Data Anxiety

Are you passionate about helping people? Are you intuitive? Do you often feel like you know what your friends and family are thinking and can finish their thoughts before they can? 

Google’s quality team is looking for talented, motivated, opinionated technologists to help us predict what users are looking for. If you’re eager to improve the search experience for millions of people and have a proven track record of excellence, this is a project for you!

This position is located in Mountain View, CA and obscure locations around the world.

Early days One of the earlier Google logos was motivated by the annual Burning Man festival. This logo was attributed to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. According to Google, Google and…

View the expanding Cloud Girlfriend topic on Quora: Links, Pics, Videos, and News

Broadsword calling…?

Via the blog of @lcamtuf a pretty kitty with a purple ribbon and a pink background whose sweet bio is 

easily intimidated by tall people, loud noises, and sudden flashes of bright light.

And sure enough, that MHTML vulnerability reported on by @lcamtuf was soon after seen in the wild, as reported by Al Jazeera in China.

When a vehicle stops suddenly, the energy has to go somewhere 

via The Republic of Mathematics blog

Now accepting applications!

WHERE:  Montauk, NY

WHEN:   12 - 16 September 2011

WHAT:   5 day/4 nights by yourself aboard the sloop Intemperance

WHO:    You. You’re a musician, a writer, a designer, a computer programmer, a draughtsman, a composer; pretty much anyone who could use a few days of uninterrupted quiet time to get some work done

HOW:  Write me a short letter. Please include references because I’m not going to let an irresponsible person stay on my boat, get drunk and drown.

REQUIREMENTS:  You must be an adult, that means 18+. You must have dinner with me and my family on Wednesday Sept. 14.

*Intemperance is a fully equipped live-aboard yacht. There’s water, refrigeration, a full galley. You can even plug in your laptop. You might able to pull down a WIFI signal.

via Tony Comstock’s Kōan of Silence. Follow the link for further details, including a possible stipend. The Comstock Foundation SubGenius Grant will be awarded on July 4.

This Mr. Tony Comstock is a nice man. He knows about Stuxnet, information security, financial and economic risk mitigation from a quantitative perspective, but that is incidental. I believe his actual career is in cinematography and writing articles for The Atlantic and other publications (although he is certainly more congenial than Alex Madrigal and my cousin Gopnik who also write for The Atlantic).

I’m reasonably confident that Mr. Comstock wouldn’t give you a leaky boat with no water, a broken motor or shredded sail.

Any formating errors are mine.

This my home.

I live on this street, about two miles north. 

I submitted this image of this street mural in front of the funeral home and it was accepted. It is a wonderful mural. Unfortunately, Google image software blurs some of the images in the art work, probably because they are all too human.

Rising 吉田兄弟 Yoshida Bros

I gave emphasis to my favorites of the lot. With thanks to adsertoris and The Lucy Nation:

• Full Wolf Moon – January In the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages.

• Full Snow Moon – February 

• Full Worm Moon – March 

• Full Pink Moon – April

• Full Flower Moon – May 

• Full Strawberry Moon – June 

• The Full Buck Moon – July Time for the new antlers of buck deer to push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. Also called the Full Thunder Moon or the Full Hay Moon.

• Full Sturgeon Moon – August Sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes, were most readily caught during this month.

• Full Corn Moon – September 

• Full Harvest Moon – October Usually the full Moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the it seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: 25 to 30 min later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 min later for parts of Canada and Europe. 

• Full Beaver Moon – November 

• The Full Cold Moon – December