It’s cheesy, but I still like it. 🙂

Shockingly, the same day Google Health launches one of my co-worker’s health information was compromised via an OpenSocial exploit that shared his health information from his HMO for everyone to see.

😉

Apparently Guy Fawkes shops in Hillcrest.

Jiyeon Song

The results of an extensive exploration with shadows, the One Day Poem Pavilion demonstrates the poetic, transitory, site-sensitive and time-based nature of light and shadow. Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice.

Brita’s new ad campaign is…well…genius, if you ask me. It reads:

Last year 16 million gallons of oil were consumed to make plastic water bottles.

www.filterforgood.com

Also from Treehugger via the Aesthetic Poet:

“If just one in 10 Americans used public transportation daily, U.S. reliance on foreign oil would decrease 40 percent.”

One would think a stat like that would inspire government and citizens to do whatever they could to enhance and/or develop public transportation within their centers, yet the status-quo persists. In fact, it’s worsening here in Southern California where there is much talk about the High Occupancy Vehicle lanes (carpool lanes) that are being considered for sale to private companies to turn into toll roads. Hrmm…taking publicly funded infrastructure and making it private so a monopoly can be created that will guarantee an inferior product. That makes no sense. Or as his been the case for many years, the state government in California has been trying to pave over state parks to create unnecessary highways in a poorly veiled attempt to open up choice parks to wealthy developers.

Finally, while I’m on a green kick, this comes by way of The Tyee.ca:

North America uses 60 per cent of the world’s paper cups, 130 billion of them per year. Those cups require about 50 million trees and 33 billion gallons of water, which could sequester 9.3 million tonnes of CO2 and quench 550,000 drought-stricken citizens of the state of Georgia, without even asking them to lower their ridiculous consumption rate of 166 gallons per day.

I feel so dirty. I need a nice reusable mug that I can carry in my backpack so when I bike by the coffee shop on the way to work I’m not contributing to this madness.

Thanks Scott.

The Anatomy of a Gummy Bear by Jason Freeny | Laughing Squid
Anatomie Gummi Bär

“Anatomie Gummi Bär” is a wonderful illustration by Jason Freeny detailing the anatomy of a Gummy Bear.

Via: The Squid.

I’ve recently added Styleo to my feeds to read, posts like this is why:

Styleo | Li Wei Performance Art

More of Li Wei’s work at http://www.liweiart.com/

I knew Steve Larsen was destined for greatness, I was right. He’s located Satan. 

Developers hunt for ‘Satan’ in software code – vnunet.com

Krugle searches across code repositories and development resources, using contextual search to provide insights to developers working for networks such as IBM Developer Works, CollabNet and SourceForge.net.

The application allows developers to use existing code, perform impact analysis and easily learn new code.

In terms of distinctly non-Java searches fed into Krugle recently, ‘Knuth’ returned the highest number of hits in honour of leading computer scientist and ‘father of algorithm analysis’ Donald Knuth, far outstripping ‘Satan’.

‘George Bush’ edged out ‘Britney Spears’ and the fifth-ranked ‘Fidel Castro’, while ‘Paris Hilton’ rounded out the bottom of the rankings.

‘Hillary Clinton’ dominated the presidential candidates, followed by ‘John McCain’ and ‘Barack Obama’.

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Via: The Squid

Google Wins Appeal – Most Bizarre Lawsuit Ever Filed Against Search Engine [SearchEngineWatch]

In September of 2007, Dylan Stephen Jayne filed a (handwritten) suit against the founders of the Google internet search engine, alleging that his social security number when turned upside down is a scrambled code that spells the name “Google.”

He was asking for $5 billion for Google’s alleged “crimes against humanity.”

The District Court reviewed the lawsuit and dismissed it sua sponte (on its own will or motion”) for failure to state a claim. In other words, the judge made a decision without having been asked by either party. (ie. never happened: “Your honor, the defendants, Larry and Sergey, move to dismiss!”)

The ever-resourceful Jayne filed a timely appeal. His case was on appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and guess what? He lost the appeal a couple months ago.

There just really is no justice… 😦