May 2015 Archives

Earth 2.0

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Superman hails from a planet called Krypton, an Earth-like planet of (superpowered) Earth-like people. As the story goes, his father, a Kryptonian scientist named Jor-El, predicted that the planet of Krypton would explode, wiping out everything.


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Liquid Memories

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In 1969, Eric Carle wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a now-classic story of a caterpillar who spends a week foraging for food until it finally morphs into a butterfly.


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Companies are scrambling to hold on to workers amid a tightening labor market and higher turnover, doling out bigger raises, expanding benefits and providing more training and other perks. The U.S. unemployment rate last month fell from 5.5% to a near normal 5.


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One of the great new features in Mac OS X Yosemite is support for share extensions. With share extensions, any app supporting the OS X system share menu can be used to share content with apps that created a share extension. In Day One Mac 1.


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The Most Unlikely Hacker

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Cybersecurity is a 13-letter word which keeps popping up as technology advances.


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Justin Grayman

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There seems to be an industry problem: According to studies by Standish Group, only 44% of projects typically finish on time and projects usually even complete at 222% of projects typically finish on time.


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Return to Sender

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It’s an annual tradition observed by many families, and increasingly, one adopted regardless of religion: the Christmas card mass-mailing.


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At REDEF, we focus on consuming all types of content – from indie films to long form points of view, executive perspectives and the passionate blog posts of industry outsiders. Our curators sift through the infinite so that our members can be better informed about their business and its future.


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Jason Grigsby once quipped that “We’ve remade the Internet in our image….obese.” He was right, of course. Average page weight and number of connections has been increasing at a rather alarming rate.


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The Gay Bomb

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The United States military leaves no stone unturned when looking for technological solutions to winning in the theater of war.  The Manhattan Project in World War II is one of the more well-known examples, but American military history is rife with others.


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In the Navy

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Mongolia is the second-largest (by area) landlocked country in the word, after Kazakhstan. And that’s really not fair to Mongolia, as Kazakhstan borders the Caspian Sea, which is also bordered by four other nations.


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A Mighty Wind

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The image above (larger version here) dates back to Japan’s Edo period, which ran from 1603 to 1868. And the image, quite clearly, depicts a man on horseback, farting gloriously at the man in green, much to the latter’s chagrin.


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The Greedy Cup

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The Greek philosopher Pythagoras is credited with changing the history of mathematics, ushering in an entire school of thought around numbers which still holds today.


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Ye Olde Mispronunciation

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Pictured above is the sign for a Mexican restaurant called “Ye Olde Taco House #1,” found via a Google search. The sign says that the joint has been around since 1962, so it’s unlikely that it has its origins in Medieval Europe, despite the “Ye Olde” in its name.


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The San Alfonso del Mar resort is located in Algarrobo, Chile, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.  Like most resorts, it has a pool large enough to handle a peak season full of vacationers.  Unlike most resorts, this hotel pool cost $3.


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Since coming to power in 1959, Cuban leader Fidel Castro (pictured above, from 1976) has been a thorn in the side of the United States and its government. Castro was the head of the Communist nation just off the coast of Florida until he transferred presidential powers to his brother Raul in 2008.


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Skills gap: By 2020, there will be more than one million unfilled programming jobs. We need better tech education. Recruiters charge 20% — 25% of the recruit’s annual salary. Startups quickly hire in-house recruiters in an effort to save money.


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Tea Totallers

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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, better known as OPEC, has twelve current members, each of which agrees to collectively limit the amount of oil produced per day.


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No Copying Grandma

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Say that a cousin came across a family portrait from generations ago and you wanted a copy — maybe of your mutual grandmother as a child. You ask the cousin if you can take it and get it scanned into the computer so that it can be shared with all the other cousins, too.


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The Lichen Loophole

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In 1976, out came a book titled “Lichen as Pollution Monitors.” In 1979, “How to Know the Lichens” joined it on the shelves.


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Most of the rituals in my life, like drinking fancy tea or starting every day with a cold shower, tend to fizzle out after a few months once my initial enthusiasm fades. But there are a few tendencies that have stuck.


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Hawkeye is a simple, robust, easy to use USB webcam streaming web server which uses MJPEG as the video codec. It is designed to be usable on local networks as well as the Internet, supporting HTTPS and Basic Authentication.


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This Bud’s For Whom?

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Many countries take soccer seriously, often treating the pastime as something bordering religion. Brazil is no exception.


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Fore For Five

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The term “blue law” references a type of ordinance which was (most often) enacted in colonial America, aiming to enforce a religious-based set of morals. They were historically more common in the Northeast and we still see many on the books and, to some degree, enforced even in recent times.


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Using File Data Store, so the “blobs” collection is missing.


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The Kalamazoo Promise

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The city of Kalamazoo, Michigan is the sixteenth most populous in the state, with just under 75,000 people per the 2010 census. Like many Michigan municipalities, Kalamazoo has been shrinking, population-wise, over the last few decades; in 1990, it was home to over 80,000 people.


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Barbie’s Diet Plan

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The Barbie doll was first unveiled by Mattel on March 9, 1959. The doll, the creation of a woman named Ruth Handler (who happened to be married to one of Mattel’s co-founders), was named after her daughter Barbie and came in both blonde and brunette versions.


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Necessity is the mother of invention, or so the (historically difficult to attribute) saying goes. In one famous case, however, necessity had passed, and the parent of this particular invention was remorse or, perhaps, the hope that nothing of the sort would happen again.


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Nobody’s Home

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Small scale innovations occur every day, propagating though our culture and economy organically as more and more people and businesses adopt and adapt new products.


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Tourist Trap

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Despite its name, Iceland is actually a very welcoming country if you’re a tourist looking to get away.


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What are the top Java libraries used by some of the most popular projects on Github? Based on analyzing 60,678 dependencies We like backing up everything we say with data, that’s why some people claim we’re not that fun at parties. Obviously, they’re going to the wrong parties.


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Hello Kitty, above, was created by the Japanese company Sanrio in 1974. She’s become an international sensation since; according to a New York Times article from May of 2010, the Hello Kitty brand is worth $5 billion a year.


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In Utero Fight Club

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The grey nurse shark, pictured right, survives on a diet of fish, rays, shellfish, and, cannibalistically, other sharks.  That last part is a habit they acquire at an early age — in the womb. Grey nurse sharks have two uteri and, regularly, give birth to two offspring at a time.


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