Who said poltics was going to be reformed? Oh, wait, Fine Gael did. In their election manifesto for 2011 they aimed for a ‘New politics’ to eliminate cronyism and the like. Fine words, but then along came a Seanad by-election, and as Eamon Delaney notes, (“Art museum appointment shows political cronyism has not change”) a […]
Apparently this letter appeared on September 5th in the Daily Mail. It could be the best summary of the Middle East situation you’ll ever see. Via @kingdomman66
Ello is a new ‘social network’ which claims to be free, while not selling you ads or selling your data to any third party. Laudable goals, indeed. But it costs money to run services like these, and that money has to come from somewhere. Traditionally (if the commercial internet is even old enough for tradition), […]
As Randall says, “In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it.”
Via screenshotsofdespair.tumblr.com. Hat-tip to @James_Hatley.
When I was eight years old they taught us in school that rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were causing the world to warm up. However, they said, it would be thirty years before the effects would be felt, and this would be plenty of time for us to reduce our carbon emissions […]
“You’re Irish? I cannae hold my head up in yir company. I’m so angry that we didnae have the guts to fail on our own like you”, said one man yesterday morning just an hour or so after it became clear how sizeable the silent majority was. And how spectacular our failure has been in […]
Curious kickstarter project to create fashionable ‘pockets’ that block WiFi, mobile, GPS and so on. Just pop your device in it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zoltancsaki/1984-stealth-fashion-for-the-under-surveillance-so Via kottke.org
