Exposed: Media fabricated ‘empty tents’ story at OccupyLSX – YouTube"Following all the media hype (Telegraph, The Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express) about 'empty tents' at OccupyLSX we decided to check out whether their thermal imaging evidence was true. We got hold of *exactly* the same thermal imaging camera and showed that – surprise, surprise – [...]
On being harassed: a little GF history and some current events | Geek Feminism BlogLife is alarmingly difficult for women in technology… "So, here’s our situation. We have a man (presumably; at any rate he appears to want to be identified as such) in the Australian Linux community, who targets women by sending them private [...]
Everything I Ever Learned About JVM Performance Tuning @Twitter (java performance presentation twitter scala dopost ) Bit Paragon: Clouding your Git Repo in Amazon S3 under WindowsUsing Amazon S3 as a git repository. (git windows s3 backup tools dopost ) Netflix Lost 800,000 Members With Price Rise and Qwikster Plan – NYTimes.com"On Monday, [Netflix] revealed [...]
Coding Horror: On Parenthood"As an adult, you may think you've roughly mapped the continent of love and relationships. You've loved your parents, a few of your friends, eventually a significant other. You have some tentative cartography to work with from your explorations. You form ideas about what love is, its borders and boundaries. Then you [...]
Want to build great software? Get your culture right first."This is going to sound like such a lame “management guru” thing to say, but it’s true: the cultural fit of the people you hire is more important than their past experience or absolute skill level. I’ve seen this time and time again. If I have [...]
Amazon Throws A Minor Curveball With HTML5-Powered Kindle Format 8 – TechCrunch"Amazon has announced an update to the Kindle file format integrating many HTML5 tags and CSS attributes. Many expected a concession by Amazon in the form of an EPUB-compatible upgrade, and this comes as a slight surprise — but it’s a natural evolution of the [...]
BBC mulls new effort to kickstart computer education — Tech News and Analysis"Now, 30 years on from that move, it seems the BBC is considering whether it should try again — by embarking on a new digital literacy initiative that could spark another revolution and help Britain respond to Schmidt’s criticisms." (bbc education bbc_micro dopost [...]
Quantum Levitation – YouTube"Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field" (science quantum_physics dopost ) Jeff Jarvis – Google+ – On the review by Evgeny Morozov"The thrashing my book and I just received from Evgeny Morozov was as preordained as the last election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad." (jeff_jarvis review ) Amazon Rewrites the Rules [...]
Daily Dot | Warner Bros. signs to make movie from Reddit comment"Warner Bros. Studios has snagged the rights to Rome Sweet Rome, a story that began about a month ago as a breathless series of comments by Reddit user James Erwin. Those comments answered a question posted by another Reddit user: “What if a unit [...]
Charlie Brooker: Everyone knows David Cameron is a lizard. So why does the Telegraph continue to deny the truth? | Comment is free | The Guardian"Archer writes vividly and from the heart and, if his byline photo is anything to go by, appears to be a perfectly reasonable man (specifically, Ross Kemp). He deserves the benefit [...]
