Call in the Night
— experimental project that calls you randomly at 2am and records it for a podcast #XOXO 2013
How could we not do it again?
We’re rolling out passes over the next couple days. More about what’s changing this year, and why, soon.
Until then, check out the video and lineup.
Kickstarter apologizes for Above the Game PUA book project
— bans so-called “seduction” guides, donates $25k to RAINN #Mat Honan's behind the scenes on the Digg Reader
— launching this weekend; hopefully, some good comes out of the Google Reader shutdown via @mat #Feedly Cloud launches, freeing it from Google Reader
— fast and solid feedreader alternative to NewsBlur #John McAfee's NSFW video on how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus
— I love that he snorts his bath salts through a krazy straw #The Deletionist
— bookmarklet turns any webpage into an erasure poem; examples: Daring Fireball and me #
Gunpoint recoups development costs in 64 seconds
— linkbait headline for the delightful news that Tom Francis will be working on games fulltime #Battle for the planet of the APIs
— “If those services don’t trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?” #Instant Server
— intantly spin up an Ubuntu server with a built-in terminal for 35 free minutes via Nelson Minar #Google's Project Loon
— high-altitude balloons with Internet access for rural and remote areas via google.com #Filmmaker sues to prove Happy Birthday To You is public domain
— and, best of all, they want Warner to pay back millions in undeserved licensing fees #NYT on how Yahoo tried to fight PRISM in court
— related: the story of one CEO that defied NSA wiretap orders #Apple's short film on the personal impact of four iOS apps
— helps to explain why this app can cost $220 and still have four stars #Venus Patrol's Horizon press conference
— stunning lineup of upcoming artful indie games, an antidote to E3 ego and bluster #George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the future of film
— “out of that chaos will come some really amazing things… because all the gatekeepers have been killed!” #Author Hugh Howey on the future of self-publishing
— widely applicable across all indie art and tech #These Aren't the PRISMs You're Looking For
I’m a little obsessed with the story that broke yesterday about PRISM, the NSA/FBI project to gather information from popular Internet services, including Facebook, Google, and Apple.
So, naturally, I’ve been doing a lot of digging about the story on *.gov websites. In the process, I realized that the U.S. government loves the “PRISM” acronym. There are literally dozens of projects and applications named PRISM at the state and federal level, many with delightfully goofy logos. Here are some of my favorites.
Panelist and Reviewer Information System
Database of prospective reviewers for The National Endowment for the Humanities
Parallel Research on Invariant Subspace Methods
Argonne National Laboratory project to develop infrastructure and algorithms for the parallel solution of eigenvalue problems
Pliocene Research, Interpretation and Synoptic Mapping
USGS project to understand global climate change
Apply for grants from the Washington State’s Recreation and Conservation Office
Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model
Climate analysis tool from the National Water and Climate Center
Pesticide Registration Information SysteM
The Environmental Protection Agency’s database on all registered pesticide products.
Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer
NASA JPL’s airborne instrument for monitoring the ocean from UAVs
Performance and Registration Information Systems Management
U.S. Dept. of Transportation program to register commercial vehicles
Performance Reporting Information System
The State of Oregon’s workforce reporting system
Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management
The State of New York’s environmental effort to manage invasive species
Patient Reporting Investigation Surveillance Manager
Communicable disease data system for the State of Wyoming’s STD program
Performance Related Information for Staff and Managers
Dept. of Mental Health’s reports on hospital trends
Proactive Recruitment in Introductory Science and Mathematics
National Science Foundation’s effort to fund STEM programs for undergrad students
Proteomics Research Information System and Management
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s system for managing large-scale protein data
Procurement Information System for Management
Procurement software used across the federal government
