“Camera maker Kodak has said it will sue Apple and Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of the iPhone and Blackberry, over technology used in their handsets.” Whatever, I’m just waiting for the countersuit. Why is the tech industry wasting time with these circular-firing-squad lawsuits? To me, this is a clear sign of the growing irrelevance and danger of the current IP protection regime.
science of tumblr
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Tim Smith:
tv commercial: something somethign science of sleep
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Tim Smith:
me: science of sleep? wasn’t that a michel gondry movie
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Tim Smith:
my mom: what?
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Tim Smith:
me: wasn’t that a michel gondry movie?
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Roland Crosby:
hah
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Tim Smith:
my mom, to my dad: what did he say
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Tim Smith:
my dad: i have no idea
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Tim Smith:
me: sigh
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Roland Crosby:
and that, friends, is what tumblr is for
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Tim Smith:
if you say so
“ Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are running an experiment in a service station to count the number of people who wash their hands. They have got an infra-red beam on the door to the toilets, and sensors on the soap dispensers. The results are automatically sent to their computers. In 2008 about 30% of the men visiting the facilities used the soap dispensers, while last year, when the experiment re-started six weeks after the pandemic in Mexico, hand washing was at 45%, Dr Schmidt notes. “Hand washing then went up throughout July and August, and peaked at 57%. ”
BBC News - The clean hands mission
These numbers are DISTRESSINGLY LOW, can I say.
“ A US study of 12 to 18-year-olds found those with bedtimes after midnight were 24% more likely to have depression than those who went to bed before 2200. And those who slept fewer than five hours a night had a 71% higher risk of depression than those who slept eight hours, the journal Sleep reports. ”
BBC News - Earlier bedtime ‘cuts teenage depression’
Fond memories of TJ, ha.
An insightful Washington Post op-ed that’ll appear in print in the Outlook section this Sunday.
His points, stated briefly:
1. Terrorism is not the biggest threat you’re facing right now, so chill the fuck out.
2. Offense is a lousy defense.
3. Our borders will never serve as a meaningful line of defense against terrorism.
4. Technology is not necessarily our savior.
5. You and me are probably a better defense against terrorism than air marshals. There are more of us.
Not that I expect the national dialogue to reflect any of this.
Etherpad is dead; Google bought it and brought the devs onto Wave. :( So I guess we can all start using that, now. beWeeVee looks like an interesting alternative, though it requires Silverlight.
kiosk maringoons
kiosk sent this out in an email, i wanted to give it a url so i could tag it in delicious, where i (naturally) keep my recipes; they sound interesting! anyway kiosk is an amazing store and you should support them especially if you are looking for slightly-off-the-beaten-path sorts of gifts. recipe follows:
Maringoon
Preheat oven to 350
2 egg whites at room temperature
1/ 4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sifted confectioners sugar
5 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup coconut flakes
1 1/2 cups of corn flakes
Combine the first three ingredients until stiff but not dry
Gradually add the sifted sugar
Beat until stiff and satiny
Fold in chocolate chips, coconut and cornflakes
Drop by teaspoon onto well greased cookie sheet or baking paper
Cook for 12 - 15 minutes
TIP! Do not make on a rainy day, has to be low humidity or they do
not turn out right!
“ The norte chico is also home to La Silla, one of the most important observatories in the world, because the air there is so clear that no star—either dead or yet to be born—escapes the eye of its gigantic telescope. Apropos of the observatory, someone who has worked there for three decades told me that the most renowned astronomers in the world wait years for their turn to scour the universe. I commented that it must be stupendous to work with scientists whose eyes are always on infinity and who live detached from earthly miseries, but he informed me that it is just the opposite: astronomers are as petty as poets. He says they fight over jam at breakfast. The human condition never fails to amaze. ”
Isabel Allende, My Invented Country (via Sondy)
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snooz3r:
Hey You Guys
Circlesquare
this is it.
this is us.
here we go.
(it’s a good song; i love their album, apparently the circlesquare guy is from vancouver? of course he lives in — wait for it — berlin, now, like everyone else who has ever been cool. i think berlin is where cool people go when they die. it’s a conspiracy.)
