Basically confirmed: iPhone 6 to include a phablet variant. They should add a stylus. Then they’ll be copying Samsung. And that is the hat trick that causes Steve Jobs to spin in his grave.
Basically confirmed: iPhone 6 to include
I used to enjoy all the online April Foo
I used to enjoy all the online April Fools jokes from Google, ThinkGeek, SlashDot, Fark, and Reddit. This year? Meh, I’m over it.
HTC and Samsung accidentally make the same April Fools joke, announce fake wearable tech gloves
How to Trash a USB Port
Did you know that you can, in fact, push enough current through USB to completely destroy one of those nano wi-fi dongles? Oh, yes. Mind you, it will also melt the USB port you are plugged into, and you’ll need some skin protection when you try to remove it.
Luckily, I was able to return the defective dongle and replace it with a clearance-priced portable wireless router. I am using that as a wireless bridge, so that I can connect the RasPi via ethernet, and not use up one of the 2 USB ports for wireless.
And no, the RasPi was not the victim of the USB meltdown.
Jon Lebkowsky (and Bruce Sterling) on the state of the world.
Bruce made a related point last year, as he came up with the concept of “stacks”:
“In 2012 it made less and less sense to talk about ‘the Internet,’ ‘the PC business,’ ‘telephones,’ ‘Silicon Valley,’ or ‘the media,’ and much more sense to just study Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. These big five American vertically organized silos are re-making the world in their image. ”
This is pretty well-established theology at this point, but I think we’re still in a transition with attendant confusion. These stacks and related businesses are all about media and marketing, and they require massive cycles of content, not so much as product but as fuel for the engines of commerce. So the pipes are full of information, but it’s less reliable than ever – we’re missing the intermediary vetting within the cycle, everybody’s running just to stay in the race. And where media is amplified by a proliferation of content – channels and sources – there’s more room for media manipulation, political propaganda and commercial marketing messages are embedded, often indistinguishably, in the signal and the noise.
Source: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014
A Little Slice of Pi
I have placed an order for a Raspberry Pi. I will be exploring the device, and several of the projects one can do with this versatile SoC computer. I will be posting the unboxing and set-up next week, and will publish a list of projects I will be attempting.
Stay tuned
Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas!
Accomplishment of the Year?
I have been a reader and subscriber of Fark.com for many years. I’ve submitted many headlines, and even had a few greenlit. My absolute favorite greenlight was for this, back in March:
Carnival, the Windows ME of the cruising world, has yet another ship stuck in Safe Mode
It still makes me laugh, and reading the 102 comments people left, it was good for a chuckle for them as well.
So, I can’t believe it took until now for me to find out that my headline was one of the Headlines of the Week for March 10th – 16th:
That’s just plain awesome. It probably won’t get any traction in the Headline of the Year contest, but I am still mighty pleased with how this little gem turned out.
Related articles
- The Genius of Drew Curtis and Fark.com (optimalhumanmodulation.com)
Family Time
Posting will be sporadic over the next couple weeks, as I spend time with my family during the holidays. I do have a couple items planned, but things will be pretty sporadic for the duration.
the anamorphic man 