February 2012
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Feb 19th
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Feb 17th
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“About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man walked...”
– Charles Duhigg for the New York Times: How Companies Learn Your Secrets. Algorithms that know your daughter is pregnant before you do, based on purchases of lotion, large purses, and vitamin pills. (This is the future. Maybe we got the one we deserved.)
Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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“ATTENTION USER: We know you were enjoying the frictionless access to content...”
– Christopher Mimms at Technology Review: All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately, suggesting more accurate text for those annoying iPad (and iPhone) “interstitials” that attempt to get you to download native applications. (via)
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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“Metallic balloons that come in contact with power lines can short out electrical...”
– Ellen Huet for SFGate: Metallic balloon zaps power for an hour in S.F. San Francisco, I love* your shonky infrastructure.
Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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“When Eridu or the palaces and piazzas of Renaissance Italy were shaped,...”
– Jonathan Glancey’s swan song as the Guardian’s architecture critic: Passport to the planet.
Feb 13th
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