March 2010
4 posts
North Koreans Use Cellphones to Bare Secrets -... →
The last four minutes of flight 447 →
Lost in Exile →
February 2010
1 post
The crazy perversities of civil asset forfeiture.... →
These private attorneys, unaccountable to the public, are making decisions about which cases to go after that directly affect their own personal wealth. Steven Kessler, a New York attorney and author of a treatise on state forfeiture laws, says he’s never heard of anything like it. “This is scandalous,” Kessler told me in a phone interview. “It’s blatantly...
January 2010
15 posts
When you're heroes come crashing down to earth
"F.B.I. Charges Arms Sellers With Foreign Bribes - Including Smith and Wesson VP of Sales" - http: //www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/21sting.html
Mark Percival: It just takes away from allure of the industry. Here I would have expected the Smith and Wesson guy to simply pass them along to his vast underground arms dealing network. Nicholas Cage lied to me!
Andy: Yeah, I mean, drugs, tankers of oil,prostitutes, no problem. But today's thug lacks the wherewithal to smuggle guns.
Mark Percival: It's sad really - our arms dealers today consist of a middle management sales douchebag living in the suburbs, driving a mid-priced car, who is more concerned about his 401k than doubling up on a couple african prostitutes and doing blow in a low-rent African nation.
Andy: Like a lot of other industries, ambition and ingenuity are things of the past.
Stop using unsafe keyed hashes, use HMAC →
Fuck, I did this once
Vowel Sounds Influence Consumers’ Perception of... →
Fascinating article on pricing and vowel sounds. “2.22, gosh that sounds expensive”
Secure your checked bags -- fly with a gun - Boing... →
Put a starter pistol in your bag and never worry about your bags again!
ART PAPERS →
Welcome to Movie Magic Man by moviemagicman on... →
Now this is my kind of zoo. →
That’s worth every yuan.
“I dont think cthulu is a meme. fuck cthulu is a metaphor for the ENTIRE...”
– Brendan Sullivan
Google Maps jQuery Plugin →
Adding this to my list of things to try out today. Another well time JS plugin for a project I’m working on.
Geo Location Javascript
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A framework for polling location on a variety of mobile phones.
Stumbled across this at exactly the right time.
Versus (The Mixtape) « The White Panda →
Verus, the new mixtape from White Panda, dropped over the new years holiday. Destined to become my latest coding soundtrack. Some fucking phenomenal mashups in here.
Twitter / Newsweek: RT @caro: Really interesti ... →
Come on guys. I cited Mark Gormley, Snopes, and claimed the fees came from Internet Cleaning! I even made mention of TinyURL’s prototype - ReallyShortURLs.com* - Clearly it’s a joke :)
* Get it? ReallyShortURLs.com. It’s long for no reason. So the goal was to make a short URL and he made it unnecessarily long. Oh nevermind!
December 2009
5 posts
MagicPrefs →
Great little pref app to customize your Magic Mouse
How Bit.ly makes money
I wrote this as a satire of Bit.ly’s non-existant revenue model! It is not real. Everything in this article is a mixture of half truths and my own deranged ideas. Hell, I cited Mark Gormley and Snopes as a source! :)
How does Bit.ly make money, and what’s the future for URL shorteners? I’d like to set everyone straight.
Intro
URL shorteners have been toyed around with since...
“In Atlanta, he is posed as The Thinker, adorned with a Nike hat, promoting...”
– At Accenture, It’s as if Tiger Woods Were Never There - NYTimes.com
Gary Hamel: Management’s Dirty Little Secret →
Here’s what the researchers discovered: barely one-fifth (21%) of employees are truly engaged in their work, in the sense that they would “go the extra mile” for their employer. Nearly four out of ten (38%) are mostly or entirely disengaged, while the rest are in the tepid middle. There’s no way to sugarcoat it—this data represents a stinging indictment of the legacy management practices found...
Music Business Heads into the Virtual World -... →
“If you ask anybody today, they’ll tell you, ‘I need to own it.’ But once you have these services, you get to the point of, ‘Why would I own it, because I have access to everything?’ ”
I’m getting to that point myself. My previous approach was to spend hours downloading classic albums, but now I find myself spending more time on HypeMachine, and rarely going back to my ridiculously huge,...