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Secrets of the first practical artificial leaf
"The article notes that unlike earlier devices, which used costly ingredients, the new device is made from inexpensive materials and employs low-cost engineering and manufacturing processes."
news  energy  science  technology  research  chemistry  power  interesting  photosynthesis 
20 days ago by milkmiruku
edX
"Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners."
education  university  online  internet  web  video  collaboration  technology  edX  interesting 
28 days ago by milkmiruku
Space is really big!
"Let's start by first shrinking the Earth to the size of a Tennis Ball."
blog  article  science  astronomy  space  education  interesting 
5 weeks ago by milkmiruku
Brain wiring a no-brainer? Scans reveal astonishingly simple 3D grid structure
"Far from being just a tangle of wires, the brain's connections turn out to be more like ribbon cables -- folding 2D sheets of parallel neuronal fibers that cross paths at right angles, like the warp and weft of a fabric,"
news  article  brain  neuroscience  physiology  science  medical  biology  interesting 
8 weeks ago by milkmiruku
5 Torrent Files That Broke Mind Boggling Records
"Today we’ll bring you a list of 5 single torrent files that each broke an impressive record, from the largest through to the oldest, and the one that transferred most data."
article  bittorrent  technology  software  media  download  storage  history  interesting  hdd 
8 weeks ago by milkmiruku
Ruby Poetry - Andrew McDonough
"As the couplet finding algorithm was fairly crude, only looking for matches of the last three letters, and not the phonetic reprentation, I allowed myself to pick the best couplets as generated on the day. To demonstrate my code, I reran the program on the day of my talk, and read the best couplets it generated at the end:

"...

"Storm at C-word in BBC weather forecast Top Irish dancers set for Belfast

"..."
programming  ruby  news  headline  web  music  rhyme  lyric  code  linguistics  humour  interesting 
february 2012 by milkmiruku
drinking games
"...in the end, culture is a more powerful tool in dealing with drinking than medicine, economics, or the law."
blog  article  alcohol  anthropology  culture  psychology  social  education  interesting 
february 2012 by milkmiruku
Big 14 Tour - Fairy Bridge
"Fairy Bridge (Xian Ren Qiao) is a meander natural bridge carved through limestone karst by the Buliu River. It is located about 40 km (as the crow flies) northwest of Fengshan in northwestern Guangxi Province, China. ... Estimates using Google Earth and other photos suggested that the span might be the largest in the world."
china  geography  gallery  natural  bridge  interesting  cool 
december 2011 by milkmiruku
The Quietus | More Than The Mind Can Take: An Interview With Cut Hands
"With Whitehouse, the way you get around the 'noise issue', if we can call it that, is through the use of language. There I'd apply the same principles linguistically, where you're overloading the brain with very complex linguistic structures very fast - too fast for the brain to cope with. ... I remember there was one concert in Vienna, and there was this barrage of abuse and loud abrasive noise, for an entire hour, but at the end it was extraordinary - the entire audience had these huge, silly grins on their faces, and their hands were in the air like some sort of exaltation."
music  noise  trance  interview  drumming  rhythm  psychology  interesting 
december 2011 by milkmiruku
Hacking Scrabble (part 1)
"This post isn’t really about Scrabble. It’s about taking a load of ugly data and hacking around with some scripts to refine it into something I can commit to memory. Then its about Scrabble. Winning at Scrabble."
scrabble  games  linguistics  language  english  programming  python  interesting  cool 
december 2011 by milkmiruku
Fiction: The Secret Number, by Igor Teper
"That's right, Doctor," nodded Ersheim, and then, as if to confirm that fact, he began counting, moving his head from side to side: "one, two, three, bleem, four . . ."
fiction  maths  numbers  cool  interesting 
december 2011 by milkmiruku
Fuck
"While canoeing on the Rifle River in Michigan, Boomer fell overboard letting forth a fuck or two. As if his day wasn't bad enough, the nearby sheriff gave him a ticket ... for violating an 1897 statute forbidding cursing within earshot of women and children. Then he was convicted.

"Amazed that this could happen in the twenty-first century, my curiosity about the legal implications of fuck was rekindled. I decided to dedicate one of my research assistants to exploring the area."
fuck  legal  language  usa  law  history  culture  taboo  interesting  humour  jurisprudence  education 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
One Coffee Cup a Day
"One Cup a Day project is an experiment on creativity and rapid manufacturing, by ideating, designing, modeling and making available for production and purchase a coffee cup within 24 hours, everyday during one month."
3d  printing  design  coffee  gallery  cup  business  interesting 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
File Format Spectrograms - Imgur
"Spectrograms of various file formats that you would encounter as a DJ/Producer/Audio Enthusiast. This test was done using a WAV purchased on Beatport, then converting it into MP3 using the LAME encoder in foobar2000 and AAC using the Itunes converter."
audio  music  technology  compression  format  flac  wav  mp3  ogg  vorbis  gallery  interesting  algorithm 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Ten Lessons I wish I had been Taught, Gian-Carlo Rota
"The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need. Since it is too late for me to learn these lessons, I will discharge my unfulfilled duty by dishing them out to you. They will be stated in order of increasing controversiality."
writing  speech  maths  academia  life  education  lifehacks  interesting  humour 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Rider on the Storm
"At times the air was so saturated with suspended water that an intake of breath caused him to sputter and choke. He began to worry about the very strange—but very real–possibility of drowning in the sky."
blog  history  usa  military  weather  clouds  parachute  interesting 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
Kevin Karsch's Homepage
"We propose a method to realistically insert synthetic objects into existing photographs without requiring access to the scene or any additional scene measurements."
technology  graphics  algorithm  video  3d  photography  software  research  gallery  interesting  cool 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
How Siri Works
"But whether [Apple] Siri becomes the model for how humans interact with computers in the future or whether it gets laughed off the stage of technical innovation like so many AI systems that have come before hinges on whether it can tell the difference between “Andrew” and “Andrea”—especially when I’m in a crowded coffee shop, speaking with a Southern drawl, with a stuffed-up nose from a bad cold."
blog  technology  news  siri  apple  ai  voice  os  hci  software  algorithm  audio  interesting  business 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
Siri says some weird things
"Look, I’m not going to go into great detail about what I’ve been doing with Siri during my testing period, but I will tell you this — Siri says some crazy stuff.

Hit the gallery below for a look at a number of bizarre items the AI-powered / voice-recognizing “intelligent assistant” lays on you on the new iPhone 4S."
apple  iphone  siri  voice  regocnition  ai  technology  humour  interesting  gallery  images  mobile  software  os  ios 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
Why Some Languages Sound So Fast
"In other words, your ears aren't deceiving you: Spaniards really do sprint and Chinese really do stroll, but they will tell you the same story in the same span of time."
news  research  language  linguistics  speech  interesting 
september 2011 by milkmiruku
brain of mat kelcey | do all first links on wikipedia lead to philosophy?
"this raises a number of questions: Q: though i wouldn't be surprised if it's true for most articles it can't be true for all articles. can it? Q: what's the distribution of distances (measured in "number of clicks away") from 'Philosophy'?
Q: by this same measure what's the furthest article from 'Philosophy'? Q: are there any other articles that are more common than 'Philosophy'? Q: what are the common paths to 'Philosophy'?"
blog  article  philosophy  knowledge  wiki  wikipedia  interesting  graph  data 
august 2011 by milkmiruku
HTML5 Rocks - How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers
"In the years of IE 90% dominance there was nothing much to do but regard the browser as a "black box", but now, with open source browsers having more than half of the usage share, it's a good time to take a peek under the engine's hood and see what's inside a web browser. Well, what's inside are millions of C++ lines..."
technology  design  reference  web  html  internet  software  opensource  article  research  interesting  dom 
august 2011 by milkmiruku
Self-Defeating Sentences « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP
"Today Ken and I want to talk about a different kind of special sentence, one that is self-defeating. A self-defeating sentence is one that ensures it cannot achieve its desired end, which in this instance is to illustrate a self-defeating sentence."
blog  article  language  linguistiics  humour  interesting  war  art 
july 2011 by milkmiruku
Lyric clouds, genre maps and distinctive words
"One of the interesting things that sets even superficially similiar genres of music apart is their lyrical content. Last.fm tags can overlap to a great degree, but we were interested to see what the words can tell you about the subtler shades of meaning that go along with those tags. As usual around here, the best way to answer questions like these is by asking the data."
article  blog  music  statistics  linguistics  language  interesting 
june 2011 by milkmiruku
Quake’s 3-D Engine:  The Big Picture
"If you want to be a game programmer, or for that matter any sort of programmer at all, here’s the secret to success in just two words:  Ship it.  Finish the product and get it out the door, and you’ll be a hero.  It sounds simple, but it’s a surprisingly rare skill, and one that’s highly prized by software companies.  Here’s why."
article  quake  3d  software  internet  programming  interesting 
june 2011 by milkmiruku
The Post Office Railway (Mail Rail) | Silent UK – Urban & Underground Photography
"It is without a doubt the Mail Rail sits at the throne, laughing maniacally at the puny adventurers unable to even stare it in the eyes without bursting into flames, the pinnacle of exploration in London, if not England. There is, and will never be anything like it again, its uniqueness "forever unrivalled, London’s final unconquered “Grail” now a slain beast.
underground  photography  abandoned  london  interesting  cool  images  blog  transport  train 
april 2011 by milkmiruku
Why I am an amoral, family-hating monster…and Newt Gingrich isn't
"So, just a suggestion: if you want a relationship that lasts, don't rely on god, lawyers, and social pressure to force it to work. Love and reciprocal trust are the only chains that last, and the only ones that make you feel happy while wearing them."
morality  marriage  relationships  sociology  psychology  interesting  article  op-ed  legal 
march 2011 by milkmiruku
The Node Ahead: JavaScript leaps from browser into future • The Register
"So Node is neither The New Rails nor The New PHP. It's something else entirely."
article  development  javascript  programming  web  protocol  server  interesting  efficient 
march 2011 by milkmiruku
Conceptualizing the built environment as a social-ecological system - Building Research & Information
"Formulating a unified theory of the built environment may require that the built environment be understood as a complex social-ecological system, where multiple-related metabolisms interact at different scales."
architecture  building  socialecology  society  culture  research  interesting 
december 2010 by milkmiruku
Awesome death spiral of a bizarre star | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
"That also lets me measure the number of spirals — roughly five — and calculate the size of this object: about a third of a light year across, or more than 3 trillion kilometers! Coooool."
news  blog  astronomy  cool  science  photos  space  interesting 
september 2010 by milkmiruku
Infusion Profusion: Game-Changing Fast ‘N Cheap Technique
"You can infuse flavors into liquor (and water based things, too) almost instantly with nothing more than an [nitrous] Cream Whipper. You can use seeds, herbs, spiced, fruits, cocoa nibs, etc. Here’s how:

Put room-temperature booze into the cream whipper. Add herbs, seeds, whatever. Close the whipper and charge it with nitrous oxide (N2O –the regular whipped cream chargers). Swirl gently 30 seconds and let stand 30 seconds more. Quickly vent the N2O out of the whipper, open it, and strain out the infusion. Done."
blog  food  drink  devices  technology  cooking  tutorial  interesting  howto 
august 2010 by milkmiruku
Fake femme fatale shows social network risks
"I wanted to see how much intel you could gather from a person just by lurking on a social networking site. I [also] wanted to see who was most susceptible to clicking. I wanted to see how fast this thing would propagate. One of the things I found was that MIT and St. Paul's [prep school] were very cliquey. If they don't remember seeing you, they are not going to click. You had less of a chance of penetrating those groups than the actual intel and security communities."
news  usa  security  it  intelligence  social  engineering  network  friends  hack  interesting 
july 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News | Meerkat groups have 'traditions'
"When you're out in the field," said Dr Thornton, "if you're studying certain groups, you always set your alarm a bit later because they're consistently lazy." The new study revealed that this laziness or liveliness has a "cultural basis".
bbc  news  animals  meerkats  zoology  culture  time  sleep  research  sociology  lazy  interesting 
july 2010 by milkmiruku
Analysis on the Eurovision Songfestival
"The last few years, possibly since the introduction of Europe-wide televoting, it is being suggested that the voting results of the Eurovision Songcontest are (getting) more related to geographical location or common history than to the songs performed by the artists on the event. This page is dedicated to a modest analysis at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) about the extend to which these suspicions are genuine."
europe  music  statistics  sociology  society  interesting  geography  research 
april 2010 by milkmiruku
Detroit looks at downsizing to save city - Washington Times
"Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green."
news  politics  usa  urbanism  urbandecay  cities  agriculture  interesting 
march 2010 by milkmiruku
Next Left: A new ideological map?
"As the ship of New Labour tilts precariously in the waters, and the Conservatives struggle to define what they stand for other than a change of personalities at the top, various attempts are being made to define a new politics to fill the void.

This post makes a stab at trying to map the new ideological terrain that is opening up. Needless to say, ideological positions are fluid and imprecise things, and any effort of this kind is going to risk some oversimplification. In addition, by no means all interesting thinking going on at the moment can be fitted into categories like those I am about to use. But, caveats aside, here goes…"
blog  artice  politics  policy  government  liberalism  republicanism  communalism  community  progressive  prediction  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Your users are very stupid. (Maybe.)
"11:57 AM - The first comment to put it together: “This is what happens when people use Google to enter sites instead of typing it on their address bar… Damn you all Farmville users…” This is comment number 50

Ah. So it turns out that there was a (perhaps small) present minority who, rather than using the address bar, use Google to get around on the web. Since Google put this post near the top, at least a certain number of these people had no idea the site they just entered was not Facebook. The results are this mess."
blog  internet  usability  facebook  google  search  news  humour  interesting  meme  culture  ux  fail  web  comments 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan on Faith, Religion, Tolerance, Moderates, Bible, God, Islam, Atheism, Jesus, Christian Nation
"You have simply declared your faith to be immune to rational challenge. As you didn't come to believe in God by taking any state of the world into account, no possible state of the world could put His existence in doubt. This is the very soul of dogmatism."
atheism  religion  blog  article  culture  science  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Hadoop - Why is Google juicing Yahoo! search? • The Register
"In the hopes of shrinking this education gap, Google sent Bisciglia back to his alma mater, the University of Washington, where he taught a course on "working with big data." And Hadoop was the teaching model.

Google ended up hiring about half the students who took the class. And after the company open-sourced the curriculum, the same course was picked up by several other universities, including MIT and Berkeley. "In the past, it took three to six months to get hires up to speed with how to work with [Google] technology," Bisciglia says. "But if schools are teaching this as part of the standard undergraduate curriculum, Google saved that three to six months - multiplied by thousands of engineers.""
google  hadoop  software  internet  opensource  interesting  search  yahoo 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Noisy children no longer verboten in Berlin
"In Berlin alone, hundreds of complaints are made each year about noise levels in kindergartens and children's playgrounds. Some day-care facilities have even been forced to close after local residents have gone to court in search of a quiet life. Now Berlin's local government, the senate, has passed a law giving children the right to be noisy, the first law of its kind in Germany."
news  germany  children  law  legal  culture  society  education  interesting  politics 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Unfold Fab: The future's here baby! (first successfully printed ceramic vessel)
"We took some time to play around and get used to the dynamics of the clay print process. ... After some calibrating I decided to print a test design that would be hard to make using conventional techniques: a double walled vessel with fins connecting in- and outside."
news  blog  3d  materials  diy  fablab  fabrication  3dprinter  technology  hardware  interesting  cool  crafts  making  prediction 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
"It is hard to imagine a better resurrection for a country that has been devastated by financial corruption than to turn facilitating transparency and justice into a business model."
news  politics  iceland  technology  journalism  press  censorship  law  legal  interesting  transparency  jurisprudence  wiki  wikileaks  media 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Cardiac Arrest: Chest Compressions Alone Work Better, Studies Suggest
"Two large-scale studies published in the journal Circulation, report that the chances of surviving cardiac arrest are no better -- and may be worse -- when bystanders perform mouth-to-mouth breathing than if they press on the chest without interruption."
news  health  physiology  medical  howto  biology  research  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
China and Iran: two ways to do family planning.
"Many countries are debating whether they should have population policies. Here are two – very different – examples of nations that rapidly reduced their birth rates."
article  education  children  iran  china  culture  society  law  interesting  family 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
NCBI ROFL: Don’t ask, don’t check my gag reflex.
“In a study of consititutional psychopathic personalities especially the sexual deviants, it was found during a routine physical examination that the gag reflex was frequently absent. This was a more definite finding in those homosexuals who admitted fellatio. ... The positive test, i.e., the absence of the gag reflex, depends on the desensitization of this area due to conditioning, this being brought about by the repeated control of the reflex during the act of fellatio … Frequently it proved valuable in detecting the malingerer who attempted to obtain a discharge by professing homosexuality. Presented with the gag test findings the soldier would invariably change his story or admit having lied for selfish gains.”
blog  article  history  usa  army  lgbt  felatio  sex  physiology  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Barbie Becomes a Computer Engineer | Geek Feminism Blog
"Consumers loudly campaigned for another Barbie® career. The winner of the popular vote is Computer Engineer. Computer Engineer Barbie®, debuting in Winter 2010, inspires a new generation of girls to explore this important high-tech industry, which continues to grow and need future female leaders."
blog  news  feminism  it  engineering  toys  children  interesting  culture  computing 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Want Passionate Kids? Leave 'em Alone
"By allowing kids to explore activities on their own, parents not only help children pinpoint the pursuit that fits them best, but they can also prevent young minds from obsessing over an activity, a new study finds."
news  psychology  research  children  education  fun  autonomy  interesting  creativity 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Daniel Dennett Discusses Secular Spirituality
"Daniel Dennett on secular ecstasy."
video  atheism  psychology  spirituality  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer scientist Boing Boing
"I had several small plastic Ponies that I used to play make-believe with my friends. But I had one larger, plush My Little Pony, a bright-green stuffed horse with a vivid pink mane and tail that I played with all by myself. I would sit for hours on my own, braiding and rebraiding its tail. I developed a system for braiding the tail of my Pony that taught me about mathematical concepts-- from division to recursion."
blog  maths  toys  education  pony  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Supergeek pulls off 'near impossible' crypto chip hack
"Using off-the-shelf chemicals, Tarnovsky soaked chips in acid to dissolve their hard outer shells. Then he applied rust remover to help take off layers of mesh wiring, to expose the chips' cores. From there, he had to find the right communication channels to tap into using a very small needle.

The needle allowed him to set up a wiretap and eavesdrop on all the programming instructions as they are sent back and forth between the chip and the computer's memory."
news  security  hardware  hack  encryption  cryptography  business  interesting  technology 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Patent Docs: Patent Simulation Study Indicates that Patent Protection May Not Encourage Innovation or Promote Societal Wealth
"Data generated from this simulation suggest that the current system combining patent and open source protection for inventions generates significantly lower rates of innovation (p<0.05), productivity (p<0.001), and societal utility (p<0.002) than does a commons system. Further, the empirical data generated using PatentSim suggests that commons systems can generate significantly greater amounts of innovation, productivity, and social utility than currently predominating patent systems that combine both patent and open source protection for inventions."
news  research  sociology  patents  simulation  legal  law  interesting  community  commons 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Vegetative state patients can respond to questions
"Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts."

The research, carried out in the UK and Belgium, involved a new brain scanning method.

Awareness was detected in three other patients previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.
news  bbc  article  science  research  health  brain  neuroscience  ethics  computer  medicine  belgium  uk  biology  interesting  fmri 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
White Goat Recycler: Office Paper to Toilet Paper - GOOD Blog
"This device (video below) shreds your sensitive business documents and turns them into new toilet paper. ...

At half an hour per roll, that would take 100,000 hours—about 11 years. So the White Goat may not make economic sense yet (unless we put a price on the trees being saved) but surely the next version will be cheaper and smaller, right?"
news  technology  hardware  toilet  recycling  ecological  business  interesting  socialecology  poop  video  youtube 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
OnLive Game Service Preview - Is this the future of PC gaming?
You can see that there are clearly a lot more questions that need to be answered about gaming services like OnLive both in terms of the user experience and how it will interact with the rest of the gaming community at large, both PC and console. I see a lot of potential for OnLive to revolutionize gaming and how this entertainment medium works across any number of platforms.
news  article  gaming  computer  streaming  technology  pc  interesting  prediction 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
ignore the code: Realism in UI Design
"The trick is to figure out which details help users identify the UI element, and which details distract from its intended meaning. Some details help users figure out what they’re looking at and how they can interact with it; other details distract from the idea you’re trying to convey. They turn your interface element from a concept into a specific thing. Thus, if an interface element is too distinct from its real-life counterpart, it becomes too hard to recognize. On the other hand, if it is too realistic, people are unable to figure out that you’re trying to communicate an idea, and what idea that might be."
article  blog  design  graphics  interface  development  gui  psychology  web  software  usability  cognition  logos  icons  resources  howto  reference  interesting  ui  ux  webdesign 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Open Letter From OK Go - OK Go
"We’ve been flooded with complaints recently because our YouTube videos can't be embedded on websites, and in certain countries can't be seen at all. And we want you to know: we hear you, and we’re sorry. We wish there was something we could do. Believe us, we want you to pass our videos around more than you do, but, crazy as it may seem, it’s now far harder for bands to make videos accessible online than it was four years ago."
music  video  internet  web  content  copyright  marketing  advertising  youtube  business  riaa  audio  culture  art  technology  law  google  archive  embed  activism  interesting  emi 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Alcohol substitute that avoids drunkenness and hangovers in development - Telegraph
"The synthetic alcohol, being developed from chemicals related to Valium, works like alcohol on nerves in the brain that provide a feeling of wellbeing and relaxation.

But unlike alcohol its does not affect other parts of the brain that control mood swings and lead to addiction. It is also much easier to flush out of the body.

Finally because it is much more focused in its effects, it can also be switched off with an antidote, leaving the drinker immediately sober. "
news  research  science  health  physiology  food  drugs  biochemistry  biology  alcohol  brain  neuroscience  interesting  prediction 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
YouTube faces 4chan porn attack
On the Lukeywes1234 thing. ED has more infos.
news  internet  web  media  youtube  4chan  protest  porn  sociology  social  interesting 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With New E-Reader Platform Blio | Singularity Hub
"Ray Kurzweil, prolific inventor and Singularity enthusiast, is planning to debut Blio at CES 2010 in January. Blio is an e-reader platform, not hardware, that can be used on PC, MAC, iPhone and iPod touch."
news  technology  software  books  ebooks  pc  singularity  free  interesting 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Wired 1997 | Wiring the Jet Set
Boeing is equipping factory-floor workers with a modified VR setup - and rapidly cutting the time it takes to wire new jetliners.
article  augmentedreality  mobile  technology  hardware  aeroplane  electronics  business  visualization  cool  interesting  prediction 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Log in or sign up with OpenID
"As part of an upcoming TypePad homepage redesign, I wanted to know how many people are using Facebook, Twitter and OpenID to log in to TypePad."
internet  web  identity  openid  usability  statistics  research  sixapart  interesting 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab: Smashing the Mega-d/Ozdok botnet in 24 hours
"FireEye's formal effort to shutdown this botnet stared last night. The research team here worked in multiple directions simultaneously. The purpose was to work against all the fallback mechanisms so fast that bot herders wouldn't get a chance to counter react."
news  security  spam  internet  email  networks  botnet  technology  interesting  malware  virus 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Web Social Architecture: Show Us Your Wow: Getting It Wrong
"Now, you might want to show your Wow to family and friends. You might want to show your Wow, even, to other people out there in the world. But the site is neither messaged or built that way. It's an archetypal example of the corporation wanting to do something community-enabled and just not getting it: 'Hey customers! Send your most special memories to our corporate PR department!'"
blog  software  marketing  advertising  social  web  microsoft  op-ed  sociology  interesting 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting System
"On Tuesday voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, got to try out a new, transparent voting system that lets voters go online to verify that their ballots got counted in the final tally. The system also lets anyone independently audit election results to verify the votes went to the correct candidates."
news  politics  software  election  elections  opensource  technology  security  privacy  java  cryptography  interesting  usa  government 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics
"The group is developing silk-silicon LEDs that might act as photonic tattoos that can show blood-sugar readings, as well as arrays of conformable electrodes that might interface with the nervous system."
news  technology  hardware  electronics  led  tattoo  bme  interesting  prediction  cool  research  biology  biotech 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
A postman puts his case | open Democracy News Analysis
"I am a postman and concerned at the absence in the media of any account of how mail delivery is organised and what Royal Mail's modernisation programme entails."
news  uk  snailmail  communication  business  government  union  interesting 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D
"I wasn't the least bit surprised to quickly discover a handful of Wave-based roleplaying games already in progress, and many more in various stages of planning. In the past few days, I've watched games from the sideline and talked to some Game Masters and gamers—there seems to be an emerging consensus that Google Wave has as much RPG potential as any platform since the venerable and proverbial tabletop."
news  article  rpg  gaming  internet  wave  software  games  google  culture  interesting  emerging 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Helmet Cam Avalanche Survival Video
"It’s a pretty sobering video. Skier Chris Cardello is riding a line in Haines with a helmet cam for Rage Films. An avalanche breaks off all around him, and he’s buried, while the cam continues to roll. He manages to get his Avalung into his mouth, and thanks to a speedy rescue, he’s pulled out alive after just five minutes. The incident happened last April, but it’s just as relevant today as ever."
video  sport  technology  skiing  snow  interesting  scary 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
My uncle is insane. He also lives in a cave. [img heavy]
"The walls are made of stone, intricately carved out into an art form reminiscent of the flow seen in ancient Indian art. They looked like lotus petals, almost soft, but overall just aesthetically overwhelming. It was so clean, so fresh... the cool air inside was very refreshing compared to the blistering heat outside. There was a complete working fireplace in the main area that looked like a devilish face. The domes at the top of the cave were fashioned with lights, and the bottoms were covered in a sealant that was pocked with flecks of real gold. This sealant was everywhere actually, with the gold accentuating every curve of this hidden masterpiece."
usa  design  architecture  cave  interesting  cool  photos 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Internet Archive uncloaks open ebook dream machine
"Dubbed BookServer, the open platform is meant to provide a standard means for booksellers, publishers, libraries, and individual authors to serve texts onto laptops, netbooks, smartphones, game consoles, and specialized ereaders a la the Amazon Kindle. The Archive has already demonstrated an early incarnation of the architecture with the Kindle and Sony's Reader Digital Book."
news  books  economics  publishing  library  openformats  literature  technology  interesting  distribution  ebooks  archive.org 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Some Notes On iTunes LP
"Feature-wise, an iTunes LP is a DRM-free album in high-quality 256kbps AAC format, along with digital extras (visualizer(s), photos, videos and interviews) wrapped in a custom WebKit-powered site."
blog  music  design  audio  format  apple  html  css  javascript  software  interesting 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Charlie's Diary: Why I hate Star Trek
"The biggest weakness of the entire genre is this: the protagonists don't tell us anything interesting about the human condition under science fictional circumstances. The scriptwriters and producers have thrown away the key tool that makes SF interesting and useful in the first place, by relegating "tech" to a token afterthought rather than an integral part of plot and characterization. What they end up with is SF written for the Pointy-Haired [studio] Boss, who has an instinctive aversion to ever having to learn anything that might modify their world-view."
blog  tv  sci-fi  technology  media  literature  startrek  interesting 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
"There’s been lots of great stuff written about why singular they is acceptable, but every time I want to smash the arguments against it, I have to waste time jumping through old Language Log posts and books and whatnot, so I figured I’d finally go about summarizing it all. Without further ado, here’s the evidence for singular they, and why you ought to stop “correcting” it."
blog  language  english  linguistics  grammar  feminism  gender  writing  education  literature  history  interesting 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Health claim of probiotics not accepted
"Of 180 claims for probiotic ingredients, the EU's food agency the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) threw out every one. Ten were rejected outright and a 21-member expert panel could not assess the remaining 170 because the ingredients for which the claims were made could not be identified. ... However Britain's best-selling yogurt drinks, Actimel and Yakult, were excluded from Efsa's findings yesterday because Danone, Actimel's maker, and Yakult, the Japanese firm which introduced probiotic drinks to the UK in 1996, withdrew their claims before they could be scrutinised."
news  science  health  food  lie  advertising  research  physiology  biology  interesting  humour  eu 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Energy-from-waste powers US army
"The PyTEC system heats mixed waste, releasing a gas that can be burned to produce five times more energy than is required to drive the system. ... The approach could see use in urban areas, reducing municipal waste volume by 95% while producing energy."
news  environment  energy  technology  power  hardware  military  chemistry  interesting  prediction 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Microsoft Research shows off multitouch mouse prototypes
"Microsoft Research has just surfaced some of its incredibly wild multitouch mouse prototypes. Each one uses a different touch detection method, and at first glance all five seem to fly in the face of regular ergonomics."
news  technology  hardware  research  microsoft  gadget  mouse  inputdev  prediction  interesting 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Scientists develop nasal spray that improves memory
"If a nasal spray can improve memory, perhaps we're on our way to giving some folks a whiff of common sense, such as accepting the realities of evolution," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "This is exciting piece of interdisciplinary science, since IL-6 had previously been considered a by-product of inflammation, not an agent that affects cognition."
news  science  research  drugs  health  biology  brain  neuroscience  sleep  memory  transhumanism  cognition  education  interesting  intelligence 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Red Dust - A gallery on Flickr
"As I write this, there's an insane dust storm that's sweeping over Sydney. I found out about it by seeing a Twitter post from Dan Hill. I'm based in San Francisco but found it so extraordinary I decided to go and see if I could spot pictures coming in and make a little gallery out of them."
photography  images  gallery  photos  architecture  nature  environment  weather  colour  flickr  australia  photo  red  pictures  storm  aesthetics  interesting  cool 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy
"Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a person’s friends and, using statistical analysis, made a prediction."
news  sexuality  lgbt  statistics  privacy  culture  computing  facebook  identity  mit  social  usa  interesting 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Net Hoax Convinces Germany of Fake U.S. Suicide Bombing Attempt | Wired.com
"The work of German filmmakers peddling a satirical movie called Short Cut to Hollywood, the elaborate hoax involved at least two faked websites, a faked Wikipedia entry and California phone numbers for “public safety” officials that were actually being answered by hoaxsters in Germany using Skype."
news  prank  hoax  usa  germany  media  wikipedia  film  journalism  interesting  humour 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
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