Flutterby™! From 2016-02-01 to 2016-02-29

So Len L ‏@DammujedGuds tweeted:

"I don't have a horse in this race." "I don't have a dog in that fight." I want to make more "I don't have a [animal] in this [sport event]"

to which I responded:

I don't have a lion in this coliseum. I don't have a bear in this dumpster. No raccoon in this trash can...

And this led to Peg ‏@ethnobot:

@danlyke @rivenhomewood I don't have a squirrel, or even a rat, in this wall.

Dave Polaschek ‏@DavePolaschek

.@DammujedGuds @danlyke Don’t have a donkey in this porno. Don’t have a monkey in this poo flinging. Don’t have a cat in this drowning.

and:

.@DammujedGuds @danlyke Don’t have a cock in this fight. Don’t have a bull in this pit. Don’t have a cuckoo in this clock.

or:

.@DammujedGuds @danlyke Don’t have a flea in this circus…

MrCompletely ‏@Mr_Completely:

.@danlyke @DammujedGuds I don't have a piranha in this carcass

J. Eric Smith ‏@justericsmith:

@Mr_Completely @danlyke @DammujedGuds I don't have a tapeworm in this colon.

@Mr_Completely

.@justericsmith @danlyke @DammujedGuds I don't have a dildo in this orgy

Thoughts on the Dead ‏@ThoughtsOnGD

@justericsmith @Mr_Completely @danlyke @DammujedGuds I don't have an oyster in these pants.

MrCompletely ‏@Mr_Completely

.@justericsmith @danlyke @DammujedGuds I don't have a candidate in this election

Hey wait

and:

@justericsmith @danlyke @DammujedGuds I don't have an unstable derivative in this financial catastrophe

or:

.@justericsmith @danlyke @DammujedGuds I don't have a rubidium atom trapped in this Bose-Einstein condensate

And what I thought was the crowning achievement, J. Eric Smith ‏@justericsmith:

@Mr_Completely @danlyke @DammujedGuds I don't have a flute solo in this Tull song.

Dave P again:

@justericsmith @Mr_Completely @danlyke @DammujedGuds Ain't got no hound dog in this pickup truck.

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Any allergy warning that includes "awesomeness" is recommendation enough for me

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I suck at writing reviews. I also have a gazillion books queued up on my Kindle app because in one place or another I ran into some author and ended up with a book list too long to read. Many of those books are first novels, a little rusty around the edges, flat prose. For some reason, many of those books are also horror, which is a genre I'm coming to appreciate, but really isn't my primary love.

So I kept scrolling back and forth across the very dark cover of Black Fall, and after an exchange on Twitter with the author said "okay, it's time to crack this one open."

I'm glad I did. Here's the review I posted on Amazon for him:

It'd be really easy for a "teenager discovers he's got a secret legacy" story to become trite and predictable, but Black Fall had me at werewolves making Little Red Riding Hood jokes. It deals with the necessary angst of a teenage protagonist without wallowing in it. The metaphorical mechanism for mental struggles against other vampires works really well.

I was afraid that this was going to be a "vampire and werewolves as horror" tale, but even as the stakes are raised to threatening large regions (and as the series continues, I'm sure the fate of the very world will be at stake), it continues to be a personal tale, with a flawed likable protagonist making smart (and appropriate to his character) decisions with the information he has.

The language flows well. The action flows well. The exposition is believable. I thought I was over "teen discovers he's special" stories, but sign me up for the series!

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RT The Taupe Avenger ‏@TaupeAvenger:

The National Defense Bikeway Act.

RT Reverend Chapman ‏@Wadatahmydamie:

For all of Donald Trump's immigrant bashing, he sure got his ass kicked by one last night.

Christiana Ellis ‏@christianaellis

Some say the world will end with Trump,

Some say with Cruz.

The Donald's views come from the dump.

I can't stand those who favor Trump.(1/2)

RT Christiana Ellis @christianaellis:

But I am reaching for the booze

Because I know enough of hate

To say when Trump's compared with Cruz

That both are bad

And all would lose2/2

Issue 704: Comodo: Comodo "Chromodo" Browser disables same origin policy, Effectively turning off web security.

Sigh. If you're gonna fork Chrome, or any other browser, please don't fuck it up.

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Wow. Whoever set up the "Bernie bros" narrative is freakin' brilliant. Took the campaign from issues of encryption and government secrecy and big banking to gender politics in a way that completely overshadowed those concerns.

Damn, that's some impressive political operation.

Addendum, because I have no other place to put it:

* New York Times 2016 Democrat Iowa Entrance Polls. * New York Times 2016 Republican Iowa Entrance Polls.

[ related topics: Politics moron Cryptography ]

RT Brian Baresch ‏@Editer:

@robinsloan When the lines on the screen make more lines in between, that's a moirè.

Electronics That Last: How I Built an Heirloom Laptop: Some interesting veneer and woodworking techniques in that.

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Go-restructure: Match regular expressions into struct fields.

I keep thinking that the Go language might be worth looking at, this is another kick in that direction.

Golden Gate 101 north just blew by a big crowd waiting for it. They're now getting on the Sonoma County 48x. #transitcrapshoot

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A good look at the failures of architecture vs engineering in the design of the Nipigon River Bridge that recently failed, cutting the Trans-Canada Highway http://wawa-news.com/2016/02/0...sterpiece-engineering-nightmare/

Also worth thinking about in light of how monuments to political ego like the eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge are blowing way past any reasonable budget because the design is impossible to implement.

[ related topics: Business Politics Bay Area History moron Current Events California Culture Graphic Design Architecture ]

Can we publicly shame UC Berkeley teaching faculty who hire shady SEO firms to badly spam bloggers? 'cause I got names...

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Orthodox Sexpert: An interview with Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus, the Orthodox sex guru.:

Our youngest patients are about 17 or 18. One of my favorite patients recently was 84. I gave her her first vibrator. It was really sweet. She was a bird-watcher. She was so cute. A lovely Westchester lady who was in a marriage for a long time and was feeling really sad because she and her husband used to have a good sex life, and now they weren't. She was having a hard time orgasming, so we did some medical stuff, and I introduced her to vibrators, and it changed her life.

Via the UnSlut Project.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Health Sociology Birds Marriage ]

Good takedown of the Super Bowl "trafficking" myth, and why it hurts women and distracts from actual problems: http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/sex-fumble/Content?oid=2937150

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Sports ]

I just wanna store this away here because I saw this as a PNGified meme, but Twitter advanced search didn't find anything. Later found it manually:

Hillary Clinton ‏@HillaryClinton

We have more to do for equality. We're going to fight for LGBT rights, women's rights, voting rights, workers' rights—and more. #DemTownHall

Nancy Volle ‏@NancyVolle:

@HillaryClinton I remember the time we had to fight you for LGBT rights.

[ related topics: Politics Political Correctness Civil Liberties Marketing Woodworking ]

Might have to get this one Bernie 2016 T- shirt, that is: Bert and Ernie

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Starting to recover from the holiday slump. 3.1mi, 8:00 min/mi https://www.strava.com/activities/486616107

RT Kyle Machulis ‏@qDot:

Interesting sex toy packaging differences (via @subgirl):

- women: lots of information

- men: vaporwave album cover

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Susanna Rustin in The Guardian: Car fumes are killing us. So why isn’t anyone telling us not to drive?

The health risks from vehicle air pollution are well known: heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer. It’s time to follow the mayor of Paris – and ban motorists when necessary

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Hunk of Olive I'm trying to slab

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The hard part is going to be waiting for it to dry

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Stack em with stickers, wait for a few years...

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When Dan goes to the Asian grocery unsupervised

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Playing with toner transfer to brass for plaques to appreciate some accomplishments. Still not there.

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There Is Nowhere I’d Rather Be On Super Bowl Sunday Than Maintaining An F/A-18 For A Pointless 8-Second Flight:

There’s nothing quite so awesome as knowing that you are a part of literally burning more than $24,000 per plane just so fatties with more money than sense and no rooting interest in the game can get a Lee-Greenwoody in their pants for a minute, before going right back to forgetting about the little people like me who do all the work.

[ related topics: Games Aviation Work, productivity and environment Sports Currency Clothing Woodworking ]

Mounting the new door frame on the bathroom

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More evidence that bike sharrows are harmful to safety.

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Why I'm skeptical of automation: Work's snazzy electronic motion-sensing cabinet-mount paper towel dispenser has been replaced by a stick

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Home Improvement ]

OH: "...And then I tried to log in again and I could never get it up."

Just sent I'm my Callerlab renewal at the "more than 50 dances" music license level, so I expect to be calling a lot of square dances.

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Successful night square dance calling for the Vallejo Pioneers. I'm starting to sight call through the stuff they have problems with.

BMJ Open: Bicycling injury hospitalisation rates in Canadian jurisdictions: analyses examining associations with helmet legislation and mode share Kay Teschke, Mieke Koehoorn, Hui Shen, Jessica Dennis:

Conclusions: These results suggest that transportation and health policymakers who aim to reduce bicycling injury rates in the population should focus on factors related to increased cycling mode share and female cycling choices. Bicycling routes designed to be physically separated from traffic or along quiet streets fit both these criteria and are associated with lower relative risks of injury.

SWOV Fact sheet suggests that byclist helmet use is good, infrastructure improvement is also good.

Via Kay Teschke ‏@kteschke

Agree, infra better than helmets to minimize head injury risk. Data http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/11/e008052.full.pdf … https://www.swov.nl/rapport/Factsheets/UK/FS_Bicycle_helmets.pdf …

[ related topics: Health Sports Pedal Power Bicycling ]

The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension, Advait Sarkar.

Abstract. We present an empirical study investigating the effect of syntax highlighting on program comprehension and its interaction with programming experience. Quantitative data was captured from 10 human subjects using an eye tracker during a controlled, randomised, within-subjects study. We observe that syntax highlighting significantly improves task completion time, and that this effect becomes weaker with an increase in programming experience.

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My Little Sister Taught Me How To “Snapchat Like The Teens”. How a 13 year old is using social media. Some takeaways:

• Identity isn't important. Account changes are regular.
• “Parents don’t understand. It’s about being there in the moment.”
• Data usage is huge.

ME: What the hell is a NARP?

BROOKE: Nonathletic Regular Person. NARP.

• "Don’t overload your Story. Nobody wants to sit and watch five videos. One video MAX."

Via Kottke, which has some excerpts.

[ related topics: Movies Journalism and Media Video ]

Good morning!

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Whoopsie: ‘Detox’ clay may have dangerous amounts of lead, FDA says:

The FDA focused on“Bentonite Me Baby,” a brand of powdered clay sold at stores including Target and Sally Beauty Supply. The label says it can be used as a facial or hair mask, or for ingestion. However laboratory testing found that the product has a lead concentration of 37.5 parts per million (ppm). By comparison, the FDA says that lead levels above .05 ppm in fruit juice “may constitute a health hazard.”

The marketing company did a press release backtracking on earlier internal use suggestions:

"Although, our previous label stated the benefits of hair, skin and internal use of bentonite, we never provided the recommendations or recipes for internal consumption. The label did provide recommendations for the use on hair and skin. In addition, our label advised that the consumer consulted a physician if they chose to do it internally. ...

[ related topics: Drugs Interactive Drama Health Food Current Events Consumerism and advertising Marketing ]

Getting back up there, lunch run 5km, 7:57min/mi https://www.strava.com/activities/490530302

This is your annual reminder that Ash Wednesday should involve a chain saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Williams

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The Second Coming of Mission Control:

For 15 years, Mission Control peddled a particularly cozy breed of kink. If your fantasy was to, say, fondle a stranger inside a cage while dozens of faceless voyeurs watched, this particular sex club was not for you (the Power Exchange encourages that kind of thing). But for open-minded sensualists seeking sex with a side of theatricality, creativity, and, yeah, conversation, 2519 Mission Street was the place to be. "It was kind of a family," says blogger and porn performer Kitty Stryker.

One of my pupusa lunch regular friends is a part of this community and described painting and fixing the place up. It's good to see them getting some positive press.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Erotic Sexual Culture Movies Sociology Community ]

Dementia has been a topic of discussion of late. I was intrigued recently to see that it's actually fairly low in the causes of death. The rate of Alzheimer's and dementia is falling.

Among other articles referenced is the New England Journal of Medicine: Incidence of Dementia over Three Decades in the Framingham Heart Study

[ related topics: Invention and Design Community ]

KMart loyalty program fail: Sending me "surprise points". I use physical retail when I need it now. Where price is important, I buy online.

[ related topics: Software Engineering ]

I'm not saying I know anything about how to run a presidential election campaign, but if Hillary Clinton has a huge gap relative to Bernie Sanders among younger voters, advertising on the AOL login screen may not reach that demographic.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics moron Consumerism and advertising Marketing ]

etckeeper

... is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, bazaar or darcs repository. This lets you use git to review or revert changes that were made to /etc. Or even push the repository elsewhere for backups or cherry-picking configuration changes.

Hooks into apt, stores metadata to keep file permissions managed correctly.

Road & Track: Behold, the World's Fastest Log Car. It's an electric car based on a hollowed out western cedar log and a Mazda RX-7 chassis, with some spinny turbine looking things for show.

[ related topics: Sociology California Culture Automobiles ]

Clearly a better option than driving

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Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender

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When we see modern journalism in any context other than with a culturally respected brand behind it, we call it trolling.

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Washington Post: Erik Wemple: Corrupt journalism doesn’t pay. Nor does abetting it.:

Former Atlantic contributing editor* Marc Ambinder is showing appropriate contrition for having participated in some dubious journalistic practices back in July 2009. As exposed by some Freedom Of Information Act documents secured by J.K. Trotter of Gawker, Ambinder was pursuing a copy of the speech that then- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was to make at the Council on Foreign Relations. So he emailed renowned Clinton advocate and spokesperson Philippe Reines.

Frankly, if you didn't think this was how the news was made you likely haven't been paying attention, but it is really nice to see it laid out so obviously.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics Privacy Current Events Journalism and Media Civil Liberties Government ]

Sigh. @ValleyYP ignores the Yellow Pages Opt-Out list in Petaluma. Litterers.

Turns out for the price of long-term parking, or even the airport shuttle, you can also stay overnight right by SFO...

[ related topics: Aviation Space & Astronomy ]

Well. Screwed by ParkSleepFly.com. Managed to make alternate arrangements, but definitely avoid them.

Three cheers for the lady at the SFO Holiday Inn Express who got us set up down the street after ParkSleepFly.com screwed us over.

I dunno, this command seems kinda sinister

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The airport as a designed environment is a constant reminder that we are a commodity resource to be exploited.

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How old is this airplane, anyway?

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In Miami. Didn't shave, so I have the stubble, but I lack the garish sport coat and the Lambo. And the cocaine.

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At Camp Victory on St Croix, US Virgin Islands. The insect and bird sounds are amazing!

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Birds ]

It's cruise ship day, so stuff is happening in town

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Some of the sugar refinery ruins have been around for a while

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These remains of an old sugar refinery are in the rain forest near camp

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Sugar refinery ruins near camp

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The local sugar economy has collapsed, and the don't get as many cruise ship stops as they'd like...

[ related topics: Photography Machinery Economics ]

Morning rain in the rain forest

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"The mongoose have eaten all of the snakes on the island of St. Croix", they said.

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Boa constrictor with road for context

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The tent cabins at this camp were built when mahogany was the islands scrap wood.

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No pictures from today because I spent it under the Caribbean. Still too much to think about to have a camera down there, but amazing!

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This one stayed still long enough for my niece to try to scare it several times

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Calabash on the tree

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Everyone thought the wild coconuts that the nephews found were beyond hope

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Another day of diving, around the Frederickstet Pier. I have demonstrated all of my PADI skills, and seen really cool flora & fauna.

The relative cost of the drink mixer vs alcohol on the island

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And yes, we have lime

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That's not faux wood...

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Yesterday we snorkeled out to a wrecked barge, saw sea turtles, were chased by a school of fish...

[ related topics: Children and growing up Photography Woodworking ]

Another dinner combo morning nuisance abatement

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Having made friends with the other coffee drinker in camp, I now have a better sense of the camaraderie that smokers have.

Yeah, it's like that.

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Our ride, back at the marina in Christianstet

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Dinner in Christianstet at Ital In Paradise

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Yesterday out on the catamaran, the Roseway scooner sailed by us.

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When the cruise ships are in port, the pier is closed to snorkeling, so we went north to Cane Bay

[ related topics: California Culture Machinery ]

We were amused by the "LA Cafe", which seemed mainly about cheap beer, next to N2TheBlue dive shop

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That cruise ship picture

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May be tough and stringy, but nothing tastes as good as the roosters who woke us up at 5:30 many times... In a paella.

Stopover in Miami coming home. Just discovered that the Cubans pronounce and spell it "yuca", not "yucca".

Must read on the FBI-Apple kerfluffle, and why the FBI is way over-reaching and setting evil precedent http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=5645

[ related topics: Apple Computer Weblogs Law Enforcement ]

Bouncing off DFW. I clearly need to learn more about Texas geography, everything I learned about this area was from the TV show

[ related topics: Technology and Culture Television Maps and Mapping ]

Careful with those random USB ports, this Airbus A321S wants to mount my phone as an MTP device when I go to charge it.

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Heartburn Drugs Tied to Dementia Risk. "Proton Pump Inhibitors" like Prevacid, Prilosec and Nexium

After controlling for age, sex, depression, diabetes, stroke, heart disease and the use of other medicines, they found that regular use of P.P.I.s increased the risk for dementia in men by 52 percent and in women by 42 percent, compared with nonusers.

The study is JAMA Neurology: Association of Proton Pump Inhibitors With Risk of Dementia: A Pharmacoepidemiological Claims Data Analysis

[ related topics: Drugs Erotic Sexual Culture Health ]

WiFi ResetPlug - A smart plug to monitor your WiFi router/modem and reset power if WiFi fails.

Because consumer hardware has gotten so shitty our best solution is to have $60 devices to power cycle it.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Books Consumerism and advertising Pedal Power Bicycling Woodworking ]

NYPD Says It Has No Record Of Asking Disney To Use Copyright To Shut Down Times Square Characters, Despite Public Admission.

NYPD has been trying to clamp down on Time Square street performers, and one way to do that is to use copyright against those performing as characters from copyrighted material...

[ related topics: Copyright/Trademark ]

Concerned citizens turn out to be political theater. Turns out some of the NIMBY wackos at city council meetings are actors hired by competing companies to stop development projects...

[ related topics: Politics moron Theater & Plays Current Events ]

Well put, Mr Snowden: RT @Snowden:

Pew poll finds when the government misinforms the public, the public is misinformed. Scientists baffled. http://www.people-press.org/2016/02/22/more-support-for-justice- department-than-for-apple-in-dispute-over-unlocking-iphone/

[ related topics: Apple Computer moron Law Enforcement iPhone ]

Shadow forwarded along this Mid-Century Modern Hi-Fi Woodworking Project which looks pretty good for a fairly basic build!

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T Greg Doucette @greg_doucette is a defense lawyer who has a little rant about police reports and a client saved by photographic evidence that directly contradicted the report.

[Edit from https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/702177685435383808 per Shadow's suggestion for a better link]

[ related topics: Law Law Enforcement ]

Gave a venerable old Hilton speaker an upgrade with new jacks, for the MA-150 I just got. How do we do it? Volume!

[ related topics: Photography Invention and Design ]

Troy Hunt: Controlling vehicle features of Nissan LEAFs across the globe via vulnerable APIs

On the one hand, I want this level of hackability and control over my own car. On the other hand, giving that level of control over my vehicle to anyone who can read my VIN through my windshield seems like a sub-optimal user experience.

[ related topics: Automobiles ]

Fun night calling for the Martinez Swingers! Long drive over there, though...

[ related topics: Sexual Culture ]

Dear big data ad system: http://www.n2theblue.com/ in Frederiksted, St. Croix is awesome, but you can stop showing their ads to me now...

Whoa, that's an interesting new direction for The Whorecast: kind of an "in her own words" stream of consciousness by/about Mia Li. Great little "humanizing the sex worker" piece.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture broadband Invention and Design ]

Android feature request: One button reporting of telephone solicitors to DoNotCall.gov

[ related topics: Phreaking ]

A good portion of my "social media"-ish communication has moved to IRC or private Slack chat channels. Being a "roll everything myself" sort of person, and a "don't give everything to one company" sort of person, I was rather excited to discover Rocket.Chat.

Not sure I've got the community to set it up for right now, but it looks like Open Source Slack with options to self-host.

[ related topics: Free Software Theater & Plays Space & Astronomy Journalism and Media Community ]

Nobody ever reads the manual, they just go straight to calling tech support: RT Steve Silberman ‏@stevesilberman:

Sounds legit: Fukushima operator claims it didn't acknowledge meltdowns for months because it didn't read manual. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/wo...t-reveal-meltdown-months-n525431

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Ugh. HowTF did Facebook Messenger end up re-enabled on my phone? I really miss the days when we owned our computing devices.

Not happy with that screw head color, but the bathroom wall plates are installed

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Love when interviewers let their subjects talk: Salvatore Cerchio on Omura's whalers in Starship Sofa 422 https://www.gofundme.com/ncmmdb5w

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So is Google going to get the FBI to demand a back door for Android, or just going to cede the privacy geek market to Apple?

[ related topics: Apple Computer Privacy Law Enforcement Economics ]

I'm not normally a size queen, but it'd've been nice if that weekend had been longer...

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