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Digital Identity Diversification
Do you signup with the same username/display name on every web service? Twitter? Instagram? Amazon? Myspace? Livejournal? That Beanie Baby phpBB forum from twenty years ago? WebMD? Goodreads? If you do, I’d suggest googling that username if you haven’t done that before. There is a high chance you may see a rather exhaustive history of […]
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Sgt. Pepper Remixed
Are you a Beatles fan? Run, don’t walk: ( Apple Music | Spotify ) I hadn’t “clicked through” on this release until a couple of days ago as I thought it was simply a cash grab coming on the heels of the exquisite mono releases and the serviceable 2009 stereo remasters. I was wrong. This […]
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Arrival
Wow. I finally got around to seeing Arrival last night and I loved it. It is a must see in my book if you have any interest in the following: linguistics, philosophy, film visuals, cerebral sci-fi.
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Steve Jobs on design
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs
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Trident Exploit Chain
Twitter is lighting up on reports of a triple iOS 0-day exploit chain dubbed “Trident” that silently gives total control of the iPhone to the attacker. The eye-popping part is that at least one cyber arms dealer has likely been peddling software exploiting this particular nastiness since iOS7. Apple has patched in iOS 9.3.5 so […]
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Twitter Is For Tweeters
Derek Thompson writes in The Atlantic that “Twitter is worthless for the limited purpose of driving traffic to your website”. …Twitter is sending less than 2 percent of its overall engagement back to the web. (Lucky you, I’m going to push this post to Twitter.)
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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night” (opening stanza)
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