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Trivial Posts #6: Boston’s Budget, Chocolate And Creme, Leap Seconds To Disaster

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A busy week for me with CES going on and lots of news to stay on top of, but that does’ mean there’s no time for some fun posts! Once more, here’s the weekly collection of interesting posts, ideas, video clips, essays, images, and anything else that catches my eye online Don�t forget to�subscribe to the mailing list�so you�never miss anything trivial! Faster, Better, Stronger, More Expensive… Boston is rather upset that it’s getting to bid for the 2024 Olympic Games. The�small committees, politicians, and planners are going ‘this would be a good thing, we can build new public�transport links’,

You do have something to hide, you just don’t know it

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Over on Wired, Moxie Marlinspike addresses the cliched question of  ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ when discussing security issues. It might be focused on America, but the principles still stand, and the view is especially relevant in the current climate. If the federal government had access to every email you’ve ever written and every phone call you’ve ever made, it’s almost certain that they could find something you’ve done which violates a provision in the 27,000 pages of federal statues or 10,000 administrative regulations. You probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet.

Why did Google Reader have to die?

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Christina Bonnington: No matter what Mountain View says about changing user habits, though, both Now and Plus do one thing: They keep you in Google’s world. It’s a de-emphasis of content source. In other words, rather than reading Cat Fancy religiously, you’re reading the Animals category religiously — a category populated by the sites Google’s products think you’ll enjoy most. The focus is on the places, people, and subjects surrounding an article, not the brands that create them. And instead of receiving the headlines from CNN in your reader, they’re pushed to you on a Google service like Now or Plus. Or

Crime Never pays, but makes Great Blog Copy

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Wired have rounded up their top seven criminal capers from 2008, and what fun reading it is as well. From the man who ‘earned’ $58,000 in nickels and dimes that the likes of Paypal send out to verify accounts; to the crook who dressed up like the construction worker in the Village People to rob a bank that disappeared in a crowd of construction workers thanks to a Craig’s List “be here in costume if you want to be a star” advert; they’re all deserving of time. And our giggles. Voting is open for the best entry, to be declared