December 2011
24 posts
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Cloak →
onethingwell:
A VPN service with clients for OS X and iOS. On the former the app attempts to detect insecure networks and connect automatically.
Unusually, there’s a free tier—1 GB or 2 hours per month—so you can take Cloak for a spin without committing to a monthly plan.
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Go Daddy Lost 21,054 Domains Yesterday →
According to TheDomains, 21,054 domains were transferred away from Go Daddy on Friday alone. At $6.99 a pop, that would make for a loss of $147,167, not taking future renewals into account. The day before wasn’t a good one for the company either, with 15,000 people taking their domains elsewhere. That means that even though Go Daddy changed its stance, people have had enough.
Minimal Mac: No Daddy →
minimalmac:
So, the Internet is shaking with the power of ten thousand wagging fingers over Go Daddy’s support of SOPA, the evil legislation that threatens everything we know and hold dear about the ‘verse. It is even so evil that it threatens the things we don’t care about too.
I have never used Ho Daddy…
Race And Ron Paul - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan... →
In supporting Ron Paul, I am backing one of the few candidates in the GOP field not to have exploited racial code words, homophobia, illegal immigration, or generalizations about Muslims that come easily to the mind of, say, Newt Gingrich or Herman Cain, who actually said he wouldn’t appoint a Muslim to his cabinet! I am backing one of the few GOP candidates not to have endorsed torture...
SOPA Markup Runs Out Of Time; Likely Delayed Until... →
The Facebook Resisters →
bigweek:
Jenna Wortham has a great piece on The New York Times today:
Tyson Balcomb quit Facebook after a chance encounter on an elevator. He found himself standing next to a woman he had never met — yet through Facebook he knew what her older brother looked like, that she was from a tiny island off the coast of Washington and that she had recently visited the Space Needle in Seattle.
Jimmy Wales Calls for a Temporary Blanking of... →
A few months ago, the Italian Wikipedia community made a decision to blank all of Italian Wikipedia for a short period in order to protest a law which would infringe on their editorial independence. The Italian Parliament backed down immediately. As Wikipedians may or may not be aware, a much worse law going under the misleading title of “Stop Online Piracy Act’ is working its way...
Back To Square One In The Google Books Lawsuit |... →
Sir Isaac Newton’s Papers & Annotated Principia Go... →
FBI using Carrier IQ info for "law enforcement... →
Coffee Pot Physics | Wired Science | Wired.com →
World Map of Social Networks | Vincos Blog →
Fight the Blacklist: A Toolkit for Anti-SOPA... →
How Twitter Proves That Place Matters - The... →
Their findings indicate that place and proximity continue to matter even in social media. Twitter doesn’t replace the networks that exist in the real world—it reinforces them and makes them stronger. Rather than freeing us from place, this study suggests, the Internet appears to enhance and even expand its role.
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Trump hits 'joke candidates' Paul and Huntsman
Donald Trump stoked an ongoing back-and-forth with Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul Monday, dismissing Paul’s decision to skip a presidential forum he is set to moderate in December. Trump said the choice by Texas Rep. Paul and rival candidate Jon Huntsman not to attend will result in a better event.
I like both Paul and Huntsman. Here’s another reason for my approval.
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Watchevilteabagger:
America’s Next Tarp Model
(h/t statehate)
