Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.- Ralph Waldo EmersonTumblr (3.0; @neilio)http://literaryhack.com/“Last week, Google announced a new, simplified privacy policy. They did a great job of informing users that the privacy policy had been changed through emails and notifications, and several experts (including Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian) have praised the shift toward a simpler, more unified policy. Unfortunately, while the policy might be easier to understand, Google did a less impressive job of publicly explaining what in the policy had actually been changed. In fact, it took a letter from eight Representatives to persuade them to provide straightforward answers to the public about their new policy. Here’s what you need to know about the substantive changes in the new policy:”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/what-actually-changed-google's-privacy-policy">What Actually Changed in Google’s Privacy Policy | Electronic Frontier Foundation</a></em>http://literaryhack.com/post/17075071311http://literaryhack.com/post/17075071311Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:13 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lywimcbygP1qz4rlfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://violetalopiz.blogspot.com/">violeta lopiz</a>)</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/17071420027http://literaryhack.com/post/17071420027Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:49:24 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lywiie3Lbh1qz4rlfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://store.partparcelny.com/product/study-no-1">Part & Parcel — Study No. 1</a>)</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/17071294966http://literaryhack.com/post/17071294966Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:47:02 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lywi1qYRr61qz4rlfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://digitalphoto.cocolog-nifty.com/digitalphoto/cat4164851/index.html">　Digital Photo Blog: ホタル</a>) - gorgeous time elapse photos of fireflies.</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/17070759661http://literaryhack.com/post/17070759661Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:36:57 -0500“Why is pop music the only art form that still inspires such arrantly stupid discussion? The debates that surround authenticity have no relationship to popular music as it’s been practiced for more than a century. Artists write material, alone or with assistance, revise it, and then present a final work created with the help of professionals who are trained for specific and relevant production tasks. This makes popular music similar to film, television, visual art, books, dance, and related areas like food and fashion. And yet no movie review begins, “Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in ‘The Iron Lady.’ ””<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2012/02/06/120206crmu_music_frerejones?currentPage=all">Lana Del Rey’s Image on “Born to Die” : The New Yorker</a></em>http://literaryhack.com/post/17070353644http://literaryhack.com/post/17070353644Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:29:30 -0500“The winners solve a number of problems in new ways, from Ford’s smart dashboards to Sifteo’s novel games to a system to help make cell phones easier for the elderly.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/1668965/the-best-of-the-best-the-ixda-selects-the-best-interaction-design-of-2012">The Best Of The Best: The IxDA Selects The Best Interaction Design Of 2012 | Co.Design: business innovation design</a></em>http://literaryhack.com/post/17015882341http://literaryhack.com/post/17015882341Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:11:33 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0DtrUqZ8zao?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Beatbox MGMT - Kids (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0DtrUqZ8zao">Pytrantula</a>)</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/16961665724http://literaryhack.com/post/16961665724Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:46:46 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/REFSQAFQgZY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Stuntbusters: Car Flip At 1000 FPS (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=REFSQAFQgZY">SPEED</a>)</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/16961020278http://literaryhack.com/post/16961020278Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:32:23 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tklx3j7kgJY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Q: Do TIGERS like catnip?? (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_551664&v=tklx3j7kgJY&src_vid=eHZJrx7RZ2w">BigCatRescue</a>)</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/16923281230http://literaryhack.com/post/16923281230Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:22:25 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eHZJrx7RZ2w?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Do Big Cats Purr? (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eHZJrx7RZ2w">BigCatRescue</a>)</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/16923206805http://literaryhack.com/post/16923206805Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:20:13 -0500“The craft of your career comes in picking the right hills. Hills just challenging enough that you can barely make it over. A series of hills becomes a mountain, and a series of mountains is a career.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/02/hills.html">Seth’s Blog: An endless series of difficult but achievable hills</a></em>http://literaryhack.com/post/16920635661http://literaryhack.com/post/16920635661Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:55:19 -0500“For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know. Everything else is the application of those two things, or just not important.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/thetwothings.html">The Two Things</a></em>http://literaryhack.com/post/16920535320http://literaryhack.com/post/16920535320Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:51:33 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqxzziULj1qz4rlfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/culture/most-beautiful-street-world.html">Is This the Most Beautiful Street in the World? : TreeHugger</a>)</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/16903194884http://literaryhack.com/post/16903194884Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:35:59 -0500<a href="http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software-development-task-estimations-regularly-off-by-a-factor-of-2-3/answer/Michael-Wolfe">Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?</a>: <p>Perfection.</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/16760412681http://literaryhack.com/post/16760412681Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:43:34 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y8YhED4IgQA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>The Muppets Attack Fox News (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8YhED4IgQA&feature=youtu.be">LeicesterSquareTV</a>)</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/16758996759http://literaryhack.com/post/16758996759Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:47:13 -0500“His conclusion: if you read a book forwards, it is like looking out a window and seeing something happen. But if you read a book backwards, it is like looking at the window itself.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2012/01/reading-backwards.html">andrewjshields: Reading Backwards</a></em>http://literaryhack.com/post/16758948652http://literaryhack.com/post/16758948652Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:45:09 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyl7pj77wX1qz4rlfo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://literaryhack.com/post/16732971483http://literaryhack.com/post/16732971483Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:20:05 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pBIf9KljT68?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Photoshop CS 7 Sneak Peek #1 - (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pBIf9KljT68">Photoshop</a>)</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/16699745561http://literaryhack.com/post/16699745561Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:15:47 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gbHTaPk8Qmk?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Wilco & Popeye - “Dawned On Me” (by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gbHTaPk8Qmk">wilco</a>)</p>http://literaryhack.com/post/16615001578http://literaryhack.com/post/16615001578Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:21:13 -0500“And so once the basic business proposition is “this company will make the most amazing Web services available and give them away for free in order to sell you to advertisers,” plummeting levels of privacy become inevitable. A different business model like “this company will create the best user experience imaginable, including a pleasing ad-free environment” is compatible with a credible commitment to respect your privacy. But the give-it-away-for-free model isn’t.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/01/27/the_trouble_with_quot_free_quot_.html">The Trouble With “Free”</a></em>http://literaryhack.com/post/16578257917http://literaryhack.com/post/16578257917Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:40:32 -0500