Join Google+ Kenneth May is using Google+. Join Google+ to connect with the people who matter most. Kenneth May Kenneth May – Post date: 2011-11-15 – Public Mario’s Raccoon Suit Enrages PETA redletterdave writes “PETA believes Nintendo’s iconic plumber Mario takes a ‘pro fur’ stance” because he ‘wears the skin of a raccoon dog to give him special powers’ in the new handheld game released Nov. 13. PETA illustrated its disgust with Nintendo in an online campaign called ‘Mario Kills Tanooki.’ The page includes a side-scrolling Super Mario-style game called ‘Super Tanooki Skin 2D,’ where you play an angry, skinless tanuki that must chase a bloody raccoon-pelt-wearing -Mario across a 1… +2 1 comment 0 older comments Daniel Richman – Love it! Makes me miss the old days. Go Mario!
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Join Google+ Kenneth May is using Google+. Join Google+ to connect with the people who matter most. Kenneth May Kenneth May – Post date: 2011-11-15 – Public Turning Human Ashes into Beads South Korea is a densely-populated nation, and so has diminishing room for appropriate places to bury the dead. A law passed a decade ago even requires people to exhume loved ones within sixty years of burial. Cremation has thus become increasingly popular, and one company has responded to this change by offering to turn human ashes into small crystal beads: Bonhyang founder and CEO Bae Jae-yul says the beads allow people to keep their relatives close to them, wherever they go. He also says s… +1 
Join Google+ Kenneth May is using Google+. Join Google+ to connect with the people who matter most. Kenneth May Kenneth May – Post date: 2011-11-15 – Public Square adds customer loyalty and printable receipts to the mobile payment mix In case you haven’t been paying attention, Square, the company that allows vendors to accept payments from various mobile devices, is starting to become a big deal. Now reporting days with over $11 million in transactions, the kids in San Francisco are looking to solve the pains of small business owners while driving repeat usage with a new opt-in customer loyalty system. Coming in the form of a software update, version 2.2 will empower merchants to track repeat visitors and offer sweet incen… 
Join Google+ Kenneth May is using Google+. Join Google+ to connect with the people who matter most. Kenneth May Kenneth May – Post date: 2011-11-16 – Public How Applidium reverse engineered Siri’s protocol French mobile development company Applidium has reverse engineered the protocol that the iPhone 4S uses to communicate with Siri’s servers. Applidium’s developers have published a brief technical explanation of the protocol and some sample code that demonstrates how to use the service to tap into Siri’s hosted speech-to-text conversion capabilities. Their research shows that much of the heavy lifting for Siri’s speech recognition is done on the server side—which suggests that it’s theoretica…