March 2012
92 posts
Police face racism scandal after black man records... →
(by Paul Lewis for The Guardian) Just disgusting.
Wind Map →
“Built by Hint.Fm, it uses hourly forecasts from the National Forecast Database to give you an idea of how air is traveling across the United States at any given moment.” (via PUBLIC SCHOOL)
Movie Trailer: The Intouchables →
Brinks crash spills millions in coins [AND... →
Another truck in the crash was filled with candy. Uh-mazing!!
Alligator In A Vest
What do you call an alligator wearing a vest?
“To a large extent the organization seeks not limited government but privatized...”
– Paul Krugman in Guns and Money for the New York Times (via Daring Fireball)
Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and... →
by James Grimmelmann for Ars Technica
“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look...”
– Lane Olinghouse (via swissmiss via Quote Garden)
F-35s don't meet military's requirements,... →
Are Canada's federal scientists being 'muzzled'? →
(by Janet Davison for CBC News)
Movies as code →
Amazing. (via Fresh Signals)
CRTC To Consult On Expanding Public Access To... →
Michael Geist: “The CRTC has announced plans to hold a consultation on whether information provided by incumbent companies on wholesale Internet access should be made publicly available.” This absolutely needs to happen.
“While I should be curious about Google IO and what I will miss if I fail to take...”
– Why I am letting my Google IO invitation expire by Jeffrey Zeldman. Agreed.
“Canadians that attended post-secondary education were more likely to carry heavy...”
– Debt load getting heavier in Canada for CBC News
Asbestos brake pad ban proposed →
(by Sarah Bridge for CBC News) I can’t believe these are still legal.
The Most Common Cooking Mistakes →
Supreme Court saves medical profession from... →
Spider Web Strategy
pbh3:
Movie Trailer: Take Me Home →
Movie Trailer: Headhunters (Hodejegerne) →
Changing the apparent size of the hole messes with... →
“Putting performance with the perceptually larger hole was about double that when the golfers were made to think the hole was smaller.” (by John Timmer for Ars Technica)
The Pirate Bay Attacks Censorship With Low Orbit... →
Police records show no need for online... →
Michael Geist recently filed access to information requests to identify how many times police requests for ISP subscriber data were refused. Answer so far: 0.
Madness is not the reason for this massacre →
(by Robert Fisk for The Independent via |/||\|)
The beginnings of the Internet Lockdown →
(by Russell McOrmond for OpenMedia.ca)
What A Sad Kitten
pbh3:
Sheppard transit report recommends LRT →
“these new details suggest that the misleading calls relied on data gathered by,...”
– Misleading robocalls went to voters ID’d as non-Tories by Terry Milewski for CBC News
Copyright Math: a quantitative reasoning master... →
WatchlittleBits (re)intro (by ayah bdeir via Fresh Signals). Love it!
Judge orders failed copyright troll to forfeit... →
Irony. (by David Kravets for Wired.com via Ars Technica)
WatchNicolas Cage Vs. Nicolas Cage On SNL (Does flipping the video actually trick filters?)
Copyright wars heat up: US wins extradition of... →
If Canadian music companies don’t sue you, US ones will.
“Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying...”
– Are You As Busy As You Think? by Laura Vanderkam for The Wall Street Journal (via swiss miss)
“[Companies] ignore software patents because it’s mathematically impossible...”
– The problem with software patents? They don’t scale by Timothy B. Lee & Christina Mulligan for Ars Technica
“Dear writers … If your representatives would put some effort into...”
– fear v. education by Meera Nair for Fair Duty
Raptor Banana Rage
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