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Don’t insist on English! Patricia Ryan on TED. Global Issues Some things are just untranslatable: TEDx playlists in French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian With the increased teaching of English around the globe, world languages are dying at a rate of one every 14 days.
In her classic talk from TEDxDubai, Patricia Ryan — an English speaker who has lived and taught in Arabic countries for over 30 years — argues that the focus on English is limiting creative […] Culture 9 great talks about talking. Site Helps Slighted Stars Feeling Internet’s Sting. Our new typeface. Girlfriend. Firefox 4 font rendering. The much anticipated Firefox is out in the wild waiting to be downloaded.
The feature list is long and exciting. Lifehacker has a nice article about what’s new and awesome in Firefox 4. One thing I didn’t like was the Opera-like menu button. Opera is a respectful and innovation leading browser, it doesn’t look good to replicate exactly the Opera’s menu button changing only the color. Anyway, I can live with that, I love Firefox, I use it everyday.
I don’t know if it is a Firefox bad implementation or a Windows 7 – Microsoft bug. How the Comodo certificate fraud calls CA trust into question. Recently at Ars we've had a couple of discussions about the use of HTTPS—that is, HTTP secured using SSL or TLS—for every website, as a way of keeping sensitive information out of reach of eavesdroppers and ensuring privacy.
That's definitely a good thing, but it has a flaw: it requires HTTPS to actually be effective at protecting privacy. Recent goings on at Certificate Authority (CA) Comodo provide compelling evidence that such trust is misplaced. There are two interrelated aspects to SSL. The first is encryption—ensuring that nobody can understand the communication between a client and a server—and the second is authentication—proving to the client that it is actually communicating with the server it thinks it's communicating with.
When a client first connects to an HTTPS server, both parties have a bit of a problem. Grace Santorini Hotel. Danish Startup Podio Makes A Splashy Entrance. Posted by Tom Foremski - March 25, 2011 Danish startup Podio made a splashy entrance this week into the US market and I'm not referring to the torrential rains soaking San Francisco.
In a week dominated by the news of the launch of $41m startup Color Labs, it was an impressive feat. Podio, which offers apps for small businesses launched an App store and opened a pop-up store in San Francisco-- and managed to attract many of the top digerati of San Francisco. I met many of the Podio team, in town from Copenhagen, Denmark, led by the impressive Tommy Ahlers, a serial entrepreneur -- a rarity in European tech circles. Successful European entrepreneurs tend to go off and enjoy their money rather than get back into the trenches and build new companies. Too Much Information About 'Information'? Information seems to be everywhere these days, bombarding us via Twitter, Facebook and the Web, not to mention the creakier delivery systems of newspapers and other “legacy media.”
Time Between Thing Being Amusing, Extremely Irritating Down To 4 Minutes. PROVIDENCE, RI—According to a study released this week by Brown University's Department of Modern Culture and Media, it now takes only four minutes for a new cultural touchstone to transform from an amusing novelty into an intensely annoying thing people never want to see or hear again.
"The American populace experienced a genuine sense of enjoyment when initially exposed to phenomena as diverse as the Double Rainbow video, the actor Jon Heder, and the phrase 'Stay thirsty, my friends,'" lead researcher Irene Levinson said. "But what's remarkable is that these exact same things were rejected with an almost violent revulsion less than 240 seconds later. " "The results are the same for everything from TV news bloopers to professional ad campaigns, with only a handful of exceptions," Levinson added. "For example, it takes, on average, less than 90 seconds to go from feeling delight to active enmity for anything that involves talking infants. " Enlarge Image. Ben Saunders : North Pole Speed Record. Kinetic Typography. Turquoise. Conan O'Brien Kinetic Typography. Google confirms new Chrome logo to be rolled out.
Next-Generation Scientists. Superb Idea: The Edible Pen - Food. Kubrick et le Web. Time zones: About time. OMG! Oxford English Dictionary adds LOL. If you thought English dictionaries adding "D'oh!
" The Oxford English Dictionary Now Includes OMG, LOL, FYI, And Other Initialisms « Reflections by Ron Schenone. The Bang Bang Club : Official Film Website. BBC South Pacific Ep01 Ocean of Islands 00. HD: Super Slo-mo Surfer! - South Pacific - BBC Two. True Colors Infographic - Breakdown of Color Preferences by Gender. From the day that babies are brought home and cradled in their pink or blue blankets, implications have been made about gender and color.
While there are no concrete rules about what colors are exclusively feminine or masculine, there have been studies conducted over the past seven decades that draw some generalizations. Let’s take a look at what they say about color and gender. Click on the graphic below for an enlarged view: View an enlarged version of this infographic » Click here for a .pdf version of this infographic. Blue is the most popular color for both men and women.The most unpopular color for men is brown.The most unpopular color for women is orange.This data should only be used as an initial starting point if it is going to be used to drive a design. The New York Times to begin charging for (some) online content.
The nation's largest newspaper, the New York Times, announced today that it will start charging for access to some of its online content beginning in September, ending literally years of speculation in the media as to whether the company would ever take such a step.
(Unlike most NYT articles, the link above does not require registration.) New York Times pay wall comes down. The New York Times is ending the paid-for section of its website on Wednesday - giving users free access to thousands of articles.
The move to end the Times Select service had been anticipated for weeks, after it was first reported in early August by the rival New York Post. Times Select, which launched in 2005, gave paying subscribers access to 23 high-profile columnists, as well as the New York Times online archives, which date back to the paper's foundation in 1851. The columnists, along with archive stories published after 1987 and before 1923 (which are in the public domain) will be available for free from tomorrow. The 227,000 web-only Times Select subscribers paid $7.95 (£4) per month or $49.95 (£25) per year for access to the service and will recieve a pro-rata refund. Retro handheld games collection.
Maastricht - Videos. The Absolute Truth About Contemporary Art. The magic washing machine: Hans Rosling on TED. Global Issues Watch TEDxChange live, starting at 9am (PDT) today TEDxChange, themed “Positive Disruption,” kicks off shortly — at 9am (PDT) at the Gates Foundation campus in Seattle, Washington — and anyone, anywhere is invited to watch along through the livestream at TED.com or via TEDxChange.org.
Firefox web browser & Thunderbird email client. Tips and downloads for getting things done. The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland. In the early 1980s, MIT computer scientist Bob Scheifler set about laying down the principles for a new windowing system. He had decided to call it X, because it was an improvement on the W graphical system, which naturally resided on the V operating system. Little did Bob know at the time, but the X Window System that he and fellow researches would eventually create would go on to cause a revolution. It became the standard graphical interface of virtually all UNIX based operating systems, because it provided features and concepts far superior to its competition. Japan Red Cross Promo Video. One year in 40 seconds.
One year worth of images give some amazing videos. Seeing the Light.
New! ! Art&Design General. Cinematography. Web and Tech. Photography. Pearltrees videos. Social Networking: Fighting to Remain Anonymous. In 2008, then-23-year-old Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at South by Southwest Interactive, the annual Austin (Tex.) festival of geekery. The Facebook founder used his keynote interview to articulate his vision for the transformative power of social networking. Moby.com. Moby 'Mistake'