Archive for October, 2016

Sree Sreenivasan: The Met ousted one of its top executives, so he used Facebook to show them what they lost — Quartz

Thursday, October 20th, 2016

.@sree: The Met ousted one of its top execs, so he used Facebook to show them what they lost
http://qz.com/711943/sree-sreenivasan-how-to-spin-getting-fired-from-your-high-profile-job-into-a-delightful-digital-campaign/ Social media maestro?

How Hackers Could Send Your Polling Station into Chaos

Wednesday, October 19th, 2016

How Hackers Could Send Your Polling Station into Chaos
https://www.TechnologyReview.com/s/602484/how-hackers-could-send-your-polling-station-into-chaos Corrupting voter registration DBs to affect #election turnout

Inside macOS Sierra: Apple’s Optimized Storage and management features – Mac OS X Discussions on AppleInsider Forums

Monday, October 17th, 2016

Inside…Sierra: $AAPL’s Optimized Storage
http://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/196115/inside-macos-sierra-apples-optimized-storage-and-management-features Strong filesystem-icloud integration. Maybe good but also heavy handed

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“paxman said:
I am curious though, what do you mean by a very secure iCloud account? Do you just mean that you use two step verification and ‘difficult’ password? or is there something more?
Extremely strong password becaue it’s an internet-facing account that hold so much personal data
Password unique to that account
2FA
Notifcations of access attempts (if that’s possible to set up. I forget) Answers to personal questinons and birthday purposely inaccurate (in other words, the questions are a key to the get the correct answer generated randomly)”
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Carpet Squares & Carpet Tiles | FLOR

Monday, October 17th, 2016

https://www.flor.com/carpet-tiles/all-tiles

Greenland Is Melting – The New Yorker

Monday, October 17th, 2016

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/greenland-is-melting

CUTTINGS – What Horrifies Roaches and Grows on Trees? – NYTimes.com

Sunday, October 16th, 2016

What Horrifies Roaches & Grows on Trees? Now on the ground – the
#osage orange! http://www.NYTimes.com/1994/11/27/nyregion/cuttings-what-horrifies-roaches-and-grows-on-trees.html More at https://www.FLICKR.com/photos/mbgmbg/tags/greenthing

Imatinib – Wikipedia

Sunday, October 16th, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib
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Imatinib (INN), marketed by Novartis as Gleevec (Canada, South Africa and the USA) or Glivec (Australia, Europe and Latin America), investigational name STI-571, is a tyrosine-kinase inhibitor used in the treatment of multiple cancers, most notablyPhiladelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).[1]

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good & bad chrome extensions

Sunday, October 16th, 2016

Non default ones to add:

Inbox by Gmail
LastPass: Free Password Manager
Auto Text Expander for Google Chrome
Cisco WebEx Extension
Tabr – only tab management I’ve found useful

Reset your Chrome sync – Chrome Help

Sunday, October 16th, 2016

Found this useful after profile corruption – I noticed it deleted & recreated a new profile directory in ~/Library/Application
Support/Google/Chrome/

also useful:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142059?hl=en

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6386691?hl=en

Looking for a Signal in the Noise: Revisiting Obesity and the Microbiome

Sunday, October 16th, 2016

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Katherine Pollard led one study, and Rob Knight led the other
(Finucane et al., 2014; Walters et al., 2014).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4999546/