current events up in boston make me wonder why relatively little time has passed in tracking down the culprits. is it due to sousveillance? collaborative filtering? what will it mean for large scale facial recognition (a technology that is here but is held back)? is this the impetus for the transparent society, or something much worse? what boondoggles will come out of this, and what good, if any?
Tag: boston
DIY biohacking
The clash between the potential benefits and dangers of doing home science were highlighted by the case of Victor Deeb. The retired 71-year-old chemist in Marlborough saw his basement lab dismantled by authorities this summer after it was noticed by fire officials putting out a second-floor air conditioner fire. Officials intervened in Deeb’s workspace because it did not meet lab standards. Chemical companies shipping Deeb their materials were unaware that they were shipping to a residence. Deeb insists that the chemicals he was using were less hazardous than common cleaners and household chemicals. He questions why his hobby was seen as more dangerous than, for example, a hunter with a gun collection, or a person using a propane grill.
need to drop by the betahouse to learn more
Startup Hubs
why boston vc is a practical joke.
Begging Google
Hi. Boston here. You know, the city across the river from some of your offices. We were poking around the internet yesterday and found out that you’re planning to offer an online trip planning guide for New York City. We’d like to take some time to beg you to do the same for Boston, because we can’t handle the MBTA’s trip planner anymore.
Verrines
Most Americans know what a parfait is, but take that same idea and make the layers avocado salad, crabmeat, and pink grapefruit, and you get an entirely new dish called a verrine
nice. i hope bea can leverage this into a gig at a less hidebound organization.
Betahouse
web junkies? WTF? “shoes are optional”? always so condescending of things their little brains don’t understand. stupid talentless hacks. that said, about time coworking get some exposure.
Explosive Ad
In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare that paralyzed the Boston area in January, police shut down a strip mall yesterday in this small western suburb after employees at a Bank of America branch mistook a botched fax for a bomb threat. The branch overreacted to the strange fax, which turned out to be an in-house marketing document sent by the bank’s corporate office.
what is BoA doing sending stupid faxes like that? the solution: radically cut down the number of branches and switch people to online banking
Omni Parker House Hotel
America’s longest continuously operating luxury hotel and remains one of its most elegantly refined. Located in downtown Boston on the Freedom Trail, the venerable Omni Parker House Hotel opened its doors in 1855.
Boston Panic
The discovery of suspicious objects on bridges, near a medical center, underneath an interstate, and in other crowded public places has ignited fears across Boston, snarling traffic and sending state and local police scrambling across the city.
this is what happens if headless chickens run the news.
2007-02-09: Do you have what it takes to save Boston from the Lite Bright menace?
2007-03-01:
if it’s not an american flag, it’s probably a bomb.
heh. i wonder what happens if someone wraps a bomb in a flag? will they declare a war on flags? that would actually be neat.
2013-03-31: reminds me of their war against things with LEDs from a few years back. among their bumbling peers, boston pd are the most incompetent. so funny.
Boston Punk Zombies Are Watching You! The Boston police go undercover on the Internet to stop the city’s most dreaded scourge: DIY indie-rock shows.
Boston Gigapixel
very cool. uses the gmaps api to overlay a gigapixel image of boston. its so high-res that you can read license plates.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 