- Aidan Burley MP. Hello , from a fellow Brit. | Indian Poof
Brilliant piece by Paul Sinha, addressed to Aidan Burley: "While the vast majority of the country were enjoying a visual and aural extravaganza, you were clearly suffering by being bombarded by parts of the ceremony that were nothing more than leftwing mischief. Like children.Black people.Fireworks. James Bond. The Queen. Tim Berners Lee.Gosh if I was subjected to that horrific parade of communist propaganda , I’d want to dress up as a Nazi too." (britain racism humour olympics )
- Proud. « Scott Cawley.
A participant's view of the Olympic opening ceremony: "[Director Danny Boyle said] “Make it look really hard. Over your shoulder, like you’re really struggling under the weight of it. We want to see your pain.”" (history britain olympics )
- Week 2: Mayer Googifies Yahoo — Free Food, Friday All-Hands, Fab Swag – Kara Swisher – News – AllThingsD
"“This is the sound of Yahoo becoming a technology company again,” said one source. “It will be all about platforms and products.”" (dopost marissa_mayer yahoo )
- NBC fail shows network’s commitment to ‘the last great buggy-whip Olympics’ | Heidi Moore | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"[To watch the Olympics live from the US] I am using anti-internet-censorship technology of the kind that is favored by political dissidents trying to connect with the outside world against the wishes of oppressive regimes." Well, if NBC will pay $1.1bn for the rights, they're forced to squeeze as much as they can out of it. (olympics piracy nbc )
- First map of the human brain reveals a simple, grid-like structure between neurons | ExtremeTech
"In an astonishing new study, scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have imaged human and monkey brains and found… well, the image above says it all. It turns out that the pathways in your brain — the connections between neurons — are almost perfectly grid-like." (dopost research neuroscience science )
- NBC’s No. 1 Tweeting Critic Has Been Suspended From Twitter
"Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles bureau chief. During the Olympics so far, he has carved out a nice spot on the how-much-NBC's-coverage-sucks beat. Now his Twitter account has been suspended—supposedly because NBC had it cut off after he complained" (criticism olympics dopost censorship twitter )
- Microsoft’s radical new business plan is hidden in plain sight | ZDNet
Services, Surface and many new products: Microsoft's latest strategy. (dopost business_strategy microsoft_surface microsoft )
- Functional Programming Principles in Scala | Coursera
"Learn about functional programming, and how it can be effectively combined with object-oriented programming. Gain practice in writing clean functional code, using the Scala programming language." (dopost learning scala )
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