174 Posts under Mango Linked
∞ How Asian Groceries Are Reshaping America
Priya Krishna writes,
Last year, Americans bought half a billion packets of Shin Ramyun, the spicy, beefy Korean instant noodle.
Half a billion packets in a year? W.A.T.
∞ SF Zoo’s Panda Plan Is on Track — but Tariff May Raise the Price
Han Li, reporting for The San Francisco Standard:
Zoo CEO Tanya Peterson says she’s optimistic about the pandas’ arrival despite the mounting geopolitical tensions. She’s less certain whether the arrangement will be subject to tariffs but is prepared to make the case for an exemption.
Peterson is expected to announce the official panda arrival timeline at Thursday’s Recreation and Park Commission meeting. She revealed that the animals will need to undergo a quarantine and acclimation period after their arrival, likely at the end of the year. If everything goes according to plan, the zoo’s panda zone will open to the public next April.
∞ CW&T
CW&T started as a two-person design practice of Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy.
With backgrounds in Architecture, Film and Computer Science, the duo met at NYU ITP where they began their scale and medium agnostic approach to design.
Every single piece CW&T designed is so astonishing. I have an urge right now to to collect them all!
∞ leaving Google for this
In Scott Yu-Jan's latest video:
... there are dream jobs and careers, and then there are these rare opportunities like this to do things that no longer feel like a job.
∞ When [Dr. Bryant Lin] Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught a Class About It
Kate Selig writes:
Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.
∞ End of the Road for Google Drive in Transmit
From Panic's blog:
Well, Google has a new set of policies that require apps that connect to Google Drive to go through expensive, time-consuming annual reviews, and this has made it extremely difficult for us to reasonably maintain Google Drive access. You may have seen iA Writer’s announcement that they are stopping development of their Android version for similar reasons. Our experience was different, but our circumstances are similar. While Google Drive may not be the most popular connection option in Transmit, we know many users rely on it, and we often use it here at Panic to send and receive files from the game developers we work with.
This is not a decision we took lightly, and was the result of much debate and anguish in the office. But rest assured we looked at every angle. Hopefully that explains everything.
Google's leadership continues to drive away developers who made their platforms successful. Why am I not surprised?
∞ How to Transfer Apple Music Playlists to YouTube
From the support page,
From Apple's Data and Privacy page, you can request to transfer the playlists that you’ve made in Apple Music to YouTube Music.
What a welcoming change. Companies that provide photos and musics are supporting data exchanges.
∞ Cities need more trees
On top of that it just looks better. I'm certain humans have genetic biophilia, which is why we love being in nature or taking walks in the forest. Having trees around us, teeming with birds and other life just feels good. Speaking of birds, trees increase the biodiversity of insects and other small critters in urban environments. It also gives birds a safe-haven from the deadliest hunter of all: the humble house cat.
I very much agree that cities just look better with trees. That's why I fell in love with Menlo Park the place I have been living for 9 years. It's a much greener city than most of other places in Bay Area.
∞ Screen Apnea: What Happens to Our Breath When We Type, Tap, Scroll
Manoush Zomorodi, Katie Monteleone, and Sanaz Meshkinpour from NPR's Body Electric podcast:
In 2007, former Microsoft executive Linda Stone noticed something strange happening every time she'd sit down to answer emails. She was holding her breath.
"I would inhale in anticipation, but I wouldn't exhale because so many emails would be streaming in," Stone told Manoush Zomorodi in an interview for NPR's Body Electric. "And this would go on for hours."
Stone wondered how common this was and set out to investigate using "kitchen table science," as she called it. She recruited dozens of friends and colleagues to sit at her computer answering emails while she monitored their pulse and heart rate variability. Of those participants, 80% had what Stone coined "email or screen apnea" — shallow or suspended breathing while working on a screen.
80% of people has screen apnea. That's a lot.
∞ PIN Analysis
Nick Berry had a terrific analysis on 3.4 million leaked PIN numbers:
Obviously, I don’t have access to a credit card PIN number database. Instead I’m going to use a proxy. I’m going to use data condensed from released/exposed/discovered password tables and security breaches.
I was able to find almost 3.4 million four digit passwords. Every single one of the of the 10,000 combinations of digits from 0000 through to 9999 were represented in the dataset.
Fascinating observation from the following heatmap:
... many people encapsulate dates in the format MMDD (such as birthdays …) for their PIN codes.
This clearly explains the lower left corner where, if you look at the heatmap, there is a huge contrast change at the height of around 30-31 (the number of days in a month), extending to 12 on the x-axis. (Thanks to zero79 for first pointing this out).