ICYMI, New York is still a shithole.
I was afraid I was going to lose Chelsa’s parents in one of these this wkd… #CitiBikes
Miss you, NYC <3
Facebook’s first data center ran into problems of a distinctly ironic nature when a literal cloud formed in the IT room and started to rain on servers.
Though Facebook has previously hinted at this via references to a “humidity event” within its first data center in Prineville, Oregon, the social network’s infrastructure king Jay Parikh told The Reg on Thursday that, for a few minutes in Summer, 2011, Facebook’s data center contained two clouds: one powered the social network, the other poured water on it.
“I got a call, ‘Jay, there’s a cloud in the data center’,” Parikh says. “‘What do you mean, outside?’. ‘No, inside’.”
There was panic.
“It was raining in the datacenter,” he explains.
- Facebook’s first data center DRENCHED by ACTUAL CLOUD • The Register (via new-aesthetic)(via new-aesthetic)
Okay, beyond the obvious and mildly hilarious irony of it, and beyond another Transparency For The Masses hashtag for me, there’s an interesting point here: Google is acknowledging, right out of the box - in fact, before the box even ships - that there are contexts in which Glass is inappropriate. That is actually really good news. Let’s work with that. OF COURSE there are situations where you shouldn’t be taking video/audio recordings of what’s around you, and it’s not just a matter of corporate confidentiality. It is your friends’ kids, the people who live on your street doing their own thing, the business of strangers. In a civilised society, you don’t just privilege corporate space, you privilege personal space, too.
Moving beyond that, though, how about this: it’s not just that some things are private, it is that there is a space between private and public which should not lightly be entered or subsumed. There is a space which does not belong to me, or to you, or to any third party, but which is for all of us to act in, and that space is communal but not owned by any one of us. In that space, you should not record or report without the specific consent of everyone involved.
Privacy is not binary, it is fuzzy, and it inheres not in individuals only, but in groups, locations, contexts and communities.
Just a thought.
(- theblindgiant)
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Mobile Site vs. Full Site
Good mobile user experience requires a different design than what’s needed to satisfy desktop users. Two designs, two sites, and cross-linking to make it all work.
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- For the vast majority of tasks, mobile users will get a vastly better user experience from a well-designed mobile site than from the full site.
- For a small minority of tasks, mobile users will be slightly delayed by the extra click to the full site.
Bret Victor has created a dynamic drawing tool for data visualization. Very cool.
Upping Your Type Game
http://jessicahische.is/talkingtype
Great presentation on choosing Fonts for the web—where to find great fonts, how to find them, how to implement them, and font pairing consideration. Almost a must read.
Jeff Goldblum for Apple.
Ugh I love this guy.
GET IT?
END OF STORY.
Apple Avoided Billions in Taxes, Congressional Panel Says
Still, the findings about Apple were remarkable both for the enormous amount of money involved – tens of billions of dollars – and the audaciousness of the company’s assertion that its subsidiaries are beyond the reach of any taxing authority because they are “stateless.”
“There is a technical term economists like to use for behavior like this,” said Edward Kleinbard, a law professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a former staff director at the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. “Unbelievable chutzpah.”
A Cybernetic Meadow
The intro to the 2001 Japanese film All About Lily Chou-Chou remains one of the most evocative depictions of notional space.
on of my fave flicks.
