- Facebook Will Continue To Share User Addresses & Numbers With Third-Party Developers
- Facebook will continue a plan to share users’ home addresses and cellphone numbers with third-party developers despite criticism from privacy advocates, users and members of Congress.
- Cookie Monsters
- [Flickr Blog - Zack Sheppard]
- The History Of Operating Systems
- Earlier this week we shared a history of operating system names with you. This infographic complements that with a timeline of quotes and facts from the annals of computer history.
Hit up the link below to check out the full infographic.
- Insulating Yourself is More Efficient than Insulating Your Home
- [Lifehacker - Kevin Purdy]
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- A Handful of Baby Platypus
- [ZooBorns - Andrew Bleiman]
- You Never Get a Seventh Chance to Make a First Impression: An Awkward History of Our Space Transmissions
- [Lightspeed Magazine - Genevieve Valentine]
Ever since humanity has been able to launch projectiles into space, a major priority has been to communicate with any alien life forms that might come across this space detritus and wonder who shot a space probe right into their upper atmosphere.
- Meet Babyloid, a whale robot that keeps you company in your twilight years
- Babyloid is a tiny robot designed to provide companionship and to alleviate depression in the elderly. Its appearance is based on a baby beluga whale, and the robot keeps its owner occupied by crying and acting fussy.
- The Dogbrella is One Part Hilarious, One Part Genius
- ..the genius of this combination umbrella and dog leash, the Dogbrella, is almost difficult to see through all the comedy.
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- Climate propaganda not profitable
- [Futurismic - Paul Raven]
Ars Technica takes on a climate change denial shibboleth which I’ve always felt was more than adequately dealt with by Occam’s Razor. You know, the one that goes “of course the climate scientists are going to say things are getting worse; how else are they going to ride the government-money gravy train?” …
Speaking of propaganda, here’s a site all about analysing and understanding the messages with which we are bombarded by governments, corporations and special interest groups …
- We Pour a Mean Cocktail
- Abandon your Appletini, cancel that Cosmopolitan — the hippest new cocktail among the cutegnoscenti is the Angry Ferret.
- 26-Year-Old Author Self-Publishes eBooks and is a Millionaire
- [Geekosystem - James Plafke]
Amanda Hocking is already a millionaire author by the age of 26. No, she probably hasn’t written something you’ve seen on the bestseller shelf at Barnes & Noble. She’s made her millions by self-publishing Kindle eBooks, which she claims have sold over 900,000 copies since April 15 of last year. Due to Amazon’s seemingly generous policies, she gets to keep 70% of the profit. She also says that she has never be traditionally published, though a few of her books have foreign deals in place…
Part of her strategy is that her eBooks cost anywhere from $0.99 to $2.99, prices so low that many people probably wouldn’t be too discriminating with their literary choices. It’s estimated that Hocking rakes in about two million dollars per year…
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- Polar Bear Cub Meets the Snow
- The Aalborg Zoo's little Polar Bear cub is having a grand old time enjoying the Danish snow. At 3 months old, the cub spends a lot of time playing with mom Malik and biting everything it finds interesting, particularly mom's paws.
- Presidential Proclamation – Women’s History Month, 2011 | FavStocks
- [Phrases not used in this proclamation: reproductive freedom / reproductive anything, patriarchy, sexism, prejudice, oppression, feminism/ists, women's movement, suffrage, equality, misogyny, abortion, birth control, sex education.
Whole thing made me kind of angry--I keep detecting victim-blaming subtext--which suggests that I need to apply more zooborns and lolcats to my forehead.
-L]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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