This is a great example of what I call “accidental learning”. A huge and very random list of lectures you can just pick and choose to listen to at your leisure. Everything from “Digging up Dinosaurs” to “Waterloo: Causes, Courses and Consequences” to “Solving the First Person Shooter in VR”.

Why do I get the feeling that your personal privacy is going to be a much bigger issue over the next four years?

Translation: “We’re going to pull our heads out of our asses and try to understand how we managed to screw the pooch so badly on this.”

PCWorld: Oh, Yahoo. It was bad enough that the company already announced a breach exposing 500 million user accounts two years after it happened. Then late last night Yahoo revealed that it had uncovered another unrelated hack exposing the account … Continued

If you don’t absolutely need it, you really should delete your Yahoo account.

I’ve known about these Christmas windows since I was a kid in Nova Scotia so I loved going to them when I lived near New York City. There’s nothing like seeing them in person but this site is the next best thing.

When I first heard of this lawsuit, I knew Apple was likely to lose it. But a $2 million settlement among 21,000 current and former workers is getting off really easy for the company.

Apple taking the estimate away, even if wildly inaccurate, is silly. Not fixing it, even more so. These apps aren’t necessarily any more accurate (testing will be required) but at least you’ll have some indication as to how much battery life you (might) have left.

While not a widespread problem, it doesn’t matter if your Watch has been bricked. Apple says, “We are working on a fix for an upcoming software update” but no word on when that will be available.

I think it remains to be seen if Apple has “misjudged” the market.

I still think “hoverboards” are stupid and potentially dangerous but this kid is a genius. I’d hire him to shovel my driveway in a minute.

Jean-Louis Gassée: With both the RAM limitation and “donglegate” we see self-inflicted wounds, a puzzling lack of storytelling by a company that has a long history of controlling the narrative. Apple was forced to react with labored explanations and admission-of-guilt … Continued

I have what is known as “Brown Sign Disease” (named after the color of historic markers in New England). It’s characterized by an inability to pass any historical marker or sign without stopping to read it. I would definitely take this trip and then follow it up with the “shortest journey to visit close to 25,000 pubs in the U.K.” trip.

This web site is really cool. You can listen to radio stations from around the world.

I admit to loving Williams-Sonoma stores, primarily for the gadgets, but this rant about the catalog is hilarious and definitely NSFW.

The rumor mill is going crazy with the reasons behind these issues but the bottom line is Apple is having a hard time with its earphone products and it’s getting a little embarrassing for them.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall of this meeting.

Along with the “Wilhelm Scream“, probably one of the most recognizable, and therefore annoying, sounds in movies today.

Example number eighty gazillion of how cool science is.

There are some really cool and really expensive potential gifts on this list.

The Mac App Store works for those who want more of a hands off approach but I’ve always preferred to buy direct from the developer. This piece does a good job of laying out the pros and cons of each method.

I get why Nintendo is doing this but it makes the game less functional for a lot of people. Not everyone has a solid internet connection or unlimited data plans on their iOS devices.

No surprise to me. I’m from Nova Scotia, a large tree farming area. I won’t allow a fake Christmas tree in my home for aesthetic and economic reasons.

While I wouldn’t call it the “greatest Christmas song of all time”, it is a great song and the article does a good job of describing its power.

Mesh networks have become the “new cool thing” for tech blogs to talk about and the article does a good job explaining what they are. But it also points out they are really only useful in very specific situations. It’s why I don’t think, hope and rumor to the contrary, Apple is intending to replace their wireless products with mesh networking ones.

Many of us (non-religious) people know of the Advent Calendar but do you know its origins? When I was a kid, it was just a way to get more chocolate.

My grandmother was of this era and loved these musicians so I heard a lot of them when I was a kid and still have a soft spot for this music. These two albums, “The Savory Collection, Vol. 1: Body and Soul: Coleman Hawkins & Friends” and “The Savory Collection, Vol. 2: Jumpin’ At the Woodside: The Count Basie Orchestra featuring Lester Young“, are part of a legendary private trove of nearly 1,000 recordings that haven’t been heard by the general public since the 1930s.

I hate unboxing videos but this one is kinda cool.

Always interesting to track these and see if they lead to anything directly.

This is a great idea. I’ll watch it later.