woensdag 8 februari 2012 in Links. Permanente link | Geen reacties
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
Upon inspecting closer, I noticed that my entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path. Now I don’t remember having given permission to Path to access my address book and send its contents to its servers, so I created a completely new “Path” and repeated the experiment and I got the same result – my address book was in Path’s hands.
Domestic violence blighted my home. That’s why I support Refuge | Patrick Stewart | Comment is free | The Guardian
Patrick Stewart's very moving article on domestic violence.
The Fireplace Delusion : Sam Harris
The case against burning wood is every bit as clear as the case against smoking cigarettes. Indeed, it is even clearer, because when you light a fire, you needlessly poison the air that everyone around you for miles must breathe. Even if you reject every intrusion of the “nanny state,” you should agree that the recreational burning of wood is unethical and should be illegal, especially in urban areas.
Men Don’t Tell | MetaFilter
Goddamn, Metafilter, sometimes you depress me.
This Is What A Scientist Looks Like
Change the perception of who and what a scientist is or isn't.
vrijdag 6 januari 2012 in Links. Permanente link | Eén reactie
PLoS ONE: The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality
The idea that there are only minor differences between the personality profiles of males and females should be rejected as based on inadequate methodology.
Everything you need to know about buying a camera | The Verge
Voor als er nog eens iemand vraagt welk fototoestel ze zouden moeten kopen.
Iconic Images Without Their Subjects: An Artist’s Rendering – NYTimes.com
An empty road during the Vietnam War. A hilltop landscape in Spain. A nondescript motel balcony in Memphis.
These otherwise ordinary settings are the backdrops to photographs that have become icons of history.
How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? – NYTimes.com
There used to be just two Stephen Colberts, and they were hard enough to distinguish. The main difference was that one thought the other was an idiot.
Visoog Google Earth
maandag 5 december 2011 in Links. Permanente link | Geen reacties
Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back – Waxy.org
As Google marginalizes its core base, it's opened the door for smaller, more nimble startups, such as DuckDuckGo, a one-man project that's quickly becoming the go-to search engine for discriminating nerds.
Anti-Semitism | Embassy of the United States Brussels, Belgium
Geen flauw idee waarom men ('t is te zeggen News Gingrich) dit als antisemitisme beschouwt. Ik vond dat een redelijk degelijke analyse, gelijk.
Benny Hinn – Dark Lord of the Sith – YouTube
THE POWER OF THE FORCE COMPELS YOU! THE POWER OF THE FORCE COMPELS YOU!
straup/parallel-flickr @ GitHub
parallel-flickr is a tool for backing up your Flickr photos and generating a database backed website that honours the viewing permissions you've chosen on Flickr.
parallel-flickr is still a work in progress. It ain't pretty or classy yet but it works.
Interactive Fiction Competition Online Play: Taco Fiction
You shouldn't be sitting in the driver's seat. You should be getting out on the passenger side, and there should be someone else sitting at the wheel, key in the ignition, keeping an eye out.
And that's probably how this would be going down, if you had any friends left.
Yes. Take a minute to reflect on the choices you've made.
No. Don't do that. You need to be prepared mentally. You need to be one hundred percent involved in what you are about to do. You and yourself are all you need to come out of this smelling like a rose.
You, yourself, and maybe that sweet little slab of steel in your pocket, that two-and-a-half-pound insurance policy, that cold, hard…
Do not waste time being poetic about your gun. Get out of the car.
