Archive for September, 2010
Roadside Refugees: Photog Speaks Out on Pakistan Flood
Pakistani families fashion makeshift homes out of their remaining belongings in the weeks following the flood. Photographer Asim Rafiqui captures their plight and talks about the aid response.
Is This Stunt Really Possible? Physics Has the Answer
Physics blogger Rhett Allain found this crazy stunt posted on Reddit and decided to determine if it is actually possible by throwing a bunch of equations and graphs at it. Do you think it’s real?
Scribd Facebook Instant Personalization Is a Privacy Nightmare
Scribd has created a privacy nightmare that involves drafting users who are already logged into Facebook without offering a clear opt-out process either on the site or through e-mail.
Pianist Transcribes Complete Super Mario Bros. Score
Joseph Karam has worked for several months to create a comprehensive transcription of Koji Kondo’s score to the original Super Mario Bros.
Android Apps May Leak Your Personal Data, Study Finds
About 15 of 30 randomly selected, popular, free Android apps sent users’ private information to remote advertising servers and two-thirds of the apps handled data in ambiguous ways, say researchers.