Yostivanich

“We try so hard to pro­tect our­selves from law­suits that we bring on law­suits. We for­get that we are human beings deal­ing with other human beings. And what human beings want more than any­thing is empa­thy — to be cared for and treated with respect.” Not much in the way of hard evi­dence, mostly anec­do­tal evi­dence at best.

“More per­spec­tives is the most impor­tant thing of all. News and infor­ma­tion con­tent is becom­ing much richer and bet­ter. And that is Rupert prob­lem at the end of the day. It’s not that he can’t com­pete with Google. It’s that he can’t com­pete with us.” I have to agree.

Wired on fix­ing the elec­tric­ity grid.

“Arc­tic ice reached a larger max­i­mum area this win­ter than in the last few years, sci­en­tists say, but the long-term trend still shows it declining.”

Another drag and drop method.

More rants about Google is right and the AP and other papers are just plain wrong.

“And if you think that through start­ing from first prin­ci­ples rather than from an exist­ing busi­ness view, there are oppor­tu­ni­ties. But I’ll leave it to oth­ers to fig­ure out what they may be.” Shorter ver­sion, I’ll com­plain but I don’t have solu­tion, do you?

Umm no.

“The good souls at the Cen­ter for the Study of Com­plex Sys­tems at the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan have come up with a fan­tas­ti­cally sug­ges­tive way of see­ing the rela­tion­ships between “money and gov­ern­ment.”” Very cool.

Take­away: spend more on cre­ative advertising.

“The President’s Emer­gency Plan for AIDS Relief, the $15 bil­lion pro­gram begun by the Bush admin­is­tra­tion in 2003, cut the AIDS death toll in its African tar­get coun­tries by more than 10 per­cent, but did not pre­vent new cases, accord­ing to a new study.”

Just go with Hulu people.

The value in the net­work is the value in the trans­ac­tions con­ducted in the network.

“Sum­mary: Since Pres­i­dent Obama’s inau­gu­ra­tion, Rush Lim­baugh has made numer­ous base­less and omi­nous claims warn­ing of what will hap­pen if the United States adopts either Obama’s poli­cies or those pushed by other pro­gres­sives, often while invok­ing fears of ris­ing social­ism, com­mu­nism, and tyranny.” And you won­der why I think Rush is crazy?

“This isn’t change we can believe in. This is change for the worse.” I agree.

““In response to Sweden’s recent intro­duc­tion of new laws (dis­cussed here recently) imple­ment­ing the Euro­pean IPRED direc­tive, a new Swedish Web site has been launched allow­ing users to check if their IP address is cur­rently under inves­ti­ga­tion. The site also allows users to sub­scribe for email updates alert­ing them if their IP address comes under inves­ti­ga­tion in the future, or to report IP addresses known to be under inves­ti­ga­tion.” That’s fun.

“This idled capac­ity, like base­ball play­ers after a win­ter off, takes time to bring back into robust use. So even if the reces­sion mirac­u­lously ended tomor­row, econ­o­mists esti­mate that at least three years would pass before full employ­ment returned and out­put rose enough for the econ­omy to oper­ate at full throttle.”

Just read, and you will know Google right, Newspapers/AP wrong.

“At OpenX we recently com­pleted a large-scale deploy­ment of one of our server farms to Ama­zon EC2. Here are some lessons learned from that expe­ri­ence.” Really inter­est­ing, I totally need to try this out at some point.

Aus­tralia really, you guys are going to build the fiber to the house network?

Solve the text over­flow prob­lem with jQuery.

“Why, an emo­tion­less robot who assesses impos­si­ble prob­a­bil­i­ties instan­ta­neously in his head and denies love and friend­ship. It’s a car­i­ca­ture I run into all the time — I’ve lost count of the num­ber of emails I’ve received inform­ing me that True Sci­en­tists™ do not get angry about any­thing, and there­fore every­thing I say is invalid.” Sci­en­tists are just as human as you and I and we get angry and frus­trated the same as any­one else.

“Sci­en­tists have pin­pointed a genetic muta­tion which may trig­ger up to 70% of cases of melanoma, the most deadly form of skin can­cer.” Instead let’s keep prof­it­ing from a resource that we know we will even­tu­ally use up and just make lots of money in the here and now.

Tak­ing on anti-vaxxers.

Warner Music still mind­lessly sends out point­less DMCA take­down notices.

“Sci­en­tists have pin­pointed a genetic muta­tion which may trig­ger up to 70% of cases of melanoma, the most deadly form of skin can­cer.” Cool.

“The US now claims about 21 per­cent of global energy and uses about three times as much per capita as the EU. We must ask our­selves the hard ques­tion of whether this prof­li­gate con­sump­tion is nec­es­sary, or sus­tain­able. America’s energy tran­si­tion to non­fos­sil ener­gies promises to be a long, ardu­ous process. To speed it up and ease the pain, we must, para­dox­i­cally, slow down, and begin con­sum­ing less of every­thing.” Impor­tant to remember.

Talk­ing about prej­u­dice towards atheists.

“A judge has over­turned Alaska Sen­a­tor Ted Stevens’s con­vic­tion for cor­rup­tion because of mis­takes made by pros­e­cu­tors dur­ing his trial.” The Jus­tice dept. messed up and a pros­e­cu­tor is inves­ti­gat­ing the team that con­ducted the trial for pos­si­ble crim­i­nal charges.

The bare min­i­mum to check before you launch.

A Twit­tevo­lu­tion.

Tak­ing on creationism.

“Sum­mary: On his Fox News show, Sean Han­nity falsely claimed that Pres­i­dent Obama “seem­ingly apologiz[ed] for our engage­ment in the war on ter­ror” when Obama said “[t]he United States is not … at war with Islam.” In fact, in those same remarks, Obama also stated that “Iraq, Turkey, and the United States face a com­mon threat from ter­ror­ism” and that “we are com­mit­ted to a more focused effort to dis­rupt, dis­man­tle, and defeat Al Qaeda.”” Don’t you love selec­tive hearing.

Too cool.

Just in case.

“The D.C. Coun­cil voted today to rec­og­nize same-sex mar­riages per­formed in other states, on the same day that Ver­mont became the fourth state to legal­ize same-sex unions.”

Google responds to the AP and so right are they.

“The police depart­ment that Jiverly Wong, the Bing­ham­ton gun­man, appar­ently blamed for some of his trou­bles said on Tues­day that it had had only two inter­ac­tions with Mr. Wong, two days apart more than a decade ago.”

Let’s get this straight, Google right, WSJ wrong, AP wrong again, every­body else you aren’t liv­ing or try­ing to run a busi­ness in the inter­net age. Ignor­ing the prob­lem or blam­ing or suing isn’t a solution.

“Chim­panzees enter into “deals” whereby they exchange meat for sex, accord­ing to researchers.”

The worst part is the sheer idea that some­how every or even most kids that you raise will become Chris­t­ian. That and I thought you were sup­posed to look upon kids as bless­ings, not part of basi­cally a holy war.

“As Mr. Sun entered the ceme­tery in Jinan, a city about 230 miles south of Bei­jing, he said, four or five men attacked him and beat him severely. He is now in a Jinan hos­pi­tal with three bro­ken ribs and injuries to his spine, head, back, arms and legs, accord­ing to China Human Rights Defend­ers, a Hong Kong-based group. The group said the attack on Mr. Sun was part of a con­certed effort by the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment to head off any efforts to memo­ri­al­ize the deaths of hun­dreds of Tianan­men Square pro­test­ers on June 4, the 20^th anniver­sary of the government’s crackdown.”

The graph­ics going along with this poll are pretty bad.

“Russ­ian Prime Min­is­ter Vladimir Putin earns 11% more than Pres­i­dent Dmitry Medvedev, state­ments released as part of an anti-corruption drive show” Whose the real power in Rus­sia, Putin.

“Ver­mont will become the fourth state to allow gay mar­riage, and the first to do so by a leg­isla­tive vote and not a court ruling.”

“Bea­t­les fans are finally get­ting some­thing they’ve been demand­ing for at least the last decade: son­i­cally upgraded reis­sues of the group’s orig­i­nal British albums, in stereo and mono.”

This is a pretty cool commercial.

Don’t you love the ridiculousness?

” A man who died dur­ing the G20 protest was pushed to the ground by a police offi­cer, video footage has shown. Ian Tom­lin­son, 47, col­lapsed from a heart attack dur­ing protests out­side the Bank of Eng­land last Wednes­day. Newsagent Mr Tom­lin­son, who was not protest­ing, is seen receiv­ing a two-handed push from a police offi­cer. ” Wow.

Ask­ing per­mis­sion for things freely pro­vided is a waste of time.