spaceintruderdetector: Compass computer for GRiD Systems….
spaceintruderdetector:
Compass computer for GRiD Systems. Designed by Bill Moggridge. Palo Alto, CA, 1982
“Clearly, there are changes that are happening in the market. Not everybody is going to want a full…”
“Clearly, there are changes that are happening in the market. Not everybody is going to want a full pay-TV bundle.”
– Matthew “No Shit, Sherlock” Strauss, Comcast Cable’s executive vice president and general manager of video services, on the changing state of the cable industry.
(via parislemon)
BBC’s list of pages de-indexed through Europe’s “right to be forgotten”
Under a crazy, ineffectual EU court ruling, people can petition
Google and its rivals to de-index news articles from their European
search-results.But the BBC, not being a search engine, is not bound by the “right to be
forgotten” regime, and so it’s compiled a list of affected articles
from its site, for your easy reference. Included are articles about a
man who killed his fiancee, a family who sued their neighbours for playing father-son football in a shared garden; a man who raped a woman while she slept; and an unnamed woman who died in a car crash.
“Unfortunately, Twitter’s decision to pull the plug on Politwoops is a reminder of how the Internet…”
“Unfortunately, Twitter’s decision to pull the plug on Politwoops is a reminder of how the Internet isn’t truly a public square. Our shared conversations are increasingly taking place in privately owned and managed walled gardens, which means that the politics that occur in such conversations are subject to private rules. (In this case, Twitter’s terms of service for usage of its API.)”