Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
BlueMarble monthlies animation
Animation of the Earth without clouds over the course of a year. The advancement and retreat of snow during winter in the Northern Hemisphere is the most dramatic, but the shift from green to brown and back in the tropics and temperate areas is also interesting.
Ah, so the official WordPress app for Android is based on & replacing WpToGo. That’s why it seemed so familiar.
Supreme Court overturns ban on direct corporate spending on elections
Wanna bet you won't hear many Republicans complaining about “activist judges” in this case?
Simple Passwords Remain Popular, Despite Risk of Hacking – NYT
As the second headline says, “If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe.”
Worth remembering: Your fandom is not Fandom.
SANS Institute: 8 Basic Rules to Implement Secure File Uploads
How dare the big bad librarians silence those parents’ attempts to silence ideas that they don’t like! Won’t somebody please think of the children? (Grr.)
Hah! “the only advantage of living forever is having the time to read all of TV Tropes.” https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhoWantsToLiveForever
Why FlashFoward creators embrace Lost comparison
Holy crud, they actually shut down the 101 and *shot* that 500-car pileup? No wonder it looked so impressive on the screen at Comic-Con!
(I think I’ve mentioned I’m *really* looking forward to this show. I wish they’d come up with a new promotional still, though. There’s this picture and the cast photo.)
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todo: add a note to either the pilot episode review or a blog post, whichever seems more appropriate
Well, that’s one way to keep the sushi supply from drying up…
Japanese scientists to breed ‘super tuna’
Japanese scientists will have bred a new “super-tuna” within a decade that will be stronger, more resistant to disease and taste better than the bluefin presently in the oceans.
Gotta love this story title: Robotic Ferret Used to Fight Smugglers
Mozilla Launches Jetpack https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2009/05/20/mozilla-labs-introduces-jetpack-call-for-participation/
What do you know… a local comic convention that'll be less crazy than San Diego.
