Most People Use the Web to Talk to People Nearby | TechWatch | Fast Company
The article is completely wrong about the implications about this graph. No shit, your strongest social ties are generally your local ones: that’s always been true, and the Internet ain’t gonna change that. It’s zero percent surprising that you’d use the Internet to talk to the people you’re emotionally closest to, which are generally the same people you’re physically closest to.
The whole point here is that the Internet enables the long tail — getting updates from people you’d be unlikely to hear from otherwise. The whole point of weak links isn’t that you’re in constant heavy communication with them; it’s that you can find and reactive them more easily now. That’s why they’re weak.
Right?
“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!
