Archive for November, 2010
If you have a new macbook air, make sure you test it on an external monitor!
November 30th 2010 at 10:26 pm
So here’s the journey with my MacBook Air so far: I purchased a base 1.4GHZ 11″ Air. It’s a beautiful machine. Loved it. But when plugged into my 24″ external monitor, it ‘fuzzed’ or made the screen go squiggly at random intervals (could be 10 minutes, could be 20). I updated the OS to the [...]
Help buy a satellite! Bring the internet to billions without it!
November 30th 2010 at 5:34 pm
Help buy this satellite.
Christian Patriarchy Movement: daughters shouldn’t be educated, must stay at home
November 30th 2010 at 10:56 am
A big WTF? The stay-at-home-daughters movement encourages young girls and single women to forgo college and employment in favor of training as “keepers at home.” Link via @mattstaggs The modern Christian Taliban at work in America. “Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope “¨of their father. As long as they’re [...]
Repeating yourself on twitter? You may be losing your best listeners…
November 30th 2010 at 8:36 am
A number of SEO ‘experts’ and twitter ‘gurus’ have spread the word that in order to ‘really be heard’ on twitter you need to repeat your interesting twitter or link (to your blog) several times throughout the day in order to increase traffic and get it to stick in your followers’ minds. As someone who [...]
Is nasa going to announce non Earth life?
November 29th 2010 at 11:03 pm
Is NASA going to hold a press conference about discovering life on another planet? Kottke thinks so. At the very least, given the speaker list, I know I’ll be paying attention Dec 2!
Slate offers a compelling counter-argument to wikileaks
November 29th 2010 at 8:31 pm
Slate has a very good case as to why Wikileaks is not as awesome as some think. Not because of the bluster about ‘secrets that could kill someone’ and the lame posturing via those about to be embarrassed, but because it points out that the Wikileaks is only able to do what its doing because [...]
The Guardian on wikileaks
November 29th 2010 at 7:59 pm
A bracing quote: The job of the media is not to protect power from embarrassment. If American spies are breaking United Nations rules by seeking the DNA biometrics of the UN director general, he is entitled to hear of it. British voters should know what Afghan leaders thought of British troops. American (and British) taxpayers [...]
Worldbuilders
November 29th 2010 at 7:38 pm
Pat Rothfuss is doing a very awesome thing, giving people a chance to win free books via a lottery, an auction, and things you can purchase, while raising money for Heifer International. It’s a worthy cause being promoted by a worthy dude.
Aging treatments by boosting telomerase activity?
November 29th 2010 at 10:49 am
Next Big Future has a fascinating article about a big breakthrough in anti-aging technology: The one-month pulse of telomerase also reversed effects of ageing in the brain. Mice with restored telomerase activity had noticeably larger brains than animals still lacking the enzyme, and neural progenitor cells, which produce new neurons and supporting brain cells, started [...]
Work Doesn’t Happen at Work
November 29th 2010 at 10:47 am
Web Worker Daily has an interesting review of 37 Signals book ‘Why Work Doesn’t Happen at Work’ which generally confirms my own biases of the productivity-sapping madness of managers and meetings. My favorite meeting productivity hack was a manager I read about who held meetings standing up, and with the clause that whenever someone had [...]
