Collaborate Disseminate
Yes, they certainly embraced racism. It’s been a problem for story-tellers. Back in 2011 the BBC reported that the name of the Dam Buster’s mascot, a black Labrador named the N-word, would be changed in a movie produced by Peter Jackson: &#… Continue reading Were the WWII Dam Busters Racist?
There haven’t been updates in a while, so Яolcats’ English Translations of Eastern Bloc Lolcats are now classics: -The air is crisp, like fresh spring leaves. -Do you know the time in Zurich? -It is you! no one believed you would surv… Continue reading Poetry by Яolcats
Despite my best efforts to stop the practice of using such a phrase, I find people sometimes still say cloud computing is all about “cows not pets”. What they mean to say is in the harsh world of cloud you shoot the vulnerable instead of ca… Continue reading Murder Your Darlings
Years ago I won the TSA competition for security slogans. I’m not proud, especially because I didn’t enter it and nobody told me my slogan had won until an external investigator pointed out that someone borrowed it from my 2006 blog post an… Continue reading COVID19 Security Slogans
All the talk lately I hear in America about a necessity of calling a virus by Asian origins to play racist blame games instead of saying COVID-19 or even 2020 pandemic (both obviously superior choices) has started to remind me of the 1960s CIA “t… Continue reading Kipling on COVID-19 in America: “You Can Not Hustle the East”
A poem written in 1890 by Winston Churchill Oh how shall I its deeds recount Or measure the untold amount Of ills that it has done? From China’s bright celestial land E’en to Arabia’s thirsty sand It journeyed with the sun. O’er… Continue reading The Influenza, 1890
File this “Aviation Without Borders: Integrated Humanitarian Solutions” site under safety awareness campaigns. Free posters have been translated into 21 languages describe how to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 Our posters provide basic… Continue reading Learn new languages while practicing COVID-19 safety
If poetry is your thing, this hack might convince you that your brain is more advanced than the rest of us poor sots. [Roni Brandini] designed a system that prints lines of poetry when you concentrate. The Mind Poetry project uses an EEG headset from Mattel’s Mindflex toy and pipes …read more
Sometime in the late 1980s I managed to push a fake “bomb” screen to Macintosh users in networked computer labs. It looked something like this: There wasn’t anything wrong with the system. I simply wanted the users in a remote room to… Continue reading The Psychology of Talking Paper
Amazon never seemed very happy about building a dedicated physical space, kind of the opposite of cloud, to achieve compliance with security requirements of the US federal government. AWS provides customers with the option to store their data in AWS Go… Continue reading Amazon’s About Face on GovCloud: “Physical Location Has No Bearing”