Among the things I learned this week:
* C&C systems aren’t always patchable. (Courtesy: Bruce Schneier)
* Italy has an incredible history and relationship with dubbing. (Courtesy: Harper’s Magazine)
* Kobe beef doesn’t exist in the US, unless it’s smuggled. (Courtesy: Forbes)
* There should be a job title of software technician. (Courtesy: Aaron Iba)
* Roller derby women are fit! (Courtesy: Surburbia Roller Derby)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Everyone knows a graphic designer. No one knows Web devs, SEs, or analysts. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* North Korea is recalling calendars due to problematic dates and important information that is missing. Centrally-planned and distributed calendars strike me as highly problematic and a topic worthy of a dissertation. (Courtesy: North Korea Economy Watch)
* LBJ’s difficult and complicated position before, during, and immediately after JFK’s death. (Courtesy: The New Yorker)
* Verizon has a sense of humor:
It wasn’t all protest and lulz, however.
(Courtesy: Verizon’s 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report)
* Accredited investors include people with incomes of $300,000 or more (I knew the $1m in non-home assets part). (Courtesy: Washington Examiner)
* One reason to have car doors that pivot from the seat side (rather than foot area side) is to make it easier for women in heels to get out of the car. (Courtesy: NYT)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Art Spiegelman was art director for Garbage Pail Kids. I’ll have to ask my parents if they regret grounding me for secretly buying the cards given it was an early foray into art collecting rather than some titillating experience. (Courtesy: Boing Boing)
* About 80 percent of construction in the United States has been built during the last 50 years. (Courtesy: The New York Times)
* Watching kids do puzzles is a great lesson in understanding alternative approaches to being methodical. (Courtesy: Personal experience)