Now that Google Reader is dead, Google has just announced that they’re dropping XMPP support with their new “Hangouts” messaging service and replacing it with a proprietary protocol. If you’re not aware, XMPP is also known as Jabber and is … Read More
Adrienne So in Slate claims that hoppy beer is awful—or at least, its bitterness is ruining craft beer’s reputation. My wife would probably agree, at least about the awful part, but certainly not about the reputation part. The thing to … Read More
A while back The New Yorker asked Aaron Swartz to design an anonymous inbox to make it safer for whistle blowers to get their stories to journalists. The resulting system, called Strongbox, is now up and available for use.
Bruce Schneier writes in The Atlantic that the most important thing for us to do is refuse to be terrorized.
If you’re an introvert like me, you’ve gotten a lot of “advice” from extroverts over the years about how you should be more outgoing yadda yadda yadda. But there’s nothing wrong with us, we’re just different.
Jon Bell has the McDonald’s Theory – stimulating creativity by suggesting the worst possible thing and letting people come up with better ideas to avoid it.
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Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha fame had the chance to visit the archives of German polymath Gottfried Leibniz in Hanover. Despite being almost 300 years old, his papers are still in good condition and show some of the … Read More
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