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What a fluid transition from Bieber to Proust.

Close friends to my perman-friend delivered a small multifaceted gift box to us three weeks ago. Inside the box, we found salt and pepper shakers unapologetically labeled ?Heroin? and ?Cocaine,? and a big burgundy book adorned by gold scriptures of the Assouline variety, titled ?The Proust Questionnaire.? A long time admirer of Marcel Proust, I couldn?t chalk up my fixation to much more than burning jealously?for he was born in Paris, after all?and sweeping emasculation: will anything comparable to In Search of Lost Time ever exist in both length and substance? Sure, I had heard of The Proust Questionnaire, if not because I studied literature than certainly because I am an avid Vanity Fair reader.

But when I opened the burgundy hardcover and found what seemed like the very familiar answers of Proust to a questionnaire that he?s become so widely recognized for popularizing, an obvious, albeit self indulgent, urge to answer the questions personally attacked me too. I flipped through the pages and learned wildly intimate things about outstanding individuals who had previously seemed so remote.

Brigitte Bardot wished to be a fairy if she were not herself. Alain de Botton?s favorite name is Eloise (he also have the same birthday as me,) and Diane von Furstenberg?s heroines of fiction are all mothers.

In my answering of the questions?I would like to die while buying expensive shoes at age 101, my idea of misery is perpetual entrapment in my thoughts, my idea of happiness is a glass of wine and good conversation with my parents, grandparents, brothers and husband and my present state of mind goes, what is life if not a celebration, and what is celebration if not for life??I was forced to reflect on that which had seemed so distantly foreign. Ultimately, I learned how wholly and closely these answers manifest within me.

I now urge all of you to take a look at the Proust Questionnaire, re-purposed below, and to share in the comment whatever answers you?d like to. It is unassumingly therapeutic to project such raw honesty.

Your favorite virtue.

Your favorite qualities in a man.

Your favorite qualities in a woman.

Your favorite occupation.

Your chief characteristic.

Your idea of happiness.

Your idea of misery.

Your favorite color and flower.

If not yourself, who would you be?

Where would you like to live?

Your favorite prose authors.

Your favorite poets.

Your favorite painters and composers.

Your favorite heroes in real life.

Your favorite heroines in real life.

Your favorite heroes in fiction.

Your favorite heroines in fiction.

Your favorite food and drink.

Your favorite names.

Your pet aversion.

What characters in history do you most dislike?

What is your present state of mind?

For what fault have you most toleration?

Your favorite motto.

And though it?s been removed, I think it is considerably enlightening to think about how you would die if the option were yours. If you?ve already answered these questions, do it again! Revisiting Proust is never a bad idea.

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Best Online Website Promotion ? Dedicated Servers

Sharing knowledge on the web can be a very powerful way to establish your online presence and credibility. First, you write a thoughtful and informative article on an topic in your area of expertise. Then you submit it to e-zines to be read by the general public and possibly re-published on other web sites. Appended to the end of your article is a resource box containing a brief promotional message linking to your web site. Webmasters who wish to reprint your article on their sites are required to include your resource box along with any live links to your site. The benefit that you get from your article is two-fold. First, your article will be read by visitors to the e-zine site. If they find it helpful and interesting, they will likely visit your web site to see what else you had to offer. Second, webmasters who find your article useful to their visitors may re-publish it on their sites, giving your article additional exposure. Every time your article is re-published on a web site, you gain an additional one-way link to your site through the live link in your resource box. This adds to your link popularity and ultimately increases your search engine rankings.  As you can see, the true potential of your article lies in its ability to propagate virally in cyberspace. For your article to propagate virally, it should appeal to both readers and webmasters alike. Keep in mind that your goal is hold your readers attention long enough for them to get to the  resource box.  If your article is boring and uninformative, few people will read it beyond the first or second paragraph. Below are some pointers to consider when writing an article: 1. Give your article a catchy title. Your title is the first and often the only thing that visitors see when they skim through a list of articles on an e-zine page. Put some thought into coming up with a title that grabs the reader?s attention right away. Words like Secrets,Free, and Successful tend to attract more attention than others. 2. Your article should not read like an ad. Most people read articles to find information they can use, not to see a pitch about your products or services.  If they see your article as nothing more than a shameless act of self promotion, they?ll get turned off and hit the Back button right away.  Put yourself in the reader?s shoes. What benefits do you want to get out of reading an article?  Cater to your reader?s  interests rather than your own. 3. Offer lots of free, useful information. Following on the last tip, keep in mind that your readers are looking for specific how-to instructions to help them achieve a certain goal.  Offer lots of tangible information that is immediately useful to them. Do not lead them through hoops just to get to an order 4) Avoid gimmicks. While it may be true that a sucker is born every minute, most internet users are sophisticated enough to tell what?s legitimate and what?s not. Write with the intention of offering something substantial to the reader. Be honest and forthright. Your article should not cause the reader to think, What is this guy trying to sell me? 5) Be succinct. Get to the point quickly, preferably in the first or second paragraph. Avoid lengthy paragraphs. Use lots of white space to separate your paragraphs to make them easier to read. 6) Your article should not be too short. Certainly, it?s possible to write a good article packed with useful information using just a couple hundred words. If your article is too short, however, some webmasters may feel hesitant to reprint it on their sites. They may, instead, borrow your ideas and write their own articles, gaining authorship without having to give you credit for your ideas. How long should your article be?  I suggest at least 500 words, preferably longer.  Longer articles give webmasters the impression that you have put some time and effort into your work and, thus, are deserving of being reprinted on their sites. 7) Use live (clickable) links in your resource box. Many e-zines permit clickable links in  resource boxes. Yet, many authors forgo this privilege by simply spelling out their URLs. Whenever permitted, you should spell out your URL as well as make it clickable (e.g. http://www.nexcomp.com/weblaunch). The advantages of a clickable URL are, (1) readers can go to your site simply by clicking on it,  and more importantly, (2) search engines will be able to record the ezine page containing your article as a link your web site, adding to your link popularity and search engine rankings. Avoid hyping in your resource box. Your resource box, while promotional in nature, should be brief and tasteful. The purpose of your resource box is not to sell your readers something, but to lead them to your website which does the actual selling. Your resource box should contain your name, your company name, a brief description of your products or services, your web site?s URL, and a clickable link to your site. 9) Put some thought and effort into your writing. E-zines have varying standards for accepting articles, and some accept and publish all submissions without any human review at all. However, this does not mean you should write an article just for sake of having it published somewhere. If your article comes off as half-baked, readers may make a similar assumption about you and your business practices

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iPad Mini Take Apart Video Released

November 2nd, 2012

We just released our iPad Mini Take apart guide. The guide shows you how to open the iPad Mini and remove the various components. The iPad Mini is fairly easy to open up, especially if you?ve opened other iPad models. The video is embedded below:

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The Daily Roundup for 11.29.2012

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?

Takashi Murai

The "immortal jellyfish" can transform itself back into a polyp and begin life anew.

After more than 4,000 years ? almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral found on the ocean floor ? man finally discovered eternal life in 1988. He found it, in fact, on the ocean floor. The discovery was made unwittingly by Christian Sommer, a German marine-biology student in his early 20s. He was spending the summer in Rapallo, a small city on the Italian Riviera, where exactly one century earlier Friedrich Nietzsche conceived ?Thus Spoke Zarathustra?: ?Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again. . . .?

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Shin Kubota at Kyoto University?s Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.

Sommer was conducting research on hydrozoans, small invertebrates that, depending on their stage in the life cycle, resemble either a jellyfish or a soft coral. Every morning, Sommer went snorkeling in the turquoise water off the cliffs of Portofino. He scanned the ocean floor for hydrozoans, gathering them with plankton nets. Among the hundreds of organisms he collected was a tiny, relatively obscure species known to biologists as Turritopsis dohrnii. Today it is more commonly known as the immortal jellyfish.

Sommer kept his hydrozoans in petri dishes and observed their reproduction habits. After several days he noticed that his Turritopsis dohrnii was behaving in a very peculiar manner, for which he could hypothesize no earthly explanation. Plainly speaking, it refused to die. It appeared to age in reverse, growing younger and younger until it reached its earliest stage of development, at which point it began its life cycle anew.

Sommer was baffled by this development but didn?t immediately grasp its significance. (It was nearly a decade before the word ?immortal? was first used to describe the species.) But several biologists in Genoa, fascinated by Sommer?s finding, continued to study the species, and in 1996 they published a paper called ?Reversing the Life Cycle.? The scientists described how the species ? at any stage of its development ? could transform itself back to a polyp, the organism?s earliest stage of life, ?thus escaping death and achieving potential immortality.? This finding appeared to debunk the most fundamental law of the natural world ? you are born, and then you die.

One of the paper?s authors, Ferdinando Boero, likened the Turritopsis to a butterfly that, instead of dying, turns back into a caterpillar. Another metaphor is a chicken that transforms into an egg, which gives birth to another chicken. The anthropomorphic analogy is that of an old man who grows younger and younger until he is again a fetus. For this reason Turritopsis dohrnii is often referred to as the Benjamin Button jellyfish.

Yet the publication of ?Reversing the Life Cycle? barely registered outside the academic world. You might expect that, having learned of the existence of immortal life, man would dedicate colossal resources to learning how the immortal jellyfish performs its trick. You might expect that biotech multinationals would vie to copyright its genome; that a vast coalition of research scientists would seek to determine the mechanisms by which its cells aged in reverse; that pharmaceutical firms would try to appropriate its lessons for the purposes of human medicine; that governments would broker international accords to govern the future use of rejuvenating technology. But none of this happened.

Some progress has been made, however, in the quarter-century since Christian Sommer?s discovery. We now know, for instance, that the rejuvenation of Turritopsis dohrnii and some other members of the genus is caused by environmental stress or physical assault. We know that, during rejuvenation, it undergoes cellular transdifferentiation, an unusual process by which one type of cell is converted into another ? a skin cell into a nerve cell, for instance. (The same process occurs in human stem cells.) We also know that, in recent decades, the immortal jellyfish has rapidly spread throughout the world?s oceans in what Maria Pia Miglietta, a biology professor at Notre Dame, calls ?a silent invasion.? The jellyfish has been ?hitchhiking? on cargo ships that use seawater for ballast. Turritopsis has now been observed not only in the Mediterranean but also off the coasts of Panama, Spain, Florida and Japan. The jellyfish seems able to survive, and proliferate, in every ocean in the world. It is possible to imagine a distant future in which most other species of life are extinct but the ocean will consist overwhelmingly of immortal jellyfish, a great gelatin consciousness everlasting.

Nathaniel Rich is an author whose second novel, ??Odds Against Tomorrow,?? will be published in April.

Editor: Jon Kelly

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Green Energy Stimulus Bankruptcies Come in All Sizes

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The little-reported bankruptcy of a relatively small electric vehicle battery manufacturer last month illustrates the many problems with President Obama?s green energy stimulus program, and why the more appropriate location for the ramblin?, gamblin? White House might be Las Vegas.

This smaller (compared to other Recovery Act beneficiaries) example is ReVolt Technology, which relocated from Switzerland to Oregon to take advantage of a $5 million Recovery Act grant from the Department of Energy in order to develop and mass-produce a ?zinc-air? vehicle battery. Its technology was developed in Norway where the company was backed since 2004 by Viking Venture Management. According to the Portland Business Journal, ReVolt believed it could ?deliver twice the energy of conventional rechargeable battery technologies, such as lithium-ion.?

Federal money wasn?t the only attraction. The company also received $5 million in city and state loans, as well as business energy tax credits. Thus we have another alternative energy failure ? much like the many wind, solar and electric vehicle busts that have been archived by Obama administration watchdogs ? that went belly-up once the government money ran out.

Of course, none of these companies can be honest about the fact that they are just rent-seeking. So to justify it, in the case of the green energy flim-flam, they cloak it in the mysterious and undefined parameters of ?research investment.?

Hence we have thousands of government-funded companies like ReVolt, whose super-secret technology ? just by virtue of its existence ? justified the aforementioned millions of dollars from taxpayers. If you can make bureaucrats (or their contracted law firms) believe a zinc-air battery (or for that matter, any made-up technology that sounds good) holds promise as the ?next big thing? in energy research breakthroughs, then the money?s in the bag.

The proof that government loan/grant analysts don?t know what they?re doing is obvious. Stimulus money went out the door to unproven start-ups, many whose leaders and investors were adept at playing the government cronyism game and/or making a case for their ?alternative? technologies, such as Fisker Automotive, A123 Systems, Abound Solar and Solyndra. The determination that any of these companies deserved financial support looked more like the result of a crapshoot rather than a thorough and proper evaluation.

In the case of ReVolt, despite its obvious shortcomings, the Portland Business Journal still attempted to determine whether government authorities properly vetted the company ? especially the state of Oregon. The publication, via public records requests, sought all loan application materials submitted to the state of Oregon, Oregon Department of Energy and Portland Development Commission.

What it received were documents that were heavily redacted, thanks to exemptions in the public information law (which is the case in most states when it comes to corporate welfare) that allow private companies to protect ?trade secrets? and other confidential information. The Business Journal also reported that ReVolt asked officials to sign an agreement to further prevent the release of certain company information. Failed technology and bankrupt businesses are entitled to their privacy, you see, even when taxpayers are forced to pay for it.?

?Since detailed descriptions of the company?s technology and most of its financial information ? including its balance sheet ? are redacted, it?s difficult to determine whether the company presented a good case for more than $5 million in taxpayer subsidies,? the Business Journal reported.

What the publication did discover was a sales forecast memo signed by CEO James McDougall that projected ReVolt would sell 5,000 of its batteries by 2013 at $5,000 each, with a false prophecy of $25 million in 2013 revenue.

As for the promise of ReVolt?s technology, a loan review panel for the Portland Development Commission characterized the company?s application as ?high risk.? The Business Journal quoted an analyst for Pike Research, who said the zinc-oxide battery developed by ReVolt wouldn?t be viable ?in the first part of this decade.?

Despite that expert assessment, the feds and Oregonians were apparently more impressed with ReVolt?s techno-dazzle. According to the Recovery.gov Web site, the company promised to design a battery based upon ?cycle life, round trip efficiency and power.? The unit?s zinc ?is transported through reaction tubes (the cathode) to facilitate the discharge and recharge of the battery.? The remarkable-sounding ?Zinc Flow Air Battery? was to be ?a new class of rechargeable battery system that combines key innovations from the fields of fuel cells and metal-air batteries to enable a number of disruptive inventions aimed at solving previous system limitations.?

Compared to those striking credentials ? whether they?re legitimate or not ? ?high risk? and ?not viable? get lost in the fireworks. At least that?s the case for government know-nothings; for the private investment world, they tend to examine reality more, and if they don?t then they lose their own shirts? and not taxpayers.? As top investor Viking Venture announced in mid-October when ReVolt revealed it would go bankrupt, the non-government capital dried up.

?The potential of the technology has been considered huge and the company has attracted considerable capital from international investors as well as public grants,? said Viking?s Managing Partner Erik Hagen. ?However, it is time to acknowledge that the company could not attract new capital in order to continue the development.?

ReVolt is much like other green stimulus recipients that NLPC has covered, which illustrates the depths of indifference and/or incompetence that existed among those who reviewed loan and grant applications, both at the federal and state levels. Much of the attention has been directed at the big beneficiaries like Solyndra and A123 Systems, which were granted hundreds of millions of dollars, but there are many times more undeserving companies ? like ReVolt ? that also received funds. For example:

?????? ReVolt was similar to bankrupt battery makers A123 and Ener1, both of which had no serious track record of success, no established mass-market technology, and not enough customers to justify huge investment. How many other little businesses with minimal credentials like ReVolt were shoveled money?

?????? ReVolt was similar to Kansas City-based Smith Electric Vehicles, which left Great Britain ? where it was failing ? to seek fame and stimulus fortune in the U.S. How many other companies left their homelands because President Obama threw open the green energy vault to nearly all comers?

?????? ReVolt was similar to Abound Solar, which was described as ?lagging in technology relative to its competitors? by Fitch Ratings, who also said there was only a 45-percent likelihood Abound would repay its loan to taxpayers. Like ?high risk? ReVolt, Abound was granted the taxpayer-backed loans anyway. How many other companies, large and small, were identified by industry experts as poor bets yet were given public money?

Bankruptcies and discredit have not diminished the Obama administration?s passion to give away other peoples? money to their cronies and other alt-energy operatives. So despite no more automotive ReVolt, and no voter revolt, we are likely to see no change.

Paul Chesser is an associate fellow for the National Legal and Policy Center and publishes CarolinaPlottHound.com, an aggregator of North Carolina news.

Source: http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/11/28/green-energy-stimulus-bankruptcies-come-all-sizes

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Thousands celebrate Hobbit premiere in New Zealand

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people packed New Zealand's capital city, clambering on roofs and hanging onto lamp posts on Wednesday to get a glimpse of the stars at the red carpet world premiere of the film "The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey".

Wellington, where director Peter Jackson and much of the post production is based, renamed itself "the Middle of Middle Earth", and fans with prominent Hobbit ears, medieval style costumes, and wizard hats had camped out the night before to claim prized spaces along the 500 meter (550 yards) red carpet.

Jackson, a one time newspaper printer and the maker of the Oscar winning "Lord of the Rings" trilogy more than a decade ago, was cheered along the walk, stopping to talk to fans, sign autographs and pose for photos.

The Hobbit trilogy is set 60 years before the Rings movies, but Jackson said it has benefited from being made after the conclusion of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy saga.

"I'm glad that we established the style and the look of Middle Earth by adapting Lord of the Rings before we did the Hobbit," Jackson told Reuters from the red carpet.

Jackson, a hometown hero in Wellington, said the production had been on a "difficult journey", alluding to Warner Brothers' financial problems, and a later labor dispute with unions.

"Fate meant for us to be here," he told an ecstatic crowd, which hailed him as a film genius, but also a down to earth local boy.

"I came here to see the stars but also Peter (Jackson)...I loved the Lord of the Rings and that made me want to be here, without him none of it would be here," said teenage student Samantha Cooper.

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The cast was no less enthusiastic about the Hobbit, especially those who had starred in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

British actor Andy Serkis, who plays the creature Gollum with a distinctive throaty whisper, said picking up the character after a near-ten year break was like putting on a familiar skin.

"I was reminded on a daily basis with Gollum (that) he's truly never left me," he said.

Most of the film's stars attended the premiere, including British actor Martin Freeman, who plays the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins, Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, and Elijah Wood. Ian McKellen, who plays the wizard Gandalf, was absent.

Freeman, known for his roles in the comedy The Office and Sherlock Holmes, said he looked for a different, lighter, slightly pompous Baggins from the older, wiser character played by Ian Holm in the Rings movies.

"Between us - Peter (Jackson) and me -- we hashed out another version of Bilbo. There'll be others, but our version is this one and I hope people like it," he said.

The production was at the center of several controversies, including a dispute with unions in 2010 over labor contracts that nearly sent the filming overseas and resulted in the government stepping in to change employment laws.

The only sour note at the premiere came when animal rights activists held up posters saying "Middle Earth unexpected cruelty" and "3 horses died for this film", after claims last week that more than 20 animals died during the making of the film.

Event organizers tried to block out the protesters' posters with large Hobbit film billboards. Jackson has said some animals died on a farm where they were housed, but none had been hurt during filming.

The movies have been filmed in 3D and at 48 frames per second (fps), compared with the standard 24 fps, which Jackson has likened to the quality leap to compact discs from vinyl records.

The second film "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" will be released in December next year, with the third "The Hobbit: There and Back Again" due in mid-July 2014.

(Editing by Elaine Lies)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hobbit-faithful-occupy-zealand-city-ahead-premiere-002346739--spt.html

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Whooping cough immunity may wane after vaccination

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - During a recent whooping cough outbreak in California, kids who hadn't been vaccinated against the disease were nine times more likely to get it than those who had received the entire five-shot series, researchers found.

But even among children who were fully vaccinated, the longer it had been since their final dose of the so-called DTaP vaccine, the higher their risk of coming down with whooping cough, also known as pertussis.

The lead researcher on the study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the effectiveness of many childhood vaccines is known to decrease over the years after vaccination.

Because of such waning immunity, a DTaP booster was recently added to the vaccine schedule for 11- to 12-year-olds, on top of the five doses traditionally given between age 2 months and 6 years. The combination vaccine also protects against diphtheria and tetanus.

"Pertussis vaccines are still our best tool to prevent pertussis," said Lara Misegades, from the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC.

"The first couple of years after children complete their vaccine series, vaccine effectiveness is still high." Her team's study, she told Reuters Health, "Reinforces the importance of getting the adolescent DTaP booster."

During the 2010 whooping cough outbreak in California, more than 9,000 cases were reported and 10 infants died, the researchers wrote Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The new study included 682 kids aged 4 to 10 with whooping cough across the state and another 2,016 comparison children who never got the disease.

According to their medical records and immunization registries, 7.8 percent of the kids who got whooping cough hadn't received any DTaP vaccines, compared to 0.9 percent of their pertussis-free peers.

Children who'd finished their vaccine series recently were the least likely to become infected. For example, just 2.8 percent of kids who got sick had received their fifth DTaP dose in the past year, compared to 17.6 percent of those who didn't come down with whooping cough.

And with each year that passed since children's last vaccine dose, their odds of getting pertussis rose.

"The message should clearly not be, ?Don't get the vaccine because it doesn't work,'" said Dr. Eugene Shapiro, a pediatrician and infectious diseases researcher from the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.

"It works, but we need to continue to work to improve it," Shapiro, who wrote an editorial accompanying the new study, told Reuters Health. "The problem is we don't really know what should be done."

He said one strategy might be to give an earlier DTaP booster dose, or to consider a different type of pertussis vaccine - but each of those ideas will require more research.

To prevent the most serious whooping cough cases including deaths, both researchers emphasized the importance of vaccinating pregnant women and anyone living with an infant. Babies are the most likely to get seriously ill in a whooping cough outbreak, and "cocooning" could prevent them from being exposed in the first place (see Reuters Health story of October 18, 2012: http://reut.rs/TyhQ6N).

Misegades said the CDC also recommends catch-up vaccination for everyone who hasn't gotten their entire DTaP series. Whooping cough cases for this year have already topped 36,000 in the U.S., she added.

"This is still an ongoing pertussis epidemic that we're seeing in many areas, and not just California," she said.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/JjFzqx Journal of the American Medical Association, online November 27, 2012.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/whooping-cough-immunity-may-wane-vaccination-211312555.html

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feeds | grep links > Examining Anonymous, Open Sourcing a Cure ...

• Anonymous, hacktivism and the rise of the cyber protester
  Simon Cox at BBC News wrote a pretty even handed if shallow consideration of Anonymous. The first quote is from Gabriella Coleman, who I interviewed on the podcast and has a new book out. She?s one of the few folks who has been able to examine Anonymous in any detail without incurring its rather or pranks (for the lulz.) Whether her input kept this piece from trending into the usual panic or not, it is not a bad, if quick, warmup for sustained look in Coding Freedom.
• Tiny Swarming Robots Play Beethoven, Gadget Lab at Wired.com
• My open source cure for brain cancer
  Writing for CNN.com, Salvatore Iaconesi shares his own open source a life story. In this instance it is particularly bitter sweet as he has been diagnosed with brain cancer. Not surprisingly, was left feeling incomplete in the wake of his encounter with modern healthcare. Rather than just complaining or, worse, litigating he is openly sharing all the relevant information and data in the hopes of making things better. To do so, he had to tackle any number of surprising technical challenges documented in the piece. One of the most compelling examples of someone hacking their world I?ve read in a while.
• Codebender: physical programming on the web ? a WebFWD project, Mozilla Hacks
• Netflix open sources Hystrix resilience library, The H Open: News and Features
• Gathering Evidence for a Fact-Based Copyright Policy, Open Enterprise
• Facebook Copyright Statement: Not Entirely Silly, freedom-to-tinker.com

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Google Breaks All Android App Reviews, Threatens Android Fans' Safety

"A Google User" is now the number one Android game and app reviewer on Google Play, Android's version of Apple's App Store. That's because every single one of the millions of existing reviews, possibly including yours, has had its author replaced with this nameless, faceless person.

Screenshots taken by Jeremiah Rice of the Android Police blog show this prolific (but completely generic) author has taken over the Google Play store. Meanwhile, if you visit the store on your Android smartphone or tablet you won't see a name attached to most reviews at all; just the review's title, and the device that the game or app was run on.

Believe it or not, this is all intentional. It's the start of a new Google policy ... one which may threaten some Android fans' safety or privacy.

?Google+, whether you like it or not

Google now requires you to have a Google+ (pronounced "Google Plus") account in order to leave reviews on Google Play, the Chrome Web Store, and Google Maps. No reason for the switchover is given in the pop-up which explains this; you simply click "Continue" if you want your reviews tied to your Google+ account, and if you don't want them linked you don't write them at all. If you don't have a Google+ account, you have to sign up for one before you can write a review.

?Why Google is Plus-ifying everything

Google's success as a company is determined by how many ads it sells. Google's share of the ad market is being eaten into by Facebook, which has essentially "walled off" a huge part of people's day-to-day lives in a place Google can't index or sell any ads on. For better or for worse, Google's execs feel that what they need to do to compete is copy Facebook, in the form of Google+.

Why? Because if everyone is "Plusing" things instead of "Liking" them, and if everything people do shows up on Google+ instead of Facebook, then now Google (instead of Facebook) knows what you're doing online and where you're doing it -- and that gives it a much better position from which to display and sell ads.

?Why this is a problem for many

Besides the obvious privacy concerns (although Google offers limited tools to manage how much it tracks you), Google+'s "real names" policy is dangerous to anyone whose safety is jeopardized by attaching their given name to their online activities. This includes women who are victims of stalking, minors who are victims of abuse, transgender persons in transition, and dissidents in repressive political or religious regimes. By requiring a Google+ account to use more and more of its services, Google is forcing these people to choose between excluding themselves and running the risk of having ?all? of their Google services terminated for a "real name" policy violation, including their personal Gmail accounts.

Google+ policy allows for pseudonymous accounts, if you're widely known by that pseudonym online. Everyone's Google+ page, however, has a button to report what anyone feels is a suspicious name, which puts marginalized persons like those listed above at the mercy of every "troll" who comes by.

Jared Spurbeck is an open-source software enthusiast, who uses an Android phone and an Ubuntu laptop PC. He has been writing about technology and electronics since 2008.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/google-breaks-android-app-reviews-threatens-android-fans-185400561.html

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Claud's top tips to stay in shape over the festive ... - Clean Health

I don?t know about you, but for me the thought of the Christmas season sends me in two directions.

On one hand I?m looking forward to having some time off, seeing some old friends I haven?t had a chance to see, sleep in and switch off.

On the other hand, I think ?crap, I know what?s going to happen. I will go to this party and then that dinner party and before you know it I will have a sneaky chub roll around my gut and butt?.

It?s a dilemma?. what to do, what to do?

http://cleanhealth.com.au/clauds-tips-stay-shape-over-festive-season/

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