This is a bit depressing. But I'm sure it's all a negotiating tactic, right? RIGHT?! Come on, Seattle. Get it together. Daddy needs an NHL franchise. NASHVILLE, Tenn. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman insisted Seattle is not in the running to land an expansion team.“If someone wanted to give us an application right now, we wouldn’t take it,” Bettman said Saturday Source: Bettman says NHL would not take an application from Seattle
I find this... a bit disturbing: The BBC wants to make videos that change to suit whoever's watching. It's exploring the idea through a research project called Visual Perceptive Media, which has set up a way to alter everything from what's in a video to what a video sounds and looks like depending on a viewer's interests. It starts with a personality quiz: an app asks questions about whether you're shy or outgoing, lazy or hardworking, and a few other basic traits.
Remember when billionaires used to give back to society by building parks and libraries and stuff? Good times. While the Republican Party focuses on winning elections, the Kochs want to realign American politics, government and society around free enterprise philosophies that they hope to spread more broadly. A key to accomplishing the mission, from the Kochs' perspective, is countering super PACs and other big-money groups funded by rich liberals, as well as allied public sector unions and academic and media elites.
This may be my favorite dialogue ever: Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on dark energy, and then he took the prize to Fargo to show off to his grandmother. As recounted to Clara Moskowitz at Scientific American the airport security people were a little put off by the way the giant piece of gold sucks up all the x-rays: "They’re like, ‘Sir, there’s something in your bag.
Daltonize.org: Daltonize in Google Chrome I was musing that there must be a browser extension for people who are color blind that would render a page in black & white. (As you do.) I found this one, which looks pretty cool. There must be others... Presenting Chrome Daltonize! as one step towards solving the issue of color-accessibility on the Internet – a Google Chrome extension enabling users to daltonize the image content of websites.
From Gaping Void's recent email: Instill Confidence. "I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little, indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation..." That's Meriweather Lewis writing in his journal. It was his 31st birthday and he was in the middle of leading the Corps of Discovery across America on a mission of exploration and scientific discovery.
We're all dorks, aren't we? We'll all find ourselves in some circumstance where coolness escapes us. If it can happen to Tom Brady...
Wow. According to research done by AuthorEarnings.com, self-published books account for 31 percent of Kindle electronic book sales, compared with 38 percent for the "big 5" publishing houses, and added that self-published authors earn more in Kindle royalties than Big 5 authors, combined. And self-published authors are now earning nearly 40 percent of all e-book royalties on the Amazon.com Kindle store, according to research by AuthorEarnings. via Self-published books nearly a third of Amazon Kindle sales - Puget Sound Business Journal.
File this under Hashtag Facepalm. I fired up MarsEdit this morning to type up a couple of posts for this blog and found that my password kept getting rejected. It took me a while to realize that the Google Authenticator plugin that I had added to make my logins more secure was (properly!) keeping MarsEdit from connecting. The fix was easy once I figured it out. Here's how you do it: