The Written Word
"With ever more mission critical business and personal information hosted remotely and accessed via mobile devices of all kinds, this is nothing short of a defining moment for an industry eager to dominate the next ten years of computing. The enormous levels of investment and energy in the field by top companies like Google and Apple may prove to be at risk without the means to determine whether their platforms and the applications running on them are protected."
-Sucker Punch: Are We Ready for an Industry Wide Mobile TKO?, Blog
"…everyone knows human beings, by nature, put things off to the last minute. If you're baking a wedding cake and the top tier collapses, the plastic bride and groom buried in an avalanche of buttercream, your bakers might have to start over building a new layer the night before the wedding.
If you are the manager of a software bakery, you might find that your particular team of bakers begins the process inspired, creative, and motivated to remain on schedule, but after taking a break for some Pastis 51 and moules frites, your organizational workflow becomes a little freighted.
And so as it often goes the work backs up and does not get on track until the final week or so when bakers pull all nighters, sleep on the floor, shower in the corporate facilities, and eliminate the entire supply of Red Bull from Mountain View to Chicago."
-Life in the Gâteau, Blog
"Apple's early operating systems, built for Motorola processors, were essentially iterative. OS 9 was created atop OS 8. OS 8 atop OS 7 and so forth. Successive layers of code defining every new feature, along with almost a generation of APIs and software support, grew from the slim and trim early Mac SE's into the plumper iMacs, whose translucent blue skin seemed symptomatic of a lack of oxygen in the bloodstream."
-Secrets to Healthy IT, Blog
"Desert and Native American activists from La Cuna de Aztlan Sacred Sites Protection Circle rallied Friday, June 3, at the site of the German firm Solar Millennium's Bythe Solar Project, where construction alledgedly endangers several large Native American geoglyphs. According to participants, the destruction two large glyphs sparked the protests. Activists with the group Desert Survivors held a simultaneous rally in front of Solar Millennium's Oakland headquarters. According to spokesperson Bob Ellis, "We support the La Cuna de Aztlan Sacred Sites Protection Circle in their efforts to defend the Kokopilli intaglio and the many others on or near the project site. We favor investment and jobs for solar development in the urban areas where both the energy and the work is needed."
-Desert Activists Rally, Press Release
"In "Climate Change: Not Business As Usual," Dr. Severinghaus describes "Business as Usual" and "Prudent Course" scenarios–what humans should do in response to climate change. Severinghaus argues for the "Prudent Course," reducing our carbon footprint, as opposed to "Business as Usual." Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere are suspected of helping to raise planetary temperatures, melting ice caps and raising sea levels. "Kiss the Florida Everglades goodbye," he suggests.
-Scripps Climate Scientist Severinghaus Warns, "Kiss the Florida Everglades Goodbye"
