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Author, poet Maya Angelou dead at 86 | KDVR.com – Denver, Colorado News, Weather, Sports and more
Author, poet Maya Angelou dead at 86 | KDVR.com – Denver, Colorado News, Weather, Sports and more warrenellis: via bitly http://bit.ly/1gAgMB4
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fastcompany: Google’s Self-Driving Car Is Real, And It Looks Like A Tiny Bubble-Car We’ve known Google has been working on self-driving cars for awhile now, but all of a sudden, the project is real: last night, Google revealed a working prototype of its self-driving car. It’s a two-seater that looks something like a mashup of a Fiat…
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‘Mischievous Responders’ Confound Research On Teens
‘Mischievous Responders’ Confound Research On Teens hautepop: blackbeardblog: If kids report that they’re transgender and have one leg and belong to a gang and have several children … take it with a grain of salt. This is a good article on, basically, kids trolling surveys for a laugh. It happens a lot. If I was…
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ilovecharts: The Largest Immigrant Population in Each State ¿reconquista?
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jonnyskov: One of my favorite interviews with Maya Angelou, conducted by Michael Silverblatt for KCRW’s Bookworm.
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legosaurus: René (Ceci n’est pas une pomme) Image by Samsofy || FB
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For Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #14, placed in the “Money” section of the AGO’s “Art as Therapy,” de Botton tells us Sherman’s character is “uncertain about herself” and that it’s “a very normal feeling” and “we are a bit like this too.” It’s one of his many idiotic misreadings (I could fill this review…
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Recently an anonymous hacker wrote a script that took over embedded Linux devices. These owned computers scanned the whole rest of the internet and created a survey that told us more than we’d ever known about the shape of the internet. The little hacked boxes reported their data back (a full 10 TBs) and quietly…
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Software is so bad because it’s so complex, and because it’s trying to talk to other programs on the same computer, or over connections to other computers. Even your computer is kind of more than one computer, boxes within boxes, and each one of those computers is full of little programs trying to coordinate their…
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In February, in a New Yorker piece originally titled “Is Amazon bad for books?,” a small press publisher, Melville House co-owner Dennis Johnson, described how Amazon had bullied him into signing up for its paid distribution service despite refusing to relinquish any information to him about his actual on-site sales. Johnson described how, after his…