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Amazing shot – one that I wish I’d thought of myself when I was standing next to those flatbed trucks.
One Poignant Picture For Man, One Giant Hold Pattern For Mankind
Tho there were thousands of people, I somehow got this angle of the Space Shuttle, people free. What I love about the shot is that it truly symbolizes the mothballing of the Shuttle project. That the …
carighttoknow.org/exemptions
What Prop 37 exempts from labeling and why. For example: organic foods are held to a stricter standard already, and aren’t allowed to contain GMOs to begin with. And that pet food thing? It’s not the meat that needs to be labeled, it’s the grains in it, same as food for humans.
I read about this a few years back and thought it was fascinating.
Kirby’s Work on Science Fiction Land Has Connection to Argo » DVDs Worth Watching
Gretchen Rubin: Working, One of the Most Dangerous Forms of Procrastination
I keep track of all my Secrets of Adulthood—the lessons I’ve learned, with difficulty, as I’ve grown up.A very helpful Secret of Adulthood is: Working is one of the…
Interesting: Air quality started clearing up within minutes of closure, and a huge percentage of LA’s smog comes from cars.
L.A.’s ‘Carmageddon’ Produced Dramatic, Instantaneous Air Quality Improvements
Interesting: Phil Foglio drew some of the first art with UNIX daemons. Working on pipes, dripping into a bit bucket.
Long Beach Comic Con announces new dates for next year…chosen in part because Comikaze took their old dates. LBCC proposes an organization where con show runners can coordinate to minimize conflicts.
Spam Trends: volume, topics, and phishing. awe.sm/e5Z5u
Zoomable version of today’s GIANT #XKCD world http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/ via @dividuum
This “reader's curse” Mike Sterling describes sounds awfully familiar…
http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/120824.html
What we do when we don’t like doctors’ advice…
https://www.cnn.com/2012/09/09/opinion/harbisson-hear-colors/index.html
Interesting perspective: it's sort of like synesthesia created through a cybernetic attachment.
The 10 Worst Microsoft Product Names of All Time – PCWorld
From Microsoft Bob to Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft has shown a real talent for unfortunate product names. Here are our picks for the worst–along with alternatives that might have worked better…
“It’s a whole lot simpler to block bad mail than it is to try and convince senders to stop sending bad mail.”
— Just Block It, Word to the Wise
Yeah, I missed it too: Tunnel Vision and Selective Attention (Jakob Nielsen)
The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video’s Robotic Overlords https://www.wired.com/2012/09/streaming-videos-robotic-overlords-algorithmic-copyright-cops/
A List Apart: Learning to Love the Boring Bits of CSS https://alistapart.com/article/love-the-boring-bits-of-css/
I love this explanation of “opt-in” co-reg marketing “permission” (if you can call it that):
A husband gets permission from his wife to go to the pub on certain nights of the week with his mates, then sometime later later gets divorced, re-married, and then uses the original permission as an excuse when his new partner moans about his social habits.
If you need a “disavow links” tool, maybe you’re reading too much into the existence of links.
