- Light
A new kind of camera, that alleges it can replace about $6000 worth of DSRL gear (in terms of body+lenses) for about $1200. If this is true, and they live up the quality claims they're making, than I will be getting one ASAP, because it looks superb.
Author: Alasdair
Bookmarks for October 1, 2015
- Edward Snowden: we may never spot space aliens thanks to encryption | US news | The Guardian
I missed this a couple of weeks back, but this is a fantastic solution to the Fermi paradox. Any sufficiently advanced communication is indistinguishable from cosmic background radiation…
Bookmarks for September 24, 2015
- Frankfurter Brett :: The kitchen workbench – Frankfurter Brett
I've a feeling I've linked to this before, but I can't find it. In any event: *want*.
Bookmarks for September 24, 2015
- For the first time, a paraplegic has walked without a robotic suit
I love stories like this. In between the dead-pig-fucking, and the corruption, and the banal advance of technologies that basically exist to sell us more stuff, and the impending grim death of everything good, I do like the occasional story that reminds me that all this science and tech bollocks has a point.
Bookmarks for September 22, 2015
- Seth's Blog: Ad blocking
All worth reading, but here's the killer line "More data isn't the point. Data to serve explicit promises is the point."
Bookmarks for September 11, 2015
- HannahMitt/HomeMirror
I may have to make one.
Bookmarks for September 9, 2015
- Every southern gothic novel ever
I would read many of these.
Bookmarks for September 9, 2015
- Social Decay: How Tweets Can Predict The Death Of An App – BuzzFeed News
My takeaway from this is that over time, any serice that is largely geared toward "share what you're doing on Twitter (or Facebook)" is doomed. You have to make the whole widget. If your business relies on people sharing what they do on other people's sites, it's pointless. You want them to come to your site. Your site/app has to be self contained and social in itself.
Bookmarks for September 4, 2015
- cantino/huginn
Self hosted IFTTT like service. Of possible interest. One of my issues with services like IFTTT is that they're only really useful if you start to give them data like when you're in and out of the house. On the one hand, I don't think there are criminals out there who have hacked these services, and are using them to plan burglaries. On the other, I'm still really uncomfortable with giving third parties access to that data.
Bookmarks for September 3, 2015
- Five years, building a culture, and handing it off. – Laughing Meme
Notable and interesting stuff in here.