Facebook has announced that developers of Facebook apps can now gather the personal contact information from their users.
Via Slashdot. As an old friend wrote about Facebook and other internet powers:
We don’t use the internet anymore: it is using us.
If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer: you’re the product being sold.
…. from the threat posed by the iPad. At Business Insider
Essentially what I posted back in September. A further point is that Apple historically does not compete on price. It sell premium products (good premium products) at premium prices. But for Amazon (and Barnes & Noble) discounting is a way of life. Apple cannot compete with them on price, and has no reason to: There are lots of people quite happy to pay Apple’s current prices. These are just different business models
An ex-Weather Underground radical on the Tucson shootings and political violence
….the Weather Underground believed in the absolute necessity of bombs to address actual moral grievances such as the Vietnam War and racism….
Via Ann Althouse
From Boing Boing
At Spiked Math
At xkcd
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 