The Weekly Weird - 2015-07-17
- Cat tax: http://laughterkey.com/post/124081769052/gifak-net-video-launch-an-endless-supply-of
- So much worse than sirens on radio ads: http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1355388/clever-toyota-ad-hijacks-siri-switch-off-iphones-driving
- I feel like if you go to enough meetings to need a weakly-godlike AI to help you out you might have bigger problems: http://www.businessinsider.com/amy-ingram-personal-assistant-2015-7
- Somehow this got omitted from a previous week but it's totally awesome: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/femtosecond-lasers-create-3d-midair-plasma-displays-you-can-touch
- Never underestimate the power of static content: http://blog.stackexchange.com/2015/07/how-we-built-our-blog/
- Java: http://epickrram.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/improving-journalling-latency.html
- I haven't read in detail but sounds neat: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=15128
- Look, if your whole lede is that the greenhouses are beautiful, should you not maybe include pictures? http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/06/30/the-worlds-most-beautiful-greenhouses-are-underwater-and-growing-strawberries/
- Frankly, I think this is all nonsense, this thing has all the opsec sophistication of a bad Bond film: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/a-200-privacy-device-has-been-killed-and-no-one-knows-why/ It's probably not hard to build one anyway: http://hackaday.com/2015/07/14/how-to-build-a-proxyham-despite-a-cancelled-defcon-talk/
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Pluto!
- "Hit a 1200-kilometer target that's five billion kilometers away? No problem. Which side do you want us to get?"
- http://www.vox.com/2015/3/3/8140839/pluto-orbit
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I've always wanted a monitoring system that did this: http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/07/tracking-down-villains-outlier.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9886817
- For you know who (though he's certainly already read it and found six bugs): http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-07-08/choosing-a-linux-tracer.html
- I'VE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE http://www.wsj.com/article_email/google-takes-stricter-approach-to-costs-1436827885-lMyQjAxMTE1NzEzNDQxNjQwWj