San Diego smart streetlights raise privacy concerns
San Diego sees privacy concerns from so-called “smart streetlights,” that collect data and surveillance video, installed without full public disclosure [San Diego News Fix with Lori Weisberg and Teri Figueroa] The city council will look at the issue.
IBM Names New CEO: Arvind Krishna, Red Hat Deal Mastermind, Replaces Rometty [Me/Light Reading]
Minnie Mouse throws down. The cartoon shoes complete the scene.
Somebody come look at this 😂😂
— joni (@Xx_JoniBravo_xX) January 29, 2020
1) can you imagine being a kid and seeing Minnie fighting somebody?!
2) The way Pluto walked off carrying the heads 😭 he look like it happens on a regular and he sick of it pic.twitter.com/J4UxeKzbxI
#Avasarala's hand terminal with the predictive text: "f*ck | f*cker | f*cked | f*cking" has me screaming! It's like looking at my own iPhone honestly 😆🚀 #screamingfirehawks #chrisjenavasarala #TheExpanse #shohrehaghdashloo pic.twitter.com/TnBUafhsaG
— OrionLodubyal (@orionlodubyal) January 28, 2020
I bought a 16-ounce bottle of Dr. Brommer’s liquid soap a couple of weeks ago. It is concentrated. I use about four drops to wash my hands a half-dozen times a day, and to wash my face once a day. At this rate, I expect to leave the soap to our grand-nieces and nephews, and their children after them.
Surprisingly, China actually benefits from the perception that its vendors are government stooges. [Ray Le Maistre/Light Reading]
It saddens me that it’s too late in my life for me to get a cool nickname, like “Ace.”
Boston-area natives Chris Evans, John Krasinski, Rachel Dratch and David “Big Papi” Ortiz in a wicked good commercial for Smart Park for the Hyundai Sonata.
PR pitch of the day: “Parents find sex education conversations easier than technology conversations.”
Because unlike USB connectors, with sex it’s easy to figure out which direction it should be facing when you stick it in.
This trailer for "Spenser Confidential" looks great!
The Netflix movie coming March 6 stars Mark Wahlberg, Winston “Black Panther” Duke, and Alan Arkin.
I wasn’t sure about the movie after reading on Wikipedia that it’s only very loosely based on one of the Spenser books and merely “uses the names of characters created by Robert B. Parker.” I’m a huge fan of the novels, and I was afraid this would be travesty.
But the preview looks great. It has some hints of the novels and the Parker characters, and that’s all – but that’s enough. It looks like it’s going to be its own thing.
A few months ago we re-watched Beverly Hills Cop I and II, and I rewatched Midnight Run. And I’ve seen 48 HRS many times, also Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. I was commenting a few weeks ago that they don’t make action-buddy movies like that anymore. Well, looks like they did this time.
Juniper Returns to Growth – No Thanks to Service Providers lightreading.com My latest on Light Reading: Juniper returned to growth in its fourth financial quarter, but cloud and enterprise had to carry the stumbling service provider sector.
You look like you’re having a tough day so here is the Addams Family dancing to Joy Division’s “Disorder."
Cory Doctorow: Climate denial has destroyed the libertarian movement boingboing.net
The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won’t speak to another human until Monday’ theguardian.com
Paula Cocozza: “For growing numbers of people the weekend is an emotional wilderness where interaction is minimal and social life non-existent.”
The iPad is fantastic but also disappointing daringfireball.net
Great short essay by John Gruber. Among other things, he perfectly captures why iPad split screen, slideover and multitasking confuse the jeebers out of me and I almost always don’t bother.