February 2012
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Keeping Your Resume Out Of Online 'Oblivion' : NPR →
That’s right, software is now hiring you for your next job.
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January 2012
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Voice Recognition in the Browser →
Long story short: Google Chrome has built-in voice recognition… How am I just now finding this out???
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Facebook's Targeted Advertising Blamed In Gay... →
[A gay teen] was thrown out of his London home after his parents discovered “incriminating” gay content on his Facebook page [which] was not intentionally placed on their son’s Facebook page by him, but rather the targeted advertising generated by the site itself based on a user’s activities and relationships.
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SOPA's Not Dead
sopacountdown:
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GRAVITY →
YES
December 2011
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Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How... →
Iowa Representative Steve King tweeted, somewhat ironically, about surfing the internet on his phone because he was bored listening to his colleague Shiela Jackson speak about the [SOPA]. Then, even more ironically, another representative’s comments calling him out for it were asked to be stricken from the record.
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The Legend of Awesome
Who knew that making video games was so easy? Thanks Akihabara/Kesiev (via me)
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EYJAFJALLAJÖKULL (Volcano) by Joanie Lemercier of AntiVJ (via Creative Applications)
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106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos – Year... →
via Street Art Utopia (via Daniel)
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I’m not sure if I love this or hate it. Right now I’m leaning towards hate but with a smille, a wink, and a slight nudge to the ribs.
Wonder how I’ll feel in a few months…
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Occupy Blue Books
For background info, check:
The privatization of the UC system by the UAW
UC Fees (History)
Teach the Budget
Occupy CA
ReFund California
inspired by USPS by Evan Roth
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Floating technology incubator gets cash infusion... →
I’m not sure why, but I feel like this could potentially be huge. Law school/lawyer friends, what are the implications of this? Are there any?
November 2011
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AR Contact Lenses (almost) a Reality →
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EU Bans Airport X-Ray Machines →
(via Adrienne)
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Aakash Nihalani
(via)
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Drawing Machine: Portraits (by Jesse Fulton & Levi Goldman)
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How to create the best/worst TED talk ever: the tedPAD.
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I, For One, Welcome Our New Computer Hacker...
First, watch this great video on how computer algorithms shape our world:
Then, read about the Stuxnet computer worm/supercyberweapon; and finally about the how the US drone fleet was hit by a virus but it was no big deal.
I, for one, welcome our new computer hacker overlords.
October 2011
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Awesome…
Jae Rhim Lee’s Mushroom Burial Suit (For Daniel, even though he doesn’t exist on the internet…)
(via TED.com)
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Google Hands Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data to... →
… Google handed over one user’s private data to the U.S. government, who requested it without a search warrant.
So much for “Don’t be evil…”
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Crazy Alert!
See also: The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare & Transformation Michigan (and check out the podcasts on the NPR site!)
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September 2011
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School district’s refusal to provide allegric... →
I guess California’s still good for some things. Sorry, Massachusetts…
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I'm Here And There →
See What I See through Total Transparency A browser extension that sends every website I’m currently viewing to imhereandthere.com. It refreshes as soon as I visit a new website. It works a bit like a mirror to my browser and life – you can now see what I see.
by Jonas Lund
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We wrote a computer program that replicates the... →
Enter Robottke. Over the last few weeks, Chris Wilson has been building a machine that aims to automatically generate links you might find on Kottke.org. Robottke isn’t meant to replace flesh-and-blood Kottke; we just want to come up with a list of items that Jason Kottke might link to each day.
You can check out Robbotke here. How does it work? We began by crawling all the sources that...
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