Tonight's sunset was brought to you by... standing on the summit of the tallest mountain in the world, alpine tundra climate, 32°F, evidence of ancient glaciers, a mile above the clouds,
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Mauna Kea? I already have nailed down you were in Hawaii. YOU CAN'T FOOL ME, LE. GIVE IT UP, YO.
- Derrick
Between the sky and the sand, gazing upon vastness, I'd say.
- Slippy 2.0
haleakala! edit: no no mauna kea or mauna loa
- Trish Haley
Yup, you guys found me, Mauna Kea. And with that, I'll soon be going to a land of no technology, so see you all in about 10 days. Have fun - Happy 4th everyone!
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awesome! have fun! ALOoooOOOOoooooHA!
- Trish Haley
The Hole in the Rock, off Paihia, Bay of Islands New Zealand?
- Gilbert Harding
Johni, wow, that one looks pretty similar. OK, this one was tough, it's one of the large caves on the Na Pali coast of Kauai... only one way in or out.
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Saving Face is a good, thoughtful contribution to the literature on social network site privacy. It builds on danah boyd, Alessandro Acquisti, Clay Shirky, Lorrie Cranor, and yours truly in thinking about privacy on Facebook as a difficult problem of social norms and interface design, rather than as a contradiction in terms...
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At a minimum, any third parties that ride on top of social networks should be limited by the privacy permissions that users have already given to the networks themselves. It is not always clear that they are. Far greater transparency is also needed. Signing up to an application usually means being asked to grant broad permissions without knowing what personal data will be used or how. There is often no information about the application’s developer or even a link to a privacy policy.
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"Goh Chok Tong, a previous prime minister of Singapore, threw down a challenge for his nation in 1996, saying it could "measure its graciousness" by its bathrooms. Clean toilets indicate a prosperous country -- that was the gist of his take on national pride."
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But depending what movie your watching sometimes you can hear things blowing up :D
- martha
I was watching Alien, though the space scenes are not as quiet as the movie's tagline would have you believe. Very few movies get that right.
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Your blood will boil and head will implode before you can scream
- Mo Kargas
Watching Titan AE for the first time in a long time.
"The project "A Visual Expedition Inside the Linux File Systems" [jhu.edu] consists of a collection of 78 visualizations (e.g. dotplots, bar graphs, treemaps, scatter plots...) and 10 animations that illustrate the relationships among the Linux File Systems through the lens of the external symbols their kernel modules use."
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...and starting at the countdown from 10 or so, I'll be playing my Six Degrees Radio™ game... every song has to have a close connection to the song before it.
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#13 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (Kristen Hersh)
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#12 Are You Experienced (Hendrix by Belly, whose lead is step-sister and bandmate of Kristen Hersh in Throwing Muses - see full genealogy of related bands here: https://friendfeed.com/logical...)
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#11 Purple Haze (The Cure) - another Hendrix tune, of course.
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#10 A Forest (The Cure by Nouvelle Vague) - yeah, I know it's cheating to use a band that's mainly known for covers, but you do what you gotta do in a pinch.
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#9 Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division by Nouvelle Vague) - you see where I'm going next, right?
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#5 Across The Universe (David Bowie) - I didn't even know this existed until yesterday... The Covers Project is an invaluable resource... thanks MWM: https://friendfeed.com/joffi...
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#4 Ziggy Stardust (Bowie by Bauhaus) - without consulting any Internet resources, can you name 6 spin-off acts from Bauhaus?
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#1 / #100,000 = The Rip (Radiohead doing Portishead) - one of my ATFs covering another of my ATFs.
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And that's it. The next few in the queue follow an alternate branch, then it's just random covers after that. You can follow along here (http://www.last.fm/user...) if you're sufficiently motivated. Thanks for playing.
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Perhaps the most famous example of why the serial comma should be used is this apocryphal book dedication: “To my parents, Ayn Rand and God.”
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"Google is putting millions of users at risk of fraud from hackers and needs to enable encryption by default on its most popular web apps, including Gmail and Google Docs, a gaggle of security researchers told the search giant Tuesday in an open letter." [The letter and list of signatories: http://www.cloudprivacy.net/letter...]
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HTTPS is a good thing for the internet... it helps protect individual surfers from snoops, limits the ability for ISPs and carriers and governments to read our bits, and makes it easier to assert Fair Use rights with content, among other things.
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Come stay on mine, we welcome wildlife
- jcunwired
I don't really mind having them around, except when they eat the good plants. @adf, thanks, I should try some of those in strategic spots.
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So sad to hear someone would be this way about animals. Where else are they supposed to go if we take away their habitat? One of my book projects is about how someone takes over the planet and treats humans like we treat animals. Sounds silly, but it's intended to mock how creepy people are in the way they treat/view other beings. Imagine what it'd be like if your life was like most...
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- Patricia
Patricia, it's just in fun. I back up to a large field and enjoy being immersed in a variety of wildlife, even if it is frustrating when they eat something I wanted to keep.
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