, which happened in October. Again, they saw large storms, showing that what they had seen in August hadn't been a one off event - the weather report on Uranus is looking rather unsettled.

(Yes, I did link to this just because I'm 9 years old at heart.)

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Bay Area Space & Astronomy Law Current Events Model Building Woodworking ]

DEA warns of "stoned rabbits" if Utah passes medical marijuana bill:

"I deal in facts. I deal in science," said special agent Matt Fairbanks, who's been working in the state for a decade. He is member of the "marijuana eradication" team in Utah. Some of his colleagues in Georgia recently achieved notoriety by raiding a retiree's garden and seizing a number of okra plants.

Sounds like the dude has been sampling the confiscated wares.

[ related topics: Drugs Interactive Drama Health Work, productivity and environment Law Enforcement Gardening ]

Is there a modern C++ build system that doesn't suck? CMake seems nice, but then tries to assume way too much.

On land-line bundling with your Internet... *cough* http://raindogcomic.com/singles/bundle/

[ related topics: Net Culture Real Estate ]

I'm seeing lots of handwringing that Google & Facebook can sway elections, but have you seen the idiocy of newspaper editorial cartoonists?

[ related topics: Journalism and Media ]

Reservations made at the Highlands Resort for the Stumptown Stomp weekend. There will be much square dancing and merriment!

[ related topics: Travel ]

RT Niels Hoe ‏@nielshoe:

If you can't see it. Let me draw it for you. Via @JoliUrbaniste & @KellyaAndrew

(local mirror)

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography Archival ]

the cartoonist may have no idea how net neutrality works, but sure knows where the paper's ad dollars come from

I thought this was an interesting email to get yesterday. I'm definitely not interested in another walled silo, but they're clearly reaching out to the right people to make a social network interesting: Ello Declares March "NSFW Month"

[ related topics: broadband Current Events ]

Just a little reminder: John Kerry reminds congress that Netanyahu advised us to invade Iraq:

”If you take out Saddam, Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region,” Mr. Netanyahu said then. “And I think that people sitting right next door in Iran, young people, and many others, will say the time of such regimes, of such despots is gone.”

Related: The Onion: Netanyahu Assures Critics He Still Has Utmost Respect For U.S. Money

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics Food Currency Dictators ]

Ed Felten: FREAK Attack: The Chickens of ‘90s Crypto Restriction Come Home to Roost. Notes on why U.S. crypto policy has been harmful, spurred by the FREAK attack on SSL/TLS connections.

A group of cryptographers at INRIA, Microsoft Research and IMDEA have discovered some serious vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (e.g., Android) clients and Apple TLS/SSL clients (e.g., Safari) that allow a 'man in the middle attacker' to downgrade connections from 'strong' RSA to 'export-grade' RSA. These attacks are real and exploitable against a shocking number of websites -- including government websites. Patch soon and be careful.

[ related topics: Apple Computer Humor Privacy Weblogs Microsoft moron Civil Liberties Cryptography Birds Government ]

RT Lisa Bloom ‏@LisaBloom:

To everyone who criticized the Ferguson protestors: they were right, you were wrong. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03...excessive-force-in-ferguson.html

If you don't want to spend an NYT click, just note that Ferguson officials put racist comments in email, and that black motorists were twice as likely to be searched as whites, but less likely to have contraband.

Edit: Washington Post has the Department of Justice report on the Ferguson Missouri Police Department.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Law Enforcement ]

Holy shit: Chronicle of Higher Education: Raped on Campus? Don’t Trust Your College to Do the Right Thing. There is so much evil here, starting with the University of Oregon delaying an investigation until the end of the basketball season, but then it goes deeper:

The Oregon administration accessed the rape survivor’s therapy records from its counseling center and handed them over to its general counsel’s office to help them defend against her lawsuit. They were using her own post-rape therapy records against her.

And apparently the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) means that campus health clinic data isn't protected by HIPAA. If you are a student, do not seek help from on-campus resources. Do not trust your college's administration.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Privacy Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Health Sociology Civil Liberties Sports Education ]

Sonoma County Woodworkers meeting. Repurposed furniture from wine flavor sticks

[ related topics: Photography Wines and Spirits Woodworking ]

Whit starts with big stacks of yeast covered sticks

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Ogling the rotary shaper

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And a linear shaper

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Kinda terrifying chain mortiser

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And that, friends, is a band saw

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So apparently LinkedIn is now the place for dumb memes that are too discredited for Facebook. #tetrachromaticvisiononrgbmonitors

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My casual suggestion made over coffee save a huge development dead-end and improved a product plan. Wish day job were as fulfilling...

[ related topics: Invention and Design Heinlein ]

No Boys Allowed: School visits as a woman writer:

Later a teacher told me, "The administration only gave permission to the middle school girls to leave class for your assembly. I have a boy student who is a huge fan of SPIRIT ANIMALS. I got special permission for him to come, but he was too embarrassed."

[ related topics: Children and growing up Writing ]

Funky File Formats: Advanced binary tricks (hour long video of a presentation): "Binary tricks to evade identification, detection, to exploit encryption and hash collisions."

But also some fascinating possibilities in steganography, including a JPEG that's a Java file that becomes a PNG when you encrypt it and a PDF with another key.

[ related topics: Politics Software Engineering Journalism and Media Cryptography Video Databases ]

If you don't read the whole report, read this and consider how profit-based policing happens near you http://www.washingtonpost.com/...e-dojs-scathing-ferguson-report/

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Current Events ]

Definitely not filthy sailing terminology. Except that it conflates futtocks with futtock shrouds.

Via MeFi.

[ related topics: Boats ]

CNN: Amazing cycle super highways making bikes the transport of the future, which is mostly about separated bicycle infrastructure in Londond:

"Bikes already make up 24 per cent of all rush-hour traffic in central London - hundreds of thousands of journeys every day that would otherwise be made by car or public transport," said London mayor Boris Johnson.

But then there are the fuckwits who don't understand that they're not stuck in traffic, they are traffic:

Opponents -- including the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association - say segregated bike paths will take too much space from motor traffic and will bring gridlock.

[ related topics: Space & Astronomy Automobiles Pedal Power Bicycling ]

RT The Atlantic Politics ‏@TheAtlanticPOL

Ferguson does not have a police department enforcing the law. It has a gang extracting plunder. http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...he-Gangsters-Of-Ferguson/386893/

Both a good run-down of why the US DOJ exonerated Wilson, and excoriated his department.

[ related topics: Politics Law Enforcement ]

Chelsea Handler calls out Twitter, Instagram for censoring her naked photos. I'm not sure who Chelsea Handler is, but I like her style:

And so I took it, and I had never aired a topless photo on any of these social media outlets. I mean, I’m a Luddite when it comes to anything involved with technology. So [my cousin] put it [on Instagram] side by side with Putin on one horse and me on my horse, and we were laughing. Editing my topless photos with my brother, like any close family will do. And then my cousin, like three hours later through dinner, was like, “Oh my God, your photo was removed,” because she was looking at the Likes. And I said, “Removed? Why?” And she goes, “Because you’re topless.” And I said, “But he’s topless.

[ related topics: Religion Photography Weblogs Nudity Sociology Journalism and Media ]

Ha! Got a 20-something with "updog" yesterday. Everything old *is* new again.

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

Bwahahahaha! Watch This Incredible Moment When A Father Of Four Hears Silence For The First Time (YouTube video)

[ related topics: Movies Video ]

I believe that servers should be wild, not farmed.

Building Safety Awareness:

Documenting the often irrational and reckless behavior of the built environment.

Advocating for improved safety through the use of helmets, high visiblity attire and helmet minimum zoning.

A good look at all of those places where buildings, fire hydrants and railroads leap out and attack automobiles.

[ related topics: Nature and environment Invention and Design Automobiles Pyrotechnics Architecture ]

Java 8 Update 40 Installer App Fun!

So in conclusion… That’s a really nifty “Ask Toolbar installer” with arbitrary package installer Oracle. It’s also a great delivery vehicle for malware by nefarious folks. Heck, bundle Java along with your Trojan and the “Verify Java” page would open too! Sheesh. ...

Further evidence that the use of Java indicates a lack of knowledge about software development.

[ related topics: Weblogs virus Software Engineering Databases ]

Consent: Not actually that complicated:

If you’re still struggling, just imagine instead of initiating sex, you’re making them a cup of tea.

You say “hey, would you like a cup of tea?” and they go “omg fuck yes, I would fucking LOVE a cup of tea! Thank you!*” then you know they want a cup of tea.

Among other places, via MeFi

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Hey! Evidence based education! Chicago Sun Times: No-homework policy improves home life for younger students at one CPS school

“Let’s be clear, there is no evidence of any benefit of any kind of homework before high school. … There are ways of helping kids to be organized in ways appropriate for their age level without making academics spill into the evening hours,” Kohn added, “the primary effect of which is to create frustration, family conflicts and less excitement about learning.”

[ related topics: Children and growing up Sociology Education Java ]

Officers suspended as video of attack on Oakland student surfaces:

“The only narrative in entire (district police report) that had any truth to it is the child's statement,” said [Oakland Schools police chief Jeff Godown]

[ related topics: Children and growing up Bay Area Law Enforcement Video ]

Prosecutor under investigation for allegedly falsifying transcripts.

Moore said the defendant speaks Spanish, and the fabricated admission was placed into an English translation of the defendant's interrogation. Deputy Public Defender Ernie Hinman, who's handling the case for Moore's office, noticed the discrepancy after having the tape of the interrogation translated and transcribed.

but the fabricated lines were used to extract a plea deal. The article talks about a few other questionable decisions by the prosecutor.

California Prosecutor Falsifies Transcript of Confession: Court of Appeal slams Attorney General Kamala Harris again.

But here’s another doozy: The People (of California) v. Efrain Velasco-Palacios. In this unpublished opinion from the Fifth Appellate District, the California Court of Appeal reveals that state prosecutors and California Attorney General Kamala Harris continue to be part of the problem. Kern County prosecutor Robert Murray committed “outrageous government misconduct.” Ms. Harris and her staff defended the indefensible—California State prosecutor Murray flat out falsified a transcript of a defendant’s confession.

[ related topics: moron Law California Culture ]

At the Petaluma Wildlife Museum

[ related topics: Photography Art & Culture ]

Inigo: "Offer me extra daylight." Rugen: "Anything you want..." Inigo: "I want my hour back, you son of a bitch!"

Starring to carve the bathroom mirror frame

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Forgot the cross on that one H, and not sure about how that font inlays

[ related topics: Photography Typography Graphic Design ]

Wiping the dust off the bathroom trim

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ASCII fluid dynamics (YouTube).

From the International Obfuscated C Code Competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYfkOtYYlg&t=12

[ related topics: Movies ]

New Orleans filmmaker cleared in cold-case murder; false positive highlights limitations of familial DNA searching.

The elder Usry, who lives outside Jackson, Mississippi, said his DNA entered the equation through a project, sponsored years ago by the Mormon church, in which members gave DNA samples to the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, a nonprofit whose forensic assets have been acquired by Ancestry.com, the world’s largest for-profit genealogy company.

Careful who you give those DNA samples to, the false accusations they lead to could be your kin.

[ related topics: Religion Invention and Design Law Current Events Hurricane Katrina ]

Today is a lesson in "we have procedures for a reason, don't try to be smart about it if you don't understand..." Ugh.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

RT Violet Blue ® ‏@violetblue

#TIL Morality in Media is changing its name this year to "The National Center on Sexual Exploitation"

RT Inverse Incubus ‏@anothershoe

@violetblue one expects they'll be busted for practicing what they preach (against).

RT Violet Blue ® ‏@violetblue:

.@anothershoe I have their new tagline: "Exploiting women in porn to show that women in porn are exploited."

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Invention and Design Journalism and Media ]

Zack's new project has launched: The Islamophobia Network. Mapping the main funders of anti-Islam propaganda in the United States.

This website presents information from CAP’s 2011 widely read report “Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America” and further augments the report by providing updated information on this network.

[ related topics: Religion broadband Invention and Design moron Maps and Mapping ]

Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges.

We tested a selection of x86 laptops that were readily available to us (all with non-ECC memory) using CLFLUSH with the “random address selection” approach above. We found that a large subset of these machines exhibited rowhammer-induced bit flips. The results are shown in the table below.

More reason to fear your computer... And to spring for ECC RAM on your servers.

[ related topics: Furniture ]

RT Dave Ditell sucks!! ‏@davedittell:

"yeah of course I can paint your ceiling." Michelangelo scoffed to himself, "gonna paint a bunch of dudes with they dick outs on it tho"

RT Ted Loewenberg ‏@Safer_Masonic:

Haight St is in MTA sights. Bulbouts, constricted traffic, danger for disabled. Planners have no facts to justify this BS, just raw opinions

RT Michael Rhodes ‏@michaelprhodes:

@Safer_Masonic Ugh, yes, if only there was an organization that published research on safety impacts of bulbouts. http://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=1241821 …

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Bay Area Handicaps & Disabilities Public Transportation ]

A New Lawsuit Aims to Decriminalize Prostitution in California:

At noon local time on Wednesday, the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Education, and Research Project (ESPLERP) filed a lawsuit against the attorney general of the state of California, as well as several district attorneys, in a case they say has the potential to decriminalize prostitution in a handful of Western states.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Invention and Design Law California Culture Education ]

I just want you people fawning over the Apple watch that I've had this for a few years now: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos

[ related topics: Apple Computer Movies ]

RT Rxssell Blaxk ‏@rebroff:

The ZX80 also has a fanless design, an incredibly thin keyboard, and not enough USB ports.

[ related topics: Photography Graphic Design Archival ]

Helen Lewis @helenlewis · 9 Aug 2012:

As I've just told @alicetiara, the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism. That is Lewis's Law.

[ related topics: Guns ]

Ugh! "We couldn't be bothered to *learn* what XML is, so, here, have some '<', '>' and '/' in your files!": CUPS, Apache, Freeswitch, etc.

[ related topics: Free Software Web development Content Management Open Source ]

The Third California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF3). Time to move those earthquake foundation anchors up the priority list... \

[ related topics: California Culture Earthquake ]

Motion sensing using the doppler effect:

Recently I stumbled upon an interesting paper for implementing motion sensing requiring no special hardware, only a speaker and mic! Unfortunately the paper didn't include code to test it, so I decided to reproduce it here on the web!

Scrolling by waving your hand...

[ related topics: Humor Microsoft moron Seattle ]

Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL. On coming up against limits and migrating from Mongo to Postgres.

[ related topics: Weblogs Open Source Databases ]

For want of a scan my sanity was lost:

“Do you really really REALLY want to run something you downloaded from the Internet equivalent of an unmarked conversion van in Compton?” asked my computer.

We got that Brother laser printer recently. Works awesome on all of our Linux machines. Even scans nicely to our Linux server from the device. Then Forest came to live with us for a bit, and we can't get the printer working with his Windows driver at all.

[ related topics: Free Software Microsoft Open Source Theater & Plays Work, productivity and environment Net Culture ]

Pretty sure I'm doing it wrong: allergies are awful so I called in sick, here I sit surrounded by tissues, writing C++ code.

[ related topics: Writing ]

Pretty sure that flower bed wasn't wearing a helmet or high visibility clothing

[ related topics: Photography Clothing Furniture ]

Listening to the Russ Roberts interview Nick Bostrum. Feeling like neither have read enough SciFi to understand "superintelligences".

[ related topics: Pop Culture ]

Advertisers: I know http://www.octagontech.com/ because they sponsor Starship Sofa. Are you wasting dollars on TV? Or reaching me?

[ related topics: Technology and Culture Bay Area Consumerism and advertising Television ]

RT Atmel Corporation ‏@Atmel

#OnThisDay in 1997, Eiger Labs debuted the world's first portable MP3 player, the MPMan F10. (It even held 8 songs!)

[ related topics: Hardware Hackery Music Photography Robotics Embedded Devices Archival ]

Gautam Trivedi ‏@Gotham3:

Our population is increasing day by day. We're kidding ourselves.

If you lust after only one carved mermaid solid body electric guitar today, make it this one: http://www.divine-jones.com/syrena.html

Makes me want to build another guitar...

[ related topics: Religion Interactive Drama Music ]

Which are there more of: JavaScript frameworks, or small embedded devices "meant to power the Internet of Things"?

[ related topics: Robotics Net Culture Embedded Devices ]

Sir Terry Pratchett, dead at 66. http://www.pjsmprints.com/

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

[ related topics: Terry Pratchett ]

I remember when, sure, we worried about RS232 or Centronics printer port devices doing bad things, but... Going beyond viruses or HID key injection in USB devices, this USB drive charges some internal capacitors to 110v, dumps that to the signal lines, and then gets really nasty.

[ related topics: Hardware Hackery ]

The Parents Who Give Their Children Bleach Enemas to 'Cure' Them of Autism

If this all sounds a little cultish, that's because it is. MMS was "discovered" by a man named Jim Humble, a former Scientologist who started his own church, called Genesis II, of which he is now the self-styled Archbishop. The church appears to be little more than a marketing organ for his alleged miracle cure, though it's worth noting that the site doesn't sell the actual wonder product it extolls, but offers a host of supplementary materials like a $199 "MMS Home Video Course" and information on expensive MMS seminars.

MMS is "Miracle Mineral Solution", a solution of sodium chlorite that gets mixed with citric acid to form chlorine dioxide, a bleaching agent which is used to treat wood pulp, and in municipal water supplies. The CDC ToxFAQs page on sodium chloride has some interesting takes on it, including suggesting drinking bottled water which hasn't been treated with it(!), and notes that:

The EPA has set a maximum contaminant level of 1 milligram of chlorite per liter (1 mg/L) and 0.8 mg/L for chlorine dioxide in drinking water. However, the concentration of both of these chemicals may be higher or lower in your drinking water.

So... uh... if the EPA says its bad, but it may be higher in my drinking water...? I think it's time to be more religious about drinking the carbon filtered water...

[ related topics: Religion Children and growing up Interactive Drama Books Scientology Consumerism and advertising Marketing Community Video Woodworking ]

Ook. RT @Bouletcorp https://twitter.com/Bouletcorp/status/576134432643514369/photo/1

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95 year old Charles Eugster just ran a 55.45 second 200m. Aging gracefully... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD7D8BY2d1c

[ related topics: Movies ]

So with Google Code going away, seems like it's time to set up repos on my own server to mirror open source projects I really care about.

[ related topics: Free Software ]

ArtFido: A Vagina From the 19th Century Sparks French Lawsuit Against Facebook. They really mean "vulva", but it's a bit on a French news article about a Facebook user in France who's suing over an account suspension from sharing ArtFido's report of Deborah de Robertis recreation of Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du monde at the Musée d'Orsay (YouTube video).

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Weblogs Current Events Art & Culture Video ]

Christian Grey vs Frank N Furter:

[ related topics: Ziffle Religion Photography Archival ]

If anyone knows this asshole tagger, can you beat him to a pulp for us?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography ]

Polyamorous Oakland family finds parenting easier with two moms and a dad.

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Weblogs Bay Area Sociology ]

Edits to Wikipedia pages on the police killings of Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo have been linked to IP addresses from NYPD police headquareters.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...ikipedia.html?mid=facebook_nymag

[ related topics: Law Enforcement ]

Howl! Apple Engineer Talks about the New 2015 Macbook (YouTube).

If only so that you can catch the successor to the "Hitler reacts to..."/Downfall clip meme.

[ related topics: Apple Computer Interactive Drama Humor Movies Invention and Design Marketing Dictators ]

Christianity Today: Contraception Saves Lives, a profile of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.

I get the impression from reading this that the author is against free access to abortion, or at least assumes that her readership is, and given that anti-abortion activists generally let their anti Griswold v. Connecticut flag fly it's interesting to see a "no, really, birth control saves lives" celebration from that front.

(Hat tip to Larry)

[ related topics: Religion Sexual Culture Weblogs ]

RT jeff deeney ‏@jeff_deeney

This Marshall Project article you liked so much? https://www.themarshallproject.../making-overseers-into-advocates … I was just terminated for writing it.

Well worth reading probation officer's take on being an active participant in reformation, not just punishment.

[ related topics: Writing ]

RT @flightradar24:

Looks like drawing objects on Flightradar24 is a new hobby http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/n829bm/#5bd0cd7 … RT @NikPhillips666: @flightradar24

Via Mashable. The aircraft involved

[ related topics: Photography Sexual Culture Invention and Design Aviation Archival ]

Stolen from Shawn:

[ related topics: Photography Software Engineering Archival ]

Dear McDonald's (Part 1): Taking apart that Petaluma ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIbmm_aBuOU&feature=youtu.be

[ related topics: Movies McDonald's ]

I believe in arming bus drivers, and empowering them to "deal with" chronic bus cell phone talkers.

[ related topics: Wireless Public Transportation ]

Podcast/Book rec o' the moment: @paul_e_cooley 's "The Black". Classic "trapped on an oil rig w/alien-ish thing" horror.

[ related topics: Books ]

Hanging by the turning basin

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Podcast/Book rec o' the moment: @alhilton 's Hunter's Unlucky: kid friendly tale of intrigue and revolution amongst talking animals.

[ related topics: Books ]

Podcast/Book rec o' the moment: @mightymur 's Ghost Train to New Orleans: Human bumbling through supernatural subculture as travelogue.

[ related topics: Books Invention and Design Machinery Trains Hurricane Katrina ]

https://medium.com/backchannel...the-trolley-problem-85f3d1730756

An article making some valid points about the impending "trolley problem" as applied to autonomous vehicles. Because at some point, that "smart car" may have to decide to kill you.

[ related topics: Automobiles ]

Designers be like: bigger screen? Awesome, more pixels we can use for white space!

[ related topics: Space & Astronomy Race ]

The obvious end-game of networks without Net Neutrality: Tunnel IP over Facebook chat! https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel

[ related topics: Games ]

the evidence based branch of medicine would be well served by dropping the legacy of "Doctor"

[ related topics: Photography Health ]

Not exactly news, but it's interesting to see the culprits finally confess: CIA admits role in 1953 coup against the Mohammad Mosaddeq government in Iran.

Britain, and in particular Sir Anthony Eden, the foreign secretary, regarded Mosaddeq as a serious threat to its strategic and economic interests after the Iranian leader nationalised the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, latterly known as BP. But the UK needed US support. The Eisenhower administration in Washington was easily persuaded.

Oillaging Pillaging other people's resources somehow seems to cause hard feelings. Go figure.

[Edit: that fumblefinger was so apropos that I had to leave it in...]

[ related topics: moron Current Events Guns Economics ]

Pixar storyboard artist Josh Cooley has done your favorite R-rated films up in children's book style. I LOLed.

The book is Movies R Fun!: A Collection of Cinematic Classics for the Pre-(Film) School Cinephile (Lil' Inappropriate Books)

[ related topics: Pixar Children and growing up Books Animation Movies Graphics Art & Culture ]

Mistyped "pillaging" as "oillaging" in my blog entry about the CIA 'fessing up to overthrowing Mossadeq. Somehow that word seems apropos...

[ related topics: Weblogs ]

Via Shadow, an animated gif of a really cool expanding picnic table.

[ related topics: Animation Furniture ]

Can we start prosecuting drivers who honk at cyclists for legally riding in traffic with assault with a deadly weapon?

[ related topics: Guns Bicycling ]

I mean, if they were yelling and waving a gun we'd call it suicide by cop, but make that weapon 2 tons with wheels and they're a "driver"

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Guns ]

If you are Irish and not managing to profit handsomely off of today's excesses and stereotypes, I'd like to offer my deepest sympathies.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Writing a web server is the programmer equivalent of designing a chair, isn't it?

[ related topics: Software Engineering Writing Furniture ]

RT The Greater Marin @theGreaterMarin:

GUYS I just invented the Star Trek transporter! I mean, it will kill about 3.5 million people over the next century, but DUDE: TRANSPORTER.

RT The Greater Marin @theGreaterMarin:

(Yeah, that's roughly what happened with cars: 3.5M deaths in the US since 1899, 100 deaths per day. But man, totally worth it, amirite?)

[ related topics: Star Trek Bay Area Space & Astronomy Aviation - Helicopters ]

Door skimmer + hidden camera = profit. A skimmer on one of those "swipe your card to get access to the vestibule" ATM installations. Those skimmers are getting scarily camouflaged.

[ related topics: Photography ]

Happy Birthday, Charlene! http://existentialcomics.com/comic/72

Track eclipses, on a globe: http://eclipsetracks.org/

Google now puts my Facebook, Twitter, and another Dan Lyke's LinkedIn profile above my personal page. Search is dying.

Cute "Nobody cares about your boner" T-shirt, but don't know where to wear it where it'd be true http://www.cafepress.com/fluffyanimalsforfeminism

[ related topics: Clothing ]

Amazon ads on my morning comics are filled with the product that already arrived. Can we fix advertising, please?

[ related topics: Books Consumerism and advertising Comics ]

From Etsy to sweatsy, on how Etsy has gone from a place for crafters and artists to yet another place shoveling cheap Chinese factory made crap.

[ related topics: Art & Culture ]

Given my '90s 'net roots, I can't see "cyber terrorism" without pondering just how bad online sex chats can be. #wannacyber?

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

So Kickstarter's order page appears to be broken, but when they fix it @robkroese has a new one: https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...-series-of-humorous-epic-fantasy

[ related topics: Humor Erotic tolkien Invention and Design ]

Dear Google webmaster tools: Those viewport and font size issues on my site you're whining about are features, not bugs.

[ related topics: Typography Graphic Design ]

Trying to create a C++ template that uses a variadic parameter pack to create a lambda that uses those. Not working.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment ]

RT C. A. Bridges ‏@cabridges:

Frat guy in group that posted pics of unconscious nude women concerned about ruined lives... of his buddies http://www.phillymag.com/news/...pa-delta-rho-defends-fraternity/

RT C. A. Bridges ‏@cabridges:

LRT: The only thing separating this guy from being an entertainment industry vice president is time.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Nudity Current Events ]

"Cyber terrorism" = "Oh noes, the furries have invaded our MUD and there is virtual yiffing!"

Rick Santorum: "We will never have the elite, smart people on our side." #truth http://washington.cbslocal.com...-elite-smart-people-on-our-side/

The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion:

A report issued by the RAND Corporation last December titled "Blinders, Blunders and Wars" said the NIE "contained several qualifiers that were dropped…. As the draft NIE went up the intelligence chain of command, the conclusions were treated increasingly definitively."

Observes MeFi user dialetheia:

Wow, I knew In The Loop was pitch-perfect but I didn't realize it was so historically accurate.

The report at Scribd and mirrored here (PDF).

Note too that some of the bogus data that killed over a hundred thousand civilians (and many more active participants) came from torture enhanced interrogation, lest anyone try to convince us that torture is harmless.

[ related topics: Movies Current Events ]

Gee, lady, glad the 5 seconds you saved to that red light was worth making me take evasive action the crosswalk to avoid getting run down

Ahh Rodota trail, bringing new meaning to "Multi Use Path". Guy fencing goods as a "yard sale", many drunks, people stumbling 4 abreast...

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

Texas Bar Association accuses the prosecutor who got Todd Willingham executed of misconduct in that trial. Good, can we get now judge(!) John H. Jackson up on murder charges?

[ related topics: Politics Todd Gemmell Law ]

Some days it looks like you can see the interference patterns in the plastic dome...

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Nobilis Reed: A Modest Proposal for Video Game Classification.

NU - Nudity

NU+ - Male Nudity with Cocks and Everything

[ related topics: Games Sexual Culture Nudity Video ]

When the current code is in git and the legacy code is in svn and you find the RPC server with an RCS directory under the deployment dir...

I have previously mentioned mercury in high fructose corn syrup, arsenic in rice and lead in Italian balsamic vinegar and Mexican hot sauce.

I thought I was avoiding problems in the latter two by sticking to California grown versions, but when we're down visiting Charlene's family we drive past the Charles Shaw winery all the time, and Two Buck Chuck and other cheap California wine may have arsenic in it.

[ related topics: History Astronomy Sociology Current Events Wines and Spirits California Culture Archival ]

Today's awesome: Vanguard College Prep vs the Gainesville Tornadoes basketball game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCdqwowpr4Q

[ related topics: Games Movies Sports Education ]

"You call these grapes? They taste like Fresno!" #80schild #miniseries

[ related topics: California Culture ]

For printing out, laminating, and applying to poles in my neighborhood: http://www.flutterby.com/images/2015/03/20/BirdCarryingChild.svg

If you were ready to discount the NYT style section, scroll to the bottom & read the editor's note: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03...garettes.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

"made with scientific process"

[ related topics: Photography Gambling ]

Long day of square dance calling practice. Sore feet and brain. Only had one good tip, but might be starting to "feel it".

Dear daum.net: 71k hits on my web server, at a high rate, from 97 IP addresses? How is that not a DOS attack?

Another application for vendor relationship management: show me nearby gas stations without video ads.

[ related topics: Video ]

Sent the fax to re-up my Callerlab membership before I discovered I could buy the music license without it. Pricier...

[ related topics: Music ]

You know all of those times we've been told that some "cyberattack" comes from North Korea, or the other bogeyman of the moment?

Communication Security Establishment's cyberwarfare toolbox revealed:

The CSE toolbox includes the ability to redirect someone to a fake website, create unrest by pretending to be another government or hacker, and siphon classified information out of computer networks, according to experts who viewed the documents.

Emphasis mine. See also: 'Create unrest': Canada's CSE agency includes "false flag" operations as part of newly-revealed cyberwarfare scope:

Via /..

[ related topics: moron Current Events ]

A bookmarklet to re-enable right click to copy/paste on sites which disable it: http://jsbookmarklets.blogspot...ight-click-on-websites-that.html

Mail from a recruiter "impressed ... by your academic background". Uh. Don't get me wrong, I think I'm awesome, but...

First time driving in the city in ages. Fuck the Uber drivers, standing in no stopping zones, driving in bus-only lanes.

[ related topics: Public Transportation ]

Huh. All of a sudden Facebook ads seem to be link farms trying to pitch topics we saw two years ago. Desperate for advertisers?

[ related topics: Consumerism and advertising Woodworking ]

The Atlantic: How obesity became a disease.

Via MeFi.

[ related topics: Health ]

RT Paul Palubicki @paplikaplik

It's hard for me to imagine an X-Files plot that works with smartphones and easy internet access.

...:

Scully, I've uncovered evidence that shows the gov't is recording everyone's information and storing it in a secret desert facility

...

Scully, there's a loose confederation of people posting to this website who've uncovered a vast conspiracy in gaming journalism

...:

Scully, I met a woman who claimed she would "swipe right" for me. I have reason to believe she has evidence regarding my sister's abduction

...:

Scully, I've just had 200 pizzas delivered to my house and then a SWAT team showed up. They know I'm getting too close to the truth.

...:

Scully, I believe it's entirely possible the Yik Yak is connected to a series of grisly murders that took place around Yonkers in 1962

[ related topics: Games Journalism and Media Television Net Culture Conspiracy Real Estate Government ]

RT USA TODAY ‏@USATODAY:

Every day, more than 60 cars crash into commercial buildings.

Why aren't those buildings wearing helmets and high visibility clothing?

(I also love how "gas pedal error" and "driver error" are distinct.)

[ related topics: Photography Clothing Architecture Archival ]

OH: "what does allcrypt do?" "nothing anymore..." #bitcoin https://www.allcrypt.com/blog/...hat-happened-and-whats-going-on/

[ related topics: Weblogs ]

OH: "there are NO best practices"

"sooooo... it's like perl :)"

[ related topics: Perl Open Source hubris ]

Getting a new Android tablet. Just realized I'm not sure how I'm going to get a bunch of PDFs off my iPad as I don't have iTunes anywhere

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

Yet another essay arguing that semantic web publishing is the future: Yep. And it always will be...

[ related topics: Writing ]

iPad can print PDFs. Will set up a CUPS queue to print to PDF and Linux helps extract data from the iOS silo!

[ related topics: Free Software Open Source ]

RT Rob Graham ‏@ErrataRob:

By the way, x86 is a high-level language. http://blog.erratasec.com/2015.../x86-is-high-level-language.html

[ related topics: Weblogs ]

RT Josh Adams ‏@waxcorp:

Apparently car v @SFBayBikeShare at Howard & Beale didn't go too well tonight...

Ant it was observed by @mikesonn that:

@mlroach @CPbike we get bollards on bike paths for bikes and soft hit posts in streets for cars

[ related topics: Photography Bay Area Automobiles Bicycling Archival ]

Edit: Yeah, I'm skeptical.

When In-Memory Computing is Slower than Heavy Disk Usage, Kamran Karimi, Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Parissa Mirjafari.

A quick skim suggests that this is about letting your OS do the buffering rather than blowing out your CPU cache while attempting to buffering, and that incremental asynch writes while you're doing other stuff beats serializing everything.

Via /., but then reading the comments from people who've read the paper more thoroughly, suggests that these folks are exploiting bad behavior from Python and/or Java, and really don't understand what's happening under the hood.

It's a configure computers sort of evening

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RT Merrill Markoe ‏@Merrillmarkoe:

Whenever I buy cheap clothes from Malaysia it feels good to know I'm helping a 5 y.o.learn a trade that will support him thru grade school.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Clothing ]

Neighbor gave us Makrut limes off their tree. This curry lunch is amazing.

Lesson to kids: drugs and alcohol are like dogs and skateboards. And cars go through that gate...

[ related topics: Drugs Children and growing up Photography Health Dogs ]

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"comma, comma, comma, comma, comma" chameleon? (guy in the next cube over is reading a CSV file...)

Je suis Margot: [Sweden's foreign minister] Margot Wallström's principled stand deserves wide support. Betrayal seems more likely:

It is a sign of how upside-down modern politics has become that one assumes that a politician who defends freedom of speech and women's rights in the Arab world must be some kind of muscular liberal, or neocon, or perhaps a supporter of one of Scandinavia's new populist right-wing parties whose commitment to human rights is merely a cover for anti-Muslim hatred. ...

[ related topics: Politics Privacy Sexual Culture Invention and Design moron Civil Liberties Government ]

LA Times: Capitol Journal: Thirsty crops should require state regulation, an editorial complaining about how residential users are being told to cut down on irrigation, and commercial users are being told to make customers ask for glasses of water, but...

No such directives as "tomatoes are OK because they're not water guzzlers and can be fallowed in a dry year," but "hold off planting more gulping almond orchards in the desert."

I'm fine with water conservation. On my list is crawling under the house again to re-evaluate greywater for the shower. But the fact that we're subsidizing almonds pisses me off.

[ related topics: Politics Food Real Estate Gardening ]

When The Artisanal Food Trend Has Gone Too Far. Dan Meth re-imagines packaging for foods you've seen before. And, I'm embarrassed to admit, I've probably bought one or two of these re-branded products at Trader Joe's.

[ related topics: Drugs Food ]

Duplicate MAC address makes it hard to use both tablets at the same time...

[ related topics: Photography Macintosh ]

Quora answers has a great skeptical look at Paul Ekman's work on micro facial expressions.

Which came from this MeFi thread on the release of the TSA's 92 point profiling checklist in which The Whelk observed:

First check if the passenger has the mark of the goat, or an unusual birthmark, or has been seen covorting with the devil behind Goody Wainwright's shed.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Work, productivity and environment ]

EgyptAir Flight 990 had two people in the cockpit. Careful of security theatre.

[ related topics: Aviation Theater & Plays ]

Unsolicited book recommendation of the moment: http://www.100yearsinthelife.com/

[ related topics: Books ]

@brendanstallard I can highly recommend supplementing that file with the Kikuichi clippers

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Even though it's a dry year, it's wildflower season!

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Cut through Helen Putnam Park on my bike ride to Tomales. Realized we pay for our parks with automobile parking fees: doing it wrong.

[ related topics: Automobiles Bicycling ]

Basic scanned PDF manager implemented. Afraid to create a repo for it, because it's so tied to the machine its running on...

[ related topics: Sports ]

Shadow forwarded along this animated GIF of an awesome high wheel walking bicycle. It's like a pennyfarthing with pedal powered strandbeest legs in the back.

Gizmodo has an article, apparently the creators call it the Boneshaker Big Wheel (Vimeo video).

[ related topics: Animation Pedal Power Video Bicycling ]

Failure of the telephony system: that we don't yet have automated air strikes against the "cardholder services" scammers

RT Jake Williams ‏@MalwareJake:

You don't have to pay for a security assessment - someone is already doing it free. Difference is whether or not Krebs delivers the report.

RT @JRehling

Nietzsche, who said "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" had a breakdown at age 44 and had to be taken care of the rest of his life.

Hummer in the crosswalk, and that wasn't the hazard in the intersection

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NY Times: Ex-Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Are Accused of Illicit Activities. The guy who orchestrated the whole murder-for-higher setup was siphoning off bitcoins...

During the nearly two years Mr. Force was involved in the Silk Road investigation, the complaint said, he deposited about $776,000 — an amount that represented solely his liquidation of Bitcoins — into his bank accounts.

And the other guy stole over $800k. And the defense wasn't able to use this info...

• http://www.dailydot.com/crime/...force-silk-road-murder-for-hire/
• http://gizmodo.com/french-maid...a-silk-road-investiga-1694591187
• http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...ng-silk-road-stole-bitcoins.html

[ related topics: Law Fashion ]

In making me re-enter my credentials on every use, my credit union's phone app is pushing me towards using a weaker password onlilne.

Sign Up at irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You

[ related topics: Politics ]

Given the path of HTML, why hasn't the W3C just deprecated everything but <div>, <span>, and <script>?