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Brick Meets Click
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brick Meets Click

Newly discover site and blog:  Brick Meets Click.  " ... Thought-leading perspective on how technology is changing the future of shopping. A strategic resource...

Nasty Samsung Phone Exploit
From Schneier on Security

Nasty Samsung Phone Exploit

There's a new exploit against Samsung Galaxy phones that allows a rogue app access to all memory. A hacker could copy all of your data, erase all of your data,...

Generating and Selling Books and Content
From The Eponymous Pickle

Generating and Selling Books and Content

An article on book generation.  I have been involved for a few years book selling and auction systems, so this approach constructed by a professor at INSEAD toPatented...

Nanotechnology Blog and Foresight Institute
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nanotechnology Blog and Foresight Institute

Nanodot, the Foresight Institute's informative nanotechnology blog.   We used some of their resources in the early days of nano tech for product development.  Always...

Towards an Era of Big Data for the Little Guy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards an Era of Big Data for the Little Guy

I was invited to a presentation by Intuit and Emergent Research last week.   Intuit presented an excellent view of how they were addressing the world of big data...

Celebrating One Whole Year
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Celebrating One Whole Year

Yesterday was Molly's first birthday, and we had a wonderful family celebration.  Looking back, I realized just how much I've accomplished this year! With Christmas...

Opportunity Begat Opportunity
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Opportunity Begat Opportunity

Occasionally an opportunity comes along, out of the blue, that really makes you stand up and take notice. It is not something that has been on your radar, nor...

Possible Decryption of World War II Pigeon Message
From Schneier on Security

Possible Decryption of World War II Pigeon Message

A Canadian claims that the message is based on a WWI codebook. A spokesman from GCHQ remains dubious, but says they'll be happy to look at the proposed solution...

From Computational Complexity

Goodstein Sequences (Its his 100th birthday!)

LANCE: Bill, on Dec 15, 2012 it will be Reuben Goodstein's 100th birthday. BILL: Is he still alive? Will there be a conference in his honor? Free Food? Cake? ...

The Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series – Eight Papers on The Role of Youth Organizations and Youth Movements for Social Change
From Apophenia

The Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series – Eight Papers on The Role of Youth Organizations and Youth Movements for Social Change

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce the publication of eight new of papers in The Kinder & Braver World Project...

Interesting Links 17 December 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 17 December 2012

Five school days until Christmas. Well at my house at least. Are you taking some time off for the holiday season or will you be filling a lot of the time with grading...

Dear Media, Back The F*** Off Newtown
From Apophenia

Dear Media, Back The F*** Off Newtown

In late May – or maybe early June – of 1999, I ended up at a rave in a field on the outskirts of Denver. I was driving cross-country and I wasn’t thinking about...

Google's Second Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google's Second Search

A telling view in Xconomy with considerable background information concerning Google's knowledge graph work.   Positioning it as a 'second brain', to avoid coming...

Yes, I am a Minimalist.
From updated sporadically at best

Yes, I am a Minimalist.

My friends laugh at my “minimalism.” And I do not blame them.I like things. When I was younger, I aspired to own a Nalgene in every color. I have lost countthings...

Innovation Excellence Weekly
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation Excellence Weekly

Always some interesting posts, that they are now also publishing in a weekly format.   I have rarely contributed, and read it often.

Decline of Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Decline of Manufacturing

M J Perry on the decline of global manufacturing.  Is it something we should be concerned about?   I see his point, but there are things that will have to be manufactured...

The Princess And The Pea
From Wild WebMink

The Princess And The Pea

The Princess And The Pea, originally uploaded by webmink. Because the internet is still for sharing cat pictures. And no, she could not tell if there was a pea...

First IBM Portable Advertisement
From The Eponymous Pickle

First IBM Portable Advertisement

Just two years after this computer was brought out, in 1979, we used the IBM 5120 with our CEO to test the idea of an executive information system.  The systemthe...

Microsoft Dynamics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Dynamics

In Computing Now:   An overview of what Microsoft is doing in the enterprise, Microsoft Dynamics,  its connection to Windows 8, interfaces and all of their enterprise...

Kurzweil Joins Google
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kurzweil Joins Google

The futurist proposer of the approach of an inevitable people-machine singularity, Ray Kurzweil, has joined Google as an employee.   In GigaOM.   Apparently tothe...
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