Pigsaw Blog http://blog.pigsaw.org All the pig that's fit to saw Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:00:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bookmarks for 5 Feb 2012 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2012/02/05/2252 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2012/02/05/2252#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:00:12 +0000 Nik http://blog.pigsaw.org/?p=2252
  • What the beta of Gov.uk means for public services
    "GDS has a remit to fundamentally change public services to a "digital by default" model and Gov.uk is the first phase of delivering that goal. Simplicity is the key message behind the beta version of the site." (launch dopost interview beta_gov government gds )
  • Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate — Letters to the Editor – WSJ.com
    Climate scientists respond to the WSJ's anti-climate-change editorial: "Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work. [...] You published "No Need to Panic About Global Warming" (op-ed, Jan. 27) on climate change by the climate-science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology." (editorial wsj climate_change )
  • Facebook Files for an I.P.O. – NYTimes.com
    "Facebook, the vast online social network, took its first step toward becoming a publicly traded company on Wednesday as it filed to sell shares on the stock market." (facebook ipo dopost )
  • My Road Back | simple, but not simpler
    "So happy I decided to create music again…" Nice story (music eigenharp )
  • Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? – Quora
    Briefly notorious answer to the question in a hiking metaphor. (dopost analogy project_management estimation )
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  • Are There Fundamental Laws of Cooking? | Wired Science | Wired.com
    "The food pairing hypothesis is the idea that foods that go best together contain similar molecular components. While this sounds elegant, Ahn and his collaborators set out to determine whether or not this is true." (maths dopost science food cooking )
  • The Thing About Git
    How to make good use of git's staging area (version_control git tips )
  • git ready » the staging area
    "One of the most essential concepts to Git is that of the staging area. Its use can fundamentally change how you work, for the better!" (version_control git )
  • Liz Keogh’s blog » The Real Cost of Change
    "That desire to control change creates a reinforcing feedback loop, in which the cost of change makes us want to invest up-front, which makes the change expensive later on, which makes us want to invest up-front, and so on." (project_management change_control dopost agile waterfall planning software_development )
  • Tim Cook Defends Choice of Browett as Apple Retail Chief
    "Following the appointment of John Browett as Apple’s Senior Vice President of Retail yesterday, an outpouring of criticism due to the choice has made many question the move. Browett, as the CEO of the nearly universally panned UK electronics chain Dixon’s, was seen as an uninspired choice for the head of retail for a progressive firm like Apple." (letter dopost jobs retail apple )
  • Mysteries of Data Pool 3 give Rupert Murdoch a whole new headache | Media | The Guardian
    "International's central computer servers, including one particularly vast collection that may yet prove to be the stick that breaks the media mogul's back. It is known as Data Pool 3." (data_mining police crime hacking news_international )
  • Jonathan Franzen warns ebooks are corroding values | Books | guardian.co.uk
    "For serious readers, Franzen said, "a sense of permanence has always been part of the experience"" Serious readers? Or readers that he approves of? (reading dopost books ebooks )
  • Such modesty from the Daily Mail… – The Media Blog
    "The MailOnline meanwhile has set about attracting readers by following the agenda of others – offering to serve content people were already searching for online. As such, much of the success of the Daily Mail website is the result of a focus on US reality TV, pop music and naked flesh. Lots and lots of naked flesh." (comscore mail_online daily_mail )
  • Codecademy Becomes A Platform: Now Anyone Can Write Programming Tutorials | TechCrunch
    A sort of cross between iBook Author and Demand Media… "Codecademy has had one big problem: there just aren’t that many lessons available. [...] Today, the company is launching a feature that will go a long way toward fixing that. Meet the Codecademy Course Creator. [...] The site doesn’t have any current plans to pay contributors, but to help incentivize users to write high-quality courses, Codecademy aims to provide significant exposure to the best lesson creators." (programming authoring dopost education learning codecademy )
  • Code rant: Monads in C#–1. Introduction
    (programming monads dopost )
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  • Racism And Meritocracy | TechCrunch
    A brilliant piece by Eric Ries on the most likely reasons minorities are really under-represented in Silicon Valley startup incubators: implicit bias. (startups investment psychology racism )
  • The life of a software engineer
    Harsh but… fair enough (software_development humour cartoon dopost )
  • A probability paradox? | Understanding Uncertainty
    Some possible answers to: “Multiple Choice: If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct? A) 25% B) 50% C) 60% D) 25%” (probability maths dopost )
  • Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask | Books | The Observer
    Good interview with Alan Moore, reflecting on the use of his (?? not artist John Lloyd’s?) V for Vendetta
    mask at the Occupy * protests (politics protest comics interview )
  • Tim Harford — Article — Back to the glory days of Northern Rock
    Great Q&A-style piece on the folly of the government’s mortgage support plan. (housing banking mortgages economics )
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  • Applidium — Cracking Siri
    Well it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost )
  • The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch
    "Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead." (hardware sales marketing dopost )
  • Search using your terms, verbatim – Inside Search
    "In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we’ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We’ve been listening, and starting today you’ll be able to do just that through verbatim search." (google search dopost )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • Applidium — Cracking Siri
    Well it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost )
  • The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch
    "Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead." (hardware sales marketing dopost )
  • Search using your terms, verbatim – Inside Search
    "In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we’ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We’ve been listening, and starting today you’ll be able to do just that through verbatim search." (google search dopost )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • Applidium — Cracking Siri
    Well it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost )
  • The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch
    "Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead." (hardware sales marketing dopost )
  • Search using your terms, verbatim – Inside Search
    "In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we’ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We’ve been listening, and starting today you’ll be able to do just that through verbatim search." (google search dopost )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • Applidium — Cracking Siri
    Well it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost )
  • The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch
    "Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead." (hardware sales marketing dopost )
  • Search using your terms, verbatim – Inside Search
    "In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we’ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We’ve been listening, and starting today you’ll be able to do just that through verbatim search." (google search dopost )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • Applidium — Cracking Siri
    Well it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost )
  • The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch
    "Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead." (hardware sales marketing dopost )
  • Search using your terms, verbatim – Inside Search
    "In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we’ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We’ve been listening, and starting today you’ll be able to do just that through verbatim search." (google search dopost )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • Applidium — Cracking Siri
    Well it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost )
  • The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch
    "Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead." (hardware sales marketing dopost )
  • Search using your terms, verbatim – Inside Search
    "In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we’ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We’ve been listening, and starting today you’ll be able to do just that through verbatim search." (google search dopost )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • Applidium — Cracking Siri
    Well it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost )
  • The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch
    "Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead." (hardware sales marketing dopost )
  • Search using your terms, verbatim – Inside Search
    "In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we’ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We’ve been listening, and starting today you’ll be able to do just that through verbatim search." (google search dopost )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
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  • The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch
    "Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead." (hardware sales marketing dopost )
  • Applidium — Cracking Siri
    Well it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost )
  • Search using your terms, verbatim – Inside Search
    "In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we’ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We’ve been listening, and starting today you’ll be able to do just that through verbatim search." (google search dopost )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • A field guide to bullshit – opinion – 13 June 2011 – New Scientist
    "How do people defend their beliefs in bizarre conspiracy theories or the power of crystals? Philosopher Stephen Law has tips for spotting their strategies" (science book scepticism )
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  • The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch
    "Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that line of thinking: the spec is dead." (hardware sales marketing dopost )
  • Search using your terms, verbatim – Inside Search
    "In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly. Since then, we’ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We’ve been listening, and starting today you’ll be able to do just that through verbatim search." (google search dopost )
  • Applidium — Cracking Siri
    Well it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
  • Applidium — Cracking Siri
    Well it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
  • Applidium — Cracking Siri
    Well it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
    This explains so many past frustrations. (humour software_development cartoon dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
    Uh-oh… "Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking speed. So using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast? One article in March of this year stated that the technique using SSD drives could crack passwords at a rate of 300 billion passwords a second, and could decode complex password in under 5.3 seconds." (security hacking hardware passwords dopost )
  • Quick review: Kindle Fire, a market creator | yelvington.com
    "Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation theory says we should watch the low end of the marketplace closely. The first wave of products may be junk, but they quickly evolve to a level of "good enough" for most purposes and surprise the incumbents. [...] The "good enough" line is clearly crossed by the Kindle Fire" (kindle_fire amazon review tablets dopost )
  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Twitter Is Quietly Building A Huge Business
    "In our conversations with ad industry insiders as part of our special report on Twitter's business, they said Twitter's ads showed lots of promise. They said Twitter still needs to work on some aspects, but Twitter seems to be improving every day." (twitter business_models advertising dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
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  • Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.com
    Some data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
  • Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
    "Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations in Manchester and London that it confirmed today will lead to job cuts." (employment guardian )
  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
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  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
  • The Lick – YouTube
    "The Lick reigns supreme. None can escape its influence." Amusing, but also I find this rather depressing. (music video weird humour )
  • Best Illusion of the Year Contest
    I'm always amazed at how people keep creating new illusions. (optical_illusions fun )
  • Aerial 3D: Amazing System Shows 3D Objects In Mid-Air, With No Screen (Video) – TechCrunch
    3D images suspended in mid-air (3d innovation )
  • Amazon Kindle Fire review — Engadget
    The Amazon Fire seems a bit disappointing to me. Slightly sluggish in places, and quite a few annoyances in reading magazines, picture-heavy books (such as children's books) and comics. (amazon_fire review hardware tablets )
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  • The Romanian chili challenge
    (photograph how_to_web )
  • Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
    "Engineers are hired to create business value, not to program things"… and other important truths (business software_development careers dopost )
  • Literature and Latte – Scrivener
    Now available for Windows: "Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives you complete control of the formatting, its focus is on helping you get to the end of that awkward first draft." (windows scrivener writing tool )
  • Official Google Blog: Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about
    Google+ opens its doors to brands and companies. (google_plus branding launch social_media dopost )
  • Winterval « Davblog
    The apology is unequivocal. Says Dave, "This is amazing stuff. The Mail has been one of the main papers pushing the “Winterval” myth for many years." (daily_mail myths corrections )
  • Head of Google’s Public Policy Operations Resigns – NYTimes.com
    "Mr. Davidson started Google’s Washington office in 2005 as a one-man operation. He previously was associate director at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit group that advocates for an open Internet. He significantly increased Google’s lobbying efforts, building a robust Washington office and public policy teams in other cities. Google has spent $6 million on lobbying this year, according to the company." (government google jobs lobbying dopost )
  • Facebook CEO Calls Amazon and Apple Friends; Not So Sure About Google – Liz Gannes – Social – AllThingsD
    "Amazon and Apple “are extremely aligned with us,” said Zuckerberg. “We have a lot of conversations with people at both companies just trying to figure out ways that we can do more together, and there is just a lot of reception there.” Meanwhile, “Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook,” Zuckerberg said." (facebook apple google amazon interview mark_zuckerberg dopost )
  • The Data Journalism Handbook – v0.1 – Google Docs
    A handy crowdsourced document. (data_journalism crowdsourcing manual )
  • xkcd: The General Problem
    Or "the problem with generalisation". (cartoon humour programming )
  • Oban to get free fireworks display | The Oban Times
    "Following the spectacular but brief fireworks display on Friday evening,November 4 2011,at Mossfield in Oban,the fireworks companybehind the technical hiccup,Pyro 1, has offered to hold a free fireworks display during this month’s winter festival in Oban." (oban fireworks mistake )
  • Is It a Crisis? Maybe So, if You’re a King – NYTimes.com
    Maybe the current crisis, isn't a crisis, says Anand Giridharadas. Maybe it's a shift of paradigms, from which some differently-motivated people will subsequently flourish. (financials economics paradigm_shift dopost )
  • Status conscious? Check out this social media flowchart.
    "Clever thoughts bubble up constantly, but what’s the right venue for all of them? Now you can consult this handy graphic to help make those hard choices among Google+, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Dilemma solved!" I particularly like "Is it boring" -> LinkedIn. (humour social_media sharing dopost )
  • A crisis summit? For Silvio Berlusconi, it’s a big wonga-wonga party | Marina Hyde | Comment is free | The Guardian
    "Only one man appears to have the temperament to handle this crisis, the Teflon nerves to withstand any amount of pressure. Unfortunately, that man is Silvio Berlusconi." (silvio_berlusconi europe )
  • Lewes 2011 Rupert Murdoch & Rebekah Wade | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
    (rebekah_brooks rupert_murdoch photograph humour event )
  • Apple’s Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers – Businessweek
    "The team of experts found a U.S. company that made laser equipment for microchip manufacturing which, after some tweaking, could do the job. Each machine typically goes for about $250,000. Apple convinced the seller to sign an exclusivity agreement and has since bought hundreds of them to make holes for the green lights that now shine on the company’s MacBook Airs, Trackpads, and wireless keyboards." (apple operations manufacturing business dopost )
  • Trumpet & Flute on Vimeo
    "Another video with the theme of mating the full high resolution of the Eigenharp with Analog Synthesis using the new experimental OSC (Open Sound Control) agent in EigenD." (video eigenharp )
  • WHSmith have pulled off a publishing coup on Twitpic
    Ha ha. (bible photograph book humour whsmith )
  • GeekDads – dads (and mums) meeting up to give mums (and dads) some time off
    Yes, that's a great idea… "Now think about how nice it'd be if you (geek dad*) were to head out on a Saturday morning with your kids to meet up with some fellow geek dads* in your area." (fun parenting )
  • I was Ben, the unofficial face of Shippam’s paste | Ed Jefferson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
    "When a spectacularly inept attempt to 'do Twitter' appeared as @shippamspaste, people were suspicious – quite rightly" (twitter hoaxes public_relations )
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  • What eight years of writing the Bad Science column have taught me | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian
    "Pulling bad science apart is the best teaching gimmick I know for explaining how good science works" (writing science teaching dopost )
  • BBC News – HSBC and First Direct online and ATM services hit
    "HSBC online banking services and some of the bank's ATMs were not working for more than two hours at one of the busiest times of the week." (banks failure news )
  • All the Groupon IPO really proves is that the bubble is back — Tech News and Analysis
    "After a wave of reports that Groupon would have to drop the price on its initial public offering or even cancel it altogether because of skepticism about the company and its business model, the pendulum of optimism swung back again by Friday and the shares listed at $20 — well above the range Groupon was originally planning — and jumped as high as $30 when they first opened. So what happened?" (groupon ipo bubble dopost )
  • Occupy Wall Street : what it tells us about the future of news « Emily Bell(wether)
    "The movement itself bamboozled the mainstream media and government with what was perceived as a lack of purpose. ‘They don’t know what they want’ being the generic complaint from mainstream outlets such as CNN. Again, if you visit the square, and read the dozens and dozens of signs it is clear what the complaints are, but they are not expressed in a way which is readily interpreted by packaged media." (journalism occupy_wall_street media )
  • Women Struggling to Drink Water | The Hairpin
    Funny and shameful. Noteworthy that the previous post is entitled "Women laughing alone with salad". (women humour photography advertising )
  • Stuff Journalists Like – #4 Editors | The List
    "Editors will try to convince you that they don’t miss seeing their byline in the newspaper. They’ll also try to convince they didn’t wear the same stained shirt three days in a row." No stereotypes here. Nope, none at all. Move along now… (journalism humour editors )
  • do a barrel roll – Google Search
    Oh, there really is some excess Javascript in the Google search application. But what fun Javascript it is. (google easter_eggs humour dopost )
  • How a Javascript upgrade brought down our commenting platform | Info | guardian.co.uk
    War stories are always illuminating. Kudos to the development team for being so honest. (mistake javascript commenting guardian dopost )
  • New Statesman – "You should have your tongue ripped out": the reality of sexist abuse online
    The repellent misogyny that's faced by female bloggers. Horrifying stuff. (women blogging comments crime sexism dopost )
  • U.S. Marshals ordered to seize Righthaven assets | Poynter.
    The heavy hand of the law continues to strike… "A federal court has ordered U.S. Marshals to seize $63,720 in assets from Righthaven – the embattled Law Vegas company that files copyright infringement lawsuits. Righthaven tried to make money by acquiring the copyrights to newspaper articles – mostly from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, then suing websites that reprinted them." (legal righthaven copyright journalism dopost )
  • Adobe kills mobile Flash, giving Steve Jobs the last laugh | Technology | guardian.co.uk
    Ouch. (adobe flash mobile business_strategy adobe flash mobile business_strategy )
  • Tips on blowing for the tin whistle
    (tinwhistle tips music )
  • When Scrum meets traditional quality assurance | The Agile Radar
    How do you get a non-Agile test department to work with a Scrum team. Some suggestions here… (scrum agile testing management dopost )
  • Adobe kills mobile Flash, giving Steve Jobs the last laugh | Technology | guardian.co.uk
    Ouch. (adobe flash mobile business_strategy )
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