December 2007
51 posts
“People who design products are experts cursed by their knowledge, and they can’t...”
– Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike - New York Times
“Michael Jordan memorably stayed above the political fray because “Republicans...”
– Oprah Puts Her Brand on the Line - New York Times
Eternal Sunset →
Website shows a real-time photo of where the sun is setting in the world.
Newseum | Today's Front Pages | Gallery View →
“It turns out that if you eliminate the top 100 movies everyone watches, our...”
– Why ‘Anonymous’ Data Sometimes Isn’t
NORAD Tracks Santa
It was more than half a century ago, on Christmas Eve in 1955, that a Sears Roebuck & Co. store in Colorado Springs advertised a special hotline number for kids to call Santa. What the company didn’t know at the time was that they had inadvertently misprinted the telephone number. Instead of Santa’s workshop, the phone number put kids through to the North American Aerospace Defense...
Our Stories →
“Time is a total mystery. What exactly is time? I can’t tell you,” he...”
– How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in a Decade
“At their most ambitious, NIST scientists hope to wring 10-18 out of a single...”
– How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in a Decade
David H. Shepard, 84, Dies; Optical Reader...
David H. Shepard, who in his attic invented one of the first machines that could read, and then, to facilitate its interpreting of credit-card receipts, came up with the near-rectilinear font still used for the cards’ numbers, died on Nov. 24 in San Diego. He was 84. Mr. Shepard sketched out the familiar boxy numbers on credit cards, called the Farrington B numeric font, on a cocktail napkin at...
Mr. Ponemon said many surveys showed that while about three in four Americans said they were concerned about privacy, their concern was not sufficient to make them change their behavior toward sharing personal information. About 8 percent of Americans were concerned enough about privacy to routinely take steps to protect it, the surveys showed. “Privacy only becomes important to the average...
“how difficult it is, to completely erase one’s digital footprints”
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“It works like a light switch”
– Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy - New York Times
SPECIALTEN.TV →
Gondry behind the scenes, making the video for Declare Independence.
“Inevitably every fibre of our being inclines us towards trying to justify why an...”
– adliterate: Genius doesn’t have a sell by date
“we must stop believing in what we sell and start selling what we believe in”
– Bill Bernbach
“But Weblo’s chief executive Rocky Mirza says that people should be able to sell...”
– Facebook Members Sell Their Own Ads - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Shopping Kite →
watch the demo video. It’s sad when you can’t tell if it’s an snl skit or real life.
::: LOT-EK ::: →
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“The user needs to decide how their information is going to be used, whether it’s...”
– Facebook Apologizes Over Handling of Ad Feature - New York Times
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