Episode 74: #74: NEST 9000

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about your singular uniqueness on the web, miniaturizing almost everything, and Dell IT using OpenShift.

• One of these things is not like the other: Fodor’s Go List 2015
• “A foreign language has been creeping into many of the presentations I hear and the memos I read. It adds nothing to a message but noise, and I want your help in stamping it out. It’s called gobbledygook. There’s no shortage of examples. Nothing seems to get finished anymore it gets “finalized.” Things don’t happen at the same time but “coincident with this action.” Believe it or not, people will talk about taking a “commitment position” and then because of the “volatility of schedule changes” they will “decommit” so that our “posture vis-à-vis some data base that needs a sizing will be able to enhance competitive positions.” That’s gobbledygook.” – Thomas J. Watson
• OpenShift’s Joe Fernandes’ comes out swinging in 2015.
• Endui App Looks To End DUIs
• Microsoft releases Project Orleans, code behind Halo 4
• Jessica Silbey on Berkman Center’s Radio Berkman Podcast: determining the effect of copyright law and regulation through interviews with creators
  • She’s promoting her new book, “The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property”



• Chromium to start marking HTTP as insecure


• AmIUnique.org: Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet


• Google integrates Nest with Google Now, Gunnar sets himself on fire


• USB Armory: Open Source USB Stick Computer


• USBdriveby: covertly install a backdoor and override DNS settings with style


• This Board Lets You Give Any Arduino Project Predator-Style Heat Vision


• Outsmarting traffic together: People finding their ‘waze’ to once-hidden streets


• Dell IT uses Red Hat OpenStack after stumbling with some other guys


• OpenShift at SPAWAR, so that’s nice


• If you don’t have an opinion about the North Korea thing, may we suggest Pete W Singer’s?
  • Alamo Drafthouse NSFW PSA:
  • See also: Team America: World Police



• Oblique Strategies: Something Don Draper would say?


• Oblique strategy generator

Cutting Room Floor

• The Creepy, Kitschy and Geeky Patches of US Spy Satellite Launches
• Panda: The Action Movie
• Ayn Rand Reviews Children’s Movies
• Also from Mallory Ortberg: Literary Break-up Texts

We Give Thanks

• Dr. David A. Wheeler for the mobile browser suggestion!