Categorie: Links
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Links van 14 januari 2014 tot 18 januari 2014
Ad blockers: A solution or a problem?Viewing ads is part of the deal if users want content to be free, says Freitas. The use of ad blocking software breaks that implicit contract. What's more, he continues, the vast majority of visitors who use ad blockers aren't interested in making even a small payment in exchange…
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Links van 12 januari 2014 tot 13 januari 2014
Google stabs Wikipedia in the front • The RegisterHowever, since Google rolled out Knowledge Graph, something interesting happened. Visits to Wikipedia had previously risen steadily year-on-year for a decade. Towards the end of the 2012 this trend not only stalled, but went into an unprecedented decline. According to Wikipedia's own stats, the page views for…
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Links van 10 januari 2014 tot 12 januari 2014
Nathanael Johnson lets the anti-GMO movement off the hookWhat is most disturbing about the GMO debate – and why it matters – is that the anti-GMO movement at almost every turn rejects empiricism as a means of understanding the world and making decisions about it. Pass the GarumHeerlijk! Recepten uit het oude Rome. Tijd om…
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Links van 8 januari 2014 tot 9 januari 2014
The Jesus Blog: The Testimonium Flavianum, Eusebius, and Consensus (Guest Post) – OlsonIn this post, I’ll try to make clear why I am skeptical toward common scholarly claims about what an early Christian writer would or would not have written in a brief passage about Jesus. Native Ads Are The Worst Idea In The World…
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Links van 29 december 2013 tot 8 januari 2014
Dell Wasn’t Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It’s Only $699 – ForbesThe P2815Q will have a full 3840 x 2160 4K resolution and launch globally on January 23. Dell hasn’t yet discussed things like refresh rate or range of inputs (I’m sure DisplayPort is a given), but they do promise the same “screen…
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Links van 25 december 2013 tot 28 december 2013
MAME 0.151 ROMs : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive43 gigabyte MAME roms!!! Study exposes acupuncture as pseudoscience via reddit.comAcupuncture has been practiced for thousands of years — but that doesn't mean it actually works. A new study published online in the journal Cancer suggests that any relief acupuncture brings may be the result…
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Links van 24 december 2013 tot 25 december 2013
Why I won’t be using Google In January — MediumThe story's all over the Internet— and if you’re the type of person to read a Medium article explaining why someone’s boycotting Google, you’re probably already familiar with it. The gist is as follows: RapGenius offers incentives to blog-posters to add links about Justin Bieber to…
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Links van 16 december 2013 tot 17 december 2013
Google Dart target: Chrome soon! Other browsers…someday | Internet & Media – CNET NewsGoogle begins building its Dart programming language directly into Chrome, hoping a multilingual future will speed up Web apps. But what if Dart apps only work in Chrome? Making of Disney’s Frozen Snow SimulationSnow is a challenging natural phenomenon to visually simulate.…
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Links van 15 december 2013 tot 16 december 2013
nsa-backdoor/nsa-backdoor.php at master · aaronjorbin/nsa-backdoorGrin. "Description: Make it easy for the NSA to have admin access to your site" A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack – Tom Moertel’s BlogThis was in the 8-bit PC era, so the gaming hardware was almost impossibly slow by today’s standards. It might not surprise you, then, to learn that, back…
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Links van 14 december 2013 tot 15 december 2013
YouTube – Gaggenau CX480-100 Full Surface Induction CooktopPremium German manufacturor Gaggenau introduce the revolutionary CX480-100 Full Surface Induction Cooktop. Featuring touch control LCD control panel. YouTube – MTF Exclusive: Jamie Cullum on the Seaboard @ Music Tech Fest 2013A meeting of creative minds: Jamie Cullum, Roli and RiffRaff Films join forces in this Music Tech…
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Links voor 14 december 2013
Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots – NYTimes.comGoogle confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and…
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Links van 9 december 2013 tot 13 december 2013
Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard via reddit.comGrunt is one of those fancy newfangled things that all the cool kids seem to be using but at first glance feels strange and intimidating. I hear you. This article is for you. YouTube – Elite: Dangerous Progress Diary 09 Alpha Phase…
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Links van 7 december 2013 tot 8 december 2013
Grooming / pimping into heterosexuality: politics of love pt II. | radical windNo woman is heterosexual. What men call heterosexuality is an institution where men make women captive for PIV, to control our reproductive functions and steal our labour. Heterosexuality, or sexuality with men does not exist, because the only relationship to men that exists…
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Links van 3 december 2013 tot 5 december 2013
Twitter Is About To Officially Launch Retargeted Ads | TechCrunchThe secret sauce of Twitter’s retargeting is the use of your account as a cross-device identity layer, allowing it to target ads on mobile based on where you’ve been on the web. King James ProgrammingPosts generated by a Markov chain trained on the King James Bible…
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Links van 1 december 2013 tot 2 december 2013
How to Burst the “Filter Bubble” that Protects Us from Opposing Views | MIT Technology ReviewComputer scientists have discovered a way to number-crunch an individual’s own preferences to recommend content from others with opposing views. The goal? To burst the “filter bubble” that surrounds us with people we like and content that we agree with.…