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I have a portable Wi-Fi device called a MiFi, that I use in coffee shops and hotels and all the places that give you supposedly free Wi-Fi. The truth is, what we’re learning in today’s world is that nothing is free. If something is supposed to be free, then it really means they’re taking your…
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Long years have passed. I think of goodbye. Locked tight in the night I think of passion; Drawn to for blue, the night During the page My shattered pieces of life watching the joy shattered pieces of love My shattered pieces of love gone stale. “Long years have passed”, current leader in “Most human-like computer…
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kateoplis: Nobody wins, Everybody Pays “On Sunday, Netflix agreed to pay Comcast an undisclosed amount to ensure that its videos stream smoothly to Comcast customers. But fans of Francis Underwood’s manipulations on House of Cards might want to temper their celebrations. This is more than a deal between two giant companies: It will affect everyone who uses the Internet.…
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cinoh: joana-patrasc: test. using some of the old scans from October this will move.
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blech: jamisonwieser: Expanding on Stuart Harrison’s LEGO interface comparison between command line and windowing computers, I went through my own bricks for various LEGO computer interfaces and technology over the years. [This is good] The space line also had several examples of interfaces…
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Future Factories and Futurematic – Situation Lab – OCADU
Future Factories and Futurematic – Situation Lab – OCADU warrenellis: “Futurematic is a design jam to fill a vending machine with artifacts from the future. Participants will conceptualize and execute designs for the objects, focusing mostly on packaging design and rapid prototyping as ways of exploring possible futures. The jam will also include an opportunity to…
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What Doctor Who and Sherlock offer us right now is a chance to see what modern fan fiction would look like if it was written by well-paid, well-respected middle-aged men with a big fat budget. That sort of fanfiction is usually referred to simply as “fiction”. Interesting piece on fan fiction and who is allowed…
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Stepping inside DuckDuckGo’s headquarters in Paoli, Pennsylvania, it’s hard to imagine that its two modest, sparsely occupied floors could be used to launch an insurgency against one of the biggest tech companies on the planet. Inside DuckDuckGo, Google’s Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code community (via fred-wilson)
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Opt out of Dropbox’s arbitration clause
Opt out of Dropbox’s arbitration clause tedfromtheinternet: tbridge: tiffanyb: If you’re a Dropbox user, you probably got an email in the last few days about an update to their TOS that basically puts all disputes into arbitration rather than litigation. If you’re like me, you probably glossed over this update because gah, legalese. Allow me…