Great comic on the Oatmeal. This is ten times worst if you don’t live in the U.S.
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(Not) working from home
Working at the local college. These library cubicals are really helping my concentration. Props Paolo for the awesome Foursquare -> WordPress ifttt recipe.
How France’s Free will reinvent mobile
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Updated: Xavier Niel, the maverick founder of Iliad, the company behind Free.fr broadband service, is about to redefine the mobile landscape, perhaps as early as tomorrow, when he launches the much-talked about Free Mobile. In doing so, he will redefine what the idea of a carrier in the 21st century is,…
TV Recommendation – Black Mirror
I recently watched the 3 part british mini-series called “Black Mirror“. Each part is a different brilliant simulation of a dark technological future. Just fantastic – don’t miss it. Via Yuval Dror (Hebrew)
Enough with the non-existing digital frontiers: Louis CK experiment a tremendous success
“I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58)” https://buy.louisck.net/statement Louis CK is selling a professionally produced show for $5 with no DRM or regional restrictions. Success. I steal content when I’m not allowed to buy it legally. If I can, I make the effort to connect through a proxy to buy some music, or […]
How Do People Use Apple TV?
John Gruber: Only 30 percent? That seems crazy to me. 70 percent of Apple TV owners don’t rent any movies or TV shows? From How Do People Use Apple TV?. Well, in most countries movies and TV shows aren’t even available in iTunes. We (I) just use the AppleTV to run XBMC, my 2nd favorite open […]
The Quicksort Algorithm, Hungarian Style
A rendition of the Quicksort Algorithm with Hungarian folk dance: And there’s more. Hat tip: Jorge
‘Game of Thrones’ new season 2 teaser trailer
April? I can’t wait already.
Watch this.
/via Stephane
The Future
So we bought this fairly difficult to assemble product the other day, and on the package was a big QR Code. I scanned the code with my phone, and Android detected a link to a YouTube video and offered a few choices for playing it. One of those was “Play on XBMC”, thanks to the […]
