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ilovecharts: Scientific evidence for popular health...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:26 +0800

ilovecharts:

Scientific evidence for popular health supliments

via leckerlecker

marco: This can’t be efficient.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:29:02 +0800

marco:

This can’t be efficient.

Introducing.. the Edirol V-440HD, my next dream gadget. I still...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:37:51 +0800

Introducing.. the Edirol V-440HD, my next dream gadget.

I still <3 you, hassy!

ProLost - For the Record Canon

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:13:16 +0800

ProLost - For the Record Canon

(via ilovecharts) (via brocknoah)

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:18:08 +0800

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on physical security

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:58:11 +0800

(photo by stebulus, licensed under cc-by)

I was entering a venue on-campus yesterday when I glanced at the padlock ~~clasp~~ hasp on the thick-and-heavy doors, and started wondering about physical security..

The door is one thick, large door with a smaller flap on the left. It’s got one of those large bars on the inside that will unlatch it, and a normal push-down handle on the outside. There’s a hasp like the one in the photo attached to the outside, across the two flaps.

Well, you see, someone had left the unlocked padlock on the hasp. Someone could grab the lock, close the door, push the hasp home, and render the door inoperable whether you’re inside or outside. If you did that to all 4 doors, people would effectively be locked in.

Even if there wasn’t a padlock there, you could always BYO. Or use a zip tie. Doesn’t sound good right?

Walking in, it made me wonder if the hasp is large enough to permit it to be locked even when the usual padlock is locked on in the opened state. If it isn’t, what if you used a zip tie instead? I suspect at least one of those would work.

Doors should be easily operable with no key from the secure side, not the insecure side. One with a keyhole on the insecure side would make much more sense – it’s presumably about as troublesome to lock a door with a pick set as unlocking it.

Given the poor cell and WiFi coverage in the venue, if you had a RF jammer, and you did something to lock people in.. it’d be really terrible. Don’t get any ideas, there might be people inside!

Anyway, while it makes sense, it doesn’t make ¢ or $ so I don’t suppose the building managers will do anything about it. Life goes on, for now, until something happens. Then we’ll see PR spinning like the one about hungry ghosts and ‘snack times’.

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version (via OkGo) this is THE...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:30:02 +0800

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version (via OkGo)

this is THE rube goldberg machine of the year.

(via keepitshut) (via staticskies) (via poeticheartache) (via...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:49:54 +0800

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thesecondstar: (via loveydoveystuff) Spirited Away. I watched...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:48:52 +0800

thesecondstar:

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Spirited Away. I watched this in the cinemas when it was released here, and was really disturbed for days afterwards.

ilovecharts: Cat

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:47:52 +0800

ilovecharts:

Cat

ilovecharts: The difference between arial and helvetica. I...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:46:51 +0800

ilovecharts:

The difference between arial and helvetica.

I need one of Futura vs Verdana. Please?

simko: Breakfast by Oliver Schwarzwald… Photographer Oliver...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:45:51 +0800

simko:

Breakfast by Oliver Schwarzwald…

Photographer Oliver Schwarzwald recently completed a series of photographs for depicting breakfasts eaten in different countries around the world. The series was shot for the German magazine Feld Homme and is composed of various foods commonly eaten in the morning. (via)

Mmmm my breakfast is so boring in comparison.

I realise this is already my 1004th post. after, what 6 mths.

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:45:10 +0800

thesecondstar:

yay for tumblr it brings a tingeyness of joy into my life. esp. the hours when i’m at home, with nothing to do (except everything else).

tumblemumble.

yay for a spammage of peterpan

and this is my 1004th post.

I’ve been blogging for some 21 months and this is my 1004th post.

Enough of this meta talk, back to your regularly scheduled programming at the beep..

あなたが愛する誰かがあなたにそれをすればいかに感じるか?

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:18:52 +0800

keepitshut:

(via purplepixies)

it really does hurt :(

wordboner: Shit Happens (get this on a tee | get this on a tee...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:18:51 +0800

wordboner:

Shit Happens (get this on a tee | get this on a tee in European store | make your own tee | ~~get this on a postcard~~)

OMG THIS IS MY ONE THOUSAND AND FIRST (1001) POST ON THIS TUMBLELOG. HURRAY! VIVA LA TUMBLR!

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:17:45 +0800

OMG THIS IS MY ONE THOUSAND AND FIRST (1001) POST ON THIS TUMBLELOG. HURRAY! VIVA LA TUMBLR!

The Complex of All of These (via januarypress) now this is true...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:46:57 +0800

The Complex of All of These (via januarypress) now this is true bookmaking craftsmanship. letterpress too. omg.

Why Conservatives Should Care About Transit « Public Discourse: Consider how small businesses...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:43:29 +0800

Why Conservatives Should Care About Transit « Public Discourse:

Consider how small businesses are affected by Americans’ dependency on cars. Since businesses are obliged by zoning restrictions to locate far away from residential areas, most Americans drive to every store they visit. This means that store visits are often discrete trips that must be undertaken consciously and planned out ahead of time. As a consequence, shoppers will want to visit stores that carry the most diverse inventory—Wal-Mart, Costco, et al.—and avoid shops that specialize in one particular kind of good—the local paint store or flower shop, for instance. Moreover, since small shops cannot afford to spend large sums on advertising, they can’t buy the enormous signs and billboards that direct shoppers to large retail outlets, nor gin up hype for their products with coordinated television spots. Perhaps if their potential customers could walk by their storefronts they would have a chance to notice window-displays and similar kinds of small, careful advertising. At 60 miles an hour with the AC cranked up, the attention of their potential customers is focused elsewhere.

The League of Moveable Type – a collection of quality, free and...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:25:22 +0800

The League of Moveable Type – a collection of quality, free and open-source fonts. The open-source type movement.

Tumblr Stole My Domain At The Behest of A Corporation

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:01:47 +0800

doublethink:

tumbledore:

I’ve run pitchfork.tumblr.com for almost a year now. I had several posts up and I followed 28 people with the account. All my posts are now gone and my address has been changed to pitchfork1.tumblr.com. Where my blog once stood now stands the official Tumblr for Pitchfork Media Inc. Watch out, Soup, I hear Campbell’s is gunning for you next.

Recently, one of my friends who is subscribed to my pitchfork tumblr was surprised to see a sudden change in the content I was posting. That’s because Tumblr stole my subdomain and gave (sold?) it to Pitchfork Media Inc.

[…]

I think I’ve said this before, but everyone who posts here should internalize it: you have very little control (legally) over what you post here. Check out the Terms of Service - you own your own content, but Tumblr has a very broad license to do whatever it wants with the content, including moving or deleting it. I can’t fault them for the language because they need broad rights to run the site in the first place, but it’s also not something that I think most users are aware of or have internalized.

Given that you have so little control over the content you post, you have even LESS control over the URL you select. [WHATEVER].tumblr.com is a Tumblr subdomain, so they can do whatever they want with the URLs, whenever they want. They need this power too, because they need to be able to reserve URLs for “major” content providers and people who will eventually drive revenue.

Now all of that is pretty legalistic, isn’t it? And we don’t really care about all that. Tumblr’s big sin here was being completely silent about what it was doing and not communicating with the user before pulling the switcheroo. This is the kind of hybrid legal/outreach problem that you’d expect Tumblr to get right given how many “community” people they’ve hired, but once again they haven’t. An in-house counsel with dual legal/business responsibilities would be the perfect person for dealing with these issues (like Gaby Darbyshire at Gawker).

Yes, that discrepancy about 10 minutes versus 72 hours is huge.

Now, moving on, though this is more amusing than Matt Mullenwag carrying some personal vendetta onto my WordPress.com blog’s comments..