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08.25.08 I just realized that I had my mail client on my Mac configured wrong; for the last 6 months I've assumed that everything I "deleted" from my local mail client was archived in GMail. Because I had it set up wrong, I was actually deleting them. Shit. # 08.21.08 I really hate the self-importance of statement-art (a fact that the recent Whitney Biennial brought into clear relief for me). But this collection of sculptural graphs, presenting scary stats as abstract, but still quite humane works of art, are something else entirely. It skirts all of the things I hate about modern art and delivers all of the things I love about it. [via] # 08.14.08 A few weeks go, The New Yorker published a really fantastic article on the study of insight — how our brains locate and recognize a solution from, seemingly, nowhere. It's a great read and really insightful (sorry!). The article has gone behind the magazine's Pay Wall, but a PDF is available here. # Sounds like the Progressives have pretty firmly taken control of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee. When moderate (and adorable) chair Scott Wiener lost the chairmanship to (departing) Supervisor Aaron Peskin, it appears that the Progressives pretty much wrapped up control of the DCCC. There's some positive here, in that the SF Democratic party will now offer a pretty strong, focused position. Under Wiener's control, the party seemed to be a little scattered in it's vision. Nevertheless, while I tend to agree with many Progressive positions, I think a moderate Democratic party is the best way to support the national party, and I think there are a lot of people in the SF area that are left out of the Progressive's visions of a cleaner, brighter, crunchier San Francsico. We'll see what happens in November, whether the rest of the city falls in line with this new direction, or whether Peskin's DCCC gets a good slapping from the rest of the city that prefers not to pee in public. # 08.08.08 The SF Chronicle once again displays it mad reporting skillz. A 60 year old woman is shot in an altercation with police at 11AM on Thursday and by Friday morning the Chron still doesn't know who the woman was, who shot at whom, who was in the home when the shooting occurred, whether the woman was armed, whether or not she lived there, whether she was actually part of the disturbance call or just an innocent bystander, or any other seemingly crucial and not-hard-to-find piece of information. Stellar, in-depth, take-no-prisoners reporting. Exactly as we would expect. # Daring Fireball presents a much more plausible explanation of the remote app blacklist meme: it's a CoreLocation blacklist. # 08.07.08 Nerd Alert: I'm trying out the much-touted free alternate DNS service OpenDNS. I'll let you know how it goes; or else I'll forget and never mention it again. We'll see. # 08.05.08 Love this one: the company providing fast airport security pass-through by collecting vital identity data and an annual fee from passengers may have lost 33,000 user's personal data when a laptop was stolen. Or else someone lost it in their office. The company, surprisingly, is not sure yet. Either way, they found it, so crisis averted everyone, please send your annual renewal check. # « July 2008 | archive index | October 2008 » built with movabletype |
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