Asian = everything East of India and Bangladesh.
It’s a cat, it’s twins, and it’s backwards.
That’s right, it’s an 8000x8000 image of the blue marble.
She Walks in Beauty
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all
A heart whose love is innocent!
Webcam Hacker Luis Mijangos (GQ)
A frightening tale of how a self-taught programmer hacked into over 230 computers and proceeded to spy on their owners through their webcams.
xkcd: Sustainable
Also don’t forget words like “development”, “change”, “green”, “eco-friendly”, blah, blah, blah.
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com
China isn’t succeeding economical because of a cheap labour force. It started that way, but now no country can match China’s speed, flexibility and know-how,
Dear Photograph,This little girl is all grown up, and grandma is gone, but her garden still grows…Patricia
Source: dear-photograph
Why the feds smashed Megaupload
The closing of MegaUpload is a good example of why SOPA and PIPA are not required. This was a foreign company, and using the courts and existing legal tools, the enforcement agencies were able to coordinate a successful multi-jurisdictional takedown.
On a more general note, it’s ludicrous that MU was taken down in the first place. The US DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyrights Act, the legislation under which they will be prosecuted) provides “safe harbour” provisions, stating that if a website does not know of infringing content on its website then they cannot be prosecuted. In this case there may have some knowledge of infringing content, but overall MU is like Bittorent, merely a platform.
This takedown is akin to Google being taken down for hosting links, or basically any hosting provider (Blogger, WordPress, etc.). In fact, the hosting service of virtually every website in existence could in theory be taken down.
