January 2011
51 posts
Egypt Turns Off the Internet. Now What Happens? →
Sachbuch: Schlechter geht’s immer →
Tom Schimmeck seziert gekonnt den Zustand des Journalismus (zeit.de)
TWIMPACT Real-time Event Monitor -- Egypt →
“Leave Hosni, you, your son and your corrupted party!” declared the graffiti on...”
– Egypt Protests Continue as Government Resigns - NYTimes.com
How Egypt did (and your government could) shut... →
“Rather than calling on an intransigent ruler to implement “reforms,”...”
– Washington Post: The U.S. needs to break with Mubarak now
“I’m […] slow to know what I think, and slow to know how I feel:...”
– Michael Chabon (source: The Atlantic)
“Thousands of engineers work on the product and it took a Times article for them...”
– A Bad Sign for Google - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
“People who want to re-invent the wheel usually end up re-inventing the flat...”
– jde on diaspora-dev
“For many of the world’s poorest countries, figures measuring economic growth are...”
– Cool maps: Measuring growth from outer space
“die Richter [hätten] nun die Chance gehabt, sich zu korrigieren. Sie hätten...”
– mobil.sueddeutsche.de -
Les amours imaginaires
http://www.cinema.nl/films/7091492/les-amours-imaginaires
“59 percent of respondents in a Bloomberg Global Poll said one or more of the 17...”
– Bloomberg
Chicago Police: Tape Us, Get Sentenced to 15 Years... →
Add it to the list of U.S. states never to set a foot in.
WatchDecember in Toronto
“After more than ten days of intensive investigation and study, Facebook’s...”
– The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks - The Atlantic
Sit. Stay. Parse. Good Girl! →
Chaser, a border collie who lives in Spartanburg, S.C., has the largest vocabulary of any known dog. She knows 1,022 nouns, a record that displays unexpected depths of the canine mind and may help explain how children acquire language.
“I was with Tim Cook last week in New York and I walked away from that thinking,...”
– Tim Bajarin, Creative Strategies analyst, as quoted by NYTimes.com
This is ridiculous. As a print or web subscriber of a newspaper or magazine I should never have to pay again to read the same content on the iPad.
Apple is now demanding that all content subscriptions go through iTunes so that Cupertino can take its traditional 30 per cent cut. Previously, newspapers could simply serve content to subscribers from their own servers.
(via El Reg)
I’m...
“So how did Fail0verflow get the keys so quickly? Well, in creating the encrypted...”
– Hackers leave PS3 security in tatters
“闹太套”
– China’s Top 10 Internet Neologisms from 2010 - The Atlantic
“In een bezorgde brief vragen elf Turkse Nederlanders (negen mannen en twee...”
– NRC Handelsblad
“Should the present content of the Vande Lanotte memo have been on the...”
– Opinion: The subtle `no’ of the CD&V and N-VA | Flanders Today
Jeff Koons is world's only licensed balloon artist →
“In his FT column, Wolfgang Münchau predicts that the euro will survive 2011, but...”
– A year of truth for the eurozone