Yostivanich

“Intri­cate wax mod­els of humans — and their inter­nal organs — helped edu­cate med­ical stu­dents dur­ing the 19^th Cen­tury. But they also offered the gen­eral pub­lic an unusual afternoon’s enter­tain­ment.” Very cool slideshow.

“Mem­bers of the gov­ern­ment panel review­ing NASA’s human space­flight pro­gram said Tues­day that the life of the Inter­na­tional Space Sta­tion should be extended past its planned demise in 2016.” In a no duh moment.

Offi­cially exploited.

“I couldn’t help but love Chris Yeh’s Out­line of Pre­dictably Irra­tional: The Hid­den Forces that Shape Our Deci­sions. It’s a fas­ci­nat­ing look into the sur­pris­ingly pre­dictable psy­chol­ogy that pow­ers human actions and reac­tions, and I think there are some defin­i­tive lessons we can take away from the piece and apply to web mar­ket­ing.” Fun stuff.

The more I read about this, the more Wikipedia is in the right.

“The rejec­tions of apps by Apple could dim the halo that has encir­cled the iPhone since it first became a lucra­tive plat­form for out­side devel­op­ers. The lengthy and opaque approval process required to get any­thing into the App Store has long been a source of frus­tra­tion for iPhone devel­op­ers and users alike.”

“The first lady, her mother and her chil­dren did stay in Europe for a pri­vate vaca­tion after the pres­i­dent com­pleted an over­seas trip on offi­cial busi­ness. How­ever, no tax­payer money was used for the first family’s per­sonal expenses.” I’m not sure why this even a story.

“Wikia mea­sures exit rate — the per­cent­age of users that leave the site from a given page. Here they show that exit rate drops as pages get faster. The exit rate goes from ~15% for a 2 sec­ond page to ~10% for a 1 sec­ond page. This is another data point to add to the list of stats from Veloc­ity that show that faster pages is not only bet­ter for users, it’s bet­ter for business.”

“After pre­vi­ously deny­ing that the mar­ket is a proper “indi­ca­tor” of Pres­i­dent Obama’s per­for­mance han­dling the econ­omy, Sean Han­nity stated that “as the president’s job approval rat­ing crum­bles, well, the Dow has been on the rise.”” Only on Fox News, logic missing.

“About 140 Ira­ni­ans detained dur­ing protests against last month’s dis­puted elec­tion result have been released from Evin prison, offi­cials say. About 200 oth­ers, accused of more seri­ous crimes, remain in the prison.” Good and bad news.

“Well, so much for my spec­u­la­tion. A reli­able lit­tle birdie has informed me that it was indeed AT&T that objected to Google Voice apps for the iPhone. It’s that sim­ple.” Here’s to hop­ing AT&T get’s sued and loses horribly.

“Com­man­ders of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, as the American-led coali­tion is for­mally called, have a loom­ing nomen­cla­ture prob­lem. Two days from now, there will no longer be any other nations with troops in Iraq — no “multi” in the Multi-National Force. As Iraqi forces have increas­ingly taken the lead, the United States is the last of the “coali­tion of the will­ing” that the Bush admin­is­tra­tion first brought together in 2003.”

“I mostly really like mine. But I’ve got to say there are a cou­ple things about it that really bug me. Right up there after the fact there’s no one-gesture way of switch­ing between dif­fer­ent email inboxes is the way the lit­tle red noti­fi­ca­tions cir­cles work with the phone.” This makes so much sense and would drive me insane.

“The fed­eral gov­ern­ment will not lend $2 bil­lion to USEC, the sole American-owned ura­nium enrich­ment com­pany, the Energy Depart­ment said on Tues­day. The move casts doubt on the company’s abil­ity to com­mer­cial­ize its new tech­nol­ogy, and prob­a­bly leaves the mar­ket for mak­ing reac­tor fuel in the hands of Euro­pean com­pa­nies now build­ing in the United States. Energy Depart­ment offi­cials said that they could not lend the $2 bil­lion USEC had requested because it was not clear that was enough to fin­ish the project and there was no def­i­nite addi­tional source of financ­ing. They invited USEC to reap­ply in 18 months.”

“A Sudanese woman who is due to appear in court in Khar­toum says she faces up to 40 lashes for wear­ing trousers. The woman, Lubna Hus­sein — a for­mer jour­nal­ist who now works for the United Nations — has invited jour­nal­ists and observers to the trial.”

“Defin­ing a “tweet” for the unini­ti­ated and explain­ing how to cre­ate an account doesn’t res­onate with every­one. “Why would I want to do that?” is a com­mon reac­tion. How­ever, demon­strat­ing the power of Twit­ter as a dis­cov­ery engine for what is hap­pen­ing right now through our Search and Trends often awak­ens a sense of won­der which inevitably leads to a much more com­pelling ques­tion, “How do I get involved?”” I agree Twit­ter is doing the right thing.

I am totally not mature enough to sign a lease.

“Not but a few short days ago I had the dis­tinct plea­sure of being included on a list of 51 of the world’s top Search Mar­keters. Alas, for this great honor I did not receive an award statue or a shiny plaque, not even an ornate cer­tifi­cate. What I received was an email. A hor­ri­bly exe­cuted email that would result in one of the most amus­ing email threads I’ve ever read, from some of the smartest minds in our indus­try.” Awesome.

“In a move expected to rev­o­lu­tion­ize the mobile device indus­try, Apple launched its fastest and most pow­er­ful iPhone to date Tues­day, an inno­v­a­tive new model that can only be seen by the company’s hippest and most ded­i­cated cus­tomers.” The Onion so get’s Apple.

Wes­ley Crusher kicks a lot of things.

“Most of the sav­ings are being made in social ser­vices — with deep cuts in child wel­fare pro­grammes, health care for the poor, and HIV/Aids initiatives.”

“Horizon’s Jef­frey Michael is quoted in the Sun-Times as say­ing “The state­ments are obvi­ously false, and it’s our inten­tion to prove that”, adding that Hori­zon has a good rep­u­ta­tion to pro­tect. Bon­nen wasn’t con­tacted before the suit was filed or asked to remove the Tweet, he said: “We’re a sue first, ask ques­tions later kind of an orga­ni­za­tion”.” That’s a crappy organization.

“So how can a game that sold 45 copies, have 1114 play­ers? That does not make any sense? I have no rea­son to believe that Apple’s sales reports are faulty, so the answer is piracy. Very quickly after the release of ‘the lit­tle tank that could’ the game got cracked, and dis­trib­uted via tor­rents. Those crack­ers are a weird bunch, even tak­ing pride in their work. Proudly tag­ging my game with ‘cracked by Hex­ham­mer’. Well screw you Hex­ham­mer. If you had any tal­ents your­self, you would make your own game. Crack­ing one is petty.” That would kill my desire to build the game as well.

JRuby is no longer being offi­cially sup­ported by Sun Microsys­tems / Oracle.