2011
Rumor: Google prepping ‘Majel’ Android voice assistant to counter Apple’s Siri
Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future | CNET UK
"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
"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
polis: Revisiting Henry Miller's Paris
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
2010
The First Photograph of a Human - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic
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
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
REST Litmus Test for Web Frameworks - Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff
web framework that claims to have "REST support", and came up with a list of questions
Salt - Day X Exists
Daring Fireball: John Paczkowski's Interview With Adobe Co-Founder Chuck Geschke
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
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
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
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.
Woman Sues Toyota Over 'Terrifying' Prank
Amazon - Constrained Search vs. Random Results
Character encoding detection for external scripts
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)
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
Free Music Archive
The Great Flickr Tools Collection
