Report: Foursquare shuts off API for Girls Around Me app

Report: Foursquare shuts off API for Girls Around Me app: An app that employed Foursquare and Facebook data to show the real-time location of women has raised an uproar and is making people think about how social media exposes them.
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Type Connection

Type Connection: A Typographic Dating Game

Controversial Pesticide Linked to Bee Collapse

Controversial Pesticide Linked to Bee Collapse: A controversial type of pesticide linked to declining global bee populations appears to scramble bees' sense of direction, making it hard for them to find home. Starved of foragers and the pollen they carry, colonies produce fewer queens, and eventually collapse.

Unemployment down in Douglas County, but how do job-seekers feel?

Unemployment down in Douglas County, but how do job-seekers feel?:

New numbers released show that unemployment is down in our area, but not everyone is seeing the results. While Worksource Oregon says there are plenty of jobs, there are also plenty out of one.

Google enables third-party apps in video Hangouts

Google enables third-party apps in video Hangouts: Google has opened its Google+ Hangout service to third-party applications, and is adding an apps menu to the video chat application to help people find them.

Free up space on your iOS device

Free up space on your iOS device: As apps are getting larger, space on iOS devices is becoming increasingly cramped. Here are several ways to squeeze the most storage possible out of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

Cloak 0.9.21 - Protects your Internet use when using public WiFi networks; free 1GB account.. (Free)

Cloak 0.9.21 - Protects your Internet use when using public WiFi networks; free 1GB account.. (Free): Exactly how unsafe are public hotspots? Here's a recent CBC report about Firesheep, a hacking tool that makes it shockingly easy to steal your stuff.

With Cloak, safety is just a click away. Here’s why:

No setup or configuration: it just works.
Automatically detects insecure networks and keeps you safe.
Rock-solid, industry standard encryption technologies.
Protects all your apps, not just your web browser.
Supports all your Apple devices, not just your laptop.
Curious how Cloak works under the hood? Check out our technology deep dive.

Printer ink: Tired of feeding the cash cow? | Macworld

Printer ink: Tired of feeding the cash cow? | Macworld: Human blood costs about $17.27 an ounce, silver about $34 an ounce. But both are bargains compared to the ink sold to the owners of inkjet printers, which can exceed $80 an ounce. Meanwhile, the ink used to print newspapers costs about 16 cents an ounce.

Some OEM cartridges have expiration dates built into their chips, and cannot be installed after that date, warns Slawetsky. Buying cartridges in bulk at a discount may be self-defeating for such machines, he warns, as a cartridge may expire before it is needed.

But all third-party refill ink for HP cartridges that it has tested fade noticeably within a year.

“The industry figured out years ago that once people buy a printer they are committed to it, so you can sell the printer at or below cost knowing they will buy the cartridges,” adds Charles Lecompte, head of Lyra Research, a market research firm in Newton, Mass. “We think they are selling the cartridges for several times more than it costs to make them.”

Why? “Printer prices have hit rock bottom, and the manufacturers are trying to somehow make up for the money they are not making from the hardware,” says Seheje Saraphy, analyst at market research firm IDC.

Google's latest brainstorm: Analytics for the common folk | Digital Media - CNET News

Google's latest brainstorm: Analytics for the common folk | Digital Media - CNET News: A new monthly dashboard service from Google will let users monitor their "account activity."

Apple Explains New iPad's Continued Charging Beyond 100% Battery Level

Apple Explains New iPad's Continued Charging Beyond 100% Battery Level: So, here’s how things work: Apple does in fact display the iPad (and iPhone and iPod Touch) as 100 percent charged just before a device reaches a completely charged state. At that point, it will continue charging to 100 percent, then discharge a bit and charge back up to 100 percent, repeating that process until the device is unplugged.

Doing so allows devices to maintain an optimum charge, Apple VP Michael Tchao told AllThingsD today.

“That circuitry is designed so you can keep your device plugged in as long as you would like,” Tchao said. “It’s a great feature that’s always been in iOS.”
Tchao notes that users can expect 10-hour battery life on the new iPad regardless of when in that trickle charge/discharge cycle they unplug their device, and that Apple intentionally displays the battery level at 100% throughout that cycle so as to not confuse consumers who might otherwise think their device is not completing charging correctly.

Blood, sweat and tears | Prospect Magazine

Blood, sweat and tears | Prospect Magazine: Long Day’s Journey Into Night was so personal and painful for Eugene O’Neill that he forbade the performance of the play until after his death. Does it stand the test of time?

Science on the Rampage by Freeman Dyson | The New York Review of Books

Science on the Rampage by Freeman Dyson | The New York Review of Books: Physics on the Fringe describes work done by amateurs, people rejected by the academic establishment and rejecting orthodox academic beliefs. They are often self-taught and ignorant of higher mathematics. Mathematics is the language spoken by the professionals. The amateurs offer an alternative set of visions. Their imagined worlds are concrete rather than abstract, physical rather than mathematical. Many of them belong to the Natural Philosophy Alliance, an informal organization known to its friends as the NPA.

The originality of the species | Books | The Guardian

The originality of the species | Books | The Guardian: A frenzied desire to be first inspired Darwin and Einstein to bursts of creativity. Like writers and artists, scientists strive to have their names attached to a work of brilliance, but any breakthrough depends on the efforts of countless predecessors. Ian McEwan reflects on originality and collaboration

Arts & Letters Daily (27 Mar 2012)

Arts & Letters Daily (27 Mar 2012):

Eugene O'Neill never staged Long Day's Journey during his lifetime. It was too painful. Rarely has a
playwright stripped himself so bare. more

At the far end of theoretical physics, truth and fantasy blur. The glory of science, says Freeman Dyson, is to imagine more than
we can prove... more

To be first is everything in science and art. Immortality is at stake. Nobel Prizes, too. Originality is a grand, ignoble, fruitless pursuit... more

Roddick upsets Federer at Key Biscayne (Yahoo! Sports)

Roddick upsets Federer at Key Biscayne (Yahoo! Sports): Andy Roddick beat Roger Federer for only the third time in their 24 meetings Monday, dominating with his serve to win 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-4 in the third round at the Sony Ericsson Open. Roddick broke serve only once but held every service game in the first and last sets. After falling behind 15-30 in the final game, he closed out the victory with an ace and two service winners.

Which streaming media device is right for you? | Crave - CNET

Which streaming media device is right for you? | Crave - CNET: Once a fringe activity for the geeky set, online video streaming is now officially mainstream, thanks in large part to the omnipresence of Netflix on nearly all Internet-connected entertainment devices. But with so many options now available, what's the best solution -- be it for Netflix, Hulu Plus, Vudu, Amazon, or any of the myriad other online video sources?

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | Dreaming in Chinese

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | Dreaming in Chinese: China and the Chinese display a profound ambivalence toward modernity and all that it entails. On the one hand, they are extraordinarily proud of all that their nation has accomplished over the last 30 years. At the time of Mao’s death in 1976, China was still a predominantly rural-agrarian society. The post-Maoist leadership is credited with lifting 400 million peasants out of poverty. By the same token, most Chinese I spoke with had strong reservations about the accelerated pace of modernization, which allows little time to savor the virtues of traditional of Chinese life: family, community, and nature.

How to make basic edits in iPhoto for iOS | Macworld

How to make basic edits in iPhoto for iOS | Macworld: iPhoto is one of the most packed and powerful iOS photo apps we’ve seen, so there’s a slight learning curve when using it to spruce up your photos. Here’s how to use some of the app’s tools to make basic edits. Instructions are based on the iPad version of iPhoto for iOS, but it's easy to extrapolate the same techniques for the iPhone 4 or 4S.

My Cabellian research has yielded a mind-blowing revelation

To wit, in James Branch Cabell's own words, from his preface to "The Witch Woman", the book which he has "not as yet published."







So, 700 years of human history, as we know it, is, in fact, the Norns second version, a somewhat muddled affair it seems.

And the period ends, in a monstrous act of egotism, in 1879 upon the date of the author's birth.

And so, Cabell has wrapped up his Biography in as neat an alternate-history scenario as you will find in the hardest of hard sci-fi.

Flying Dutchman is Lying Dutchman in elaborate hoax

Flying Dutchman is Lying Dutchman in elaborate hoax: A cleverly designed human birdwings hoax has the whole Internet bummed out it's not real.
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