Category Archives: Blogging

Bruce Schneier’s Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Thanos

Here’s a great Berkman panel discussing Bruce Schneier’s new book that zig-zags back and forth on which is worse – big data, or big government snooping. via Bruce Schneier’s Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and … Continue reading →

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Signs of Spring

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Thanos

The overnights and mornings here have been cold, dipping to near freezing, but our days have been temperate and things are growing. The hillsides are reaching that green haze point – that day when they seem to have a green … Continue reading →

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Snow

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Thanos

Yesterday it got into the forties in the afternoon so Kasey & I snuck in a walk.

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NASA | A View From The Other Side

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Thanos

Here’s a great view from the other side of the moon, courtesy of NASA and the Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter. NASA | A View From The Other Side – YouTube. Here in Kansas we are experiencing signs of Spring, buds appearing … Continue reading →

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A New Year’s Resolution Challenge for All – Always Augment Your Intelligence

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Thanos

In this millenium why shouldn’t you Google, ask Siri, or Alexa, almost anything just to double check? Why wouldn’t you augment your intelligence with the biggest brain and knowledge base on the planet: the Internet? Please take a New Year’s resolution to start asking Google and Siri more, start augmenting your feeble human intelligence, in this coming year stop handicapping your brains friends. Continue reading →

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Alexander Gerst’s Earth timelapses From ESA

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Thanos

A stunning collection of several timelapse photo series taken from the ISS. Alexander Gerst’s Earth timelapses – YouTube.

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Microsoft Tells U.S.: The World’s Servers Are Not Yours for the Taking

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Thanos

Microsoft legal has a philosophy that local laws ought to apply to data — the only part that gets fuzzy under this approach is cloud data that is mirrored in multiple servers across multiple nations. This discussion and case is … Continue reading →

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Vemödalen: The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Thanos

So I have this feeling often while taking photos — and then I try to do something different, but actually doing something different that’s not been done before is exceedingly rare because … 7 billion. Let me repeat that: Seven … Continue reading →

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Gigabit Providers Not Focused on Apps – Study

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Thanos

The headline statement won’t be true until the real broadband apps are actually there because while you can predict a trend you can’t predict the future. Locking into broadband apps until real broadband is in place a while would be … Continue reading →

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The Best 3-D Printed Gun Yet Shoots Paper Airplanes

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Thanos

Paper Airplane Machine Gun / Papierflieger-Maschinenpistole – YouTube.

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