“Citation Needed” by Kate Beaton. This has apparently been making the rounds on Twitter and Tumblr for a couple of days.
Links
Is blogging dead? “Those links that appear on Twitter or Facebook rather than on linkblogs — to what are they linking?”
Is blogging dead? “Those links that appear on Twitter or Facebook rather than on linkblogs — to what are they linking?”
It’s tough to use a different password on every site, but reusing passwords comes…
ShouldIChangeMyPassword.com
It’s tough to use a different password on every site, but reusing passwords comes with a risk. If someone gets your password from site A, and you use the same one on site B, your account has just been compromised on *both* sites.
Nice that they’re finally handing it over after letting it stagnate, but it seems…
Oracle proposes OpenOffice.org to Apache Incubator
Oracle bypasses The Document Foundation for OpenOffice.org handoff
Nice that they’re finally handing it over after letting it stagnate, but it seems like a waste that they ignored the group behind LibreOffice. Not a surprise by any means, but a wasted opportunity. Maybe in the future they can merge the projects again.
Though they are encrypted, the frames that make up a Skype call contain clues
Chapel Hill Computational Linguists Crack Skype Calls
“What is surprising is that though they are encrypted, the frames that make up a Skype call contain clues about what phonemes are being spoken.”
“Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words ‘app store’ together denote
Apple rebuts Amazon’s stance that ‘app store’ is a generic term
“Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words ‘app store’ together denote a store for apps.” Um, good luck with that.
95% of spamvertised products handled by just 3 credit card processors
95% of spamvertised products handled by just 3 credit card processors
Krebs’ 3 Basic Rules for Online Safety
Lessons of Blippy: Just adding a social element isn’t enough to make people want to use something. via @techcrunch
Lessons of Blippy: Just adding a social element isn’t enough to make people want to use something. via @techcrunch
The CDC offers suggestions on how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse (or other disaster).
Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse
The CDC offers suggestions on how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse (or other disaster).
The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction
Delicious acquired by founders of YouTube. Yahoo has been trying to unload its non-core services.
Delicious acquired by founders of YouTube. [dead link] Yahoo has been trying to unload its non-core services.
Asia’s out of IPv4 addresses & the rest of the world isn’t far behind. But the internet has barely started using IPv6.
Asia’s out of IPv4 addresses & the rest of the world isn’t far behind. But the internet has barely started using IPv6.
I can’t say I’ll miss [Yahoo Buzz]
I can’t say I’ll miss it. The few times I’ve used it, it felt like I was shouting into a vacuum. IIRC, they didn’t feel it was worth objecting when Google launched their own site called Buzz, so the writing’s been on the wall for quite a while. Hmm, I wonder how the two Buzz’s user bases compare….
Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo To Kill Buzz On April 21
We knew this was coming, but Yahoo has announced that it will not longer support Yahoo Buzz, its a Digg-like product where users can rank stories from publishers.
Not everyone eating gluten-free is following the latest health fad. Many of them REALLY…
Controversial Post on Facebook by Chef
Many of us who have Celiac, or live with those that who do, know the importance of avoiding gluten at all costs. Many times, finding a restaurant or cafe that has a gluten free menu and takes the time to make sure it doesn’t get contaminated is a source of great excitement. And, sometimes, gluten gets in there anyways. This post by a chef on facebook makes me wonder how often it isn’t a mistake…
Not everyone eating gluten-free is following the latest health fad. Many of them REALLY DO have a medical reason. Food poisoning symptoms wouldn’t start in your restaurant either, but that doesn’t mean you didn’t just poison your own customers. I wonder if this guy feeds sugar to diabetics and alcohol to people who are on medication that interacts badly with it?
Why bad science reporting matters.
Why bad science reporting matters. http://archive.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/1257-churn-the-other-cheek.html
The full-sized image is 24,000 x 24,000 pixels and half a gigabyte!
The extraordinary face of the Moon
The full-sized image is 24,000 x 24,000 pixels and half a gigabyte!
IKEA Instructions for Stonehenge
I always wondered how to answer that job interview question.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2150
I always wondered how to answer that job interview question.
TicketLeap dissects the bottleneck that led to Saturday’s Comic-Con ticket sales meltdown
For the techies: TicketLeap dissects the bottleneck that led to Saturday’s Comic-Con ticket sales meltdown. (TLDR version: Hostname lookups were turned on in the database, and it was blocking on DNS.)
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