February 2012
10 posts
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“The MinIon is an array of nanopores – 512 to be precise – and circuitry housed...”
– Oxford Nanopore megaton announcement: “Why do you need a machine?” – exclusive interview for this blog!
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“For complex socio-technical systems (web engineering and operations) there is a...”
– Each necessary, but only jointly sufficient
Illegal prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
cab1729:
An illegal prime is a prime number that represents information that it is forbidden to possess or distribute. One of the first illegal primes was discovered in 2001. When interpreted in a particular way, it describes a computer program that bypasses the digital rights management scheme used on DVDs. Distribution of such a program in the United States is illegal under the Digital...
Ting - Mobile That Makes Sense →
wow, it’s amazing to read policies about mobile payment that are actually nice. If you go over, they just charge you the amount they should for what you used, if you go under they credit you the difference!
January 2012
25 posts
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New standard for vitamin D testing to ensure... →
Strength in Weakness - Cancerwise →
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“That ship has sailed. They’ve made up their mind that this is a Class III, which...”
– College of American Pathologists - Regulators scanning the digital scanners
Keep in mind, this technology is completely fine for use now, and the FDA will regulate the whole workflow intact, killing any healthy vendor ecosystem…
I wish people realized we currently have the worst of both...
'Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2012... →
thegreenurbanist:
Highlights:
“In nearly every city and state, bicyclists and pedestrians currently receive less than a fair share of transportation dollars. While 12 percent of trips in the U.S. are by bike or foot, bicycle and pedestrian projects receive less than 2 percent of federal transportation dollars.
States with the highest rates of bicycling and walking are also among those with the...
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)
“Flickr had one of the most creative takes on yesterday’s SOPA/PIPA protests....”
– Flickr’s User-Generated Blackout May Be the Most Meaningful SOPA Protest
Zack, Flickr’s Community Lead, is one of the most awesome individuals I know. And he totally did not sleep for 48 hours to make this happen, literally overnight. (via joshuanguyen)
“What Dodd really means is that the tech companies didn’t play by the established...”
– Wikipedia blackout: The site’s SOPA shutdown is a brilliant tactic that it should never use again. - Slate Magazine
Percent of the Day: 51.27 →
China is now more urban than rural.
TIL that in 1945, when concentration camps were... →
kellyoxford:
A Whole Lot of Nothing →
“Ick. Remember when Google used to be a neutral player that crawled the Whole...”
– Search, Plus Your World, As Long As It’s Our World | John Battelle’s Search Blog
“During his Boxing Day sermon, the Bishop of Córdoba, Demetrio Fernández, said...”
– Abortion a bigger problem than joblessness, says Catholic Church · ELPAÍS.com in English
Between the Lines - Features - Los Angeles... →
a little bit long, but interesting parts.
December 2011
23 posts
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing... →
“Every instinct in the American gut, every institution, every national symbol,...”
– American Class System - We Are Not All Created Equal, by Stephen Marche - Esquire
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lowest note in the known universe is the rumbling... →
In musical terms, the pitch of the sound generated by the black hole translates into the note of B flat. But, a human would have no chance of hearing this cosmic performance because the note is 57 octaves lower than middle-C. For comparison, a typical piano contains only about seven octaves. At a frequency over a million billion times deeper than the limits of human hearing, this is the deepest...
“The delay of the new phones running on BlackBerry 10 software “could be the...”
– RIM’s outlook darkens with delay of new smartphone - The Globe and Mail
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Imagining a City Without Its Public Transportation →
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“It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us....”
– Disgusting.
This is a first hand account of an arrest of one of the writers of Family Guy, and a Unitarian Universalist.
My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan
No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org →
I used to hate having to explain copyright to young people from Asia on Wikipedia…
