January 2012
7 posts
Two nuclear bombs, slightly dented →
In 1966—back when these bombs were actually capable of exploding—the United States Air Force accidentally dropped them on Spain.
The accident happened when the plane carrying four of these Mk28 type hydrogen bombs collided with another plane during a mid-air fueling. One bomb fell into the ocean and was eventually recovered. The other three landed near the village of Palomares in southern...
Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s... →
The publishers haven’t realized that Amazon and — if tomorrow’s rumors are true — Apple are gunning for their business because they can strip away the middlemen between an author and a reader.
In journalism, there’s a very thin membrane between a writer and his readers and there’s little social or technological reason that this should continue to be true for authors of...
Yelping with Cormac: Chipotle Mexican Grill →
yelpingwithcormac:
SOMA - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
See that false burrito. See it swaddled in tinfoil on the desk in the bowels of that great tower, a bundle of meat and sauce in a place long ago ceded to silicone and copper. The stooped man eating that peasant…
"Clopen"
parislemon:
This is a great post by Danny Sullivan. For those of us caught up in the iOS vs. Android battle, it can be easy to lose sight of the simple, bigger picture.
Android may be “open” in the fact that other companies can use the source code and users who so desire (and know how) can root it. But from a pure consumer perspective, the Android phone ecosystem is often anything but open....
December 2011
14 posts
Student thwarts face detection software with 'CV... →
Like WWII ships, students at NYU discovered that facial recognition software can be defeated by make-up, by changing the parts of the face that are highlighted.
In a surveillance society, small private acts like this might become de riguer.
Other applications, like hoodies and glasses that contain bright LEDs to blind CCTV cameras, seem increasingly more likely.
Via Kottke, Waldo Jaquith - On the impracticality... →
I found this fascinating:
Further reflection revealed that it’s quite impractical—nearly impossible—to make a cheeseburger from scratch. Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season in spring and fall. Mammals are slaughtered in early winter. The process of making such a burger would take nearly a year, and would inherently involve omitting some core cheeseburger ingredients....
Abominable/A Bomb In a Bird
shitmystudentswrite:
Imagine a peacock gliding on a frozen lake. This is society. Now imagine that peacock swallows a bottle of nitroglycerin, this represents the effect of Darwinian evolution on society. …Genetic research may prove to be abominable, or like eugenics in society, a bomb in a bird.
November 2011
7 posts
October 2011
21 posts
September 2011
14 posts
