August 2012
32 posts
“51 percent of respondents, including a majority of Millennials, believe stormy...”
– Citrix press release: Most Americans Confused By Cloud Computing According to National Survey (via Ian Gowen). (via blech)
WatchThe Impossible Cloud (animation) (by Sascha Pohflepp)
The idea of a one-to-one scale map of the world, portraying everything in it, is a venerable device in literature, surfacing most famously in the work of Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges; in Harry Potter, there’s a map that shows what everyone in Hogwarts is doing at every moment. But in the era of Street View Trekker and Liquid Galaxy, these fictional maps seem somewhat less absurd –...
The Hoboken garage is one of a handful of fully automated parking structures that make more efficient use of space by eliminating ramps and driving lanes, lifting and sliding automobiles into slots and shuffling them as needed. If the robot shuts down, there is no practical way to manually remove parked vehicles.
In the days that followed, both sides dragged each other into court. Robotic...
Citigroup has announced an agreement to use the services of Watson, the IBM supercomputer that gained renown last year when it beat a couple of humans on the US quiz show Jeopardy . A spokesman for the bank said: “We are working to rethink and redesign the various ways in which our customers and clients interact with money.” A news release added that Citi was looking for a “first of a kind...
Virtual Machine stack, from Notepad » Take a Picture, It’ll Last Longer…
Software is not experienced in a disembodied graphical space – we interact with it though machines. If one of the major driving forces behind sharing with these image repositories is education, it seems logical to employ a documentation strategy that is simple and effective in visually communicating the context of...
Couple’s sex on CCTV downloaded onto mobile by police control room worker - Mirror Online
Karen Grainger, The Looking Back
A series made by photographing the reflections from the reverse of a black Apple iphone (with another iphone) whilst travelling around the city of London.
A contemporary process that revisits the historic use of the Claude Glass – an 18th century hand held, black mirror that was used as a proto snapshot ‘camera’ prior to the invention of the means to fix...
Keighty Alexander, ‘Three Clicks In’
Trestle Gallery - Painting in the Digital Age
One of the common assumptions software authors make is that the underlying hardware works reliably. Very few operating systems add their own parity bits or CRC to memory accesses. Even fewer applications check the results of a computation. Yet when it comes to cryptography and software protection, the attacker controls the platform in some manner and thus faulty operation has to be considered.
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And there is the famous story of Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner,” the song used by audio engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg to fine-tune the MP3 encoder. Brandenburg was putting the finishing touches on his compression algorithm when he heard Vega’s hit playing down the hallway. “I was electrified,” he later explained. “I knew it would be nearly impossible to compress this warm a capella voice.” He...
Embedded stock prices in articles (by StuartBannocks)
That couch catching your eye in the 2013 edition of IKEA’s new catalog may not be a couch at all.
It is likely the entire living room was created by a graphic artist. In fact, much of the furniture and settings in the 324-page catalog are simply a collection of pixels and polygons arranged on a computer.
This year 12% of IKEA’s content for the Web, catalog and brochures were...
A science project of unprecedented scale begins this month in the New Mexico desert, as a technology firm breaks ground for a model metropolis. Washington-based Pegasus Global Holdings will build a town replete with schools, parks and an airport.
But the intended residents are not people, but robots.
The world’s first city for robots (via Jo M)
Send your pictures of the tyre fire on Bath Road in Hounslow to our Facebook page facebook.com/LondonFireBrig…
— London Fire Brigade (@LondonFire) August 21, 2012
“The practice of purchasing Twitter followers is not only causing controversy for...”
– A Twitter fatwa may seem odd, but it’s a sign of our times | Nesrine Malik | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
How To Deal With An "Unruly Passenger" On A... →
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TaskRabbit: Whenever I run Taskrabbit tasks, I notice most of the SF rabbits are cute girls. What are some tasks you can set up that would allow you to date one of these rabbits?
Quora, via Dan W.
