Woken From His Nap by the Noise of the Drone
"[The Google car] apparently detected my presence … and stayed stationary for several seconds. it finally began to proceed, but as it did, I rolled forward an inch while still standing. The car immediately stopped… I continued to stand, it continued to stay stopped. Then as it began to move again, I had to rock the bike to maintain balance. It stopped abruptly. We repeated this little dance for about two full minutes and the car never made it past the middle of the intersection. The two guys inside were laughing and punching stuff into a laptop."
2. Here's an undercover political data story to watch.
"Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and other Democratic presidential hopefuls are planning to convene with party members and campaign insiders this week in Minneapolis for the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting, where the DNC aims to educate voter data managers on what it's calling Voter File 2.0. The project is designed to make it easier for campaigns to target select lists of voters with ads on Facebook and around the web -- reaching the same people they email, call and contact door-to-door -- and then gauge return on fundraising and get-out-the vote efforts. At the DNC's behest, data services firm Experian and political data company TargetSmart Communications have spent the past several months turning the Democratic Party's voter file into data that can be used readily to aim video ads, addressable TV spots and mobile and desktop display ads at specific voters. The result will be introduced Wednesday to the party faithful."
"Describing African Electronics as a 'spiritual approach to individual power,' Serge intertwined his take on African Electronics with the values of 'Afrogallonism' for his performance at this year’s festival. A movement he started 15 years ago, Afrogallonism looks to a futurist Africa through the lens of the distinctive, usually yellow, gallon containers used by Ghanaians to carry water."
4. Once an organization gets hooked on Slack, it's very very hard for any individual to quit.
"The office hours, on the other hand, were much more difficult to adhere to and — as much as I'd like to say otherwise — I don't think they can be sustained. The nature of my particular role, and our company's reliance on Slack, makes it feel nearly impossible to be absent for stretches longer than an hour or so. But I do plan on continuing to log out at both scheduled and random times on a regular basis to focus."
5. Everything about this video would be impossible to imagine 20 years ago.
"A drone pilot taking a look at a giant wind turbine was startled to find a man sunbathing on the top of it. Kevin Miller flew the drone all the way up the 200ft turbine to find the mystery man flat on his back catching some rays. Woken from his nap by the noise of the drone, he sits up, gives a wave, and looks rather nonplussed as the drone moves in further for a good look. The bearded adventurer seemed entirely unconcerned about being unbelievably high in the sky without any safety equipment."
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Woken From His Nap by the Noise of the Drone