an “OS” update to chrome (1B installs) now takes 1 week, upgrading to win8 (100M sold in 6 months) is 250x slower.
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Mobile is eating the world
benedict evans may be the new mary meeker.
A high-level view of the scale of mobile, tablets, ecosystems and mobile social and the dynamics that shape them.
Encryption push
this is huge. a lot of the core internet infrastructure was designed in a time when cleartext was the way to go and there were no adversaries. just like the NIST got 0wned and is now fully pushing towards a secure future, the same is happening to the IETF. it is refreshing to see all this and i hope they succeed. as a side effect, this will also put all the clowns out of business that mess with your http traffic.
US Loons
Our new and exciting series presenting a representative sample of American loons.
the world would be better off without all of these. as you click through and read their particular flavor of loony, the blood curdles.
1 USPS worker to deliver all mail
the future!
“I think people tend to assume that, just because we hired 1000s of mail delivery workers across the country, we had these large volumes of mail. Physical mail today isn’t what it used to be. There’s really only a few kinds of mail you get. There’s letters from grandparents, birthday cards from grandparents, newspaper clippings from grandparents; and other than that it’s just bank statements and junk mail, which we find tends to deliver itself.”
Construction wheelies
kids in saudi arabia do it sideways, these guys do wheelies.
Bulletproof suit
paging John Hawkins
At Garrison, we take pride in building relationships and trust with each and every one of our clients. That’s why, this year, it was crucial that we offer our clients a true bespoke suit. We created the bulletproof suits to keep our clients safe during their travels to dangerous places for work. We wanted to create a lightweight garment that not only looks professional but can also act as reliable body armor.
Slow-cooked Mummy
He was slow-cooked by his own bandages over a period of days, maybe even weeks. This afterlife-sabotaging disaster was the result of haste. Proper mummification applied oils slowly, deliberately, given them a chance to dry fully. Tut’s embalming was so rushed the oils were still wet when he was entombed, and wet oils = cooking.
#youhadonejob
Unpaid intern
apropos the most ridiculous IPO in some time, twat.
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Iran documentary
A very clever circumvention of the security state in Iran.
This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (Offside, The Circle) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 