Malmö stad avråder nu allmänheten från att alls vistas på Ribergsborgsstranden och gräsytorna intill.

Lev13than writes "Canada Post is phasing out urban home delivery, raising the price of a letter to $1 and cutting 8,000 jobs to cope with dwindling volume and a projected loss of $1B/year by 2020. About 1/3 of Canadian homes currently get mail delivered to their door. Deliveries will remain weekdays-only and business will be unaffected (at least for now). Much like the USPS, Canada Post is mandated to be self-funded, but 5% annual volume declines and rising costs are taking their toll."

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Den brittiska regeringen har hindrat en parlamentarisk panel att hålla förhör med chefen för MI5 om Edward Snowden-läckorna.

Den brittiska regeringen har hindrat en parlamentarisk panel att hålla förhör med chefen för MI5 om Edward Snowden-läckorna.

Det finns för få cancerläkare i Västra Götalandsregionen och situationen är så allvarlig att de nationella riktlinjerna för vård inte kan följas, anser 46 läkare vid Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset.

”Inte ute efter att bli känd”.

doom writes "Charles Stross has announced that there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy because reality (in a manner of speaking) has caught up to him too fast The last straw was apparently the news that the NSA planted spies in networked games like WoW. Stross comments: 'At this point, I'm clutching my head. Halting State wasn't intended to be predictive when I started writing it in 2006. Trouble is, about the only parts that haven't happened yet are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers for cracking public key encryption (and there's a big fat question mark over the latter-- what else are the NSA up to?).'"

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A niche in net marketing that hasn't yet been filled.

I'm hanging out at the skating rink in Central Park, watching the skaters.

Take a picture, post it to Twitter. "Enjoying the view at the skating rink."

Or, if I see a sign, tweet with #wollman and get a free hot cocoa.

My location has to be attached, so they know which table to bring the cocoa to.

Easy way to encourage first-person tweeting.

This has got to be the next step, imho.

Sorry to have mentioned it. ;-)

"cheesecake"

I want to be able to pay a price to reserve a domain for perpetuity.

That way we'd be able to build structures that had more longevity.

Right now everything is relatively ephemeral.

This is the kind of thing a service bureau could do.

Don't need to wait for ICANN to do it.

Or an "Internet Banker" would do (another missing construct).

One more post then I have to go.

Last night there was a tweet-fest with this tag: #fiveWordTechHorrors.

I kept thinking of new ones. I wanted to remember all of them here.

So here they are...

• It works on my machine.
• One hundred forty character limit.
• I read it on Valleywag.
• Can my mother use it?
• Robert Scoble thinks it's cool.
• Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post.

And I retweeted these:

• Just learn how to code! -- Alexia Tsotsis.
• Does it work in IE? -- Jeremy Spitzberg.

These days there's an unfortunate assumption that servers have to be for programmers only. They do not.

On the Mac in the 1990s, we had HTTP, FTP, email servers that were totally end-user. Launch the app, fill in a few blanks in a dialog, or just accept the defaults, and you've got a server.

What happened was tragic. On his return, Steve Jobs wiped the whole market out with one move, by bundling Unix servers with the OS. The message was clear. Servers are not for users.

In their defense, they might not have even known there was an ecosystem. Those were days of wiping the slate clean. Apple never really noticed the developers they had attracted. We left, shaking our heads about what could have been.

Well the art isn't lost. We still know how to do it.