Archive for September, 2009

30th Sep 2009General

jimray: Make your own Cylon jack-o-lantern Awesome.

Sunny Day Real Estate

30th Sep 2009Music, Videos

Sunny Day Real Estate: 9-29-09 Jimmy Fallon Live (via tech1250) Had the pleasure of seeing them in Cleveland during their first reunion, then More »

Know thy Congressman

29th Sep 2009General

Know thy Congressman

24th Sep 2009General

Indonesian woman gives birth to 8.7 kilo boy – Yahoo! News UK 19.2 lbs and 24.4 inches long. WTF?!! My two-year old weighs More »

Google Chrome Frame – Google Code

23rd Sep 2009General

Google Chrome Frame – Google Code Turn Internet Explorer into Google Chrome!

The League of Moveable Type

23rd Sep 2009General

The League of Moveable Type

Pre or Hero?

23rd Sep 2009General

The long wait is almost over, as October 1st means I am fully upgrade eligible on Sprint.Initially I was locked in to the More »

22nd Sep 2009General

god hates proper punctuation « god hates protesters Funny blog. Love the counter protest signs too.

In a recent study for The Archives of Internal Medicine, scientists followed 153 men and women for two weeks, keeping track of their quality and duration of sleep. Then, during a five-day period, they quarantined the subjects and exposed them to cold viruses. Those who slept an average of fewer than seven hours a night, it turned out, were three times as likely to get sick as those who averaged at least eight hours.

22nd Sep 2009General

In a recent study for The Archives of Internal Medicine, scientists followed 153 men and women for two weeks, keeping track of their More »

Princeton’s Paul Ohm writes about Netflix’s insane new plan to release millions of customers’ personal information — ZIP code, gender, year of birth — as a sequel to its Netflix Challenge. Latanya Sweeney’s famous study on de-anonymizing data has shown that date (not just year) of birth, gender and ZIP are sufficient to personally identify 87% of Americans. In other words, Netflix is about to put the behavioral data about viewing choices for millions of Americans into the public domain, despite its legal duty to keep this information private.

22nd Sep 2009General

Princeton’s Paul Ohm writes about Netflix’s insane new plan to release millions of customers’ personal information — ZIP code, gender, year of birth More »