May 2010
43 posts
adidas Football : Matchtracker →
“Can we just start calling it the oilcean and move on please? #bpcares”
– @BPGlobalPR on Twitter
Sony develops 'rollable' OLED display →
“A study showed that people distracted by incoming email and phone calls saw a...”
– How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review
After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain... →
WTF headline from Bloomberg: No One Says Trichet Succeeds Himself as Enthusiasts Get Wistful
How To: Try Android Froyo On Your Computer... →
“Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending...”
– Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole - WSJ.com
Schlusslicht: Wir haben doch keine Zeit! |... →
“A site called YourOpenBook.org searches the public status updates of users,...”
– Facebook Grapples With Privacy Issues - WSJ.com
“Von Wahnbildern, Irrtum, fixen Ideen ist im Weiteren die Rede, und das sind nur...”
– Goethes “Farbenlehre”: Schöner irren | Kultur | ZEIT ONLINE
“To ban naked short selling in the absence of an obvious crisis is PR suicide;...”
– Germany Tries to Stop the Tide - The Source - WSJ
Google Will Push Real-Time Feeds to Browser... →
“it is one thing for healthy nations to be the unfortunate victims of...”
– The Euro Party’s Over. What Now? - WSJ.com
Giant Plumes of Oil Found Under Gulf of Mexico -... →
The Enemy Within →
When the Conficker computer “worm” was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators. It uses an encryption code so sophisticated that only a very few people could have deployed it. For the first time ever, the cyber-security elites of the world...
“Zu befürchten ist freilich, dass sich die Politik gegenüber ihrer Wählerschaft...”
– NZZ Kommentar: Eurokropolis
Mission Control on SomaFM: Celebrating NASA and... →
“A D&C [Dazed & Confused] insider revealed that the mag’s iPad...”
– Apple’s no-nipples policy means fashion mags are censoring their iPad editions : Shiny Shiny
“[H]e made 80 formal requests to government and commercial organisations for the...”
– Can you disappear in surveillance Britain? - Times Online
“As with the housing market and the derivatives craze, the euro tale is one of...”
– Marc De Vos: The End of the Beginning of the Euro - WSJ.com
Seeking : How the brain hard-wires us to love... →
WSJ: Europe’s Free Lunch →
“The giant bailout package […] casts aside long-held notions that each EU...”
– World Races to Avert Crisis in Europe - WSJ.com
“In this context it’s worth noting that Simon Johnson, who used to be the IMF’s...”
– The EU bailout: Too much, too late | Felix Salmon
“We will defend the euro, whatever it takes.”
– European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso
“Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world...”
– Wired.com
“Die EU stellt eine praktisch grenzenlose Haftung für schwächelnde Euro-Staaten...”
– Nach dem EU-Gipfel: Das Endspiel um den Euro - FAZ.NET
Jailbreaking Your iPad: How You Can and Why You... →
“Humans are superorganisms with two genomes, the genetically inherited human...”
– Technology Review: You Are Your Bacteria
“But even if Greece could issue bonds at 5% in 2013, it would still have to pay...”
– Greek Default Already Decided - The Source - WSJ
“Wird die griechische Regierung – gleichgültig, ob sie von der gerade regierenden...”
– Griechenland: Der Blick nach vorn - FAZ.NET
sesquipedalianism:
1. Given to using long words.
2. (Of a word) containing many syllables.
(via Word of the Day)