And Tango Makes Three, the heartwarming true tale of two male penguins in the Central Park Zoo that adopt an abandoned egg and then raise the baby penguin, is the book that is most often challenged by parents for its positive depictions of gay avian lifestyles. And school districts around the country have removed it from their shelves in response to many of those challenges.
via Americans Want to Toss Adorable Gay Penguin Tale on Banned-Book Pyre | Fast Company.
“don’t be fooled, there is much more to these tattoos than just a cool design. These barcodes are readable by any iPhone or QR scanner. The embedded information can be text, a URL or any other data. I think it would be awesome if we could upload and change the information on our QR code tattoo whenever we wanted to. For example, going to a new doctor? Just hit your laptop before you leave home, click a button, and upload all your medical history to your tattoo. When you get to the doctor, forget filling out a dozen pages of forms, just get scanned.”
via Scan Yourself: Geeky Barcode (QR Code) Tattoos | Bit Rebels.
“So after a lot of thought, we’ve decided to bid for Nortel’s patent portfolio in the company’s bankruptcy auction. Today, Nortel selected our bid as the “stalking-horse bid,” which is the starting point against which others will bid prior to the auction. If successful, we hope this portfolio will not only create a disincentive for others to sue Google, but also help us, our partners and the open source community—which is integrally involved in projects like Android and Chrome—continue to innovate.”
Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day. How concrete is this fact for you?
It’s very concrete for Malte Spitz, a German politician and privacy advocate. He used German privacy law — which, like the law of many European countries, gives individuals a right to see what private companies know about them — to force his cell phone carrier to reveal what it knew about him. The result? 35,831 different facts about his cell phone use over the course of six months.
Google’s Android OS has made great strides in seizing marketshare among smartphones, but the fragmentation of devices has finally caught Google’s attention–for its Honeycomb tablet OS, hardware specs will be much tighter. It’s a lesson from Apple.
via Apple Teaches Google About Product Synergy (Lesson Learned?) | Fast Company.
