AH: This should move some units, but doesn't change the big picture that consumers want a tablet, not a desktop stuffed into a tablet form factor. I think Micrososft still doesn't understand the distinction.

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la la la, reccing things i should have recced long ago. // Arthur has thought about what it would be like to finally get Eames into bed; he's imagined Eames's hands all over him, and how it would be hot, and desperate, and good. Sometimes, Eames is playful in these fantasies, laughing against Arthur's ear until Arthur gives in and smiles, but most of the time they're wild for it, grabbing at each other until they're both covered in bruises.

Arthur should have known that Eames would surprise him.

They're both cagey in the elevator, keyed up and trying not to show it. Arthur might not have Eames's knack for body language, but even he can see the way Eames is flicking glances at the floor numbers, like he can somehow will the elevator to move faster. Arthur isn't faring much better, shifting his weight from foot to foot and quelling the urge to haul Eames up against him.

Eames follows Arthur out of the elevator and down the hall. He doesn't say a word, and he hangs a few meaningful steps behind. Arthur feels his skin prickle the way it does when there's a gun at his back. It's uncomfortable, and it's hot, and he fumbles with his key card a few times before fitting it into the slot.

Eames lets people forget sometimes that he's dangerous.

The VLFeat open source library implements popular computer vision algorithms including HOG, SIFT, MSER, k-means, hierarchical k-means, agglomerative information bottleneck, SLIC superpixels, and quick shift.

It might be that RSS is the canary in the coal mine for my data on the web. If those services don’t trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?

Walt Disney speaks about 'the tricks of our trade' in this short video that introduces us to the MultiPlane Camera. It adds depth to backgrounds in cartoons. via Pocket

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If there is one point around which food snobbery coalesces, it is authenticity. If it doesn’t seem like it’s made by your mama from Chihuahua or your nana from Nanjing, some people just don’t want to eat it. And if there is a cuisine that draws maximum ire in this regard, at least locally, it is Mexican. Why? Because “it is so much better in California!” says everyone, always. And we are all either from California or would like to think we are, at least in some deep spiritual fashion.

This is a PHP 5.3+ API wrapper for the Instagram API

CSS framework, mobile first?

Republican lawmakers have largely rejected the idea that human activity has caused climate change, precluding the chance of passing new legislation. As a result, the administration has to act on its own.

// what an interesting editorial justification of extraconstitutional behavior by the administration in an alleged "news" piece

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It’s a given that startup life will often consist of putting out fires, but as a founder you least expect one to be started in the board room. That appears to be what’s happened in the case of mobile commerce startup MobiCart. In a Tweet earlier today the UK-based company’s founder Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine announced his resignation as CEO and with it his seat on the board.

When contacted for comment, however, Baranoff-Rossine wouldn’t be drawn on the reasons why, except to issue the following statement:

It is with deep regret that I must announce my resignation from MobiCart. It’s been an incredible journey but one I feel I can no longer be part of.

I wanted to personally thank all my customers, partners, suppliers and friends for all your support over the years. It means everything to me and I couldn’t have done this without you.

As for me, I’ll be taking a well overdue holiday before looking at starting my next venture.

However, TechCrunch understands that Baranoff-Rossine’s resignation was the result of an intense and long running board-level dispute over company strategy and the day-to-day operations of MobiCart — a dispute that has finally taken its toll on the company’s founder.

That would also explain the rather odd timing. On the outside at least, MobiCart is doing reasonably well, despite a bump in the road when its original CTO left last year. It claims 14,000 users of its mobile store-front builder for iOS, Android and HTML5, although a much smaller pool of these are paying users.

In addition to providing the storefront builder tools, free or charged as a monthly subscription depending on needs (e.g. number of items in the store), MobiCart has an additional revenue stream by offering to handle the relevant app store submission process, borrowing from the open source playbook.

Despite raising almost $1 million from Northstar Ventures-managed Finance for Business North East Proof of Concept Fund, and the Yorkshire Association of Business Angels, under Baranoff-Rossine’s stewardship, the startup was being run fairly lean, relying on two full-time staff and a pool of contract developers for its apps.

I also understand that Baranoff-Rossine, who remains a minority shareholder, invested quite a lot of his own money into MobiCart to found the company in 2010, money that he made from selling his previous web design business. So, again, the decision to walk away — if voluntarily — can’t have been an easy one.

Startup life really does take no prisoners, even if that’s a part of the story that isn’t always so readily told.

FontPrep takes your TTF and OTF font files and generates all of the respective font-formats for the web: WOFF, EOT, and SVG.

otential trouble spot: taxes. Anyone who buys Bitcoin at $100 and uses it to buy $110 worth of goods is technically supposed to report that $10 in gains to the government. It’s a safe bet that few, if any, Bitcoin users do. Why bother, when both buyer and seller are anonymous? Even Bitcoin’s creator, who operates under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, remains unknown. With Bitcoin values producing wild gains and losses for its users, that has caught the attention of tax authorities, too.

For most, the debate remains a cerebral one. When asked who owned the currency itself, only a few hands in the audience went up. Even Goldberg, though officially neutral, reiterated concerns about deflation in a market where most of the users are betting on its value to rapidly rise.

"Ein essenzielles Moment des Internets wäre damit Geschichte, warnen Experten wie der britische Internet-Erfinder Tim Berners-Lee. Die Abschaffung der Netzneutralität hemme Innovation, Chancengleichheit und freie Rede. Auf Kosten der Nutzer würde man die Offenheit des Netzes gegen Kontrolle und Regulierung eintauschen."

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tightened up that headline a bit

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So, it's been a year, and I'm updating. (self.TwoXChromosomes)

An [in progress] attempt to concisely describe all the important bits of how startups work.

Interesting epoch choice.

Read Only Mode provides an alternate to the built in Maintenance Mode in Drupal. Instead of displaying a static text file to users while the site is in maintenance mode, Read Only Mode will allow access (reading) of new content while preventing the addition of new content (posting / submitting forms / etc).

This allows the site to remain functional while maintenance is performed. This module also provides messaging to users and administrators to indicate that the site is in maintenance mode.

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