2013-06-17
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(via iamdanw)
2013-06-06
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Chase Madar: Seven Myths About Bradley Manning | The Nation (via jomc)
As I said on Twitter the other day, “national security is a joke”.
2013-05-24
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Interstate 5 bridge collapses over Skagit River at SFGate via migurski)
2013-03-20
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Green card holders by occupation and gender, from this story in the Mercury News about H-1B visas:
new numbers obtained by this newspaper reveal a stunning imbalance in a program that admits highly skilled immigrants to the United States, often for Silicon Valley jobs: More than 70 percent of those special visa holders who entered the country in 2011 were men.
(Disclosure: I entered the US under the H-1B visa programme in FY2010 and continue to live and work here.)
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A press release from Digital Persona, explaining the benefits of the biometric fingerprint scanners they sold to the largest Popeyes franchise in the US.
See also Brands Battle Theft, Buddy-Punching With Biometrics (via).
2013-03-18
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2013-02-12
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igowen: “How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets, an overly alarmist title (and conclusion) for an otherwise interesting article.”
He’s right, it is overly alarmist. One of the interesting things about the Netflix House of Cards from my point of view (ie someone who saw the originals back in the ’90s on BBC) is that it’s actually that rare beast: a decent US remake of a British show.
It could just be that that’s because the US is slightly less terrifyingly bad at translating material now, but the failure of Life On Mars just a few years ago suggests that’s not universally the case. I suspect it’s actually got a lot to do with the approach Netflix are taking to drama: pick good people, take their hands off, and let them get it made. If those good people are picked partly due to “viewers who liked x also liked y and z so remake x with y and z”, then at least it means that there may be some actual connection.
(As an aside, I wonder if Spacey’s work with the Old Vic in London meant that he perhaps took more from the original (assuming he watched it) than most other American actors would?)
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2012-11-19
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2012-11-06
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Our Two Democracies At Work. - 06 (posted by Michael Stoll)
This is a nice way to show block information on a map, better than block cartograms in most respects I think though that eastern seaboard is still problematic…
It is a nice diagram- naturally, since it’s from the Isotype Institute. I’d love to see a version of this with electoral college voters instead.
It’s well worth looking at the set this is part of, too.
