http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/04/11/mxp-vo-land-rover-disappearing-hood.hln.html For those of us in high center trucks, who sometimes go offroad, this is INCREDIBLE. I often end up (more…)
Digital Inheritance, & Sentiment Analysis to build biographer’s depictions of a dead soul.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/09/300614977/the-new-age-leaving-behind-everything-or-nothing-at-all This talks about your “digital inheritance”, how people used to burn letters to (more…)
47% of all jobs will disappear within two decades. Not hyperbole. Oxford’s study, & How an Algorithm wants your job.
edit: Although this was published in April of 2014 here on my blog, it had gone down at one time and had artifacts, a few links were dead, I used Wayback on one of them, reintroduced some old graphics (more…)
Home Brewers that will suffer a Fishbits request to name a beer:
I would like to name a beer this: “Ahab’s Whale Tail Pale Ale Tale” as observed by Ishmael, bottled by Fishbits. Please make the back of the bottle note: “Fishbits accidentally bottled a crisp (more…)
An Ode to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy of my Youth; A Love note to Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; A Love note to Douglas Adams (dates not precise) About 1984, my father bought an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive and 3.5 floppy, with a Hayes 1200 baud modem. Â It was (more…)
Violation in the 21st Century – even a transparency advocate can feel like his privacy is at risk.
Tiburon and I guess the whole world is going to have to start making airspace rules. I don’t care if you have a quadropter. I don’t care that you have an HD mounted camera on a gimble. I don’t even (more…)
Moving Away From Technology That Uses Us.
Here are some reasons to ponder whether staring at our phone all the time is a smart move? For your new year’s resolutions & consideration: 1) Studying attention & memory as it (more…)
Christmas, Easter, Holidays, and continual theft of ancient oral culture.
So basically, it’s like this: The Babylonian and Sumerian Department stores went out of business. The Christians bought the stores for DIRT CHEAP. Then, they basically relabeled everything, and threw (more…)
Rand Paul… don’t sue anyone on my account.
From here:Â http://mashable.com/2014/02/12/rand-paul-obama-lawsuit/ Uhh.. from the American people, Rand… chill out. Everyone likes this, because privacy only exists when it serves *your* (more…)
We’re nothing but products or commodities. Humanity is dead. Long live humanity!
A friend of mine nailed why I have been depressed lately, about the nature of friends, relationships, business, and how they all coalesce in social media: I feel like a huge walking $ Dollar sign. And (more…)