- Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? – "Used to be you could argue that Flash, whatever its merits, delivered content to the entire audience you cared about. That’s no longer true, and Adobe’s Flash penetration is shrinking with each iPhone OS device Apple sells."
- Penguins, Peaks and Penny-Farthings: Nat Geo Covers 1959-2000 – "The National Geographic Society celebrates its 122nd anniversary on Jan. 27 … Though the early issues had rather drab academic looking covers, by 1959 they were consistently adorned with eye-cathing art and photos."
- Verified by Visa bitchslapped by Cambridge researchers – "Secondary credit card security systems for online transactions such as Verified by Visa are all about shifting blame rather then curtailing fraud, Cambridge University security researchers argue." Or put another way: those annoying screens you get when you buy something online are not for your benefit.
Tag Archives: nature
My delicious.com bookmarks for April 28th through May 3rd
- Birds show off their dance moves – Funny video, fascinating science, bad music…
- Intelligent Design Sort – It would seem that intelligent design has "uses" outside explaining the diversity of nature. It works for Computer Science too. Who'd have thought it?
- Scrap ID cards now, say Cabinet rebels – Maybe there is some benefit in the dire state of the economy…
Brown
A lot of things are “Brown,” this weeks PhotoFriday Challenge, but I rarely label things by their colour so it was difficult to find them in iPhoto! In the end I went for these trees in Muir Woods, California.
Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Circular.” I’m entry number 43.