2012-02-08
post/17278882247
Dave Morin: Path: We are sorry.
Well, that’s not a bad response.
2012-02-02
post/16936684133
Neil Freeman: All of the active three-letter airport codes in alphabetical order:
Part of A series of Flight Postcards, a set of postcards curated by Leah Beeferman and published by Projectile Press.
2012-02-01
post/16879760497
This will tell you something about my day job. I now recognize “ums” in waveform. I don’t need to hear it, I only need to see this shape. This is the shape of an “um” or an “uh”.
I want to remove it from every ones speech patterns, including mine.
(via notational)
2012-01-27
post/16596658651
If you’re upset by twitter’s per-country filtering announcement, you know much less about doing business online than you think you do.
But posting such a thing without laying out “things you should know about doing business online” is, frankly, smug and irritating. So, here goes. ”
Simon Batistoni: What you need to know about Twitter’s new filters.
Well worth a read, because he knows what he’s talking about.
2012-01-06
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2011-09-22
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2011-09-14
post/10179603214
JSON payload sniffing and surveillance photographs of cars, from Troy Hunt’s post about Bondi Westfield’s iPhone “find my car” app and its privacy failings:
That URL for the service endpoint we looked at earlier contains a number of parameters – filters, if you like – and removing these readily provides the current status of all 2,550 sensors. This includes the number plate of any car currently occupying a space and as you can see, it’s available by design to anyone.
(via Tom Carden)
2011-07-13
post/7551582367
Cellphone Calls Reveal The United States’s Invisible Ties at Co.Design, via new-aesthetic (although it’s been all over for a while), originally from Sensable City’s Connected States project.
One noteworthy part, for me anyway, is that Alabama and Georgia are grouped together, despite the fact that they span a timezone boundary.
2011-05-24
post/5812502488
Dead Yet Alive - the top five historical figures mentioned on BBC TV. (From Ladies and Gentleman, this is the BBC at technogoggles, wherein subtitles are grist for data mining.)
