av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 5, 2018 | Ted
In an excerpt from her memoir, Small Fry, the author reflects on Jobs’s privacy, his temper, and watching a legend grow before her eyes.
Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father’s house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into my pockets. I took blush, toothpaste, two chipped finger bowls in celadon blue, a bottle of nail polish, a pair of worn patent-leather ballet slippers, and four faded white pillowcases the color of old teeth.
After stealing each item, I felt sated. I promised myself that this would be the last time. But soon the urge to take something else would arrive again like thirst.
Källa: “I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs”: Lisa Brennan-Jobs Recalls Memories of Her Famous Father
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 5, 2018 | Ted
“It’s usually a pretty popular endeavor.
When news broke Friday morning, via a local television reporter on Twitter, that about 100 goats were roaming around a residential neighborhood outside of Boise, Idaho, suffice it to say we had questions. Then the Washington Post reported that these were professionalgoats, owned by a company called We Rent Goats, and we had even more questions. Are there such a thing as amateur goats? So Slate called up Mike Canaday, the director of operations at a company called Rent a Goat (whoch once appeared on TV’s Shark Tank), to talk about the funny, but also lucrative and environmentally friendly, business of goat rental.
Källa: Professional Goats Stormed a Boise Neighborhood. What the Heck Are Professional Goats?
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 4, 2018 | Ted
It may seem that we’re living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We’re not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an eye-opening survey), he argues that there’s a delta between perception and reality in a world that’s maybe not so hyperconnected after all.
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 4, 2018 | Ted
My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten to twenty seconds for a basic news article.
At the time, a few of my friends were getting cable internet. It was remarkable seeing the same pages load in just a few seconds, and I remember thinking about the kinds of the possibilities that would open up as the web kept getting faster.
Källa: The Bullshit Web
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 3, 2018 | Ted
It’s not the passage of time that makes it so hard to get older. It’s ageism, a prejudice that pits us against our future selves — and each other.
Ashton Applewhite urges us to dismantle the dread and mobilize against the last socially acceptable prejudice. ”Aging is not a problem to be fixed or a disease to be cured,” she says. ”It is a natural, powerful, lifelong process that unites us all.”
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 3, 2018 | Ted
GOOGLE IS PLANNING to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal.
The project – code-named Dragonfly – has been underway since spring of last year, and accelerated following a December 2017 meeting between Google’s CEO Sundar Pochai and a top Chinese government official, according to internal Google documents and people familiar with the plans.
Källa: Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
Fotnot: Uppgifterna har dementerats av företrädare för den kinesiska regimen. Uppgifterna har efter det bekräftats, Google har planer på en censurerad sökmotor, av källor inom Google.
