CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-06-19 20:38:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This thread has one of the best explanations of bitcoin I've seen yet.

2013-06-19 16:39:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Sexism. Comedian Patton Oswalt reflects on a few serious topics, including rape jokes.

"Why, after all of my years of striving to write original material (and, at times, becoming annoyingly self-righteous about it) and struggling find new viewpoints or untried approaches to any subject, did I suddenly balk and protest when an articulate, intelligent and, at times, angry contingent of people were asking my to apply the same principles to the subject of rape?  Any edgy or taboo subject can become just as hackneyed as an acceptable or non-controversial one if the exact same approach is made every time.  But I wasn’t willing to hear that."

Well worth the read. (You can skip to the rape joke part if you don't really care about the other topics, the thoughts are mostly independent.)

2013-06-19 16:24:45 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

It's amazing what 14 hours of sleep can do. I feel like a thousand bucks!

(I almost wrote "a million bucks" but I'm not quite there yet. Yesterday I felt like about tree fiddy.)

2013-06-17 23:23:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

How to fold a shirt NEATLY and FAST!  : )

2013-06-14 23:49:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Transparency in California should not be optional. CA legislature to vote on gutting public-records law tomorrow.

2013-06-14 23:07:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

See the sun’s shadows on the world from days gone by. Make sure you have Google Earth installed, then click View > Sun. Tilt your view so the horizon is in focus, and then adjust the time of day by using the slider in the upper left. Watch the sun and the stars move across the sky. #earth

2013-06-14 21:13:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Costas

2013-06-14 19:04:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Gmail tip - Did you know you can forward all of a conversation, not just individual messages?

2013-06-14 17:33:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Google+ Dashboard - making it easier to manage your online presence

Today millions of businesses use Google+ to connect with their customers in meaningful ways. Many of these businesses also use AdWords to promote their products; Maps to update store info; and YouTube to publish high-quality video content (to name a few). We want to make it easier to manage your online presence - all across Google - so today we're getting started with Google+ Dashboard. After signing in to your Google+ page, you'll now have access to the following Dashboard features:

1) The ability to update your info (like website URLs, store hours and phone numbers) across Maps, Search and Google+ - all from the Overview tab.

2) One place to monitor your Google+ notifications, assign page managers, share photos and videos - even start a Hangout with followers.

Local businesses... more »

2013-06-14 15:35:05 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

What's going to happen tomorrow?

"Although listed in years for convenience, the numbers beyond this point are so vast that their digits would remain unchanged regardless of which conventional units they were listed in, be they nanoseconds or star lifespans." [Note f]

2013-06-14 01:01:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Don't you hate a know-it-all? Always piping up and correcting you in a condescending tone, right? What jerks!

Join us. http://xkcd.com/843/

2013-06-13 21:50:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Summer is here so it's time for some 20 second watermelon.

Thanks +Craig Luecke for the reminder.

2013-06-13 21:45:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The Lomography Lubitel 166+ - this Lomographic beauty is one of the best analogue investments ever! http://ow.ly/lZEtQ

2013-06-13 21:41:46 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Portraits Of People Wrapped In Rubber Bands

Photographer Wes Naman is no stranger to the world of weird pain inducing photography in the most hilarious way possible. He swept over the web once with his series of people wrapped in Scotch Tape, and now Wes is at it again with a new series of portraits of musicians encaged in rubber bands, while wearing a band T.

Photographer's website and more photos: http://goo.gl/kOy0W Source: http://goo.gl/C2Zln

2013-06-13 21:38:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Fog and rain.

2013-06-13 17:05:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

We just got torn down... and we liked it. 

Check out catwig.com/google-glass-teardown for more.

2013-06-13 17:03:53 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Thank goodness for sanity.

2013-06-13 00:51:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I love +Google.

2013-06-12 19:20:56 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

[Thisiswhyyoureskinny.com (Spoiler Alert: It's Photoshop.)]

Most revealing to me is the way that Jennifer Lawrence's strong, buff arms are whittled down to make her look like a fragile twig--just how we like our wominz, amirite, guise? As a friend said, "These are great examples of how even folks who have all the time, money, and motivation to remove their flaws and look a certain way still fall short of our outrageously unreasonable idealization of what real human bodies look like."

Not that we didn't all already know that, but always a good reminder.

2013-06-12 19:12:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"MTV will show you a lot of crap and tell you it's art, but I show you crap...and it's like...art..." #louisck

2013-06-12 18:02:04 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Use this link to jump to 2' 16" for the good stuff - Gordon Ramsay Cookalong Live With Guest Host Amanda Holden Part 1
/cc +Eileen Rose 

2013-06-12 16:05:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The toughest cuts of meat are the most flavorful, you just need to put in the effort. #lifeadvice

I like this because it's wise and deep and it's probably about bacon.

2013-06-12 07:56:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Do you really think someone would do that?

2013-06-12 07:29:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Well, here's a time sink. This could be on the level of tvtropes.org.

2013-06-12 05:57:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My latest blog post!

2013-06-12 05:22:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Here's a shot from Beijing, China, taken a few weeks ago during my visit. I wasn't able to post much there because G+ was blocked. As many of you who have been to Beijing may attest, the skies are quite muggy and polluted there. I only saw a blue colored sky once in 10 days. Though I'm not completely certain, this appears to be a nuclear power plant, so what's coming out of those towers would be steam. Maybe that's one step to cleaning up the air in Beijing.  

2013-06-11 20:48:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

We're calling for greater transparency--asking the government to let us publish in our Transparency Report aggregate numbers of national security requests, including their scope.  Here's our letter to the US government.  

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/asking-us-government-to-allow-google-to.html

2013-06-10 22:03:32 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I live like a Sim that's being controlled by someone playing The Sims for the first time.

+Lakshmi Howe +Hunter Howe - thought you guys would get a kick out of this one...
/cc +Eileen Rose 

2013-06-10 21:14:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

How to break a world record in less time than it takes to make toast. +1 if you made the attempt. 

2013-06-10 21:07:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

It feels good to be home again. As usual I found time yesterday to unwind from the long flights spending some quality time in the garden and with a leaf blower sending the detritus over the hill side to decompose in the ravine.  I had a great trip to Borneo and Australia and now am looking ahead to teaching my workshop this coming weekend in Boston and NJ.  I hope to see many of you there, I love teaching this workshop, I'm continually changing the photos and stories and it's always fresh and new for me as well as those who come back time and again.  

I've yet to really go through all of my images from Australia but will have them posted before the week is out.  Until then here is a shot from a previous trip to that region. 

http://www.artwolfeworkshops.com/lectures.php

PHOTO:  Dimond Gorge, Mornington Sanctuary, Kimberley region, Western Australia
#a... more »

2013-06-09 18:10:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"If you have nothing to hide, then why won't you let me search you?"

If I have nothing to hide, then why do you want to search me?

2013-06-08 22:51:57 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-to-tech-companies/

CNET gets it right on the Google issue

2013-06-08 05:11:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Four Roses, good stuff. Water the barrel strength down a bit though, brings out the real flavor.

2013-06-08 03:29:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Why should we be concerned about the government sweeping up all of our information?

Are you afraid of terrorists? Are you afraid of getting bombed or shot? Maybe you're afraid of the wrong things.

Lets say you are a college student and you get in with some people who want to stop farming practices that hurt animals. So you make a plan and go to protest these practices. You get there, and wow, the protest is huge. You never expected this, you were just goofing off. Well now everyone who was there is suspect. Even though you technically had the right to protest, you're now considered a dangerous person. [source: link below]

How many people are killed by random acts of terror every year? Compare that to how many people live under oppressive regimes.

Which are you more afraid of now?

2013-06-08 00:22:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

If you like to use public transportation, check out the schedule explorer in the new maps...it's awesome. (link below jumps right to the relevant section)

2013-06-07 22:44:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

A supercell near Booker, TX

This is the pinnacle moment in my storm chasing adventures. What I've been wanting to witness in person for many years now. And we did it this past Monday near Booker, Texas while out chasing storms. 

Read more here and see it better: http://www.mikeolbinski.com/theblog/2013/06/a-supercell-near-booker-texas/

#storms  #supercell #wallcloud #photographer  

2013-06-07 20:11:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In case you missed it, see Google's official statement on the NSA program called "PRISM".

2013-06-07 19:49:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Because you haven't been sufficiently disturbed today.

2013-06-07 19:14:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Sometimes it might be about the—what? Ok, I'm listening.

2013-06-07 02:22:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This was an issue pre-Jellybean that pushed a lot of people away from Android...it's nice that this is not going unnoticed!

2013-06-07 01:54:42 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Welp you jumped for it and couldn't reach the next hold, so I guess it's time to call it quits–wait what.

2013-06-07 01:47:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hehe - funny conversation with a nice woman in Toronto.  She saw I was wearing Glass and I told her I was recording, and then a funny conversation began!  

Where do you think she is from?

  What are these Google people doing? 

2013-06-07 01:46:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I'm loving the new vertical shots on G+.  Here's a new one I took last week in China...  This area of town, the CBD (Central Business District) has these really cool lights on the edge of the roads that charge up during the day and glow all night...

2013-06-06 17:41:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

If you missed it, Google continues support for CalDAV and CardDAV. If you're not a developer, this means that any app on your devices can automatically sync contacts and calendar events associated with your Google account.

2013-06-06 16:42:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"A farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat for on-farm consumption in Ohio. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production based on acreage owned by a farmer, in order to drive up wheat prices during the Great Depression, and Filburn was growing more than the limits permitted. Filburn was ordered to destroy his crops and pay a fine, even though he was producing the excess wheat for his own use and had no intention of selling it."

Download the full story using the link at the bottom here - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1268162

2013-06-06 15:38:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

High speed photography for your Thursday morning.

2013-06-06 07:41:30 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

If you've wondered this for a long time, wonder no more. What different parts of the US call "soda".

2013-06-05 07:17:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Within the past few weeks I've seen gorgeous photos from +Colby Brown, +Scott Rinckenberger, and Becca Skinner from Great Sand Dunes National Park. Somehow I've lived in Colorado for over 4 years and have never made it down to check out. Inspired by these three photographers who's work I greatly respect, I decided to finally venture down to check it out myself.

Knowing that light creates nice shadows in the afternoon, I wanted to capture a high contrast image in black and white. I figured the difficult part, though, would be getting a hiker into the frame to show a sense of scale. After setting up my composition and waiting for a few minutes for someone to walk through, I decided to take things into my own hands. I plugged in my timer remote to my 1DX and set up a timelapse to capture 1 shot every 3 seconds and walked up the hill myself. The nice contrasting spot is 200-300 yards... more »

2013-06-05 00:45:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Everyone at Bilderberg, the world’s most elite conference.

2013-06-04 21:52:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is great!