September 2011
10 posts
Sex hormone plan to feminise Hitler
‘feminazi’ just got a whole new meaning
Pirate Party Enters Berlin Parliamant After Historical Election Win
9% ahoy
Who owns the news?
‘News provides, or should provide, the vital resources for processes of information gathering, deliberation and analysis that enables democracy to function. In an ideal world, unfettered by the pressures of failed business models, new technology and plummeting sales and circulation figures, news media would survey the socio-political environment, hold the Government and other...
Being Google and Time
Very large-scale distributed systems, like ours, demand that time be well-synchronized and expect that time always moves forwards. Computers traditionally accommodate leap seconds by setting their clock backwards by one second at the very end of the day. But this “repeated” second can be a problem. For example, what happens to write operations that happen during that second? Does email that...
“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”
– Miranda July
