It's been a while. And I've got a cocktail party to attend on Saturday. Here's what I'll be keeping in my back pocket so I don't look boring.
- Paranoid about quad-copters taking over the world? So are the Tokyo police -- so they've deployed a drone-catching drone. A drone just doesn't know who to trust, these days.
- If you missed it, Apple published a letter explaining why they refuse to weaken privacy protections on an iPhone, no matter who's asking for it. How often does a corporation actually speak truth to power?
- Next time I renew my California Driver [sic] License, I'll be wearing a colander on my head. In several legal interactions, Pastafarians have won the right to keep their spaghetti-straining religious head covering in place -- as long as their face is completely visible -- despite rules that require heathens to remove things like baseball hats.
- Well, the authors hand-picked their online-only data sources, and only worked with mean and standard deviation ... but who's going to stop a cocktail party conversation to check your sources? You can now cite an actual article on average penis size.