Category: General Tech
Arq Adds Support for Amazon Glacier⇢
If you were using S3 to host your backups, Glacier might be a nice alternative.
If you don’t have a backup, you’re living in sin.
Miniatur Wunderland⇢
Hamburg, Germany is the home to the world’s largest model railroad and model airport. The airport took six years and over $4,440,000 to develop.
via @superpixels
A New Foundation⇢
Nilay Patel at The Verge:
There are many other valid reasons to vote for Obama — from health insurance to women’s issues to immigration policy, his platform offers the most complete path to recovery for nation still badly damaged by a terrible recession and two costly wars. But true economic recovery requires more than just replacing what was lost; it requires building something new. The internet is the foundation for an entirely new economy, and it’s vitally important we select a candidate that will protect it. In this election, that candidate is Barack Obama.
Incapable⇢
Nathan Swartzendruber, on the aforementioned NYT piece:
It’s sweet, in a way. We should want to be together enough that we’re worried we’ll miss each other. Either by not showing up at the right place at the right time, or by being so distracted by our pocket computers that we don’t recognize who’s with us. But are we really so incapable of putting our phones away that we need a hurricane to do it for us?
On Smartphone Withdrawl⇢
Jenna Wortham with The New York Times:
While Hurricane Sandy left hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers without electricity or heat, the loss of one utility left some especially bewildered: cellphone service.
“Not having hot water is one thing,” said Kartik Sankar, 29, a technology consultant who lives in the East Village. “But not having a phone? Forget about it.”
The whole article is interesting. This paragraph sums it up nicely:
DIY Apollo Guidance Computer⇢
Well, this is one hell of a hobby project.
Squarespace Still Up⇢
The other day, Squarespace reported that downtime was expected due to Sandy. However, since that initial post, the company has hauling fuel up seventeen flights of stairs to keep their servers running on backup power.
By hand.
In buckets.
Apparently downtime due to a hurricane was unacceptable.
Here’s an Internet high five, Squarespace.
(And no, this is not a sponsored post. I really think this is a great example that other companies could learn a few things from.)
On Titan⇢
The other end of my state is now home to what is possibly the most powerful supercomputer on Earth.
And possibly butt chugging.
Disney Buys Lucasfilms⇢
WTF, mate.
The Internet is Broken⇢
Someone unplugged North America.
Some Lego Star Wars Photography⇢
I love this set of images.