Month: December 2011

Happy Holidays

Just wishing everyone a very happy mid-winter festival of choice, and to those who don’t celebrate anything at all, I hope you’re enjoying however you’ve chosen to spend the period, and that the rest of us haven’t been too annoying this year.

Bookmarks for December 6, 2011

  • Waldo Jaquith – On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
    One of those things that no-one stops to think about. We think about how the world changes in ways that make things that were impossible into possible, but we don't think about the ways that we are given new ways to combine the already-possible. A century ago, we had tomatoes, lettuce, beef, cheese and bread, but it's not until recently that we could combine them with any kind of practicality.
    Tags: history, food

Bookmarks for December 1, 2011

  • Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything | Threat Level | Wired.com
    Got an Android phone? Or a Nokia, or a Blackberry? Then you may find that third parties are watching, or at least have the option to watch, most of what you do on it, inlcuding what is supposed to be secure communication. Bad news: at the moment, your solution appears to be to root the phone, which is well beyond most people's knowledge or ability. At the very least, until you know whether you're affected, I wouldn't log into anything that requires you to type a password on your phone.
    Tags: security, android