Twitter Home Redesign!

And it's so naff!  Well actually, I can't see a difference between what i've been used to seeing for months now, same everything, same lame timepstamping with "xx minutes ago' instead of a nice fixed time like "22:30WAST" which would make so much more sense.  Oh wait - the disintegrating page, where some elements drop out and the rest of the page loads as blocks of text and bits of images placed wherever they decide they want to be, that's new! Isn't it?  Oh no, you're right, it's just the same formatting and CSS crap that Twitter had a year or so ago...

Yeah, move along, nothing to see here

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Wherein Certain Theories Of Mine Prove To Be Workable...

Feeling quite vindicated, a long-held hypothesis of mine looks like it has been supported by some research that has been done..  Wish the person I'd initially sent this idea to for evaluation had not decided to busy out.  Oh well...

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Because We Care WHO Invades Your Privacy!

Is it ironic that a place that has more invasive security cameras per capita than any other place yet allows its citizens less freedom to take pictures should get so wound up over this?

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Why We Need Citizen Vigilance

Cos not all police are there to uphold the law...

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Speared BC

It probably figures that this happened in Iraq - seems to have been a place of violence for a while...  I find it interesting that they state "given who had those and who didn't" speaking of weapons, which implies that neanderthals had very little weaponry while modern humans did.  We haven't really backed off that habit, either, and you have to wonder if the best species actually won... %)

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Robots Aren't Going To Harvest Our Flesh

Really.  Cos a government department, and a contractor hired by a government department, say so.  Honest.

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Retail Recall

So apparently a scientist(?) has done a spot of research to assign a monetary value to memories.  The article is here, and there's a spreadsheet here that can calculate the value of a memory in UK pounds.

According to the spreadsheet, the average value of one of my memories is about 7400 pound, about $15,000AUD.  That's a lot of money and of course there's no way to turn the memory into actual cash, it seems a bit optimistic to believe that someone will shove money at you for remembering stuff.  No, this seems like the kind of research that belongs in "Total Recall" or a similar sci-fi flick.  Someone harvests the memories from you, applies the formula, and out comes the amount they need to pay you for that particular memory.

Being the cynic I am, I can see two snags with that, of course: scenario one, you wake up and think to yourself "wtf is all this money from?" or scenario two is you wake up...

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Fun For An Advanced One

And, a bit tongue in cheek, here's the definitive style guide for homo virtualis the next step in human evolution..

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