"Before enactment of this requirement for data exchange standardization, the Department had been a proponent of and strong advocate for the use of open source technologies and data exchange standards in the development of IT systems..." – Part of a proposed rule change at the Federal-State Unemployment Insurance Program
TSA Pre-Check is coming to AUS. I literally whooped for joy just now. http://t.co/oEOHqyASaZ
William Gibson, “Idoru”
[Slitscan’s audience] is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. … Continue reading William Gibson, “Idoru”
Tulips.
Aerial Photos of Tulip Fields in the Netherlands, by Normann Szkop [via Amusing Planet.]
Hotel Prora
Stretching for over three miles along the white sandy beach on Germany’s Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, lies the world’s biggest hotel with 10,000 bedrooms all facing the sea. But for 70 years since it was built, no holiday maker has ever stayed there. This is hotel Prora, a massive building complex built between 1936 … Continue reading Hotel Prora
The Oatmeal designs a tea infuser.
Mister Tea Infuser looks for all the world like a character from The Oatmeal. [via designed-for-life.]
Big paws are exhausting.
a technology job is no excuse 