Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at
Okay, I’ve put this off long enough. I’ve been meaning to post something about this for a semester and a half now, so I should just shove this out the door.
If you’re interning in the valley, bikes are cool: the culture is bike friendly, and you’re likely not getting paid enough in a short time to justify getting a car. And, need I point out that walking everywhere sucks? So by process of elimination, bikes are cool.
Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at
NOTE: yes, I’m getting around to this 2 weeks after the fact. I have long-lived drafts, okay?
If you haven’t been keeping up with tech news in a particularly frantic way, you might not have noticed that Google is changing their privacy policy. On one hand, this change will result in a somewhat longer policy, but without the fragmentation across all of Google’s services, so that one need not read 5 different policies to use 5 different Google services.
Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at
After I finished Accelerando (yes! it’s free (as in beer)!) I could not stop the thought that sums it all up from cycling over and over through my mind.
That was a mindfuck through my eyesockets.
And it was awesome. Now, we happen to be on the internet: there’s nigh infinite amount of mindfuckery at our disposal, but this was a cream of the crop mindfuck, the fine aged mindfuck grown in rustic rolling hills of Cthulu’s domain, uncorked in the presence of distinguished guests you actually like.
Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at
If you are not already acquainted with the works of Edward Tufte, you ought go fix that, especially if you happen to be a younger me that could use a badassery-boost later in life. Basically, Tufte encourages thought about data display beyond the usual “plot and run away” touted by most anyone, chides those that try deceiving with displays, and fires the imagination with wondrous examples.
However, Tufte writes for data mongers that are crafting displays for a popular audience.