Category: linkblog

Anonymized collection of location data is probably ok. Non-anonymized? Not so much.

My dad’s senior yearbook from NC State has been digitized at the Internet Archive. A couple of good photos on pages 105 and 380.

Interesting analysis of Obama’s foreign policy approach, which seems to be evolving toward military intervention in the interests of democracy but only when led by broader international stakeholders.

This is insane.

Honors for the July 4 program I sang in with the TFC.

Great web site from my Old English professor at UVA, with interactive exercises in grammar and pronunciation (requires Java).

Hey, free Paul Simon cover by the frontman of Vampire Weekend. Papa Hobo ftw.

Great interview with Paul Simon. I dig the new record too.

As always, Mark Pilgrim nails the undercurrents perfectly.

I love that chart.

Always glad to hear about music collections getting digitized. Looking forward to checking this stuff out as it becomes available.

Apparently there are people even more anal-retentive about digital music fidelity than I am.

A brilliant idea, long overdue.

Commence geek ecstasy now. Can’t wait for this movie.

One long fail: “As far as I could tell, there was one thing and one thing only that the Flash Player for Android 3.0 accomplished successfully. On the stock Android browser, Flash content is invisible, so you don’t notice Flash-based advertising. With the Flash Player installed, however, all those ads suddenly appear where once there were none, their animated graphics leaping and scuttling under your fingertips like cockroaches on a dinner tray — some achievement.”

Sounds great–service to translate fonts from one format to another.

So you have to tether the tablet to a BlackBerry phone to get BlackBerry email; the ergonomics of the buttons are confusing; they’re still pushing daily updates for the review devices right before launch; and the co-CEO is cracking up. Other than that, how’s the RIM tablet?

Email marketing provider hacked by targeted malicious emails. Ah, the irony.

Notes on the inevitable demise of standalone devices.

This is a mess.

Out of the world mellow stage!

High weirdness internet radio, based right here in Cambridge.

Long overdue.

Holy smokes, full on otaku grade obsessiveness in the service of Muppet nostalgia. Awesome.

You know that free services make their money on advertising, but what does that mean? How does one app that talks to five advertising services without explicit approval sound?

Never use an unqualified domain name for an internal server.

Surprised no one else has nailed this form factor.

Heh.

Come talk to us on April 19.

Should be required reading for every UVA student and alum.

Don’t read this if you are easily offended, but o my goodness the parody of both Bukowski and Peanuts is just about pitch perfect, particularly in the poems.