Threading through the Tangle

Hundreds of assault cases misreported by Milwaukee Police Department - JSOnline

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:14:09 -0400

Hundreds of assault cases misreported by Milwaukee Police Department - JSOnline:

While not what happened in the Wire per se, if you’ve seen the Wire and grok the impulse that police departments have to play with their numbers, none of this comes as the depressing depressing surprise it should be.

Knight News Challenge: Data Hangout #1

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:59:47 -0400

I don’t agree on policy with David Frum, but i often agree...

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:41:59 -0400

I don’t agree on policy with David Frum, but i often agree w/ him on governance. (via DC Gridlock: The Catastrophe (and The Cure?) - The Daily Beast)

Steve Almond and Toto (by mediatinhouse) Thanks to the amazing...

Wed, 16 May 2012 23:41:35 -0400

Steve Almond and Toto (by mediatinhouse) Thanks to the amazing @richgor for passing it on.

There are Chinese-Jamaicans? That’s a thing? And they...

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:23:08 -0400

There are Chinese-Jamaicans? That’s a thing? And they were involved in the roots of Reggae? OMG they sound awesome! (via Always Together: The Documentary)

Barack Obama's best friend

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:47:35 -0400

So i’m signed up for a bunch of political mailing lists. Part of me is interested in the way all these different orgs present themselves and appeal to their listees.

Check out this appeal from the Obama Campaign:

My best friend

from: Barack Obama info@barackobama.com

Ted —

If you’re lucky enough to get to marry your best friend, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Michelle amazes me every day, and in the years we’ve been together, nothing inspires me more than watching her be a mom to our two girls.

Each of us has amazing women in our lives who give us strength and encouragement, and no matter what we do on Mother’s Day, it never seems like enough.

This year, I wanted to try something a little different. I know Michelle treasures every single person who is part of this movement we’ve built, so I’m hoping each of you will sign my card to her today. It’ll mean a lot to her.

Will you join me in wishing Michelle a happy Mother’s Day?

http://my.barackobama.com/Mothers-Day

Thanks, and happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there.

Barack

ES.next needs You! | JavaScript, JavaScript…

Tue, 08 May 2012 01:33:32 -0400

ES.next needs You! | JavaScript, JavaScript…:

This post brings up a lot of questions and quandaries for me. For instance, why isn’t there any reporting done on standards making processes? How should we better get involved? What exactly are the nuances of the TC-39 process?

The venture capital model is broken, and this damning report explains why - GeekWire

Tue, 08 May 2012 01:20:27 -0400

The venture capital model is broken, and this damning report explains why - GeekWire

Brenda Brathwaite: Gaming for understanding | Video on TED.com

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:33:49 -0400

Brenda Brathwaite: Gaming for understanding | Video on TED.com:

“Gamification” is an awful term, but unfortunately more reasonable terms like “engagement” & “interaction” are also so fraught. This is a great video about wrestling with ideas through games.

Grizzly Bear Attacks: How wildlife investigators found a killer grizzly in Yellowstone. - Slate Magazine

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:00:17 -0400

Grizzly Bear Attacks: How wildlife investigators found a killer grizzly in Yellowstone. - Slate Magazine:

A good article, and one which introduced me to what i think is my favorite name for a quasi-governmental agency: the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee

Wired 11.03: Surviving 7G

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:58:43 -0400

Wired 11.03: Surviving 7G

Knight News Challenge: DIY drone fleets for airborne web journalism

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:38:00 -0400

Knight News Challenge: DIY drone fleets for airborne web journalism:

A lot of DIY Drones for journalism and other purposes. Along with Matt Waite’s submission for a sensor network for news, a Mozilla crew has put together their own Drone entry to the Knight News Challenge

newschallenge:

1. What do you propose to do?

We’ll make it easy to deploy cheap, networked drone fleets to help newsrooms create novel web-based experiences—like live events coverage.

2. Is anyone else doing something like this now, and how is your project different?

Many are working with DIYDrones:…

I heard Star for Sale this weekend at the True/False Film...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:44:09 -0500

I heard Star for Sale this weekend at the True/False Film Festival (here in Columbia, Missouri) at the Third Coast Audio Documentary session lead by the ever awesome Julie Shapiro.

The piece is a clever way to talk about shared resources, and I think emblematic of a particular vein of environmentalism that’s got strong roots in Australia. Anyway, give it a listen, it’s short and good.

(via RadioNational’s 360documentaries)

Jeans remain surprisingly clean after a year of wear - University of Alberta Research - University of Alberta

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:05:07 -0500

Jeans remain surprisingly clean after a year of wear - University of Alberta Research - University of Alberta

This is a clear and fairly intuitive description of the...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:16:22 -0500

This is a clear and fairly intuitive description of the encryption that powers the web and what most developers use to secure their servers. Check it out:

Public Key Cryptography: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (by ArtOfTheProblem)

"What kind of attacks did you see? We saw a very wide range of hacking attacks directed at us, some..."

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:57:03 -0500

“

What kind of attacks did you see?

We saw a very wide range of hacking attacks directed at us, some of which were remarkably clever. They ranged from fairly standard old-school denial-of-service attacks, where they would flood a particular network interface with an enormous amount of traffic, but we also saw very specific attacks targeted at vulnerabilities in the routers we used on our network. That’s pretty clever; you would have to spend quite a bit of time investigating the topology in order to figure out what routers we were using.

Any idea who was trying to hack LulzSec?

There were several white-hat hacker groups on Twitter that announced that they were trying to knock Lulz Security offline, the most vocal of which was a hacker who goes by the name The Jester. He spent a lot of time trying to defeat our system, to work out where Lulz Security was actually hosted and he posted various pieces of information over time.

”

- How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of ‘lulz’ - tech - 28 February 2012 - New Scientist

Human-assisted reporting: How to create robot reporters in your own image - Google Docs

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:38:10 -0500

Human-assisted reporting: How to create robot reporters in your own image - Google Docs:

Anyone who considers themselves non-technical who has to deal with data feeds should go read through Ben Welsh’s slides.

elledark: Banksy on Advertising“People are taking the piss out...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:51:11 -0500

elledark:

Banksy on Advertising

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are “The Advertisers” and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

~ Banksy

A great photo shoot idea. (via Looks like good Diving Dogs...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:55:42 -0500

A great photo shoot idea. (via Looks like good Diving Dogs Photography by Seth Casteel)

The Non Sports Fan’s Guide to Jeremy Lin

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:11:57 -0500

The Non Sports Fan’s Guide to Jeremy Lin:

wat is this… i don’t even…? Oh. i see.