Google Acquires Katango, The Automatic Friend Sorter. Back in September we broke the news that Google was in talks to acquire Katango, a small Kleiner Perkins-backed startup that launched this past summer. Today, they’ve made it official: Katango just announced that it’s been acquired by Google, and that it’ll be joining the Google+ team. We’re also hearing that Google isn’t only acquiring Katango for their talent — it’s interested in their technology as well.
Katango is a logical fit for Google, though their initial product was focused primarily on Facebook. The startup first debuted an iPhone app in July, setting out to made it easier to selectively share with various groups of friends on Facebook. Facebook’s List feature has long allowed users to share certain pieces of content with different friends, but it did little to automate the process of actually breaking your friends out into different groups. It was powerful, but the competitive landscape changed significantly shortly after Katango’s launch. Ryan Grim: Read the Never-Before-Published Letter From LSD-Inventor Albert Hofmann to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The following post is adapted from the new book "This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America. " The letter is published with the permission of the estate of LSD-inventor Albert Hofmann.
For more on events related to the book, see the Facebook page or follow Ryan Grim on Twitter. Steve Jobs has never been shy about his use of psychedelics, famously calling his LSD experience "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life. " So, toward the end of his life, LSD inventor Albert Hofmann decided to write to the iPhone creator to see if he'd be interested in putting some money where the tip of his tongue had been. Hofmann penned a never-before-disclosed letter in 2007 to Jobs at the behest of his friend Rick Doblin, who runs an organization dedicated to studying the medical and psychiatric benefits of psychedelic drugs. Hofmann, a Swiss chemist, died in April 2008 at the age of 102. See the letter here. DearSteve - Dear Mr. Sincerely, A. Albert. : Remembering Steve Jobs Via My Consumer History. RIP Steve Jobs... U were more than just another bro who walked the Earth searching 4 entry-level happiness.
My parents wanted to buy a 'family computer' because that's what good, middle-class parents were supposed to do so their kids didn't end up 'dumb'/so they could type papers instead of having to handwrite them 'like a poor'. Back when we were tweens, Macintosh computers were branded as 'being educational.' They bought us some Performa Machine. It was kinda weird, but had sweet games. Then Macs/Apple kinda disappeared 4 a while.... I had just started college. iPods came out a few years before, but I am not sure why they didn't seem like that big of a deal to me yet. I was dating this girl who had an iPod mini. I won some iPod shuffles in a contest. I was dating this broad who had an iBook. 1 GB white iPod nano.
I bought some black Macbook. Got another green iPod nano that replaced the washed iPod nano. I went to Best Buy. I have never owned an iPhone. Hopwood Award. The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood. Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the Class of 1905 of The University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement of creative work in writing. The first awards were made in 1931, and today the Hopwood Program offers approximately $120,000 in prizes every year to aspiring writers at the University of Michigan.
According to Nicholas Delbanco, UM English Professor and Director of the Hopwood Awards Program, "This is the oldest and best known series of writing prizes in the country and it is a very good indicator of future success Contests and prizes[edit] The Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Contest[edit] Awards are offered in the following genres: drama/screenplay, essay, the novel, short fiction, Nonfiction, and poetry. Summer Hopwood Contest[edit] Notes[edit] Joe Dimuzio: The imperfect legacy of Steve Jobs. Shall we canonize the man already? At this point, Steve Jobs has already been hailed as a “secular prophet” in The Wall Street Journal, been blessed with iPhone vigils and enjoyed a week-long social media hashtag eulogy.
From 12-year-olds on Facebook to Barry Obama, the nation’s basking in the backlit glow of reminiscence without much of a second thought. Steve Jobs, bless you. But like for any iconic figure, death has a nasty way of obscuring the real impact of someone like Jobs, who, in many ways, forever changed the way we listen to music. At this point, public discourse on Jobs doesn’t escape “What a guy!” Jobs’s influence is undoubtedly enormous, and its implications are a bit tougher to hash out. I’m not going to pore over the gray areas of Jobs's career, which Mike Daisey’s op-ed in the New York Times last week effectively handled. I’m focused, as ever, on the musical side of things. This consolidation afforded new avenues of portability, sharing and ease of access. Zeno's paradoxes. Zeno's arguments are perhaps the first examples of a method of proof called reductio ad absurdum also known as proof by contradiction. They are also credited as a source of the dialectic method used by Socrates.[3] Some mathematicians and historians, such as Carl Boyer, hold that Zeno's paradoxes are simply mathematical problems, for which modern calculus provides a mathematical solution.[4] Some philosophers, however, say that Zeno's paradoxes and their variations (see Thomson's lamp) remain relevant metaphysical problems.[5][6][7] The origins of the paradoxes are somewhat unclear.
Diogenes Laertius, a fourth source for information about Zeno and his teachings, citing Favorinus, says that Zeno's teacher Parmenides was the first to introduce the Achilles and the tortoise paradox. But in a later passage, Laertius attributes the origin of the paradox to Zeno, explaining that Favorinus disagrees.[8] Paradoxes of motion[edit] Achilles and the tortoise[edit] Dichotomy paradox[edit]
Douglas Rushkoff. How did we get to where we are now, with Wall Street occupied by a mini-tent city while financial instruments increasingly funnel funds towards the already-wealthy? How did we get to a state where corporations seem to have more legal (and financial) access to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than the average citizen? How did we get to a point where money is invisible and computerized, yet distributed ever more unevenly? One thing is certain: we didn’t get here overnight.
In his book, Life Inc., author and media ecologist Douglas Rushkoff traces the rise and rise of the corporation, from its beginnings in the late Middle Ages, through its adolescence in the Industrial Revolution, to its present global and virtualized maturity. Life Inc. remains as relevant as when it was first published in 2009, as the public debate over the economy becomes more widespread, and the need for an accurate long view intensifies. 1. Vaal Is Hungry, We Must Feed Vaal [The Apple, Star Trek, dir. 2. 3. Benefit relations. Benefit: The relations of social request Notes: Relations of benefit are also called "relations of request" or "social order" in many Russian texts, where the word "order" means "request" and not "organization".
Type in position of "Benefactor" is then called "request transmitter" or simply "transmitter" or "customer (placing an order)", while type in position of "Beneficiary" is called "request receiver" or simply "receiver". The four rings of benefit are: ENTp (ILE) → ENFj (EIE) → ESFp (SEE) → ESTj (LSE) → ENTp (ILE) ISFp (SEI) → ISTj (LSI) → INTp (ILI) → INFj (EII) → ISFp (SEI) INTj (LII) → ISTp (SLI) → ISFj (ESI) → INFp (IEI) → INTj (LII) ESFj (ESE) → ENFp (IEE) → ENTj (LIE) → ESTp (SLE) → ESFj (ESE) Types in benefit relations have complimentary or "dual" cognitive styles, which has been brought up as a reason for higher frequency of encountering this intertype in friendships and couples than would be expected.
See also:Intertype Relations Quick ChartObservations on Intertype Relations. Most honey sold in U.S. grocery stores not worthy of its name. Most of the honey sold in chain stores across the country doesn't meet international quality standards for the sweet stuff, according to a Food Safety News analysis released this week. One of the nation's leading melissopalynologists analyzed more than 60 jugs, jars and plastic bears of honey in 10 states and the District of Columbia for pollen content, Food Safety News said. He found that pollen was frequently filtered out of products labeled "honey. " "The removal of these microscopic particles from deep within a flower would make the nectar flunk the quality standards set by most of the world's food safety agencies," the report says.
"Without pollen there is no way to determine whether the honey came from legitimate and safe sources. " Among the findings: • No pollen was found in 76 percent of samples from grocery stores including TOP Food, Safeway, Giant Eagle, QFC, Kroger, Metro Market, Harris Teeter, A&P, Stop & Shop and King Soopers. Why does it matter where your honey comes from? The science of objectification - Sex. When Sharon Bialek stepped before the press this week, she wore a demure, long-sleeved black dress. The 50-year-old single mom also made sure to detail exactly what she wore when she was allegedly sexually harassed by Herman Cain. This is because she and her bulldog lawyer well know that women are judged by what, and how little, they wear. A new study attempts to explain exactly how that judgment works and why our perceptions of people rely on the amount of skin they show.
It’s a question at the heart of contentious debates about everything from objectification in pornography to work-appropriate attire. As a red-blooded woman, I don’t find it at all surprising that men aren’t the only ones capable of some level of objectification, nor is it unexpected that we perceive a person in their birthday suit as having less agency than, say, someone in a business suit. Does Cannabis increase dopamine levels significantly? Can this increase, over time, lead to schizophrenia? : askscience. 5JXLR.jpg (826×1066) Physics Of The Riderless Bike | Science Friday: Video Podcast | Video podcast episode | Podcast.tv - your video podcast directory for international podcasts. Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds. Nutrition professor's "convenience store diet" helped him shed 27 pounds Haub limited himself to 1,800 calories and two-thirds come from junk foodHaub said it's too early to draw any conclusions about diet (CNN) -- Twinkies.
Nutty bars. Powdered donuts. For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. His premise: That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most -- not the nutritional value of the food. The premise held up: On his "convenience store diet," he shed 27 pounds in two months. For a class project, Haub limited himself to less than 1,800 calories a day. His body mass index went from 28.8, considered overweight, to 24.9, which is normal. But you might expect other indicators of health would have suffered. Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. Espresso, Double: 6 calories; 0 grams of fat.
What I learned as a nude model - Life stories. My naked pelvis was 3 feet away from an 80-year-old grandfather wearing a sweater vest. Men who attend art classes must be the world’s primary consumers of sweater vests; it’s like they’re in Joseph Gordon Levitt costumes all the time. The muscle in my leg twitched as the old man squinted at me, stared at his drawing and then turned to the instructor.
“I can’t get it,” he said. “I just can’t quite do the lines of the elbow.” No surprise there. These are the body parts 80-year-old men in life drawing sessions will admit they don’t know how to draw: elbows, noses, foreheads, earlobes, shoulders, collarbone. These are anatomical parts 80-year-old men will not admit they don’t know how to draw: everything else. After a few weeks, this man, or any number like him, would come up to me on a break and tell me, very tentatively, that I reminded him of his dead wife, or an old girlfriend, or a nurse in Korea.
But that was as sexual as nude modeling for art classes ever got. I made calls. Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV | Threat Level. 5MPft.gif (500×460) Tree Style Tab. The Sad Truth [Pic] Some have said that Jobs had no significant impact on them. Here are a few things they might have forgotten… -Do you listen to music? He changed the music industry forever and for better. -Do you have things printed (business cards, stationary, flyers, posters, et al)? He changed the printing industry (making it far less expensive). -Do you record CDs and DVDs? It took their inclusion in the Mac to bring them into mainstream usage at affordable prices. -USB memory devices? There are also more subtle effects- rising standards of living both at home and around the world. I'm always befuddled by the idea that somehow if a wealthy person doesn't give to charity that it's a black mark on his character.
The thoughtless and clueless proponents of the signage that prompted these comments, seek to both disparage the man and callously (and hypocritically) ride his coattails for publicity. Cops With Machine Guns: How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police - Arthur Rizer and Joseph Hartman - National. Over the past 10 years, law enforcement officials have begun to look and act more and more like soldiers.
Here's why we should be alarmed. Danny Moloshok / Reuters At around 9:00 a.m. on May 5, 2011, officers with the Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff's Department's Special Weapons and Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team surrounded the home of 26-year-old José Guerena, a former U.S. Marine and veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq, to serve a search warrant for narcotics. Within moments, and without Guerena firing a shot--or even switching his rifle off of "safety"--he lay dying, his body riddled with 60 bullets.
Sadly, the Guerenas are not alone; in recent years we have witnessed a proliferation in incidents of excessive, military-style force by police S.W.A.T. teams, which often make national headlines due to their sheer brutality. Ever since September 14, 2001, when President Bush declared war on terrorism, there has been a crucial, yet often unrecognized, shift in United States policy. Russia: Israeli threat of strikes on Iran 'a mistake' 7 November 2011Last updated at 09:48 Iran insists its nuclear programme is solely to generate power for civilian use Military action against Iran would be a "very serious mistake fraught with unpredictable consequences", Russia's foreign minister has warned.
Sergei Lavrov said diplomacy, not missile strikes, was the only way to solve the Iranian nuclear problem. His comments come after Israeli President Shimon Peres said an attack on Iran was becoming more likely. The UN's atomic watchdog is expected to say this week that Iran is secretly developing a nuclear arms capability. Diplomats say the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report, due for release on Tuesday or Wednesday, will produce compelling evidence that Iran will find hard to dispute. Iran has always insisted that its nuclear programme is exclusively to generate power for civilian purposes. Time 'running out' Continue reading the main story “Start Quote End QuoteShimon PeresIsraeli President. ITER. Steve Jobs’s Real Genius. National minimum wage - Pay. Why Lovin' the McRib Isn't Heart Smart - - TIME Healthland.
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