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- Glue Conference and Graeme’s Glue liveblog and Graeme’s Glue coverage on RCR Wireless here and here
- Ignite
- Drupal Camp
- LiquidMetal and Apple’s exclusive license
- MinneAnalytics and Graeme’s coverage (Flickr set)
- The Collaborative’s Tech.2012 event
- Facebook exec ducks questions about IPO debacle and Facebook, banks sued over pre-IPO analyst calls and Facebook IPO Post Mortem – Killer – but not for the reasons you think and Introducing Facebook Camera
- Likely next-generation iPhone with 3.999-inch display, 1136 x 640 resolution in testing
- It’s Official: Google Is Now a Hardware Company
- Apple’s Coming Plan To Take Over The TV Business
- June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
- June 7: TiE Minnesota: “Innovation: A Global Imperative,” U of M McNamara Center
- Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals
| Sunday, May 27th, 2012 | ||||||||
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jpmassar |
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| tech_mn | 3:43p | JRubyConf shines on Minneapolis http://tech.mn/news/2012/05/27/jruby-con
Organizationally driven by husband and wife duo Nick Sieger & Flannery Dolan, the niche event drew 150 – 200 progressive developers from the cutting edge of the programming world for focused workshops, speakers, networking and whiskey. “We wanted to showcase the best of the city and the locale in a cordial, ‘welcome to Minnesota’ atmosphere,” says Sieger. “The program mix offered deep tech and inspirational topics to challenge people to improve their careers, relationships and selves. Based on the overwhelming response we’ve received from many of the attendee’s, I’d say we had great success on all of those fronts!” he continues.  A team of JRuby committers courtesy of Nick Sieger (lower right) JRuby is an open source Java implementation of the popular Ruby language that provides programmers with “a terse means of getting a lot done with little amount of code,” says JRuby lead developer Charles Nutter. “Some might call it an escape from Java.” There’s no coincidence that the tour was in our backyard this year; JRuby has a unique connection to Minnesota as fully half of the four person core development team — Nutter and collaborator Thomas Enebo — are locals. The JRuby Conference also included two unique components this year to “expand the community and to celebrate diversity.” The addition of RailsBridge workshops “designed for women and their friends,” and KidsCodeCamp which exposed about 30 kids, some as young as seven, to the modern programming language. “It was great to be there and watch their reaction to making the simplest things work,” Nutter says. “As a language, Ruby has become increasingly popular on a global level and we’ve seen the local Ruby group growing consistently since 2005. I think there’s even more we could do to bring in other language conferences like this to Minnesota in the future,” he affirms. | ||||||
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komododaikon |
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| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 | ||||||||
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jpmassar |
11:12p | The Pollsters Never Rest. A mere six national polls from last week. The average: Obama : 46.7 Romney: 44.3 Lined up with previous weekly polling averages: Obama : 46.7 44.3 46.7 47.4 47.3 46.8 Romney: 44.3 44.4 44.3 45.0 44.3 44.3 Best news for Obama: Latest poll in Ohio showing him up by 6%, boosting the RCP average to 4.9%. For Obama, win Ohio, win the election. Best news for Romney: Two polls in Florida which average out to a very small Romney lead, and push the RCP average to Romney +0.5%. For Romney, if he doesn't win Florida, he loses the election. | ||||||
| Sunday, May 27th, 2012 | ||||||||
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pegkerr |
12:19a | How to make ice cream without an ice cream maker Fiona went over to a friend's and made an number of different batches, all with different flavors, of this: Ice cream made without an ice cream maker, and she brought home a selection for us to try. Really pretty good. This entry was originally posted at http://pegkerr.dreamwidth.org/1602062.h | ||||||
| comicsdontunder | 4:02a | |||||||
| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 | ||||||||
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pegkerr |
11:33p | Someone on Facebook dubbed this... Best Proposal Evah. Not sure, but it may be the first Lip-Dub proposal I've seen. It's quite funny. Albeit with quite an original spin on the phrase 'this dancing juice' from the original lyric. See what you think. It certainly made me smile. This entry was originally posted at http://pegkerr.dreamwidth.org/1601905.h | ||||||
| Sunday, May 27th, 2012 | ||||||||
| giantitp_comics | 4:25a | |||||||
| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 | ||||||||
| mitzenmach_rss | 10:24p | CS 124 -- Some Student Comments http://mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com/2012/05/c Some interesting takeaways from the comments, which, as always, have high variance. Answers below come from the question: "What would you like to tell future students about this class?" My favorite so far: "CS124 isn't too bad for an introduction to some basic algorithms, but it could be a lot more rigorous. Fairly light workload." What's funny if I can't tell if the student is being serious or sarcastic, the comment is such an outlier. It's either from someone who really did well in the class and felt insufficiently challenged (there's usually a few), or someone who is making some kind of joke. Other comments are more realistic, with different levels of "appreciation" for the difficulty: "It is hard." "A lot of hard work but it's worth the effort." "The hardest class taken this far in college; painful (to be fair though I did lean a lot but not sure how efficient the process is...)" "Often pretty difficult, but totally worth it." "It's incredibly difficult (on a scale from 1 to impossible, it's harder than impossible)..." "Start the psets early, and focus on them, because they are immensely rewarding. However, they are extremely brutal." Brutal, nice adjective there. Some people feel algorithms is part of your health foot diet: "This course is computer science vegetables." "It's broccoli; you just gotta take it." Hmm. I do make my kids eat their vegetables, including broccoli. Still, perhaps not the most appetizing comparison. Several people mention that the class is good preparation for job interviews. "The material from this course is so valuable to have for tech recruitment season." "124 is no doubt a tough class but it is also super useful. In fact, if you want a job in CS you MUST take this course. Multiple problem set questions appeared on my interviews and the algorithmic thinking helped me solve any other problem they asked. " "Programming interview questions focus on algorithms. This class has been so helpful in getting me a job." "Very difficult, but very rewarding. Teaches you how to do algorithms and helps with job interviews." I am absolutely unembarrassed about CS 124 being (in part) vocational training. I didn't design the class to prep students for job interviews, but I'm glad to hear that it does, and very happy it plays that role. Maybe we need to somehow move the class to the fall instead of the spring, so students can get the full class in before interview season. Finally, of course, some of the highest variance comes in students' feelings toward the actual teacher: "Mitzenmacher is actually a really great lecturer and motivates everything that we learn in class." "Professor Mitzenmacher is an excellent lecturer and he really does seem to care about his students." "Mitzenmacher.... definitely generates enthusiasm for the material, and lectures were very engaging and were well-motivated by relevant real world examples." All of you, come find me after class so I can give you extra credit. On the other hand, there are also plenty of comments like.... "Mitzenmacher's approach to teaching seems to be "present the material and not care about students' struggles.".... The material itself is quite interesting, but just be prepared for a professor like Mitzenmacher." Ouch. "I am baffled as to why Prof. Mitzenmacher is still allowed to teach this class. His lazy attitude toward teaching was frustrating and not conducive to learning." Double-ouch. (I have all sorts of funny, sarcastic things to say here about not being "allowed to teach this class", but I'm sure they'd just get me in trouble later, so other faculty can mentally fill in their own joke here.) To close it out, these seem like the best things to tell students who are thinking of taking my course: "Good luck and enjoy the ride! Even though it almost killed me, I'm genuinely sad it's over." "Brace yourself." Indeed.  | ||||||
| laurenweinstei | 7:05p | How the Internet Can Save the World Turkey's President Abdullah Gül and his wife were making the rounds of Silicon Valley over recent days, visiting Stanford, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and more. A photo from the Google visit especially caught my attention. It showed the President and Mrs.... | ||||||
| Sunday, May 27th, 2012 | ||||||||
| complegalstudy | 12:03a | |||||||
| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 | ||||||||
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komododaikon |
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rcfox |
11:07a | I Lose in Poker // Some Politics // The Most Sickening Thing I've Read in Some Time First, a little poker. I played in the DSE yesterday at the Venetian. I shook some rust off, and played fine. I busted about four hours in. I had about 10k (started with 12k), having lost 2k through normal stuff. I'm in the cutoff. A relatively loose ep raises to 1k (blinds 200/400/50), a tight older guy calls (he's luckboxed to ~50k), I look down at KK and shove. ep folds, older guy calls and tables AJo. Humorously, I bust when I make a set on the KQ8 flop...the turn was a ten. No dollars for reading this: It's just a normal way you bust in tourneys. On to politics: ( Read more... ) The most sickening thing I've read in some time is the harassment faced by Patrick Frey. Read the thing and be prepared to be sick to your stomach. Current Mood: busy | ||||||
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mmcirvin |
7:56a | Internal SD I downloaded the Android version of Pinball Arcade because I was tired of waiting for the DLC on the XBox 360 version and because it was cool to be able to play it on my phone, albeit on a very small screen. It was fun for a while, but I had to uninstall it because it was choking my phone. Seems that even if it was installed on the external SD card, data was being stored on the internal SD in such a way that it became full. Trying to download more than two tables got it into a state where the external media scan on boot would fail, such that the app wouldn't be installed so it could be managed in any detail, and there was no way to unjam the situation short of uninstalling the app. It's frustrating how dependent Android phones are on their limited internal storage even if you have a huge external card. Lots of things can't be moved off the internal storage, or have to store their data there; there are things apps on external storage can't do that apps on internal storage can. I suppose I should be thankful that it has an external SD slot at all. Update: This Facebook post notes that external SD storage for table data will be available "soon". Some people seem to imply it's out now. Maybe I just needed to update the app (or maybe I was in such a constipated situation that that wouldn't have worked...) ...Yes, this is much better. | ||||||
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timprov |
5:41a | QOTD Minnesotans are nice; they're also a small and homogenous group. There are 5 million nice people in California, too, but they're surrounded by 32 million rude people. If you turned Minnesota into a giant salt shaker and sprinkled its citizens all over France, you'd get California.--Mike Wolffe in the Strib. | ||||||
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jnala |
12:51a | WSOP backing I'd like to raise $25000 to play WSOP this year. Due to outside obligations I can't be sure of my schedule, but if I get backing then I will most likely play the main event plus a bunch of $1000-$1500 donkaments and a $2500 or two. I keep 30% of gross winnings, backers get 70% of winnings plus 100% of any funds not used; so each $250 share gets 0.7% of gross winnings. Let me know if you want in, and if so, for how much, and how you want to handle payment. Simplest is to send me a check. As I've mentioned before, because of tax considerations I do *not* recommend this as an investment for anyone who doesn't have, or expect to have, an overall gambling win on the year. If you know that and don't care because you just want the action, well, it's your money. Also, while my historical ROI on WSOP events is ridiculously high - over 300%, I believe - I do not consider it to be at all representative of my actual expectation. That said I do think my EV is high enough that this backing pool is a profitable investment. Crossposted from Dreamwidth. (Post comment | Read | ||||||
| Friday, May 25th, 2012 | ||||||||
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alecaustin |
11:39p | Some thoughts on the line between Fanfic and Original Fiction A caveat, before we begin: Not only am I speaking in generalities, but I haven't kept a close eye on fan studies for the past few years. So this may well not be as novel or useful a perspective as I think it is. Anyway, I've been suspicious of the claim that there's no fundamental difference between fan fiction and original fiction for a while now, in large part because many of the examples people invoke to blur that line strike me as dubious. That said, I was only recently reminded of how I articulated it to myself a while back, which is that I feel like works like Wicked and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead have a fundamentally distinct attitude towards their source material than much-- perhaps even most-- fan fiction. Fan fiction, in general, is invested in a particularly mode of engagement with its source text. Reverence doesn't quite describe it? But there's a concern for forms of textual (or emotional) fidelity to the source material in even the most deconstructive and recombinatory works (ETA: This section here appeared to be misleading people. My argument, in a nutshell, is that most fanfic is concerned with the details of what the source material said, even if only to turn it on its head, in ways that non-fanfic isn't...), a sense that even if you took Shinji Ikari and Asuka Soryu Langley and made them the Eleventh Doctor's companions, they should still be recognizable as themselves, via some combination of reference points. If you're doing a Tough Guide pastiche, you need to hit the right tone and textual form. Etc. How I interpret this is that in fanfic, direct discourse with the source material is important, as is shared knowledge between the author and reader. In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, it matters that the protagonist isn't just some random kid-- he's Harry revised in a specific way. If you add Ensign Mary Sue to the Enterprise, it matters that it's the Enterprise, however AU everything else is. You can't or don't want to file the serial numbers off of most fanfic, because they matter: they're why readers care about the work in the first place. When work is less engaged with one or more specific texts and more about a larger genre or sub-genre discourse, when reverence and the specifics of textual derivation and deviation cease to be important... That's when I feel works cease to function as fanfic. I can describe A Choice of Damnations as "Isildur and Boromir team up with the Nazgul to take on Morgoth/Cthulhu", but that's not actually what's going on in the book-- it's a gesture at presumed common reference points, not a marker saying that the book is a direct response to Tolkien, because it's not. Obviously other people can and do feel differently about this topic. But in light of all this, I don't feel like Rosencrantz & Guildenstern is about Hamlet in the way that most Harry Potter or Twilight fic is about the source text in question. For the much same reasons, I don't feel like Wicked is all that concerned with fidelity to Oz. To my mind introducing them into discussions of fanfic is both a bit of a red herring, and an attempt to leverage taste hierarchies to give fanfic a better reputation. (The latter isn't illegitimate, mind you-- most criticism is an attempt to skew the conversation in a way that strikes the critic as congenial-- but it's as blatant a grab for social capital as claiming Frankenstein as the first SF novel.) Anyway. That's where I'm coming from on this one. Hopefully someone other than me will find this useful or thought-provoking. | ||||||
| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 | ||||||||
| comicsdontunder | 4:02a | |||||||
| eff_blog | 12:20a | TV Networks Say You're Breaking The Law When You Skip Commercials https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/tv-n Television networks are having a busy month trying to stamp out new TV-watching technology, including telling a court that skipping a commercial while watching a recorded show is illegal. Yesterday, Fox, NBC, and CBS all sued Dish Network over its digital video recorder with automatic commercial-skipping. The same networks, plus ABC, Univision, and PBS, are gearing up for a May 30 hearing in their cases against Aereo, a New York startup bringing local broadcast TV to the Internet. EFF and Public Knowledge filed an amicus brief supporting Aereo this week. The suits against Dish are a response to the "Hopper" DVR and its "Auto Hop" feature, which automatically skips over commercials. According to the networks' complaints, the Hopper automatically records eight days' worth of prime time programming on the four major networks that subscribers can play back on request. Beginning a few hours after the broadcast, viewers can choose to watch a program sans ads. These suits are yet another in a long and ignominious series of lawsuits by content owners seeking to control the features of personal electronic devices, and to capture for themselves the value of new technologies no matter who invents them. We've seen this movie before. Most directly, the Dish suits look like a replay of the 2002 suit against DVR maker ReplayTV. The networks sued ReplayTV for copyright infringement based on another automated commercial-skip feature. They claimed that viewers were infringing copyright when they skipped ads during playback, that skipping "robs the advertisers," and that ReplayTV should be responsible. EFF argued then, and in a later suit on behalf of Replay's customers, that choosing not to watch ads during playback is pretty far from being a violation of federal law. Unfortunately, the cost of the suit drove ReplayTV out of business before the court could rule on the networks' wacky theory. Fast forward ten years. The networks are accusing Dish of "inducing" copyright infringement. That's a legal theory first created in the record labels' case against peer-to-peer software maker Grokster. The problem for the networks is that a technology maker, service, or other middleman can't be held liable for inducing copyright infringement unless their customers are actually infringing. And that means the networks will have to convince a judge that people who record a TV show, and later decide to skip over the commercials during playback, are violating federal law. Dish is fighting back hard, filing its own lawsuit in New York to have its devices ruled legal. Hopefully, the courts won't turn millions of American commercial-skippers into lawbreakers. Related Issues: | ||||||
| Friday, May 25th, 2012 | ||||||||
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patrissimo |
7:25p | Cortisol Test results  The gray lines are reference ranges - cortisol production usually peaks in the morning, and declines all day. The black line is my results. If this test is accurate, I have extremely elevated evening cortisol (8.8 vs. standard range of < 1.5), which matches my symptoms of feeling "tired & wired" at night, and having some kind of HPA axis imbalance. Advanced stage 1 adrenal fatigue, for example. Or a negative association with sleep based on years of sleep apnea. This test was done a couple days after my worst week, I'm doing a retest/confirmation soon. My other tests were fairly normal, my immune blood work was a little off, and my T3 was a little low, though other thyroid results were within range. I hear that different people are comfortable at different places in the thyroid ranges, and so I might want to try small amounts of supplemental T3 and see if I feel better. | ||||||
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mrissa |
8:22p | Grandma turns 80. Today is my grandma's 80th birthday. We're having a big party for her on Sunday--where by "we" I actually mean my folks are doing all the work--but today is the official date. I don't mostly put birthdays on here because I don't want it to seem like a statement if I miss one. But 80, 80 is a big, round number. Eighty is a thing. Grandma is my last grandparent standing. I mean, I have Grandpa Lyzenga, but I married into him when I was full grown rather than having memories of walking with him when I was tiny; and as much as I will sometimes introduce Aunt Ellen and Uncle Phil as my Lingen grandparents, and as much as they are doing their darnedest, they are in fact a really really special great-aunt and -uncle, which is its own thing and not to be denigrated. But Grandma has enough personality for four grandparents all by herself. (So, I know firsthand or hear quite vividly, did each of my other grandparents in their own ways. Lack of personality: not an issue in this family.) Grandma is an Energizer bunny. I wrote in her birthday card that she embodies the adage about blooming where one is planted, and I really think that's true. She does well with new people and new situations. She just dusts herself off and tries again, whatever she needs to try again, and I have never once heard of a situation she couldn't eventually make that work in. Never once. Her persistence inspires me. I hope it lasts long past 80. | ||||||
| eff_blog | 11:45p | Sorry We're Not Sorry: Interview with Lino Bocchini of Falha de S. Paulo https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/so Lino and Mario Bocchini, creators of the Brazilian parody website Falha de São Paulo, are currently appealing a court order that froze their domain two years ago. In September 2010, Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo filed a lawsuit against the Falha seeking financial compensation for mimicking their layout and copy-editing, and also for “moral damages” to its reputation as a news organization. While the financial indemnities were dropped, Falha’s domain remains frozen for unauthorized use of Folha’s intellectual property. Folha claims that the latest case is an intellectual property issue, rather than one of freedom of expression, because of the use of domain names and logos resembling its own. We asked Lino what he really thinks of that claim, and spoke to him about what the outcome of this appeal would mean for freedom of expression in Brazil. To learn more about the Bocchini brothers’ story, check out their most recent website. Why did you and your brother decide to start Falha de S. Paulo? At the time, did it seem like it would be a financial or legal risk? When we were beginning, it was the end of 2010, in the heat of the last Brazilian general elections for president. Folha de S. Paulo, our major newspaper in Brazil, has a clear preference for some political parties and can almost act like one. This is common in some countries; usually newspapers and magazines speak in a public way about their political preferences. Another big newspaper in Brazil, O Estado de S. Paulo, does this. One of our biggest weekly magazines, Carta Capital, also does the same. Folha de S.Paulo does not declare their preferences; worse, they say all the time that they are an "impartial and equitable” newspaper. The alternative media has widely unmasked their analysis. We decided to do the same but with humor, using a parody. In Portuguese, “folha” is a world for “newspaper.” After changing a letter (“falha”), it becomes the Portuguese world for “fail.” We use a lot of photomontage, like putting the head of the newspaper owner (Otavio Frias Filho) on Darth Vader’s body, creating “Otavinho Vader.” It was obviously all a critical joke. At the time of our original website, we never thought about the risks, because we live in a strong democracy in Brazil, with high levels of free speech rights protections. This unprecedented legal action against us has become a flag for thousands in Brazil. Before your online paper, were there any other notable parody magazines or newspapers that circulated in Brazil? Yes, dozens. The first one has existed more than 70 years, and it was called A Manha, a parody of A Manhã. There are a lot of websites with names that look like official ones. One of our most famous chargists [caricature artist], Ziraldo, who just turned 80 years old, had a parody magazine called Bundas (asses) for years. It was a terrible critique of Caras (faces), which was a kind of Brazilian ¡Hola! Magazine. None of them were prosecuted, just my brother and me. Did you get any cease-and-desist letters or similar requests from Folha before they sued the website? What warnings did Folha give that they were unhappy? The first document we received was the legal notice that our website had been censored, an 88-page lawsuit against us was in development, and a demand for money. We not received any kind of previous warning. What were all of Folha’s charges against you in the first lawsuit? They said we “misused” the name. And they asked for money for "moral damages." According to them, the public could think that our website was the official one. This is a completely nonsense argument. We´re talking about a parody website with the owner of newspaper dressed as Darth Vader... How did the judge determine a "tie" between your website and Folha? How was Folha able to pressure your domain name registrar into shutting down your original site? The first judge accepted these arguments about “bad usage” of Folha´s name. The newspaper used these copyright and trademark questions to cover their real intention, which was censorship. Our website was inspired by Folha. We used some elements such as graphics, language, and a similar name to evoke Folha, of course. But it’s ridiculous that this could be censored. We have a lot of TV shows, magazines, and websites like “Saturday Night Live” in the US, that use real-world elements but are not the real world. Democracy and the right to free speech should allow this use. Why does the decision mention Carta Capital? What is the orientation of their magazine, and why would the judge assume it is related to your website? Carta Capital magazine was not mentioned by Folha or by us in any moment of the process. That was purely the judge’s decision. We had a link in our censored website to Carta Capital, among others. The judge said that this “promoted” the magazine among Folha´s readers, so our internet address was “contaminated” forever. He upheld the censorship for this reason. Was it difficult to decide to appeal the last decision after having been through so much litigation? No. We will not sit back. We´ll go until the end, especially because this is the first process in Brazil with these legal characteristics. We decided to go until the end and appeal as much as is necessary, even if it takes decades. All bloggers are supporting us. Our victory would be collective. And a Folha victory would open a terrible precedent against the freedom of speech in Brazil. What are you hoping to get out of this appeal? I think we all are going to win because day by day, week by week, Folha’s aggression is becoming clearer. The newspaper doesn’t even speak about the case; nobody from Folha has ever made a single speech defending this position. It´s obviously a shame. Have you had support from other Brazilian bloggers or journalists? Would you describe bloggers and journalists in Brazil as a close, connected community? Yes, hundreds of Brazilian progressive bloggers have supported us from the beginning, and this was really important for continuing the fight. On the other hand, Brazilian media is too corporate. Despite the fact that dozens of journalists from the conventional media came to support my brother and me, no regular newspaper or magazine has ever noticed the case. In the beginning there was only Folha. Later, Julian Assange and Reporters Without Borders spoke about the case. Related Issues: | ||||||
| bruce_schneier | 4:01p | Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink from the Jurassic http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/20 Seems that squid ink hasn't changed much in 160 million years. From this, researchers argue that the security mechanism of spraying ink into the water and escaping is also that old. Simon and his colleagues used a combination of direct, high-resolution chemical techniques to determine that the melanin had been preserved. The researchers also compared the chemical composition of the ancient squid ink remains to that of modern squid ink from Sepia officinalis, a squid common to the Mediterranean, North and Baltic seas. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. | ||||||
| minnov8 | 4:18p | Minnov8 Gang 170 – Must. Have. Show. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Minnov8/~3/d
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata Discussed during the show: Upcoming Events:
Minnov8 Gang 170 – Must. Have. Show. is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license. | ||||||
| tech_mn | 4:18p | Minnesota tech industry ranked 26th in the country http://tech.mn/news/2012/05/25/minnesota-t
Podcast with guests Mark Schill (Praxis Strategy Group), Margaret Anderson-Kelliher (MHTA), and Cem Erdem (Project Skyway): | ||||||
Downtown Minneapolis was home to the internationally recognized 
The Gang was all over the place at events this past week and we also discuss the potential for the disruption of the TV business. Steve rationalizes downloading content he ‘forgot’ to record on his DVR — and is adamant he shouldn’t have to buy content more than once — and Tim has strong feelings about buying content…unless it’s 
