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2011

Rumor: Google prepping ‘Majel’ Android voice assistant to counter Apple’s Siri

by alamat & 1 other (via)
A new unverified report claims Google is working on its own voice recognition assistant for Android, drawing its “Majel” codename from the voice of the on-board computer in Star Trek.

Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future | CNET UK

by karlcow

"Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."

Apple, HP and Dell among companies responsible for 'electronic sweatshops', claims report

by night.kame, 2 comments

"Left to themselves, multinational companies and Chinese manufacturers will continue to pursue business and labour practices that ultimately abuse Chinese workers," the report said, noting that the entire industry is unregulated and that Apple only pays £3.99 to manufacture a £600 iPhone, leaving factories little option but to make profits by exploiting workers.

Il est fort ce Steve, il arrivait même à les payer en livre sterling !

Apple rumored to be working on iOS-powered HDTVs for late 2011

by alamat & 1 other (via)
A new rumor claims Apple is readying an iOS-powered connected TV, possibly for release as early as this fall.

polis: Revisiting Henry Miller's Paris

by karlcow

Brassaï claims that a large reason why Miller came to Paris is that he felt he could live a more dignified life in the midst of poverty than in the American city, where being poor was viewed as a "moral failure," a commentary on the differing experiences of poverty and class between American and French global cities with which I am grappling today.

Sandy Bridge, Thunderbolt MacBook Airs coming in June or July

by alamat & 1 other (via)
A new report claims that Apple’s supply chain will begin shipments of new MacBook Air models upgraded to include Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors and Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect later this month in preparation for a June or July launch.

2010

The First Photograph of a Human - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic

by karlcow

The photo, shown below, was taken by the inventor of the Daguerreotype himself, Louis Daguerre, on the streets of Paris in 1838. Hokumburg claims, in his post, that this is the first photograph of a human being.

Python Package Index : weld 0.1.1

by karlcow

The similarity between email addresses and XMPP JIDs is often noted in

introductory texts to XMPP, and there have been claims that XMPP can serve as an

email replacement (e.g. Google Wave). Weld takes the next step in merging email

and XMPP systems.

Converting emails into XMPP stanzas is a complex issue due to the various MIME

types, multipart emails, various headers, etc. Weld sidesteps that issue by

assuming that content is treated the same way in emails as it is in XMPP message

stanzas: a single, plain text message with an optional subject.

Société Perillos

by borsky
In French. Extremely bizarre claims linking the Collège de 'Pataphysique to the mysteries of Rennes-le-Chateau. As such, of a very pataphysical nature. Some books are translated in English and published by http://www.septeraeditions.com/

REST Litmus Test for Web Frameworks - Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff

by karlcow

web framework that claims to have "REST support", and came up with a list of questions

Salt - Day X Exists

by gregg
In this immersive experience, you play a junior CIA agent assigned to the agency’s high-level Day X Taskforce whose objective is to stop a threat called “Day X” and rogue agent Evelyn Salt. Agent Salt contacts you directly and asks for your help in proving her innocence. She claims to have been set up, and asks YOU to help her stop Day X and clear her name. Through nine weeks, you will complete a series of nine mission and begin to uncover the details of the complex Day X plot. Each week, you will be tasked with a new mission, which will feature an intro video sequence and lead you to that week’s particular interactive challenge.

Daring Fireball: John Paczkowski's Interview With Adobe Co-Founder Chuck Geschke

by night.kame

If HTML isn’t “standardized”, as Geschke claims, then what are these specifications from open standards organizations?

Vous ne rêvez pas, Gruber nous gratifie d'un lien vers le WHAT WG en décrivant comme une "open standards organization" ; et pourquoi pas une "open standards open organization" tant qu'on y est ?

2009

Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor | World news | The Observer

by karlcow

Gangs are now believed to make most of their profits from the drugs trade and are estimated to be worth £352bn, the UN says. They have traditionally kept proceeds in cash or moved it offshore to hide it from the authorities. It is understood that evidence that drug money has flowed into banks came from officials in Britain, Switzerland, Italy and the US.

VideoClix to Power Clickable Interactive Video for Dailymotion | InteractiveTV Today

by srcmax & 1 other

VideoClix, a Vancouver-based provider of technologies for clickable interactive video (which it calls "hypervideo"), said last week that it has signed a deal with Dailymotion, a Paris-based company which claims that its flagship broadband video portal is the world's second-largest. According to VideoClix, its technology will provide Dailymotion users with an "active and engaging" experience while providing advertisers with a non-intrusive way to reach their target audience. "This partnership brings clickable video to the masses on a global scale," VideoClix CEO, Babak Maghfourian, said in a prepared statement. "It's a win, win, win for audiences, publishers and advertisers alike."

Wired Is Getting Ready for Apple Tablet

by srcmax

The rumors about publishers who already have big plans for the device, however, are galore. The latest on the list? Condé Nast, which – according to All Things Digital – claims it’s preparing a digital version of Wired magazine for the Apple Tablet by the middle of next year, followed by its other 18 titles.

Yokaboo is a simple way to create your own independent store in seconds. Yokaboo provides a free online shop platform for artists, designers and traders.

by ycc2106
Claims that it will let you “create your own independent store in seconds and take over the world”. -Website to create your virtual shop You can have your free store forever, no strings attached. And if you decide you want to use more of Yokaboo's features, you can upgrade any time you like. For this, billing is monthly and you can cancel whenever you want.

Woman Sues Toyota Over 'Terrifying' Prank

by jeanruaud
A Los Angeles woman is suing Toyota for $10 million over a marketing campaign that she claims "punked" her into incorrectly believing she was being stalked.

Amazon - Constrained Search vs. Random Results

by access2
The way to find needles in the immense haystack of Amazon.com is through constrained search. Amazon's search function, like most others, claims to use a logical AND operator on keywords. That is search results for "Amazon Warriors," for example, should contain both "Amazon" AND "Warriors." In fact, you will find that, all things being equal -- "Amazon" AND "Warriors" results will appear higher than "Amazon" OR "Warriors" results. You need to "drill down" through the thousands of Amazon Categories to find the results that meet your criteria. I could go on and on (there really are thousands of categories) but I think this small sample will illustrate how different your results can be for a single search term

Character encoding detection for external scripts

by karlcow

This is (EF BB BF) C3 B6 3D 22 21 22 loaded into browsers under various labels. That happens to be properly formed ECMAScript code for all the encodings used. The bogus results for Opera9 can easily be reproduced in context of the testing script, but probably not individually from a clean cache; what's going on there is unknown. I also noted in running these tests that Opera claims "Opera supports the entire ECMA-262 2nd and 3rd standards with no exceptions" while in fact their implementation does not, the parser rejects code that follows the IdentifierStart :: UnicodeEscapeSequence production of ECMA-262 section 7.6. Instead it implements Opera-only extensions, like comma-free arrays ala [ 1 2 3 ]. Other fun facts include: IE does not implement onload for iframes and cannot modify the innerHTML or tr elements; Firefox ignores "tags" when setting the innerHTML of dynamically created tr elements with no ownerElement... Oh and Opera again needs /th "tags" so it won't nest adjacent th elements when setting innerHTML.

Oshima: A World of Their Own (Chasing Shadows, Take Four of Four)

by karlcow

Diary of a Shinjuko Thief, which equates artists with thieves (each appropriators) tells us that filmmaking, in its ways, undermines a tyrannical order of reality: the filmmaker claims reality for himself, a private reconfiguration and perversion, distortion of it, and shows it from a single perspective as good as any other.

Revisionist History: Bartz Claims Yahoo Was Never A Search Engine

by kuroyagi
"Yahoo did NOT outsource search for most of its life, and I’ll detail this for the record, below."

Free Music Archive

by garret & 2 others
Not to be confused with the Live Music Archive (see the MP3 Hub section, above), the Free Music Archive is a new (in 2009) resource of free and legal MP3s that was launched by the venerable NYC-area public radio station, WFMU (which is, you should know, the longest-running free-form radio station in the US). The Free Music Archive describes itself as "a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio." Featuring downloadable songs placed online by WFMU, KEXP, and a handful of other interesting musical organizations, the Free Music Archive can be browsed by curator or genre, but you have to thumb through a lot--there are no easy indexes to get a broad look at the offerings. And while the site claims to have more than 5,000 MP3s available, what's here is decidedly idiosyncratic. Still, as a large repository of free and legal MP3s, it's worth a visit every now and then. [review from www.fingertipsmusic.com]

The Great Flickr Tools Collection

by Spone & 34 others
[Regularly Updated] Looking for Flickr Tools, hacks and services for a powerful photo sharing experience? Flickr is a revolution in photo storage, sharing and organization , making image management an easy, natural and collaborative process. Get comments, notes, and tags on your photos, post to any blog, share and chat live and more! Flickr claims to be the best online image management and photo sharing application.

People's Music Store: Build Your Own Record Shop

by garret (via)
"People's Music Store is a newly launched DIY online music store. It was created by the founder of MP3 reseller Bleep.com, Ged Day. People's Music Store styles itself as "the first music store entirely powered by music fans." Basically the service allows you to set up your own custom-designed record store, with music chosen from a catalogue of indie record labels (so far no major record label music). The idea is that you earn points, equivalent to 10% of the price of the single, EP or album that you sell. These points can only be used to buy other music items on the People's Music Store site. There are more than 650 stores currently, with over 250,000 songs in the catalogue - most appear to be available at $0.99 per song or $8.99 per album. The site claims to be "working with" 4,500 labels, including 4AD, XL, Rough Trade, Matador, Dominio, and Ged Day's own Warp. Other than the lack of major label music, there is another minor annoyance for those of us who don't live in the U.S. - international users will frequently run into a "we're sorry, but this release is not available in your country" message. However on the plus side, all the music available for download is DRM-free and at high quality 320Kbps." [reawriteweb]

just hear it | playable music search

by garret & 5 others
"Similiar to Seeqpod and Songza, Just Hear It offers registered and unregistered users alike a seamless interface for song search and playlist creation, all from within the browser. Just Hear It claims to be completely legal, following DMCA guidelines, and paying royalties to all of the major performing-rights organizations, like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. In the future, Just Hear It aims to negotiate licenses to share revenue with labels. Currently, much of the music actually seems to come from YouTubeYouTube reviewsYouTube reviews - much like another site we recently reviewed, StreamDrag." - Mashable

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