Logging Out of Facebook Is Not Enough →
The privacy concern here is that because you no longer have to explicitly opt-in to share an item, you may accidentally share a page or an event that you did not intend others to see.
The advice is to log out of Facebook. But logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the web application. A number of cookies (including your account number) are still sent along to all requests to facebook.com. Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions.
Subsequent requests to Facebook as a signed-out user still send nine different cookies, including your account number, to Facebook or to any page that interfaces with Facebook.
No pics of Air Force One or the President's motorcade we saw today. Sorry 'bout that, but the Secret Service does a pretty good job.
Air Force One is sitting on the tarmac at Moffett Federal Airfield as President Obama beings a West-Coast swing. I'll see about getting some pics tomorrow.
Suppose a man gives up his youth to the struggle for some coveted degree, some honour or award of the scholarly life. It is very possible that when he obtains that for which he has struggled, he may find that the joy of possession is not so great as the joy of the strife. It is part of the discipline of life that we should be educated by disillusion; we press onward to some shining summit, only to find that it is but a bastion thrown out by a greater mountain, which we did not see, and that the real summit lies far beyond us still. But are we the worse for the struggle? No; we are manifestly the better, for by whatever illusion we have been led onward, it is at least clear that without the illusion we should not have stood as high as we do.
— William James Dawson, The Making of Manhood, 1894
(via The Art of Manliness)
Crayons Under the Spectrophotometer
Can you say nerdy? I'm just a sucker for things combining physics and design, I guess.
Windows 8 trumps iPad? Don't know if this is proof, but it's clever.
Political Shift in California Trips Brown →
10 months after his return here, a time when Mr. Brown might have hoped to move beyond struggling with the budget crisis that has dragged down this state, his associates say he appears bewildered and stunned by how much Sacramento has changed since he first served.
I'm sure I've missed some legislation or something, but I can't name a single thing Brown (or California) has done politically since I moved here, other than closing a portion of the state parks.
Gamers Unlock Protein Mystery That Baffled AIDS Researchers For Years →
In just three weeks, gamers deciphered the structure of a key protein in the development of AIDS that has stumped scientists for years. According to a study published Sunday in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, the findings could present a significant breakthrough for AIDS and HIV research.Update: Ars Technica also has a good article.
Not exactly sure what I'm supposed to think about this, Marco. Also, Instapaper's down?!?!?
Notifications →
Right now I'd be happy with a way to keep calendar alerts from buzzing on my laptop, iPhone, and iPad all at the same time even though all three devices are sitting next to one another on my desk.
Seconded. And I don't even own an iPad.