SAVE
It's been years since I read slashdot, but occasionally you run into articles with some real gems, like this comment on an article about an OS that's half like one I want to build (and half really not, but that's another story):
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NATO/Jordan hookups
Wikileaks has been making itself useful over the past few months, discovering that the password to a now-offline NATO document in a Pentagon repository used to give the official line on the war in Afghanistan to their PR flacks was in fact “progress”, and the document had some interesting things to not say:
Powershop blogs
The @powershop search on twitter is turning up some interesting blogs – Alan Macdougall did a pretty in-depth look at whether Powershop will save his family money over a year (in short: he gets much less saving than some of us are getting), Ari from Powershop getting in and answering the questions everyone's coming up with. Meanwhile Nik at Code to Customer blogged an amusing telemarketing call from his old powercompany where he manages a bit of the ole' back-sell :). I'm finding it quite fun hearing how the blogosphere is reacting to the projects I've been working on!
Communicative hosting companies
Looking around at a number of hosting companies recently it was great to see some positive examples of how you should communicate important permissions and restrictions to your (potential) customers sticking out from the usual pile of deliberately obscured limitations and unmanageable legalese we've come to expect from the world.
Communicative hosting companies
Looking around at a number of hosting companies recently it was great to see some positive examples of how you should communicate important permissions and restrictions to your (potential) customers sticking out from the usual pile of deliberately obscured limitations and unmanageable legalese we've come to expect from the world.
Bulletproof Javascript detection
You may have to be a programmer to understand why this is tragically funny, but the Bulletproof Javascript detection post Mog linked me to is, well, special. In the short-bus kind of way.
GE Smart Grid promo augmented reality
The GE Smart Grid promo is very cool and has to be tried to be believed. Print out the “Solar Panel Marker”, click the “Launch Wind Turbine” link, maybe tell Flash which camera on your laptop to use, and hold the page up… and it will open out a 3D thing from your held-up page! Blow at your computer and the wind turbines will spin… very cool touch. And it just uses Flash over the web, no software download required! (via)
China, government, savings, and conspicuous consumption
One of the interesting things Jonathan Siegel talked about from his Beijing trip was the attitudes Chinese people have to their finances, and to their government:
Historical Ford fail
It's kinda funny when western businessmen assume they know best about how to do everything:
Scripps FLIP ship
I love the FLIP ship, it's a 108m-long, thin ship with no engine of its own; it gets towed out into the ocean somewhere where they want to do some research but need a stable platform that won't bob up and down or make noise. When they get it there, they flood the long stem bit and it sinks under the water, flipping up the whole ship 90°. The length and weight of the sunken part makes it very stable so it provides a great base even in fairly heavy seas. The crazy thing is what it means for the people on the ship at the time – they don't get off to flip it: