At this point I’m not surprised but I’m at least still shocked. 

Basically this now means that you can’t run a darkroom at home anymore.

“This is the first step in making it illegal to debate whether the surveillance state is a good or bad thing. It’s the extension of the ridiculous airport rule that prohibits discussing the security measures (“Exactly how does 101 ml of liquid endanger a plane?”), conflating it with “making jokes about bombs.”

The smell of a View-Master is part of my childhood, and probably millions of others. 

It’s one of those strange things, do I mourn the passing of this or do I salut the fact that the world has moved onto a new technology?

“A piece of the American experience has faded away. Fisher-Price, the toy company that used to market them, has just eliminated almost all the View-Master titles that have been a staple of young lives for almost 70 years.”

The demise of 3D viewers | The final reel | The Economist

Ask yourself, can you think this quickly with a team member that you’ve never met before?

Re-creation of Hudson River plane landing – Boing Boing

This is unbelivable…

“The Michigan Theater was converted, too … into a parking garage.”

Detroit’s Beautiful Ruins

“It’s hard to believe the market for tech gadgets and accessories and replacement parts is not great enough to sustain local stores. People like me cannot be that rare. That makes little sense to me. I know the other techs I work with are having the same frustrations, and we’re always making do with duct tape and a wad of gum while we wait for replacement parts to arrive. There was a time when we could hop in the car and drive a half-mile to the nearest tech store and pick up whatever we needed.

Those days are gone. And I will miss having those resources handy.”

Circuit City RIP, 03-08-09 (Geek News Central)

I think that I’ve been to Circuit City twice; however, I think that this misses the point. These places were good if you were going to buy a cable, but they were never going to be able to maintain the massive infrastructure on the back of cable sales.

The thing that they were missing was knowledgable advice; and they were never going to be able offer that on the salaries they were offering. With little or no added value, they died.

Can we now just rename all the divisions of all the banks? 

“AIG gambling division in London”

David Galbraith’s Blog » Blog Archive » Nicholas Ashooh of AIG, the world’s worst PR guy?

The RBS Money burning division, the Nothern Rock lost at sea department etc.

Mashup is a great name but does it really describe something this complex and this good?

Newseum – Map View

The only mathematically consistent explanation known for this result is therefore Hardy’s. The weird things he predicted are real and they can, indeed, only be seen by people who are not looking. Dr Yokota and his colleagues went so far as to call their results “preposterous”.

Quantum physics and reality | I’m not looking, honest! | The Economist

 

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