Taylor Hoff’s BlogTumblr (3.0; @hofftaylor)http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4r7jeYcOc1r4c2lzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/28/computer-worm-iran-oil-w32flamer">Computer worm that hit Iran oil terminals ‘is most complex yet’</a><br/> Nick Hopkins, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/28/computer-worm-iran-oil-w32flamer">guardian.co.uk</a></p> <p>Experts warn W32.Flamer may have been developed by a nation state as part of cyberwarfare activities</p><p>A cyber-attack that targeted Iran’s oil ministry and main export terminal was caused by the most sophisticated computer worm yet developed, expe…</p> </blockquote> <p>The dawn of the advanced persistent threat…</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/23956338591http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/23956338591Mon, 28 May 2012 18:23:38 -0400<p>&#8220;&#8230;in this land of the mil­i­ta­rized drug war, where the Fourth Amend­ment can­not keep up with the exis­tence of smart­phones, or air­planes, it&#8217;s hilar­i­ous to think that the occa­sion­al creepy neigh­bor or pushy tabloid with a drone will be the real prob­lem. Espe­cial­ly when a few police depart­ments are already hop­ing to arm their drones with tear gas and rub­ber bul­lets.&#8221;</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/23785108121http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/23785108121Sat, 26 May 2012 03:18:47 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4mc4gk5Mo1r4c2lzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/05/augmented-reality-tether-from-mit/">Augmented Reality: T(ether) from MIT</a><br/> By Bruce Sterling, <a href="http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/05/augmented-reality-tether-from-mit/">wired.com</a></p> <p>*Well, the ergonom­ics of pads and gloves are gonna need a lot of work… At the very least some­body in the AR biz needs to come up with a rub­ber clip-on pad-holder you can secure­ly slip your hand through, instead of sweati­ly hold­ing an expen­s…</p> </blockquote> <p>AR technology keeps coming! </p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/23785000111http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/23785000111Sat, 26 May 2012 03:14:40 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3runl4Nq31r4c2lzo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Those frontal lobes are the worst lobes!</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22730361075http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22730361075Wed, 09 May 2012 16:09:20 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3gt8lr79c1r4c2lzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/03/eye-implants-restore-sight-blind">Eye implants restore ‘useful sight’ to two blind patients</a><br/> Ian Sample, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/03/eye-implants-restore-sight-blind">guardian.co.uk</a></p> <p>Doctors, led by Kings College and Oxford surgeons, restore rudimentary monochrome vision to trial patients</p><p>The first blind patients to be fitted with electronic eye implants in a UK clinical trial have regained “useful vision” only weeks after…</p> </blockquote> <p>It begins…</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22338508156http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22338508156Thu, 03 May 2012 17:05:08 -0400<a href="http://lifehacker.com/5907273/">Identify and Avoid Signs of Burnout with This Infographic</a>: <blockquote><p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5907273/">lifehacker.com</a></p> <p>We’ve dis­cussed how dan­ger­ous burnout can be and what you can do about it in the past, but if you need a sim­ple refresh­er, this info­graph­ic from the folks at The Sim­ple Dol­lar does a great job of dis­till­ing the basics into an easy to re…</p> </blockquote> <p>There’s truth in them infographics!</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22337914064http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22337914064Thu, 03 May 2012 16:56:03 -0400<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/1859s-great-auroral-stormthe-week-the-sun-touched-the-earth.ars">Feature: 1859's "Great Auroral Storm"—the week the Sun touched the earth</a>: <blockquote><p>matthew.lasar@arstechnica.com (Matthew Lasar), <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/1859s-great-auroral-stormthe-week-the-sun-touched-the-earth.ars">arstechnica.com</a></p> <p>Noon approached on Sep­tem­ber 1, 1859, and British astronomer Richard Christo­pher Car­ring­ton was busy with his favorite pas­time: track­ing sunspots, those huge regions of the star dark­ened by shifts in its mag­net­ic field. He pro­ject­ed th…</p> </blockquote> <p>One can only hope that we’ll be able to witness this once again…</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22300225738http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22300225738Wed, 02 May 2012 22:53:02 -0400<a href="http://kotaku.com/5907026/portal-2-decal-is-making-me-rethink-my-awesome-snow-white-one">Portal 2 Decal Is Making Me Rethink My Awesome Snow White One [Portal]</a>: <p>posted from Kotaku, via Flipboard & IFTTT</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22268454647http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22268454647Wed, 02 May 2012 15:38:08 -0400iftttstarredautomatic<a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/02/1519202/sony-put-video-service-on-hold-due-to-comcast-data-caps?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29">Sony Put Video Service on Hold Due to Comcast Data Caps</a>: <p>posted from Slashdot, via Flipboard & IFTTT</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22268451500http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22268451500Wed, 02 May 2012 15:38:04 -0400iftttstarredautomatic<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ett9yHc41r4c2lzo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/a-burp-of-light-from-a-black-hole-reveals-that-it-ate-a-star.ars">A burp of light from a black hole reveals that it ate a star</a><br/> MatthewFrancisArs@gmail.com (Matthew Francis), <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/a-burp-of-light-from-a-black-hole-reveals-that-it-ate-a-star.ars">arstechnica.com</a></p> <p>The eas­i­est way to spot a super­mas­sive black hole (SMBH) is when it expels a huge jet of mat­ter in one of the most ener­getic dis­plays in the Uni­verse. While astronomers have spot­ted these huge black holes at the cen­ters of most galax­ies…</p> </blockquote> <p>Nom nom nom!</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22267584334http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22267584334Wed, 02 May 2012 15:22:20 -0400<a href="http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo">A Startup Uses the Cloud to Unravel DNA</a>: <p>posted from Technology Review RSS Feeds, via Flipboard & IFTTT</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22266919388http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22266919388Wed, 02 May 2012 15:09:46 -0400iftttstarredautomatic<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/human-genetic-evolution/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29">Signals of Natural Selection Found in Recent Human Evolution</a>: <p>posted from Wired Top Stories, via Flipboard & IFTTT</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22210323733http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22210323733Tue, 01 May 2012 16:23:22 -0400iftttstarredautomatic<a href="http://lifehacker.com/5906654/diy-binder-clip-cable-management-is-insanely-cheap-customizable">DIY Binder Clip Cable Management is Insanely Cheap, Customizable [DIY]</a>: <p>posted from Lifehacker, via Flipboard & IFTTT</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22207330898http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22207330898Tue, 01 May 2012 15:38:09 -0400iftttstarredautomatic<a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/01/1636230/hacked-skype-ip-address-search-shows-whos-speaking-from-where?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29">Hacked Skype IP Address Search Shows Who's Speaking From Where</a>: <p>posted from Slashdot, via Flipboard & IFTTT</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22207330075http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22207330075Tue, 01 May 2012 15:38:08 -0400iftttstarredautomatic<a href="http://lifehacker.com/5906669/make-japanese-iced-coffee-instead-of-cold+brewing-for-the-best-flavor">Make Japanese Iced Coffee Instead of Cold-Brewing for the Best Flavor [Video]</a>: <p>posted from Lifehacker, via Flipboard & IFTTT</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22206380124http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22206380124Tue, 01 May 2012 15:22:38 -0400iftttstarredautomatic<a href="http://lifehacker.com/5906669/">Make Japanese Iced Coffee Instead of Cold-Brewing for The Best Flavor</a>: <blockquote><p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5906669/">lifehacker.com</a></p> <p>This Japan­ese Iced Cof­fee method, an alter­na­tive to cold-brewing iced cof­fee, promis­es bright and clear iced cof­fee with the most cof­fee fla­vor puri­ty. Peter Giu­liano of Counter Cof­fee Cul­ture demon­strates how to do it and details wh…</p> </blockquote> <p>Make Japanese Iced Coffee Instead of Cold-Brewing for the Best Flavor <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5906669/">http://lifehacker.com/5906669/</a></p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22206327379http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22206327379Tue, 01 May 2012 15:21:45 -0400<a href="http://kotaku.com/5906536/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-this-concept-art-knows-it">It's the End of the World as This Concept Art Knows it [Fine Art]</a>: <p>posted from Kotaku, via Flipboard & IFTTT</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22182610303http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22182610303Tue, 01 May 2012 03:37:42 -0400iftttstarredautomatic<a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/05/01/0138210/kegdroid-combining-arduino-android-and-nfc-to-dispense-beer?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29">KegDroid: Combining Arduino, Android, and NFC to Dispense Beer</a>: <p>posted from Slashdot, via Flipboard & IFTTT</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22182263238http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22182263238Tue, 01 May 2012 03:22:34 -0400iftttstarredautomatic<a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEMQGN-xsqqlVOom4_-LK3-qw2HuQ&url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-steven-friedman/nasa-funding-federal-budget_b_1464070.html">NASA Simply Stopped Being a Priority - Huffington Post</a>: <p>posted from NASA - Google News, via Flipboard & IFTTT</p>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22164425925http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/22164425925Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:41:39 -0400iftttstarredautomatic“What is striking, though, is just how far the Republicans have strayed from the centre-right mainstream of western politics. Something odd is happening when the world’s conservatives vote Democrat.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c4941666-738d-11e1-94ba-00144feab49a.html#axzz1qXYiaxSs">philip.stephens@ft.com</a></em>http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/20130811157http://hofftaylor.tumblr.com/post/20130811157Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:45:28 -0400