I’m secretly Barney

And I mean Barney The Dinosaur.
Hugs make everything better and now I hug everyone all the time and I used to freak out when people touch me.

You make my heart ache

And my body quiver.

My apologies

Due to issues with the Tumblr Android app, a lot of personal posts ended up here. I am sorry and i will try to regularly update with tech related news.

RSS is dead. Long live Prismatic.

With the impending demise of Google Reader, i urge everyone to start using something like Prismatic, and not another RSS reader.

British scientists use man-made DNA speck to store 739kB of digital data

Agence France-Presse:

The study reported that the institute’s team had stored all 154 Shakespeare sonnets, a photo, a PDF of a scientific paper, and a 26-second sound clip from US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I Have a Dream” speech in a barely visible bit of DNA in a test tube.

Canonical unveils Ubuntu Phone OS

Organizing principles work as calls to action, as frames of reference, of sources of inspiration. The organizing principle of “mobile first, web second” has inspired a wave of mobile applications; but “context first” is the type of organizing principle that will lead to truly disruptive web services. People first. User first. Context first.

“Context First” by Taylor Davidson

(cc Fred, Vibhu, Andrew)

(via taylordavidson)

Google Now and the predictive future of search by TheVerge

The Verge interviews the engineering team behind Google Now on Android to find out what’s next for the innovative search feature. Google executives Hugo Barra, Scott Huffman, Jeff Dean, and Vincent Vanhoucke tell the story behind how Google Now came into being and why it represents the best of Google.

Dear Google, please force developers to follow Android Design Guidelines

finitepost:

There have been lots of blogposts, articles in the news and discussions on why apps look so much better on iOS than they do on Android. The problem with these articles is that they go straight to the software and blame it, they simply say “because iOS is better”, I believe this is not the case. Android is not the problem, Android developers are the cause, they think just because it is easy to publish on the Play Store and make money they don’t have to care about how their apps look. They simply throw on some shitty design they do in about an hour or two and say that’s fine, let’s make my self rich.

Read the whole article at the link.

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Offline: How do you look at porn?

Going offline helped me kick the habit. But my body wasn’t quite ready to let go

Porn in an online/tech savvy society.

Making responsive websites is one thing, making boring websites is another.

My 2-year old daughter and the iPad mini!

by from SlashGear

The Windows metaphor still applies.

There is a lot of commentary on whether Windows 8 should not be called Windows anymore, because there are no more “windows”, as in app that open in windows. But just as in architecture, the windows look different nowadays, so do the new windows in the operating system. They can still be windows if you think of them as modern styled, like some Apple Stores.

thisistheverge: What is a nerd? Adi Robertson considers the “nerd.” The last few weeks have been awash in nerds and geeks. ChipChick published a guide to dating a geek girl, while CNN decried “wannabe models” pretending to be nerds. Before that came the shootings in Aurora, where media described killer James Holmes as a science-loving geek or a “dark Trekkie-like person.” While these pieces have generated thoughtful responses across the web, eventually they run into the same problem: defining what “nerd” and “geek” are actually supposed to mean. If you want to cut to the bare minimum, there’s a Venn diagram, with “nerd” being the combination of intelligence, obsession, and social ineptitude — in case you were wondering, “geek” involves only the first two attributes. But despite the existence of niche interests like those showcased on the 56 Geeks chart, you’re most likely to see the term used around a certain nexus of activities: comics, video games, science fiction, and programming or hacking. If you’re interested in one of those things, you’ll likely be introduced to the rest; I started out as a kid reading Poul Anderson, and by midway through college, I’d been sucked into a vortex of manga, shooters, and IT support.
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What is a nerd?

Adi Robertson considers the “nerd.”

The last few weeks have been awash in nerds and geeks. ChipChick published a guide to dating a geek girl, while CNN decried “wannabe models” pretending to be nerds. Before that came the shootings in Aurora, where media described killer James Holmes as a science-loving geek or a “dark Trekkie-like person.” While these pieces have generated thoughtful responses across the web, eventually they run into the same problem: defining what “nerd” and “geek” are actually supposed to mean.

If you want to cut to the bare minimum, there’s a Venn diagram, with “nerd” being the combination of intelligence, obsession, and social ineptitude — in case you were wondering, “geek” involves only the first two attributes. But despite the existence of niche interests like those showcased on the 56 Geeks chart, you’re most likely to see the term used around a certain nexus of activities: comics, video games, science fiction, and programming or hacking. If you’re interested in one of those things, you’ll likely be introduced to the rest; I started out as a kid reading Poul Anderson, and by midway through college, I’d been sucked into a vortex of manga, shooters, and IT support.
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