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Happily Ever After: The Conveyor Belt of Life
My friend and very talented artist Ben Genislaw has finally released the multiple-award winning animation short “Happily Ever After: A Journey to the future of a young couple moving in together for the first time“. It’s happy, sad, depressing, inspiring and above all, amazingly done. Enjoy! [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/54529194 w=540&h=304&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0]
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My first experience with fiverr, and why they should support Bitcoin
I was looking for a special little something to give my wife on our 1st anniversary, and a friend suggested I’d get someone on fiverr to sing her song. I really liked the idea, and it even took less than 24 hours. Thank you Mou Trego from Cook Islands for singing us a happy anniversary song with…
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Google+ Auto Stupefying Awesome Thinger
I love love love the Google+ automatic photo combiner and GIF maker (GIF or JIF?). It even managed to automatically tag this photo with #BlackCat. However, when I tell people about it, they say “but who the hell uses Google+?“. I say, let them stay where they are, for now. There are awesome people on Google+,…
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Mt. Gox’s Message to the 2013 G8 Conference
Mt. Gox today announced that “a couple of months ago [they] took a big step and bought a full page ad for Bitcoin right in the middle of the G8 Research Group’s official magazine”. The ad shows a caricature of foreign diplomats, wearing their national currency symbol instead of a head, sitting at a table…
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Patent US7028023 – Linked list
Today I wanted to write a new software module, and considered using Linked Lists. To my surprise, while searching for Software Patents (which is common practice before writing a new module), I realized I have to either give up using such lists (and go over the existing code base to make sure no else does),…
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Dr. Aubrey de Grey in Israel
Dr. Aubrey de Grey (Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey to be exact, age 50) came to Israel for the first time to take part in the 8th European Congress of Biogerontology (fallback link) organized this year by Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Utopia, the Tel-Aviv International Festival for Science Fiction, Imagination and the Future, organized an…
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RE: NetTrax: You can run, but you can’t hide…
Following the recent news regarding leaked documents that uncovered the US PRISM surveillance program, Prof. Ken Homa of Georgetown University wrote in a blog post: NetTrax: You can run, but you can’t hide … Been reading a book called Big Data, Big Analytics … Given the flap over the Feds grabbing phone and Internet info, this caught my…
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Neither is Ice Cream
“Nobody thought it was a good idea. And I distinctly remember my colleague Evan Williams saying, ‘Well, neither is ice cream. Should we ban ice cream and all joy or can we have something that’s just fun? What’s wrong with that?’” – Biz Stone, co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter (via)
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Small Wonder
Everything was a little bit more correct, politically, a few years ago… Jamie and Reggie experiment with cigarettes Small Wonder S02E01, 13 Sep. 1986
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Spring is Coming
I’m hearing of more and more people starting up new businesses with cool, innovative ideas. Spring season in the Start-up Nation is coming. The differences from the years 2000 and 2008, I think, are: Crowdfunding (Kickstarter, Headstart) Affordable IT Infrastructure (AWS, Google) Affordable and idiot-proof (read: hackable by software engineers) hardware platforms (Raspberry Pi, Arduino) and sensors…