Michael Hartl’s paper, The Tau Manifesto, can be a bit of a daunting read, even for an academic. I think it is important, and luckily my favourite youtuber mathemetician Vihart has just released a video that explains it very well.
[ninja edit] I forgot to say Happy Pi day!
Check it out:
So, it has been a few days since the big iPad 2 and iOS announcement, and I have had some time to reflect on it. The iPad 2 is obviously a competitive device, and competitors are still struggling to complete with the now outdated original iPad.
It took me a few days to notice, but this announcement did lack something that is long overdue: an updated notification system. The iPhone is still using its’ original notification system, which is from the days when the iPhone didn’t even support 3rd party apps. I think that it is currently the weakest part of the iPhone, and it is one area where Android is far ahead of the iPhone.
Currently, there is an alternate notification system available called MobileNotifier, but it requires a jailbroken phone, which is a dealbreaker for many users. The fact that developers are going to so much trouble to create their own notification system should be a wake up call for Apple to get their act together. I realize that a new notification system is planned for a later release, probably iOS 5, but it is getting pretty ridiculous that it is not out yet.
Check out a video of MobileNotifier in action:
Yes, Rick Mercer is still around, and still producing good rants. Here’s his one from yesterday..
Yesterday, google announced a chrome extension that allows users to block specific domains from google’s search results page. This has probably been released as a response to the recent criticism that google has been under for not being able to filter content farms out of their results. I installed the extension yesterday, but did not know where to start with blocking domains. I haven’t really been paying attention to content farms. I pretty much just ignore them. The extension creates a link on the results page next to each result to block that specific domain. Blocking domains by this method will take a while to create a comprehensive list of blocked domains.
Jon Gales has compiled a list of content farms. This is a great list of domains to get a list of blocked domains started.
Here is a link to the blog post about the chrome extension.
Bill O’Reilly making stupid comments on TV is nothing new, but last month he had one of his worst. David Silverman, from American Atheists, was on the show defending an atheist billboard, and O’Reilly tries to prove the existence of god with this gem of a quote, “Tide goes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication. You [Silverman], can’t explain that. ”
That quote has spawned my new favourite meme. I have been lurking reddit over the past few days, and have been saving the best of the images.
First, check out The Colbert Report Covering the quote:
Then, check out the images that redditors have been hard at work making:










The interwebs has been in uproar during the last 24 hours about the new Usage Base Billing that the CRTC has allowed ISPs to implement. Some of the new usage caps are ridiculous. For example, starting March 1st, TekSavvy customers will have a bandwidth cap of 25GB/month, down from 200GB/month.
ArsTechnica has a good write-up about the situation, and the Liberals are already calling for the decision to be reversed.
Reddit user CGSColin put it in perspective the best in the following graphic:
Also, goto stopthemeter.ca!!!