January 2010
29 posts
Yay! Google Docs now has a Grid View. →
You can now view screenshots of every font in... →
“While each of us is a citizen of a particular country, we are all citizens of...”
– Sergey Brin
“Avatar is around $200 million away from reaching Titanic, so it looks like we...”
– Filmonic
“… if there is no other way to get provisions, it’s not looting.”
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National Geographic Magazine: The United States... →
“The Internet toys with my sense of permanence. Every tiny transient moment now...”
– Douglas Coupland
“This may be a case of scorched-earth diplomacy on the part of Google, it may...”
– Soul Searching: Google’s position on China might be many things, but moral it is not
Google Defends Against Large Scale Chinese Cyber... →
Google is releasing information about a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” on their corporate infrastructure that occurred last month. The attack originated in China and resulted in the “theft of intellectual property from Google.” In light of the attack Google is making sweeping changes to its Chinese operations.
Google is releasing some information about these attacks to the public. The...
Swedish fly-humor →
“Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it....”
– George Carlin
Atheist Ireland posted this and other quotes in response to the new blasphemy law.
Avatar crosses the $1 billion mark! →
From the looks of things James Cameron will have both Titanic and Avatar at the number #1 and #2 spots.
Panasonic’s new home battery could store a... →
This is significant for two reasons. First, if home batteries like this one become commonplace, renewable sources of energy like rooftop solar and residential turbines could finally take off. The biggest roadblock to their adoption is that they are intermittent; reliable storage is needed to make them effective. Second, if affordable storage is achieved on the home-level, there might be less...
“…Aliens is the flipside of Avatar, in which the technological humans are...”
– James Cameron’s Love-Hate Relationship With Technology - James Cameron - io9
“But daddy.
Do shrimps have batteries?”
– My daughter
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
– Bertrand Russell British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
