December 2008
More Resistance to Free Range Kids →
I know Lenore Skenazy???s terrific blog, Free-Range Kids, has been mentioned on BB before, but IMHO it???s relevant, especially when our kids are home from school for two weeks and we as…
Anna Pickard tries low-calorie champagne →
It’s the sound that signifies celebrations and rites of passage: the popping of champagne corks means that something momentous has happened. No doubt there will be a lot of corks popping…
Two Mobile Operating Systems, One Phone →
VMware Brings Virtualization to Mobile Phones VMware, a company known for their virtualization software for the desktop and datacenter, recently announced their plans to bring that software…
Canadian accused of spying for Iraq denied bail →
A Canadian citizen accused of passing U.S. information on to the government of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was denied bail by an American judge on Tuesday.
More Resistance to Free Range Kids →
I know Lenore Skenazy’s terrific blog, Free-Range Kids, has been mentioned on BB before, but IMHO it’s relevant, especially when our kids are home from school for two weeks and we as parents…
App Store Lessons: Abandoning Settings Bundles →
Developers are moving away from Apple’s centralized Settings Bundles, as user-generated tickets show that people simply don’t know about and cannot find these preferences.
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Next Generation T9 Keyboard Technology →
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There is an iPhone app that already does this, but it isn’t that quick
Iddo Genuth writes “Cliff Kushler, the inventor of the T9 keyboard technology for numeric keypads, has…
'Large Screen iPod Touch Device' in Fall... →
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Hmm, maybe, but I doubt it
TechCrunch claims to have heard from three independent sources that Apple will be releasing a “large screen iPod touch device” with a 7-9 inch screen….
Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords →
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Whoa, this has potentially far-reaching consequences
mytrip writes “Privacy advocates are questioning an aggressive Georgia law set to take effect Thursday that would require sex…
Pools at Foreclosed Homes Transformed into Illegal... →
Well, this is one effect of the housing meltdown I didn’t see coming — a resurgence of hardcore sk8 culture. Skaters in Southern California are repurposing dried-out pools in the backyards…
Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino →
Ian Tree, an IT consultant from the Netherlands, has started a campaign to convince IBM to open source the code for Notes/Domino. Hoping for results similar to the push for Sun to open source Solaris…
Banks ready to roll out tax-free savings accounts... →
As consumers bring their budgets in line for the new year, financial planners are encouraging Canadians to consider tax-free savings accounts that will be available as of Jan. 1.
iPhone hackers tell all: dev team presents at 25C3 →
A majority of the iPhone dev team recently offered a one-hour presentation at the 25th Chaos Communications Congress, providing full details about how the iPhone got pwned.
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What Comes After SourceForge and SlashDot? →
When your company owns the biggest open source code repository online, the most venerable geek news aggregator there is and many geeks’ favorite place to shop for wacky stuff - what do you do…
Pools at Foreclosed Homes Transformed into Illegal... →
Well, this is one effect of the housing meltdown I didn’t see coming — a resurgence of hardcore sk8 culture. Skaters in Southern California are repurposing dried-out pools in the backyards…
Mabel's: Fresh Bread and More on Roncesvalles →
Roncesvalles Village is well-stocked with delightful Polish baked goods, but when I’m looking for a good ol’ baguette or a non-Polish sweet treat, the neighbourhood options are a bit slim….
Doing The Lambeth Walk →
The Iranian clerics are not goose-stepping. They’re Doing The Lambeth Walk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHtEKSg-ycQ&feature=related …
Zephyr: A Secular Winter App From the Makers of... →
If you imagine Brian Eno doing a Twitter-like anonymous messaging application for the iPhone, and then mix in a good dose of PostSecret and a somewhat belated holiday spirit, you might just…
British Royal Navy installs XP on submarines →
Citing affordability and ease-of-maintenance thanks to off-the-shelf parts, he British Royal Navy is rolling out a customized version of Windows XP on its nuclear submarine fleet. The move…
Smoke Break by merlinmann
I’ve been trying to... →
Smoke Break by merlinmann I’ve been trying to shoot more of my iPhone snaps with CameraBag. While the app is rightfully well-known for it’s fun emulation of Holga, Lomo, Polaroid, and…
Throbbing Gristle's Gristleizer audio effects... →
Seen above is an original Gristleizer, the custom audio effects unit that helped define the industrial sound of Throbbing Gristle (TG) in the late 1970s. TG co-founder Chris Carter made…
Bargain Hunting for Books, and Feeling Sheepish... →
Book publishers and booksellers are faltering. But don’t blame the recession — it’s all the fault of the Internet used books market.
For Americans, Internet takes over from newspapers... →
For the first time, more Americans are getting their news online than from traditional ink and paper, although the popularity of television still eclipses all other forms of media.
In an…
Throbbing Gristle's Gristleizer audio effects unit →
Seen above is an original Gristleizer, the custom audio effects unit that helped define the industrial sound of Throbbing Gristle (TG) in the late 1970s. TG co-founder Chris Carter made…
“Pay close attention to Greece; at a time of world-wide economic upheaval, it...”
– Those Greek Riots - The Atlantic (December 19, 2008)
“Yet even excellence does not explain Tintin’s success in Europe. For, despite...”
– Understanding Tintin | A very European hero | The Economist
Understanding Tintin | A very European hero →
Music - As EMI and Apple Delay Beatles Reissues,... →
The Energy Challenge - No Furnaces but Heat... →
The Reckoning - WaMu Built an Empire on Bad Loans →
“It was the Wild West,” said Steven M. Knobel, a founder of an appraisal company, Mitchell, Maxwell & Jackson, that did business with WaMu until 2007. “If you were alive, they would give you a loan. Actually, I think if you were dead, they would still give you a loan.”
Little blue pills mean big boost for spies →
Seattle’s salt-free snow response raises hackles →
“The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles...”
– How Jewish is Hollywood? - Los Angeles Times
5 Things You Shouldn't Be Able to Buy on eBay -... →
I’m Penniless, but the Laugh’s on Them →
“But today, when 500-point swings in the Dow are the new norm, most people can only hope to wind up like a boy in a New Yorker cartoon from the 1987 Black Monday crash. “I came out O.K.,” he declared. “Everything I had was in baseball cards.””
At least 205 dead as Israeli warplanes pound Gaza... →
Torontoist website gets reprieve →
No country for women →
“”The men struck Nancy’s head with a machete. Her husband, pleading with the attackers to let his wife go, was beaten senseless, thrown into a nearby river and left for dead. They then turned on Nancy, raping her repeatedly. … “It is the government that has abandoned women like Nancy and many more, who are still seriously sick. Some have died and some have lost their...
First Look at Blue Spruce, IBM's Next Generation... →
IBM is about to commit itself heavily to browser-based applications. The giant IT company is quietly working on a project called Blue Spruce, which aims to create a fully browser-based…
Man dressed as Santa opens fire at L.A. Christmas... →
A man wearing a Santa suit fired shots at a Christmas party on Wednesday, killing at least three people, before the house caught on fire and he killed himself, Los Angeles police said.
Leaked 2009 Rogers/Fido roadmap is packed to the... →
Yo dawg - Rogers heard you liked smartphones, so they put smartphones in your smartphone so you can smartphone while you smartphone.
But seriously, if you’re a smartphone fan on…
“But the most important reason why the United States bounces back from even the...”
– What “Chimerica” Hath Wrought - Niall Ferguson - The American Interest Magazine
“Do high heels empower or constrain?”
– Times Online
“Minor correction to your post: It actually refers to parsing the leaf level (the...”
– Slashdot | Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books?
The Case of M. S. El Naschie →
High impact factor journals, crazy math, oh, the skulduggery!
Declassified: A History of U.S. Communications... →
PDF of recently declassified David G. Boak Lectures on “A History of U.S. Communications Security” by the NSA. Some portions have been redacted but there is still plenty on interesting stuff in there.
“Government Attic, those fine investigative pack rats, have outdone themselves...”
– Slashdot | NSA’s History of Communications Security — For Your Eyes, Too
HTTP Client 0.9, Mac Developer Tool for HTTP... →
New free (and open source) web developer tool by Todd Ditchendorf; lets you create, inspect, and save HTTP requests, primarily for debugging HTTP services. I’ve been wishing for something like this…
NSA's History of Communications Security — For... →
Phil Sp. writes “Government Attic, those fine investigative pack rats, have outdone themselves this time. Just posted: a declassified NSA document entitled A History of Communications Security,…