Paul Stamatiou gives a run down of his data storage system using Glacier.
I still prefer my Synology system for on-site backup. Over the internet backup is still important too. Synology integrates easily with Glacier.
From Chris Shea:
There’s a very good chance that, if you’re reading this article, you’re college educated and probably white (just going by statistics). The thing you need to understand is that brewing is not glamorous or cool. It’s hard, crap work and it’s not very rewarding.
Dreams always look so much better from the outside. This is a great essay from the inside.
Pinboard is four years old this week.
It’s hard to believe there are only 23,000 users. Maybe that’s actually a good thing. But I like this bit from Maciej:
Total revenue from signups and archiving has been far steadier than I expected from a web project, which by nature tends to be spiky. This comes as a considerable relief, since it means I don’t have to hunt for a new brand of champagne or truffle oil every other month.
Remember the movie Gattaca? I guess we’re there now.
“At some point in the not too distant future, prospective parents will have the technical ability to look at the genome of their embryos and select embryos based on the traits they see, whether those are disease traits, cosmetic traits, behavioural traits, or boy or a girl,” says Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University in California.
Nathan Swartzendruber made a really nice thing. TVBobber lists TV Shows from iTunes that are on sale. Simple, effective, and way better than iTunes. It comes with a really nice search and sort too. Free to use but is supported by affiliate links. Very nice.
A sobering look from Salon at the militarization of the average police force:
In 2007 a Dallas SWAT team actually raided a Veterans of Foreign Wars outpost for hosting charity poker games. Players said the tactics were terrifying. One woman urinated on herself. When police raided a San Mateo, California, poker game in 2008, card players described cops storming the place “in full riot gear” and “with guns drawn.”
Holy hell, I miss The Merlin Show. 2007 was a good year for the Internets.1 Here’s Merlin talking to Chris Wetherell, the original creator of Google Reader (as I recall).
Merlin makes a handsome gas station attendant. Fill’er up big guy. ↩︎
Do you like to read old handwritten manuscripts? Do you like to contribute to the collective knowledge of the world? Well then, Smithsonian has something for you. Their new transciption project lets volunteers signup to transcribe and review some old texts like “Observations on the Indians of the Colorado River” or the diary of Mary Henry, 1858-1863.
This seems like a really compelling project. I’m anxious to see how successful it is without some kind of gamification.
Tim Bray writes about his experience on Medium:
I wonder why Medium would want to publish something if it weren’t an editor’s pick? There are millions of places on the Net to do self-publishing.
From Violet Blue at ZDNet:
Facebook was accidentally combining user’s shadow profiles with their Facebook profiles and spitting the merged information out in one big clump to people they ‘had some connection to’ who downloaded an archive of their account with Facebook’s Download Your Information (DYI) tool.
According to the admissions in its blog, posted late Friday afternoon, Facebook appears to be obtaining users' offsite email address and phone numbers and attempting to match them to other accounts.
