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Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes

8/3/2009 in General by face | No comments

£400 million ($668 million) will be spend on installing and monitoring CCTV cameras in the homes of private citizens. Why? To make sure the kids are doing their homework, going to bed early and eating their vegetables. The scheme has, astonishingly, already been running in 2,000 family homes. The government’s “children’s secretary” Ed Balls is behind the plan, which is aimed at problem, antisocial families. The idea is that, if a child has a more stable home life, he or she will be less likely to stray into crime and drugs

via Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:

The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real – Anil Dash

7/24/2009 in General by face | No comments

Pushbutton is a name for what I believe will be an upgrade for the web, where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cost and without relying on any single company like Twitter or Facebook. The pieces of this platform have just come together to enable a whole set of new features and applications that would have been nearly impossible for an average web developer to build in the past.

via The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real – Anil Dash.

We could just tick off Sprint and call it “Direct Connect”. It’s a lot like the PTT with a group receiving end.

Stuff

2/17/2009 in General by face | No comments

People want full ownership and control of their information so they can turn off access to it at any time.

via Facebook | On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information.

Let’s see. I’ll put these few words out there on the internets…cool, my friend just saw it. Not so cool, that creep in the next cubicle is making comments about it. Give it back! Give it back!

Oh noooooooo.

Living the Off-Label Life – NYTimes.com

12/27/2008 in General by face | No comments

What if you could just take a pill and all of a sudden remember to pay your bills on time?

via Op-Ed Guest Columnist – Living the Off-Label Life – NYTimes.com.

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

6/25/2008 in General by face | No comments

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”
So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now. Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant data, don’t have to settle for wrong models. Indeed, they don’t have to settle for models at all.

Martian Headsets – Joel on Software

3/17/2008 in General by face | No comments

Martian Headsets – Joel on Software
Until you decide to make a new version, the Qxyzrhjjjjukltk 2.0.

Harvard Proposal to Publish Scholarly Research Free on the Internet – New York Times

2/12/2008 in Readers Digest Centerfolds by face | No comments

Harvard Proposal to Publish Scholarly Research Free on the Internet – New York Times

Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish — on the Web, at least — free.

Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high subscription costs.

Here’s what fake HD video looks like

1/19/2008 in General by face | No comments

» Here’s what fake HD video looks like | George Ou | ZDNet.com

Apparently, DIRECTV switched from 1920×1080 resolution HD video to highly compressed 1280×1080 so they can shove a lot more channels on to their service which users not-so-lovingly named “HD Lite“.  As you can see above, the DIRECTV image to the left absolutely stinks compared to the not-so-great sample from Dish on the right.  This apparently angered a lot of DIRECTV customers and one such customer Peter Cohen actually filed a class action lawsuit.

Shift Happens

8/29/2007 in General by face | No comments

Watch the video …
Shift happens.

(Via Sam’s Random Musings.)

(Via dangerousmeta.)

Chicken of the Sea – New York Times

7/15/2007 in General by face | No comments

Chicken of the Sea – New York Times:

“Why take any risk?” they ask. The medical establishment and the culture at large have twisted logic around to the point where any risk, no matter how infinitesimal, is too much. So powerful is this Puritanical impulse that, once a health objection is raised, however irrational the recommended behavior, it’s considered irresponsible to behave any other way.

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