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Android in the dark

Submitted by lishevita on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 04:37

I was supposed to call someone yesterday, but I didn't get around to it. I figured I'd get to it this morning, but I didn't manage that, either. At last I had a few moments to breathe as I sat down on the train to Tel Aviv. I looked at my phone and realized that I was almost out of battery. Deciding that it wasn't a good idea to use the last of the battery on a phone call that might not last long enough to say anything important, I thought I should send an sms instead. Short, quick, and interruptionless.

But then I stopped myself.

Fantastic Online Fiction

Submitted by lishevita on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 14:15

Once upon a time, if you wanted to read a book or a short story by one of your favorite authors, you either had to borrow the book from a library or a friend or else you had to go buy it in a store. The key in any of those options is that you had to be physically in the same place as the book. If you lived in a country where that book hadn't yet been published, you may never get to see it. If the book had gone out of print, it might be very difficult to find a copy of the book. These days, you can read out of print books as well as numerous new works by great authors online.

Sniff the dog

Submitted by lishevita on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 00:52

No, don't you go sniffing the dog. The dog's name is Sniff. And he's a combination of really cool and really scary. Cool because, well, I like technology and you can do some really cool things with this dog. I mean, seriously. Scary because, well, you are sticking an RFID reader and a bunch of RFIDs in the hands of your KID. Let's see, can we think of a nefarious way to use that?

Humblefacturing

Submitted by lishevita on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 11:12

I am hugely inspired by this five minute talk about Humblefacturing. This is exactly the sort of stuff that's been going through my mind in the last few months, but he takes it a few steps past what I was even imagining.

A new kind of Nigerian Scam?

Submitted by lishevita on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 14:46
If you are not familiar with the Nigerian Scam yet, you may live in an email-free bubble. This is one of the most popular ways to separate naive and overly trusting people from their money. I won't bore you with the details, you can click the link above and find out about it if you don't know what I'm talking about.
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