climenole points out a post from Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth about internal strife in the free software community. He wrote, “Tribalism is when one group of people start to think people from another group are ‘wrong by default.’ It’s the great-granddaddy of racism and sexism. And the most dangerous kind of tribalism is completely invisible: [...]
Myths be warned! At Comic Con last Saturday, MythBusters stars Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, Grant Imahara, Tory Bellici and Kari Byron took the stage to promote their show’s upcoming season. The gang also announced that they have renewed their contract for a full seven years with the Discovery Network. Appeasing the Comic Con crowd, Adam Savage clamored that they [...]
We were over the moon about Spotify when we first tried it out about a year ago, but despite lots of speculation, the service still isn’t available in the U.S. Spotify’s CEO projected the app’s launch before the end of the year, but Billboard reports claim it’s “back to square one“. According to the folks [...]
ideonexus writes “The Atlantic has an excellent interview with Andrew Hacker — co-author with Claudia Dreifus of a book titled Higher Education? — covering everything that’s wrong with the American university system. The discussion ranges from entrenched tenured professors more concerned with publishing and parking spaces than quality teaching; to 22-year-old students with unrealistic expectations [...]
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Research In Motion is not known for its dramatic flair. Like the BlackBerry itself, with its renowned email security, the Canadian smartphone maker seems to put function before form. Original post by Kevin Purdy
If you have an older car stereo, you probably can’t connect your iPod directly to it. You can buy those FM transmitters for your car, but those aren’t going to work well if you live in an area with a lot of FM stations crowding the dial. If you have a cassette deck in your [...]
wooferhound writes “Like proud parents savoring their baby’s very first steps, mission team members gathered in a gallery above a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to watch the Mars Curiosity rover roll for the first time. Engineers and technicians wore bunny suits while guiding Curiosity through its first steps, or more precisely, its [...]
waderoush writes “Princeton’s Ed Felten has criticized the iPhone and iPad as Disneyland-like ‘walled gardens’ and says there’s no way the iTunes App Store can ‘offer the scope and variety of apps that a less controlled environment can provide.’ Now there’s a central marketplace where developers can sell iPhone-optimized apps without going through Apple’s gatekeepers. [...]
Tara Fitzgerald couldn’t find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he then put them up on a site called “bitchtara.” Read more of [...]
