Bookmarks for April 7th from 14:43 to 21:30
by danhon
This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 7th from 14:43 to 21:30:
- [toread] UK government sets up an international “Olympics of e-sports” – So you want to get into e-sports, but you're worried that the myriad existing popular competitions can't match the grandeur and incorruptible respectability of something like the Olympic games. The
- [toread] Parents of baby who had all of his diapers searched sue feds – Feds had said disclosing if somebody is on watch list hurts national security.A young American boy is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging his and others' placement on a government terrorist
- [toread] Daniel Hall, director of global judgment enforcement at Burford Capital, said their targets in such cases tended to be people “of a slightly older vintage” who were not prodigious users of… – Daniel Hall, director of global judgment enforcement at Burford Capital, said their targets in such cases tended to be people
- [toread] British teen drama Misfits is getting a reboot from The O.C. creator –
- [toread] On the iMac’s place in the world – Since its groundbreaking introduction in 1998, the iMac has been at the heart of the Macintosh line. Even as notebooks have consumed most of the market, the iMac holds its ground, outlasting the
- [toread] Cassie Prototype Keyboard – "Steve said that we were all too busy doing ordinary things to think about doing anything great," recalls Ken Campbell, "But that was going to change… Steve not only wanted our design to be the
- [toread] Introducing Activity++ – Today I
- [toread] 3D-printed hydraulic robot ‘can practically walk right out of the printer’ – Researchers from MIT have used a new
- [toread] Self-driving truck convoy completes its first major journey across Europe – This morning, a fleet of self-driving trucks arrived in the Dutch port of
- [toread] Bentley wants to put a holographic butler in your car – Bots and artificial intelligence are
- Making Medium More Powerful for Publishers — The Story — Medium – Cool to host @Medium at @PostlightAgency as they launch tools for publishers. One tool they are offering is revenue.
- [toread] TextExpander 6 and TextExpander.com – Maia Olson: Smile, the developer of productivity applications for Mac, iPad and iPhone, has launched TextExpander.com, the easy way to share snippets across a team, along with new app versions
- Twitter – @hondanhon you can literally buy five of these instead.
- 1980 Triumph Spitfire for sale – @hondanhon you can literally buy five of these instead.
- Panama Papers reveal how rich use art market to get richer | Fusion – The secrecy of the art world turns the art market into a billion-dollar game of ultra-high-stakes hide-and-seek.
- Harvard Kennedy School – Harvard Kennedy School –
- Why All Printers Suck (Even the Best Ones) | The Wirecutter – @hondanhon @jd_lewin I’m guessing it would read a bit like this:
- Wanted for Burglary, Pursuit Driver Does Doughnuts on Surface Streets in Hollywood | KTLA – LA's running at about 86% bladerunner today
- Twitter – LA's running at about 86% bladerunner today