If you're going to pretend like you don't care... Don't look up

Drinking and watching GATTACA...

Yeah... One of those nights

How out of touch ARE you?

There's a story on the front page of Yahoo! Media Execs Rocked by 15 year old's Blistering Analysis about a 15 year old's report to Morgan Stanley on his peers relationship to media.

I was intrigued, and then, halfway through the first paragraph had to double check that it wasn't April 1st again...

Apparently the revelations that are shocking Morgan Stanley's top clients are insights about Millenials like "they're really, really into free music" and "they don't read newspapers".

Are.

You.

Serious?

Best Friends & Revelations

Take AIM

I downloaded the iPhone AIM application a while back (and seldom used it, in fact I barely sign in ever outside of Gmail chat). Recently the application had an update, which I grabbed without much thought. I recently discovered however, that by default the application was broadcasting my geographic location every 5 minutes (via the phone's GPS)... ummm, creepy. Maybe I'm a ludite, but this is exactly the type of technology I don't want. Needless to say, the option to turn off location has be initiated.

Alma Mater

"Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have now figured out a way to roughly reverse engineer the way in which Social Security Numbers are assigned. Armed with your date of birth and the state in which you were born, it's now possible to generate a quite small set of digits that are likely to contain your actual SSN."

Full Article


Awesome.

But frankly, isn't it ridiculous to use a pithy 9-digit string to represent someone's private data? I mean, it's harder to break into my wireless router.

NOT helpful

That half billion dollar expansion to Hong Kong Disneyland that was announced last week...

maybe not

HK Lawmakers Discuss Disney Expansion Plan