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It’s like deja-vu all over again | From The Hips

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:28 -0500

It’s like deja-vu all over again | From The Hips:

ok, so that post was a little pre-emptive scary - they’re not actually sharing your personal search history, just stuff you’ve shared or tweeted, to people who are already following your shared items or tweets.

However.

Click this link(referenced in the FAQ), and tell me you aren’t creeped out by the results, especially your second-degree connections.

carmaluna: The Dairy House The property was originally built as...

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:24:35 -0500

carmaluna:

The Dairy House

The property was originally built as a cheesemakers cottage in 1901. The conversion, completed in 2006, involved demolishing every partition within the original structure and creating a series of rooms within the stone shell. Added to the back of the original cottage is a beautiful oak and glass annexe.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 12 - A song from a band you...

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:20:56 -0500

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 12 - A song from a band you hate

Sigur Ros - Saeglopur

I’ve given Sigur Ros so many chances. so, so many. They’re still the lesser, whinier kid brother of the actually-talented post-rock boom of the turn of the millenium. This song’s pretty decent, but it took 4 albums to make one not-bad song?

How not having a car became Hollywood shorthand for loser.

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:10:31 -0500

How not having a car became Hollywood shorthand for loser.:

perpetua:

This is interesting to me. Like, it’s not at all surprising given the intense car culture of L.A. in particular and the rest of the United States in general, but from my perspective as a 30 year old man who has never had a driver’s license and has lived the majority of his life in or around New York City, it’s actually weird to me that most people have to drive. I’d be perfectly happy to never have to drive in my lifetime. When people talk about cars being a form of freedom, it conflicts with a lot of the reasons why I didn’t learn to drive as a teen — I had a huge fear of becoming trapped in the suburbs, and so I stuck with trains and the city because I knew I’d be happier there than if I got financially mired in driving around the Hudson Valley. I’ve always seen driving as a thing that would place limits on me.

I love Austin, but coming from Chicago, the car dependency here is starting to wear on me. I’m feeling the itch to move somewhere denser, with proper public transit.

brave-slut: sisterspock: jbenty:ohsara

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:17:40 -0500

brave-slut:

sisterspock:

jbenty:ohsara

ASK DAVE MUSTAINE

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:59:01 -0500

ASK DAVE MUSTAINE:

(via iroflnaked) haha, forgot this existed. hilarity.

The Dark Side of The Moons Over My Hammy

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:48:45 -0500

The Dark Side of The Moons Over My Hammy

highsee: readthisblgandgetstnd: (via iroflnaked)

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:07:43 -0500

highsee: readthisblgandgetstnd: (via iroflnaked)

sunshadowpoet: sammle:Hark! A Vagrant

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:16:47 -0500

sunshadowpoet:

sammle:Hark! A Vagrant

nonduality: (fortunes-daughter) (via rawsalt)

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:29:00 -0500

nonduality: (fortunes-daughter) (via rawsalt)

It's like deja-vu all over again

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:52:23 -0500

ericmortensen:

rainblog:

Remember the Google Buzz fiasco? In their eagerness to roll out their latest whizz-bang new killer feature (by the way, does anyone still use Buzz?), Google didn’t bother to think about - or deliberately chose to ignore - the potential privacy implications of their model and ended up exposing everyone’s contacts. A predictable outcry followed, and Google was forced to walk it all back and put in the protections that should have been in there from the start.

But that’s all in the past now, and Google have learned their lesson, haven’t they? Well, no. Because now they’ve launched Google Social Search, another exciting innovation we didn’t need that … leaks all your contact information all over again.

How does it do that? If you’re logged in when you search for something, Google will show results that are somehow related to your ‘social circle’. Google assembles your social circle by the usual connectivity voodoo - digging through your Gmail contacts, your Google reader subscriptions and so forth. So far, there’s no great cause for alarm. But Google also includes second-order contacts - friends of your friends - in the results. And that’s where the trouble starts.

To illustrate the problem, suppose you are a married man who has been secretly carrying on with the local femme fatale. Your wife does a search for that charming little restaurant where you celebrate your wedding anniversary, and uncovers a glowing review written by that shameless hussy, accompanied by a helpful note from Google explaining that she shows up in the results because she’s a friend of yours. Marital ructions ensue.

Or you’re considering leaving your job at WidgetCo and have been sending out copies of your resume. When your boss searches for something, his social search results suddenly include half a dozen recruiters and the CEO of rival GadgetCorp, all tagged as contacts of yours. Problematic, no?

The possible scenarios go on and on. Subscribe to a mailing list for wombat fetishists? One lucky search hit and the whole world can know about your fondness for those winsome marsupials. And so on. And so on.

Friend-of-a-friend (FOAF) leaks are one of those nasty social networking gotchas that most users don’t think about. Apparently Google didn’t think about this one either because - even after the Buzz mess - they went ahead and engineered it straight into their new baby. What they didn’t do, of course, is provide any way for you to opt-out. There’s no mechanism for saying “No, dammit, don’t expose my list of private contacts to all my friends.” And unlike Buzz, which at least you had to start using before it could out all your contacts, Google Social Search will go ahead and expose your friends without you lifting a finger. I guess they call that progress.

So here we go again. Once again, we need to make a noise and get Google to undo their latest piece of thoughtlessness before it starts messing up people’s lives.

I’d been seeing people’s google-reader-shared items in search, but this is a whole ‘nother level.

evabraun: pussyandcocaine:burnthebible:beersforfears:(via...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:47:41 -0500

evabraun: pussyandcocaine:burnthebible:beersforfears:(via glitterprincess666)

Urbanized: A documentary film by Gary Hustwit

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:48:47 -0500

Urbanized: A documentary film by Gary Hustwit:

rocketsandrayguns:

austinkleon:

Hustwit finally announced the third film in his design trilogy, which will be about the design of cities.

I drew the first two films, Helvetica and Objectified.

I was close—I guessed it would be about architecture.

this one definitely interests me (despite my hating on adver-mentary Helvetica).

thrownness: highsee: thrownness: fleetfootedfox: Calvin...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:45:14 -0500

thrownness:

highsee:

thrownness:

fleetfootedfox:

Calvin Klein Collection - Shawl-Collar Sweater - Saks.com

got excited about this for a second, because guys fashion is very limited in acceptable collar typologies. Then I realized that a new typology would cost $625. Fuck. That.

Bam.

Am I getting annoying yet? ;]

That sweater is hideous. Looks like they put a collar on a thermal undershirt.

It has potential when styled. I like the J. Crew version better. It’s more accessible while still being super-soft (our marled cotton is niiiice) and warm. Plus, it’s obviously cheaper and you’ll get better use out of it because the cashmere CK piece would end up ruined.

Agreed, the j.crew version is definitely better. will order when fall hits in TX (december, maybe). Cashmere sweaters rarely last 1 season for me, so yeah. In agreement this time (Heather bought me the A|X shirt last time).

pigtailsandcombatboots: Malice in Wonderland by Jelena Kevic

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:04:52 -0500

pigtailsandcombatboots:

Malice in Wonderland by Jelena Kevic

Calvin Klein Collection - Shawl-Collar Sweater - Saks.com got...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:56:56 -0500

Calvin Klein Collection - Shawl-Collar Sweater - Saks.com

got excited about this for a second, because guys fashion is very limited in acceptable collar typologies. Then I realized that a new typology would cost $625. Fuck. That.

highsee: Obama’s Legacy: Afghanistan thrownness: steampunkanachronism: nybooks: Garry...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:41:06 -0500

highsee:

Obama’s Legacy: Afghanistan

thrownness:

steampunkanachronism:

nybooks:

Garry Wills

It is time for me to break a silence I have observed for over a year, against my better judgment. On June 30, 2009, I and eight other historians were invited to a dinner with President Obama and three of his staffers, to discuss what history could teach him about conducting the presidency. I was asked shortly after by several news media what went on there, and I replied that it was off the record. I have argued elsewhere that the imposition of secrecy to insure that the president gets “candid advice” is a cover for something else—making sure that what is said about the people’s business does not reach the people. But I went along this time, since the president said that he wanted this dinner to be a continuing thing, and I thought that revealing its first contents would jeopardize the continuation of a project that might be a source of information for him.

But there has been no follow up on the first dinner, and certainly no sign that he learned anything from it. The only thing achieved has been the silencing of the main point the dinner guests tried to make—that pursuit of war in Afghanistan would be for him what Vietnam was to Lyndon Johnson.

& just like LBJ, he probably shouldn’t run again.

Sorry, dude. You spent too much time making sure the Republicans were comfortable and let their bullshit get out of control instead of actually doing most of what you promised.

Agreed. As much as I’d love to see him take a 2nd term and really turn shit around for himself, it’s just not going to happen. His rabid “Yes We Can” support base has been totally disillusioned. Bush’s 3rd term, but with better sentence structure.

I’m having a hard time imagining anyone else doing any better. By which I mean, I think we’re fucked. I’d like to believe that democrats could find a better candidate if he didn’t run again, but realistically I’ll be voting 3rd party or not voting in 2012.

"* Processed meats such as non-beef hot dogs and gyro meat count as a ½ meat. * Be aware that your..."

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:03:16 -0500

“* Processed meats such as non-beef hot dogs and gyro meat count as a ½ meat.
* Be aware that your beer is a reflection of you and you will probably be judged based on your selection.
* Pets are allowed at Man B Que; pit bulls, dinosaurs, gorillas and great white sharks being the preferred variety.
* There shall be no use of utensils at Man B Que unless it’s a grilling tool.”

- Rules | ManBQue

really, I should just quote the whole thing. it’s great.

sanguineheart: Les Discrets Interview As to my knowledge, this...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:31:52 -0500

sanguineheart:

Les Discrets Interview

As to my knowledge, this is the first video interview with Fursy Teyssier of Les Discrets! Conducted in English by metalfrankonia.com on April 5, 2010 in Wurzberg Germany before an Alcest concert.

New Intronaut Track!

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:29:47 -0500

New Intronaut Track!:

pcp30:

Sounds fucking badass. Excellent writeup by the always amazing Cosmo Lee.

(via Invisible Oranges)

to listen to later.