January 2012
66 posts
“More than half of all black men without a high-school diploma go to prison at...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“Recent research in Oxford and elsewhere has shown that one type of brain...”
– 3quarksdaily
Face.com Launches KLIK, A Real-Time, Facial... →
The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants... →
“a team of scientists at Michigan State University describes how viruses evolved...”
– In Real Time, a Virus Learns a New Way to Infect - NYTimes.com
“Hawaii’s legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the...”
– Hawaii may keep track of all Web sites visited | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
Hawaii determined to lead the nation in bone-headedness.
Of course, here is what this is really all about, for a glimpse into how legislation is really put together:
“The legislation appears to have been inspired by a...
“People who deny global warming, oppose the Darwinian account of evolution,...”
– Anti-vaccine activists, 9/11 deniers, and Google’s social search. - Slate Magazine
“Population studies suggest that exercise protects against diabetes, cancer, and...”
– Deric Bownds’ MindBlog: Cellular ‘self eating’ accounts for some beneficial effects of exercise.
Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in... →
“In contrast to Apple’s iBooks Author software, which will only let you...”
– One eBook Platform to Rule Them All - Technology Review
“At the same time he was blasting Gore as being clueless noob, Gingrich was...”
– Newt Threatens China and Russia With Cyberwar | Danger Room | Wired.com
The Best New Stuff from NAMM, in Videos: Akai,... →
“This weekend, The New York Times published a long exploration of the many...”
– Why the United States Will Never, Ever Build the iPhone - Jordan Weissmann - Business - The Atlantic
“In an announcement I doubt anyone saw coming, MOTU has announced they’re...”
– Digital Performer Runs on Windows; Hell Freezes Over; SONAR Left in the (Windows-Only) Cold
“every year i can’t wait for winter namm to see all the new toys that come out....”
– { namm 2012 } | Choking Sun
“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s...”
– The Dish
Giggle! What a campaign speech quote, obviously worth every penny paid for it.
“But what will happen when the MPAA buys the next SOPA? We can’t protest every...”
– The next SOPA – Marco.org
Sensixa e-AR duplicates the inner ear, knows if... →
Could be an interesting interactive music controller, as a part of something hand held.
“showing just how disgustingly corrupt the MPAA relationship is with politicians,...”
– MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren’t Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought | Techdirt
“The limitations might be even worse than some suspect, too. A source who asked...”
– Enthusiasm for iBooks Author marred by licensing, format issues
“Apple, in this EULA, is claiming a right not just to its software, but to its...”
– This gets to the heart of the matter in my mind, why this whole thing is so screwed up. Imagine a world where every piece of software you run on your personal computer has this form of restriction on user generated content you create using it.
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“in a laboratory at the University of Minnesota, brewer’s yeast cells can evolve...”
– Yeast Reveals How Fast a Cell Can Form a Body - NYTimes.com
“Apple explicitly said Thursday in its FAQs on the announcement that any...”
– Reinventing Textbooks: A Hard Course - NYTimes.com
“the size of the defense budget itself represents a threat to U.S. national...”
– WPR Article | Over the Horizon: The Defense Budget Revolution Won’t Be Televised
“Hollywood hates your freedom. There, I said it. Hollywood is the Al Qaeda of...”
– SOPA Proves: Hollywood Hates Your Freedom - Technology Review
“a Cornell ergonomics expert says users press virtual keys eight times as hard as...”
– Can Touch Screens Hurt You? - Technology Review
The faster-than-fast Fourier transform - MIT News... →
Potentially interesting, but not explained well enough to determine if anything really new is being discussed here.
iPad Gets a Desktop-Style, 48-Track DAW with... →
Well not really with ‘plug-ins’, since Apple doesn’t allow them on ios devices. It has to be code statically linked in the application. Which kind of defeats the whole purpose of a plugin, that is something you can purchase and then you can use it on different applications.
I kind of view this more as another example pointing out the ridiculous unnecessary restrictions ios puts...
“What’s really unsettling here is Deen’s role as an apparatus for an...”
– The Evil Marketing Genius of Paula Deen, the New Face of Diabetes - Daniel D. Snyder - Health - The Atlantic
“Why would doctors be so anxious to avoid the very procedures they deliver to...”
– Shannon Brownlee on What Doctors Know—And We Can Learn—About Dying | TIME Ideas | TIME.com
“If the Sundance Film Festival is a mirror of America, this year’s installment...”
– With Technology, Sundance Films Make It to Screen Faster - NYTimes.com
“Some recent work in computational and cognitive neuroscience suggests that it is...”
– Thrifty Brains, Better Minds - NYTimes.com
“Many folks in the industry have the perspective that Apple is willing to cut out...”
– Why the video pros are moving away from Apple
“Even as we pass judgment on countries we consider unfree, Americans remain...”
– 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free - The Washington Post
“The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet”
– Distrust That Particular Flavor - By William Gibson - Book Review - NYTimes.com
“The city of Harrisburg, Pa., learned this last week when an internal police...”
– The secret lives of feral dogs - Dream City - Salon.com
“Fund took a tour of what the city hopes will be the route for the $5.3 billion...”
– Akaka Bill is Dead, Honolulu Rail Could Be Too Without Public Apathy; Painters Union Advocates for Legalized Gaming; Elevator Safety or Battle of the Unions? University, Chow, Agree to Be Transparent on Contract Details | Hawaii Reporter
“But there’s a problem with this view. Research strongly suggests that people are...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
“My favourite prediction was that of Alexander Graham Bell, the telephone...”
– BBC News - Ten 100-year predictions that came true
“the iPad 2 in 1993 would be considered one of the top 30 most powerful computers...”
– The Surprising Path Of Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
“The left does the initial heavy lifting,” Sinha says. “It tries to determine how...”
– How the brain spots faces
“John C. Lilly, the prototype for the lead character in the 1980 film “Altered...”
– The Sounding of the Whale — By D. Graham Burnett — Book Review - NYTimes.com
“When we landed, the American officers unshackled me before they handed me over...”
– Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor - NYTimes.com
“ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for...”
– My Guantánamo Nightmare - NYTimes.com
“There is mounting evidence and emerging theory supporting the idea that our...”
– Tottenville Review » Blog » Story Theory: Confessions of a Literary Darwinist
“the most notable feature of the debate turned out to be the sheer ignorance of...”
– SOPA Debate Highlights Congress’s Ignorance - Miller-McCune
“This year the movie industry made $30 billion (1/3 in the U.S.) from box-office...”
– SOPA Is a Symbol of the Movie Industry’s Failure to Innovate - Steve Blank - Business - The Atlantic
“regular P.S.A. testing does not save lives and can lead to aggressive treatments...”
– P.S.A. Test Does Not Save Lives - NYTimes.com