January 2011
Milton Babbitt, Composer Who Gloried in... →
referred to himself as a maximalist to stress the musical and philosophical distance between his style and the simpler, more direct style of younger contemporaries
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Scientific Proof That There’s No Point Washing Your Jeans
Goods new for all you filthy purist bastards out there who’ve gone six months or a year or longer without washing your precious selvedge (this writer included, more because hey, gotta save quarters!): turns out your britches might not be that dirty. ABC News caught up with Canadian student Josh Le who wore his 15 months straight...
How Bob Lutz made four auto journalists his... →
Product development requires a gut feel. It requires a passion for excellence.
Square Feet: Who Invests in Low-Income Housing?... →
"Nothing like this will be built again" -... →
Before you can get in or out of the reactor building itself, there are turnstile barriers to go through: access using card badges and past a security checkpoint, egress using the same card badges and through a full-body sized cubicle full of scintillation detectors. Outside the controlled area it might as well be any other big power station, but inside it, the level of attention to detail is...
“Make a point of saying exactly what you mean, and asking for exactly what you...”
– Too Much Miscommunication at Work? A Simple Fix | Fast Company (via jellybeanboom)
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Everything you need to know about cryptography in... →
Specific topics covered will include symmetric vs. asymmetric encryption; symmetric vs. asymmetric signatures; block ciphers; block cipher modes; key lengths; message authentication codes; hash algorithms; password handling; padding for asymmetric encryption; padding for asymmetric signing; Diffie-Hellman groups; and side channel attacks.
“The person who can keep the trains running on time is a scarce commodity, but...”
– Timothy Cook in Apple Spotlight as Jobs Takes Leave - NYTimes.com
Melting in Andes Reveals Remains and Wreckage →
In Nuclear Silos, Death Wears a Snuggie | Danger... →
America and her nuclear warriors have an odd relationship. For decades, missileers (as we’re known in the military) have quietly performed their duties, custodians of a dying breed of weapon. But American citizens have no real connection with the shadowy operators who stand the old posts of the Cold War, despite the fact that they spend up to $8 billion a year to maintain our country’s nuclear...
WatchMeTunes - Grammy Vote - Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney & Ezra Koenig - The Colbert Report - 1/11/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
NSA's Home Base May Have Crappiest Website Ever →
It's Official: The Verizon iPhone →
It’s finally here. The Verizon iPhone. The announcement today in New York City effectively ends AT&T’s three-year exclusivity as the phone’s sole U.S. carrier. The Verizon iPhone will go on sale early next month.
“I see this as an opportunity for entrepreneurs. In some cases, the content...”
– A VC: Content Shifting
Jersey Fresh' legislation includes baked goods →
