Obfuscation is Easy

QA's first look at new build

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:34:35 +0100

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by o4kapuk

Caution and trepidation. Leave your sign-off pen with a trusted third party.

Evolution of Music - Pentatonix (by PTXofficial)

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:34:49 +0100

Evolution of Music - Pentatonix (by PTXofficial)

Kerensa Unboxed!

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:10:11 +0000

Kerensa Unboxed!

No, I mean I’m wearing a hat.

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:03:37 +0000

No, I mean I’m wearing a hat.

"We wanted to know which VPN providers take privacy extremely seriously so we asked many of the..."

Sun, 13 May 2012 16:15:45 +0100

“We wanted to know which VPN providers take privacy extremely seriously so we asked many of the leading providers two very straightforward questions. Their responses will be of interest to anyone concerned with anonymity issues.”

- Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? | TorrentFreak

This ought to be of interest to everybody.

kottke.org: How Mark Zuckerberg became a good CEO

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:33:37 +0100

kottke.org: How Mark Zuckerberg became a good CEO:

jkottke:

Writing for New York magazine, Henry Blodget explains how a young startup founder and college dropout became the CEO of a soon-to-be $100 billion company.

When talking about Zuckerberg’s most valuable personality trait, a colleague jokingly invokes the famous Stanford marshmallow tests, in…

"Why do recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions?"

Thu, 03 May 2012 09:29:43 +0100

“Why do recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions?”

- How to cook onions: Why recipe writers lie and lie about how long they take to caramelize. - Slate Magazine

Bit of perspective there.

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:15:54 +0100

Bit of perspective there.

Netflix to open source army of cloud monkeys (Wired...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:18:53 +0100

Netflix to open source army of cloud monkeys (Wired UK)

(via disassociation)

disassociation: Google Glasses: A New Way to Hurt Yourself...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:49:23 +0100

disassociation:

Google Glasses: A New Way to Hurt Yourself (parody of Google’s Project Glass) (by enyay)

"Question: Is the world round or flat? Answer: Flat Q: If the world is flat, what would happen if..."

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:26:58 +0100

“

Question: Is the world round or flat?
Answer: Flat
Q: If the world is flat, what would happen if you walked to the edge?
A: You would find water.
Q: Is the sun moving around the earth or is the earth moving around the sun?
A: The sun is moving around the earth.
Q: Can you draw a picture of Africa and show me where Malawi is?
A: (much pondering, holding pencil and paper) No, I don’t know.

These were the answers given by a village farmer who works for me at Linthipe. Resourceful, intelligent, hard-working, eager to learn new things — but with minimal primary school education, he lacks basic knowledge about the world.

But he doesn’t really need that knowledge to survive, right?

”

- April 2012 Update :: from Linthipe to Chongoni

Read the rest of the update for more insight into Susan’s amazing work in Malawi.

Scrolling graph of instruments in Beethoven’s 5th...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:19:54 +0100

Scrolling graph of instruments in Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. This is how songs look in my head.

(By musanim, via 22 Words)

This is a crazy cartoon, but something about it just rings true....

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:21:05 +0000

This is a crazy cartoon, but something about it just rings true. Maybe it’s the idea of pleasant-tasting business cards.

Continue reading previous posts on my Posterous

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:44:00 +0000

Continue reading previous posts on my Posterous:

I’ve switched from Posterous to Tumblr, pending Posterous’ ultimate demise at the hands of Twitter. With any luck, I’ll be able to import all my Posterous links into Tumblr soon, but in the meantime, you can have a look at my 216 previous posts over on the old site.