Lazy Sunday Listening
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Fate's Interesting News Bits V.7
Ukraine Crash - No funny things to say about this. It’s sad, tragic, and disgusting.
Microsoft Resizes - 18,000 people to be laid off. It really sucks to be a Nokia employee right now, but I doubt that anyone there is completely surprised by what’s going on. If Microsoft is SMART, they’ll be axing or refreshing most of the management structure there. From the sound of things…. they’re being smart, but I’ve yet to see any real detail.
Lazy Sunday Listening
Fate's Interesting News Bits V.6
Israel Escalates - From the tragic deaths of a few children to now many more. Sad, but not surprising.
Germany Spanks Brazil … and then is overly polite about it - The real story here is seeing the general level of sportsmanship going on in Soccer…er, football. Sorta weird, as an American it feels a bit out of place. Shouldn’t Germany be like - “We crushed Brazil, now it’s you Argentina”, and then Argentina can trash talk back?
Lazy Sunday Viewing
Something for your 4th of July Weekend.
Edit: the video is still neat, but the music has been replaced with generic techno. So, no longer really “listening”…
Fate's Interesting News Bits V.5
Ebola Desperate Measures - The continuing Ebola outbreak has people calling for using experimental treatments. The lack of a coordinated response in West Africa is scary.
Revenge Killings Jerusalem - An eye for an eye…. People are angry.
Hobby Lobby Ends the World - Supreme Court helps. I need to read the opinion still, but have my doubts that this is the world ending decision people make it out for.
Maker Faire KC 2014
Since Fin was out of town, I took the opportunity to Geek-it-up at the Maker Faire Kansas City, and grabbed Blazed to explore.
The Make people threw a fairly decent party, both inside and outside Union Station. A solid mix of people were present. I spotted everyone there from dirty hippies to Glassholes.
We caught the “Coke and Mentos” guys doing a demo.
(Video is recording from another fair / year / someone else, but the presentation was similar).
Fate's Interesting News Bits V.4
Nest Spy - Nest is adding new features to share the data they collect with Google. Now, Google can watch your home habits as well….
Drone Memo - White House has released their “justification” for killing an American citizen via a drone strike.
Swat Teams Immune - Police organizations are claiming that swat teams are private corporations, and therefore immune to information requests.
Supreme Court has been Busy:
- EPA can’t regulate green house gasses
- Cops must have a warrant to search your phone.
- President’s appointments illegally passed
- Buffer Zones in front of abortion clinics are unconstitutional
NYC can’t ban sugary drinks - Some sanity? Courts say people have a right to buy 24oz sodas.
Lazy Sunday Listening
Something different today… Kickin’ it old school.