Category: Kent Crispin

Originally shared by The Verge

More than 500 Picassos are now yours

Originally shared by Andres M. Trianon

Rhombicuboctahedron Folding

In geometry, the rhombicuboctahedron, or small rhombicuboctahedron, is an Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombicuboctahedron

http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_anim/geometry/RCO_fold_040c_rollup30_90_.gif

Google began moving away from open standards some time ago.  Part of a larger trend by  large corporations.

http://tech-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/05/20/0337214/xmpp-operators-begin-requiring-encryption-google-still-not-allowing-tls

Edit:

https://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2015/02/google-finally-kills-off-googletalk-and-xmpp-jabber-integration.html

Originally shared by Christopher Brown

For those who are art aficionados, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art has released 400,000 high resolution images of works in their collection.

Lavabit founder  gives his opinion on events.

A lot of political pundits credit Margaret Thatcher and her conservative party policies for turning around the UK’s economy starting in the 1980s. She definitely deserves some credit. What is often not mentioned is the discovery and production of the North Sea oil starting in the late 1970s.

The main reason for UK’s turnaround in the 1980s was the revenue generated from oil exports. The same story applies to the US and Ronald Reagan. Only in the US, it was the Prudhoe Bay oil in Alaska.

The UK is no longer an oil exporter today.

Originally shared by Neil Gaiman

Bystander Revolution anti bullying videos…

Originally shared by Sean Carroll

Never really thought of Jimi Hendrix as “adorable,” but he totally was. http://www.openculture.com/2014/04/jimi-hendrix-unplugged-two-rare-recordings-of-hendrix-playing-acoustic-guitar.html

Originally shared by Lifehacker

The inexpensive Raspberry Pi is perfect for building your very own private network:

Originally shared by Epubor