February 2009
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Industry Open-Sources Model For Infamous CDS →
GlobalEcho writes “Credit default swaps (CDS) are infamous for bringing down AIG and requiring a bailout of hundreds of billions of dollars. Because the market for these was so murky, the US…
Privacy in the Age of Persistence →
Bruce Schneier recently wrote another essay on privacy for the BBC concentrating on how data seems to be the “pollution of the information age” and where this seems to be leading. “We’re not going to…
Does this mean NIN is cool again? →
For years on end, Pitchfork Media took great pride in lambasting anything put out under the moniker Nine Inch Nails. They were one of the few publications to write anything bad about the Fragile,…
Update on NIN iPhone App + More →
Trent has posted an update on the nin.com forums regarding a few things - We are putting the final touches on our iPhone application and we are aiming to have it in the app store by April 1. This is…
Closing book warehouse swarmed by bargain-hunters →
Think printed books are on the way out? Don’t tell it to these people. After an Amazon supplier in Bristol, England went out of business, it opened its still second-hand-book-full…
Merck releases gigantic hunk of expensive pharma... →
John Wilbanks from Science Commons sez, “Merck just pledged a ton of high-resolution, very expensive data to the public domain, along with some software and other resources to make it work. It’s…
Hearst to launch e-reader →
Fortune is reporting that Hearst will be launching its own e-reader this year. Hearst has evidently “developed a wireless e-reader with a large-format screen suited to the reading and…
The Onyx Boox e-book gizmo →
A few specs for the Onyx Boox e-book reader:
–Six-inch E Ink screen.
–Touch capabilities.
–Memory stick and USB.
–532MHz chip. 128MB RAM.
–Said to support ePub, PDF,…
NIN nominated for Toronto Indie Awards →
Nine Inch Nails is nominated for Best International Group or Duo with Radiohead, the Kills, My Morning Jacket, and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds rounding out the nominees. Head over to the inDiscover…
NIN Video: 1,000,000 Live from on stage, Sydney 2.22.09 [HD] http://ping.fm/d5MfN
Digg Is Working On a Toolbar To Go After... →
A super-secret Digg toolbar has been spotted in the wild. We tracked down a beta tester who gave us the skinny on its features. The toolbar lets you Digg or Bury the page you are on, and shows…
“Ariel Levy tells the story of the Van Dykes, a group of lesbian separatists who travelled by van across North America” http://ping.fm/JAUwZ
“President Obama Abandons Twitter”, perhaps some spurious accusations, but the “pump and dump” may be true. http://ping.fm/LpIGw
“Ad Supported Public Libraries” a crazy and troubling idea http://ping.fm/e1BcN
Documentary about Nine Inch Nails and industrial... →
Named for Lou Reed’s “challenging” solo album, Metal Machine Music is a new DVD documentary about the history of industrial music from its birth in the 1970s through the commercial success of Nine…
In the last 3 months at least two dozen colleges have canceled/postponed faculty searches in religion and phil. http://ping.fm/ba2Gx
Documentary about Nine Inch Nails and industrial... →
Named for Lou Reed’s “challenging” solo album, Metal Machine Music is a new DVD documentary about the history of industrial music from its birth in the 1970s through the commercial success of Nine…
Shortcovers e-book service officially starts up in... →
“…Shortcovers will enable users to buy and download e-books to their wireless smart phone or computer via the Internet, mimicking the iTunes model, which revolutionized the music…
Indigo launches e-book service.
Content, aimed at for smart phones and computers, will be limited in Canada at first
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Safari 4 is truly amazing.
Alfresco and Drupal Content Integration via CMIS http://ping.fm/mtazK
New Safari 4! Looks awesome! http://ping.fm/vDP8D
“It’s all bad.
But what if it isn’t — what if what’s happening now is another of the great upheavals of history that leads not just to recovery but to a whole new economic and social reality?
The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter called this process “creative destruction” — capitalism collapsing into itself and something else emerging.”
...
The physical fallout of Madoff
http://ping.fm/fnpXm
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Security Review Summary of NIST SHA-3 Round 1 →
FormOfActionBanana writes “The security firm Fortify Software has undertaken an automated code review of the NIST SHA-3 round 1 contestants (previously Slashdotted) reference implementations. After a…
Security Review Summary of NIST SHA-3 Round 1 →
FormOfActionBanana writes “The security firm Fortify Software has undertaken an automated code review of the NIST SHA-3 round 1 contestants (previously Slashdotted) reference implementations. After a…
Fraud claims spark Stanford bank run →
The criminal investigation into the business empire of the cricket tycoon Allen Stanford sowed panic in the Caribbean and Latin America today as governments and investors scrambled to uncover…
Tracking the iPhone hype generator →
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple, iPhone, App Store
Fortune’s Apple 2.0 got a nice little graph up of just where and when the iPhone’s hype machine went into overdrive….
Introducing Rocket Talk →
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Apparently the TTC is getting it together. A nice development.
Photo by spotmaticfanatic from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
It’s been a little over two years…
A note from Trent and a wave goodbye →
Towards the beginning of my career in Nine Inch Nails, our biggest break came in the form of an invitation to perform a series of shows with Jane’s Addiction. These performances essentially created…
Harper’s Index on the Web →
Searchable, linkable, tweetable archive of the entire 25-year history of Harper’s Index.
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YouTube Offers (Official) Downloads and Purchases... →
YouTube has made it easy for anyone to easily download clips as MP4 video files, if a creator allows it, as well as purchase the videos you want to bring with you. At the moment, the offerings…
The AP Reveals Details of Facebook/ConnectU... →
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HAHA
This is almost too good to be true. The Associated Press has uncovered the details of the Facebook/ConnectU settlement using, of all things, copy and paste. After…
YouTube Offers (Official) Downloads and Purchases... →
YouTube has made it easy for anyone to easily download clips as MP4 video files, if a creator allows it, as well as purchase the videos you want to bring with you. At the moment, the offerings…
The Last-Minute Man's Ultimate Guide to... →
What to buy, how to behave, girly drinks you won’t hate, and nineteen women we absolutely adore. The most frustrating holiday in the history of man has now been solved. [extracted from …
Google Buys … A Paper Mill? [feedly] →
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A data center,. duh.
Consider it a sign of the times when internet company Google acquires the buildings and premises of a mill site from a paper, packaging and forest…
The Awe of Natural History Collections [feedly] →
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great images.
Click for slideshow. This photograph, entitled the “Waiting Room,” is part of a series by Justine Cooper taken inside the scientific collections of the…
Satellites Collide In Orbit →
DrEnter writes “According to this story on Yahoo, two communications satellites collided in orbit, resulting in two large clouds of debris. The new threat from these debris clouds hasn’t been fully…
Google Raises The Social Bar With New Friend... →
Google is now making it easier for Websites to surface Friend Connect features with what it is calling the Social Bar. This is a toolbar that Websites can add to their homepage or any…
BC Ferries offer 'a slap in the face': Queen of... →
Some of the survivors of the sinking of the Queen of the North say they would rather go to court and fight than accept a proposed settlement from BC Ferries.
ID that font on the go with WhatTheFont for iPhone →
Filed under: iPhone, Graphic Design
If you’re a graphic designer, hopefully you’re familiar with WhatTheFont, the essential service from myfonts.com that helps identify a font from a…
Japan Pledges To Halt Production Of Weirdo Porn... →
TOKYO—”We had no idea people did not enjoy this stuff,” said one official, expressing regret for the bondage, rape, and utensil-rape porn Japan has produced.
Plague Infected Mice Missing from UMDNJ Lab →
This weekend it was reported that 2 mice infected with Yersinia pestis, the causitive agent of plague, were missing from a lab at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). In…
Liquor Locator iPhone app →
While it may be easy enough to type “liquor” into Maps on your iPhone, this way may be even easier. And I’ve often found that when one is in desperate need of liquor, easier is better. Of…
Jauntify your Kindle 2 with jaunty jackets →
Mmm… bright candy colors. M-Edge is cashing in on the Kindle Kraze with their new Executive Jackets for Kindle 2. These sassy, multi-hued jackets have a built-in booklight and start at a…
Cute ... but not cute enough to live →
They are bigger, stronger and carry a pox that is deadly to their smaller cousins. Their raids on bird tables have made them a public enemy to some, but the grey squirrel’s apparently…
Canadian ISP that appears not to suck →
A friend of a friend recently moved to Canada and set out to find a good, clean, unfiltered, high-speed Internet connection that he could use to shift a gigabit every day to his office in Europe. He…
Google turns on Exchange for iPhone and Windows... →
Continuing its productivity war on Apple, Microsoft, and everyone in between, Google on Monday turned on Exchange support for iPhone and Windows Mobile device owners. This is in addition to…
Build a Wiremap →
For those of you who don’t recall, the Wiremap is a 3d volumetric display built from hundreds of tiny strands. An image is projected onto the strands to achieve 3d effects. [phedhex] has…