felixsalmon: (via Language Log » Annals of airport Chinglish, part 3) Someone, please, set up a simple website where Chinese companies can input whatever language they want, and then helpful English-speakers can provide a comprehensible translation, mechanical-Turk style but for free. It shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours for the... - http://borislav1.tumblr.com/post...
RT @bobozandyr: Сблъсъкът с наистина зли и лоши хора винаги ме хвърля в недоумение. Не мога да проумея как може да се търпиш такъв - тъп, злобен и заядлив?!
Somebody thinks they’re downloading a piece of software off the Internet but instead they’re downloading this piece of spyware and now the government has full access to everything they type [and] everything they say. [And] not only is this piece of code on a computer logging every keystroke and everything being said, but they also boast about... - http://borislav1.tumblr.com/post...
If you’re sitting out on the network, it’s very difficult to determine what is being said during a Skype conversation. So one way around that is to put some intrusion technology on the target’s computer. So basically you’re seeing all the keystrokes and hearing all the conversation before it becomes encrypted. There are some technologies that... - http://borislav1.tumblr.com/post...
npr:
Sigh. Oh’s is my fave cereal. — Tanya
thedailyfeed: Did you know Froot Loops is more than 40% sugar? And it’s not even the worst! A new study says you’re better off eating chocolate chip cookies for breakfast than these cereals. - http://borislav1.tumblr.com/post...
bestrooftalkever:
I’m just shocked that any zip code could have 0-5.
(Except Central park, which I guess has its own zip?) - http://borislav1.tumblr.com/post...
nationalpost: No recess from French as Montreal schools to scan playground chatter The playgrounds, hallways and cafeterias of Quebec’s largest school board will soon be French-only zones as authorities move to silence other languages, even during recess. In a bid to ensure its 110,000 students master French, the Commission scolaire de Montréal... - http://borislav1.tumblr.com/post...
npr:
laughingsquid:
Address Is Approximate, A Toy’s Adventure Using Google Street View
This is absolutely gorgeous — well worth two-and-a-half minutes of your time. —Sarah
Nice! - http://borislav1.tumblr.com/post...
kqedscience:
Wow! This new metal - which is 99.9 percent air - is so light that it can sit atop dandelion fluff without damaging it.
It was developed by a team of researchers from UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology and is about one hundred times lighter than Styrofoam. - http://borislav1.tumblr.com/post...
jtotheizzoe: New Look at Europa Points to Huge Under-Ice Lakes of Liquid Water Europa, a moon orbiting Jupiter, has long been known to have plenty of water. It’s covered with a massive ocean of water, it just lies beneath 20 km of ice. A new analysis of erupting volcanoes points to areas where water could pool as close as 3 km to the surface,... - http://borislav1.tumblr.com/post...