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My name is Ramkumar Shankar and I love Sweden, my iPhone (but possibly considering the switch to Android), guitar, linux, open source, football, metal, and general geekery among other things...and in no particular order (except for Sweden at the top of the list). I also use some of that knowledge to pay my bills as a technology consultant. This is my tumblelog, where I post original content as well as some of the good stuff I find around the net. |
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GetHuman.com
How to get to a real human when you’re on the phone with big companies.
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"This problem will get even worse when you all get sucked into buying a 3D TV for your living room where the size of the screen fills even less of your view. And now there’s talk on the rumor mill of re-releasing Titanic in 3D? Watch out for a flood of classics being shoved down the fake stereoscopic pipeline and into your Blu-ray player for an extra $10."
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Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
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Tie these ballons to your car! (via i.imgur.com)
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notes"When we find ourselves at war, our leaders don’t ask us to reflect upon our role in the world (and why we face such ill-will); they ask us to spend more money to keep the economy active. When we face the potential end of species (or vast diminishment of), we don’t take drastic actions to change; we tell ourselves we can buy “greener” stuff. And even here, where we are encouraged to revel in the “human spirit” we’re far more inclined to buy some overpriced nationalistic merchandise than we are to ask about our less fortunate neighbours, and how we might tangibly exhibit such sentiments." -
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Open Source Diagnosis
This is a great example of the power of collaboration and the spirit of open source at work.
Sunday morning Lessig tweeted that JZ was ill and why was a mystery — all true. The blog produced some amazingly helpful comments from people and doctors at large, including references to two discrete academic journal articles — one from a Korean medical journal from 1994! Thanks to the Net I had a copy on my PC and then e-faxed to the nurse’s station on my floor in a matter of minutes. In the meantime, over the course of today (Monday the 15th), additional results have come back to help narrow the diagnosis in a properly documentable and formal way — one that’s converging, it seems, to the obscure Korean article. To be clear, the terrific doctors here have been methodically arriving at this diagnosis already.
It goes to show how the ‘many eyes’ theory can be effectively applied in numerous areas and situations to solve problems. Yes, the tenets and virtues of open source are well publicized in the technology/software world, but the application of its spirit and thought process certainly should not be limited to this world.
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notes"I was sad, then I stopped being sad and became awesome instead. True Story."Barney Stinson
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Cracking open five of the best open source easter eggs
I had no idea Google Chrome was teleporting goats.
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"Apple has been able to generate over $75 million in revenue in one day on a product that 99.9% of purchasers haven’t touched or for that matter, even seen in person."
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(submitted by euri)
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Hilarious excerpts from an old-school Acer computer manual.
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Free time? Really? I disagree. What do you think? ;)
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I need to talk to you about computers. I’ve been on a veritable roller-coaster of “how I feel” about the iPad announcement, and trying not to write...
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“For years we’ve all held to the belief that computing had to be made simpler for the ‘average person’. I find it difficult to come to any conclusion...”
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Loosely organized initial thoughts on the iPad
A lot of writers and journalists are expressing disappointment in the iPad because it didn’t live up...
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I’ll take a quiet life.
- ‘No Surprises’ by Radiohead
Dead butterflies really break my heart. They live so lightly - they flit from plant to...
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“When someone you love dies, you don’t lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.”
