[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Poyozo the personal data gatherer
- [FlowingData]
Take a moment and think off all the data you put other there on separate Web services. Email, photos, status updates, documents, location, contacts, and the list goes on. Many of the services are really good, but what if they went down? Where would are your data go? Or what if you could bring all that data into one place, so that you didn't have to login to Flickr, Twitter, Foursquare, and Facebook. Poyozo tries to get all your data in one place – on your own computer – and help "make life make sense." [...]
Simply install the Firefox plugin, choose what services you want to scrape, and you're good to go. Poyozo then provides an API that you can use to access and query your data. Visualize it any way you want.
- New ultra-battery is the most powerful non-nuclear energy storage ever
- [io9]
What do you get when you combine some xenon, some fluoride, and pressures similar to those found at the center of the Earth? You get an ultra-battery, capable of storing more condensed energy than any other battery ever built.
- Minimum Wage! Hiyah!
- [Alas, a Blog]
I never knew that the way to get rich in America was to become a waiter. I mean, sure, I suspected; waiters are always driving those sweet ‘99 Hyundais, rolling with fat stacks of Washingtons, and spending holidays at their vacation homes in their regular homes. But still, it’s nice of Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Delano, to come along to alert the rest of us to the dread scourge of waiters earning a living wage.
…Emmer is proposing a wage cut for waiters and bartenders equivalent to $8361.60 a year. Even using Emmer’s inflated statistics, that’s cutting a $31,000 a year salary to $22,638.40…
- Late Night: The U.S. Attorney General’s Office “Uses a Nuke to Kill an Ant”
- [Firedoglake]
Oh my, fetch me my smelling salts. A dirty fucking NONVIOLENT hippie dropped a piece of fabric over the balcony of the Hart Office Building? Now we’ll have to bring in masonry experts and industrial waste clean up crews and pay the janitorial staff overtime in order to expunge the fetid stench of “liberal” from the hallowed Atrium of Civility. How DARE that infidel violate the rarified hallways of Congress with his outrageous demands for congressional accountability!
The irony of this latest waste of taxpayer money? A scant two days ago, Hillary Clinton wagged her finger and issued a stern warning to all those naughty countries that are methodically extinguishing the rights of political protesters…
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