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Links
Some random pages I visited recently and which caught my attention:
- A really cool Classic Mac Emulator written in JavaScript. You can run your old Mac apps in your browser!
I am trying to make the most of my Canon gear to be used with my new Olympus OMD:
- Mod the Yonungo RF–603C remote flash trigger to work with the Olympus OMD E-M5.
- Another description to mod the Yonungo RF–603C
I am trying to write some AppleScript to automatically tag pictures in Aperture. So here are a few links on python, AppleScript and Aperture:
Great piece on fraud in science: Epic fraud: How to succeed in science (without doing any)
Unfortunately, data has somehow managed to become the foundation of modern science—so you’re going to need to get some from somewhere if you want a career. A few brave souls have figured out a way to liberate data from the tyranny of experimentation: they simply make it up.
- The Economist on Do Not Track: Online advertising: Don’t keep on trackin’
- The Apple Newton is twenty. Oh boy, I loved that thing. I had the last three models and ran a mildly popular Newton mailing list at on my 486 Linux PC at CERN. It was chunky, large and slow, but I loved it. Apple’s Newton MessagePad PDA at Twenty | Techland | TIME.com
- What questions are keeping astronomers up at night? | Ars Technica
- Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran | New York Times
- This is from April, but I still think it is very funny. David Pogue on Facebook buying Instagram:
Zuck: “Well, you’ve got a point there. I don’t know how I’d scrape by, either. O.K., 950. But that’s our final offer.”
App guys: “Get real! We could get $2 billion from Google, easy.”
Zuck: “O.K., one billion dollars. Plus I’ll teach you how to block invitations to join stupid groups you don’t care about on Facebook.”
App guys: “Deal!”
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