The Weinstein Co. Names Executive With Experience In Restructuring To Board Of Directors
Yeah yeah yeah … hands up if you have heard of the Glass Cliff?
Why you should learn how to use Google Sheets vs. Excel
… the usual blah blah blah - get out and f the bubble!
Apple offers replacements for swollen 13-inch MacBook Pro batteries
Cannot recall when - but back in the day I also suffered from the swollen battery …. took it in … and … well you know what happened …
Wonder if there is a retrospective offer?
German court says ad-blocking is legal
I have heard the arguments that it isn’t … but those arguments eminate from US based people … the rest of the world … lets call them the other 95% … yeah … they are for people … not the corporation.
Remembering When Americans Picnicked in Cemeteries
No - but sure - I’m listening ….
Apple iPhone X will be killed off this year, analyst says
Meanwhile ……
”Samsung’s top two phones combined account for less than 5 percent of industry profits, and no other company had a phone that cracked the top 10.”
Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery
I love science
”So, she hired a handstand coach. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, but evidently this is an actual thing that exists.”
Jeff Bezos
Feature request …. edit comments
Lance Armstrong reaches $5m settlement in $100m federal fraud case
I thought I misread it, but no.
Sorry about that $100 … will $5 cover it? One day courts will hold people accountable. Not the little people. Not the poor people. No. Just mofos like this loser.
The sad, gradual decline of the fade-out in popular music.
With a mere depression of the fast-forward button to get to the next tune, why wait out those last dwindling seconds? “It’s all about that,” says Itaal Shur, a songwriter and producer who co-authored the Santana hit “Smooth” (nice guitar jam in the fade-out). “We’re living in a skip culture.”
Dear Apple ….And Another Thing!
Robot successfully assembles an IKEA chair
Well sure. Now you tell us. What is it? Six months since IKEA bought Task Rabbit?
Pompeo Nears Confirmation but Faces Historic Rebuke From Committee
A rebuke? Either thumbs up or thumbs down. Stand up and be counted you MoFos. I cannot wait until November.
Palantir Knows Everything About You
It is interesting how VERY VERY quiet Mr.Thiel’s Palantir is these days … but it is arguable that they are even worse than Cambridge Analytica.
BTW .. click through on the link just to see the graphic build.
Why You Should Not Delete Facebook
Again not me .. but …
I’m specifically not deleting my account because:
- I intend to exercise a number of my data subject rights, and complain if Facebook does not respond appropriately.
- I’m expecting the alternatives to Facebook to improve (because they’re virtually non-existent now), and will look forward to using data portability.
”If I had time to remember my facebook password, I would delete my account now.”
Not me. Someone else. Just thought it reflected humour in truth … or is it the other way round?
The Surprising Link Between Language and Depression
Remind you of anyone?
Siri - Drafts Experiment
The following is an experiment using Siri to talk to Drafts which I will then publish to microblog. The idea works by use of special code inside of Drafts that allows you to talk to your device and it in turn happily translates that into text. The cool thing is that normally with Siri there is a time cut off. With Drafts you can keep on talking talking talking while it types and types and types. What it doesn’t seem to do is improve the ability of Siri to understand what you’re saying.
One step at a time.