Technogearophilia

OG: Social Plugins

Recently Facebook released a platform, the Open Graph Protocol, which allows websites and applications to share information about users in order to tailor offers, features and services to each one’s interests and tastes. It enables any web page to become an object in a social graph that can plot users’ activities and to function much as if it was a Facebook page. The Facebook Developers' first integration features are called Social Plugins. This is currently a set of eight (8) plugins which can easily be added to any web page or application in order to connect it more closely to Facebook, offer a set of features from Facebook, and take advantage of the Semantic Web that Facebook is developing.

Open Graph Protocol

Recently Facebook created a platform that allows websites and applications to share information about users in order to tailor offers, features and services to each one’s interests and tastes - even if that individual has never visited the site before. It enables any web page to become an object in a social graph that can plot users' activities. It is called the Open Graph Protocol.

HDTV: Think About It

Account Lock-Out

Having strong passwords is a key component of information security, but it does have its disadvantages...

Who Gets Locked Out For Guessing My Password Wrong?

Go on! Tell the truth; who gets locked out of your systems, applications, and/or services more often, other people or bots trying to use them or you?

Eggshell Speakers

These incredible and precisely crafted eggshell speakers are the brainchild of Japanese Flickr user, Gomhi. Gomhi’s Eggshell Speakers Each eggshell houses a Hi Vi B1S speaker driver, giving these DIY novelty speakers a light, crisp sound, though one that their creator described as a bit “narrow” and not particularly well-suited to music with a lot [...]

Stand Back!

This is a hilarious spin on the classic stereotype of the science geek. I, however,wonder how they got the cat to wear those glasses and that bow tie. Ah well, one should suffer for one's art...;-)

Stand Back! Iz Going To Do Science!

Funny as it is, it's wrong. Don't stand back! Get right up and there and get into the science.

The BZ Spiral Reaction

Seemingly spontaneous creation of order from chaos is a pervasive yet still astounding phenomenon in nature that occurs at all scales, from the quantum to the extremely macro scales of measurement and observation. Yet, since scale must be measured in time as well as size, we can rarely observe this ordering or patterning as it is happening. Humans can most often only observe and measure the resulting patterning, not the process of patterning itself. Fortunately we can view one example of this phenomenon thanks to work done by Anatol M. Zhabotinsky (2007) Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Scholarpedia, 2(9):1435

Wisdom 2.0 Summit

As technology - especially the Internet and Web 2.0 applications / services such as the plethora of Social Media options - advances our lives become both more interconnected and less so at the same time. We're also more and more inundated with data that we must either ignore or convert into information. This is changing people's lives in very profound ways. The entire concept of social and professional interaction has been radically changed / expanded by the 21st century's rapid-fire advances in communication methodologies.

Devils’ Cancer Catching

The Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is a carnivorous marsupial now found in the wild only in the Australian island state of Tasmania. The Tasmanian Devil is the only extant member of the genus Sarcophilus. It is also on the brink of extinction. The existential threat facing the Tasmanian Devil is not anthropogenic in origin. The devils are suffering from a epidemic of cancer which has afflicted and killed over 70% of their wild population. Unless something can be done halt the cancer, Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) is expected to kill of the Tasmanian Devil within the next 25 - 50 years.

When Do Wires Tangle?

With only the most rare of exceptions, anytime one has to deal with computers or home electronics, the cables and wires end up being tangled.

Reasons Why Wires Get Tangled

From my experience, the above seems to be quite accurate - and funny.