Inside The Strange, Paranoid World Of Julian Assange.
Assange would not, in my view, ever knowingly be a willing tool of the Russian state: If Putin came and gave him a set of orders, they’d be ignored. But if an anonymous or pseudonymous group came offering anti-Clinton leaks, they’d have found a host happy not to ask too many awkward questions: He’s set up almost perfectly to post them and to push for them to have the biggest impact they can.
Falschmeldungen im Netz – den Fakes auf der Spur. (Via netzpolitik.org.)
Ob bei Videos aus der Ukraine, aus Syrien oder Bildern von Terroranschlägen: In den sozialen Netzwerken ist die Zahl der manipulierten Fotos oder Aufnahmen, die aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen werden, massiv gestiegen. Im Journalismus wird deshalb die Überprüfung der Inhalte von Tweets und Postings immer wichtiger.
Death & Turnips: How the Celtic Festival of Samhain Became Halloween.
Try out autoEdit, an open source tool for editing video and audio transcripts.
Transcribing and then trying to edit audio or video makes me want to tear my hair out. While there are free tools out there to simplify the process — oTranscribe, Draft — finding the right quotes from a long speech or cleaning up a Q&A still feels interminable.
Everything is lethal in the correct dose.
Can too much candy kill you?
If you’ve inhaled so many “fun size” Halloween candies that you feel like you could die, scientists have some good news: That is extremely unlikely.
There's a Term for Thinking of a Comeback Too Late.
L’esprit de l’escalier literally means “staircase wit.”
I knew the German word – “Treppenwitz” – but I did not know its original meaning.
Superfood: Das Märchen von der guten Avocado.
Sie wurde zum Inbegriff der bewussten Küche: Gut für den Körper. Gut für den Planeten. In Wahrheit ist die Avocado ökologisch höchst fragwürdig.
From “Paul is dead” to “Stevie Wonder isn’t blind,” with a lot of Illuminati in between.
The 70 Greatest Conspiracy Theories in Pop-Culture History.
Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
The Worst Bug Bites in the World.
The future of PCs and Macs is expensive.
Apple and Microsoft have both come to terms with the fact that people are simply never going to buy PCs (…) in the old numbers that they used to. Computers are just too good nowadays, most users are already satisfied, and so the market for new PCs inevitably shrinks. And when you can’t have growth in total sales, the logical move is to try and improve the other multiplier in the profit calculation: the per-unit price and built-in profit margin.