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Image by Getty Images via @daylife This article by Eric Pfanner tells those who have been paying attention to mainstream media like the newspapers as well as to future trends such as online news, some things that they already know. This is to be expected. After all, the article appeared in the New York Times [...]

Ouch! About 2 minutes into this video interview with a “left-of-centre environmentalist”, he says the following: You have this army of university scientists, and they have to pretend like they’re doing important research, without ever criticizing powerful interests in a real way. So, what do they look for? They look for elusive, sanitized things, like [...]

Image via Wikipedia TED talks are well-known, and rightly so. I’ve seen a few, and almost always been impressed, moved, amazed – at human ingenuity, intelligence, creativity. But even with the bar this high, Pranav Mistry’s presentation on his “SixthSense” technology takes the biscuit. Time and again, the audience erupts in spontaneous applause, and gave [...]

Image via Wikipedia Scribefire is a blog-editor plugin that allows you to blog directly from a website to your blog without going to your blog, if you get my drift. Despite having Scribefire plugin loaded into my Firefox browser, I haven’t used it recently, because it posted garbage. Specifically, “When I post to WordPress, all [...]

Image via Wikipedia Marko Saric has created a remarkably successful blog… about how to be a successful blogger! I just discovered his website and clicked on his free e-book (PDF),  on how to optimize WordPress for successful blogging. I’ve only just started reading it, but already I have implemented one of his suggestions: to change [...]

Image via CrunchBase I tried posting a rather long (2 hours) mp3 file, but WordPress told me the maximum size was 24 mb (the file size was 32 mb). So I downloaded Audacity and cut the file in half and saved the 2 chunks, then tried uploading them. Would you believe it? Again, WordPress, unimpressed, [...]

Image via CrunchBase In a good example of journalese, the JapanProbe headline screams: Aoyama Gakuin University forcing students to carry tracking devices with a picture of an iPhone. At least one of the commenters is alert and informed, and effectively counters the title’s hyperbole: Comment by jikku 2009-05-17 18:34:27 The title of this article is [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Coupla articles on a related subject: 1) The painful truth about trainers: are running shoes a waste of money? Then there’s the secretive Tarahumara tribe, the best long-distance runners in the world. These are a people who live in basic conditions in Mexico, often in caves without running water, [...]

Darpa wants to see inside your house, from Wired. Your tax dollars at work.