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Foxglove Summer (Peter Grant, #5) - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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Bloomberg: Solar to reach parity with electric grid in 2016 - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Bloomberg: Solar to reach parity with electric grid in 2016: > After years of struggling against cheap natural gas prices and variable subsidies, solar electricity is on track to be as cheap or cheaper than average electricity-bill prices in 47 U.S. states — in 2016, according to a Deutsche Bank report published this week. - Technodad - -

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Why Google wants to replace Gmail - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Why Google wants to replace Gmail: Mike Elgin predicts Gmail will be gone or replaced within five years in this _Computerworld_ article: > Gmail represents a dying class of products that, like Google Reader, puts control in the hands of users, not signal-harvesting algorithms - Technodad - -

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I moderated a panel on the emerging third platform / “nexus of forces” at The Open Group conference in London with Ron Tolido, SVP and CTO Application Services Continental Europe for Capgemini, Andras Szakal, VP and CTO, IBM U.S. Federal IMT and TJ Virdi, Senior Enterprise IT Architect at the Boeing Company. - Technodad - -

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You're going to need your favorite toy on the trip! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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Obama Outperforms Reagan On Jobs, Growth And Investing - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Obama Outperforms Reagan On Jobs, Growth And Investing: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today issued America’s latest jobs report covering August. And it’s a disappointment. The economy created an additional 142,000 jobs last month. via Pocket - Technodad - -

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Safety Worries May Slow Integration of Robots into Human Workforce - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Safety Worries May Slow Integration of Robots into Human Workforce: ISO is working on standards about how much robots can accidentally hurt it’s human co-workers. The ISO’s update will, for instance, include guidance on the maximum force with which a robot may strike a human it is working with. Those limits will be based on research under way at the German Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. One part of that work involves using a machine to touch human volunteers with gradually increasing force to determine the pressure needed to cause the sensation of pain in 29 different regions of the body. The possibilities for new Americas Funniest Home Videos notwithstanding, it’s good to see this aspect of safety being addressed proactively. - Technodad - -

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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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13 Scientific Reasons To Drink Coffee - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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13 Scientific Reasons To Drink Coffee: > For people who eat a standard Western diet, coffee may actually be the healthiest aspect of the diet. That’s because coffee contains a massive amount of antioxidants…In fact, studies show that most people get more antioxidants from coffee than both fruits and vegetables… combined (59, 60, 61). Coffee is one of the healthiest beverages on the planet. Period. - Technodad - -

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Podcasts are back — and making money - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Podcasts are back — and making money: parislemon: Cecilia Kang: Podcasters also like the personal connection they have with fans who listen through ear buds or headphones, which can make shows feel more intimate than other forms of media. Mars said he keeps that in mind and mikes himself more closely than he used to. This allows him to use a quieter voice, which he calls a “head voice,” in the hopes of more closely connecting with listeners. I like that concept. - Technodad - -

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Peter Thiel: Technology Stalled in 1970 - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Peter Thiel: Technology Stalled in 1970: Peter Thiel thinks tech companies can improve the world by tackling bigger problems, citing SpaceX as an example. You have to think of companies like Microsoft or Oracle or Hewlett-Packard as fundamentally bets against technology. They keep throwing off profits as long as nothing changes. Via MIT Technology Review - Technodad - -

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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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freeboard - Visualization for the dweeb.io IoT platform - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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freeboard - Visualization for the dweeb.io IoT platform - Technodad - -

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parislemon: What could go wrong? Repent, Harlequin, Said the... - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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parislemon: What could go wrong? Repent, Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman - Technodad - -

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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1) - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom - http://www.goodreads.com/review...

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China Wants Its Own Operating System By October - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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China Wants Its Own Operating System By October: China plans to develop a desktop operating system to compete with Google, Apple and Microsoft. - Technodad - -

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PSA: Stop re-using passwords - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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PSA: Stop re-using passwords: The CEO OF LastPass explains why re-using passwords is a really bad idea: "Reusing a password is like reusing the same key for every lock and having that key be something that you give out to everyone you meet," Siegrist said to Business Insider. "And it can also be instantly copied and used remotely." My personal recommendation is 1Password, but the most important thing is to get a password manager you’ll actually use. - Technodad - -

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Arctic ice melt linked to jet stream changes, extreme weather events - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Arctic ice melt linked to jet stream changes, extreme weather events: A paper published in PNAS titled “Quasi-resonant circulation regimes and hemispheric synchronization of extreme weather in boreal summer” conceals some significant findings under it’s mouthful title: It links Arctic ice melt to changes in the jet streams, which in turn result in stagnating weather patterns which have contributed to some of the recent extreme weather events in the Northern hemisphere: We argue that recent rapid warming in the Arctic and associated changes in the zonal mean zonal wind have created favorable conditions for double jet formation in the extratropics, which promotes the development of resonant flow regimes. - Technodad - -

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Uber moves from Service to Platform - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Uber moves from Service to Platform: Uber, best known for it’s on-demand car service, has created an API and partner program to allow other sites to let their customers schedule transportation thru Uber, as well as an affiliate program to create a business incentive to use the service. This is a good example of what Marshall Van Alstyne discussed at The Open Group’s Boston conference: I think of “platform” as a combination of two things. One, a set of standards or components that folks can take up and use for production of goods and services. The second thing is the rules of play, or the governance model – who has the ability to participate, how do you resolve conflict, and how do you divide up the royalty streams, or who gets what? You can think of it as the two components of the platform—the open standard together with the governance model. (Disclosure: I work for The Open Group.) - Technodad - -

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Apple Maps Grabs More Traffic Than Google Maps on Major British Network - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Apple Maps Grabs More Traffic Than Google Maps on Major British Network: A common complaint heard from overseas Apple fans is that Apple Maps apparently works just fine here in the States, but it’s far less accurate for destinations within the borders of other countries. But that’s apparently not the case in Britain. via Pocket - Technodad - -

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Climate change will leave wine lovers drunker and poorer - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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Climate change will leave wine lovers drunker and poorer: Good overview of the impact of climate change on winemaking, including why California wines get you drunk faster - Technodad - -

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The Internet of Things is the New Media - http://blog.technodad.org/post...

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A tip of the hat to @artbourbon for pointing out the article “Principles for Open Innovation and Open Leadingship" by Peter Vander Auwera, which led to a TED Talk by Joi Ito with his "Nine Principles of the Media Lab”. Something in this presentation struck me: Media is plural for Medium, Medium is something in which you can express yourself. The Medium was hardware, screens, robots, etc. Now the medium is society, ecosystem, journalism,… Our work looks more like social science. Great changes in society often go hand in hand with advances in communications, which in turn are tied to improvements in scale or portability of media. Think the printing press, television or even the development of paint in tubes which allowed impressionist painters to get out of the studios to paint water lilies and wheat fields. We are seeing a similar advance in the next generation of the Internet. Traditionally, humans interact with computer systems and networks through visual media, like screens of... - Technodad - -

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