Facebook to (Finally) Start Deleting Your Photos

It seems Facebook has finally said they’ll be deleting photos within a “reasonable period of time”. If you didn’t realise, Facebook’s systems were keeping some photos on their content delivery networks (CDN) for as long as three years after you deleted them. So even though you ‘deleted’ those late-night not-so-sober photos from Facebook, they could still have been floating around cyberspace for years afterwards.

Apparently now Facebook has introduced a new photo deletion policy, along with new storage systems that means that content should expire by 30 days at the latest. “However, in some cases the content will expire on the CDN much more quickly, based on a number of factors,” said Fredric Wolens, Facebook spokesperson.

Of course, it should be noted that people don’t actually have access to the photos on the CDN via Facebook once a user deletes them – they’d have to have the direct URL to it. But still…

It seems that other networks such as Twitter and Flickr, would only take mere seconds to delete the photos from their CDN. It seems that Facebook has taken a really long time to sort out this problem.

And the Facebook iOS apps still majorly suck. I’m not impressed Facebook, not impressed.

[Via Ars Technica]

The Tardis is Real [Google Maps]

Don’t believe me? Go into street view for the address “343 Hull Road, York, England, YO10 3, United Kingdom” and you will see that beautiful blue box.

Edit: Map embedded below. There’s even a Cyberman and two Daleks a little to the right.


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Google sees all, even you Doctor.



Love is the Rhythm, You Are the Music

Ok it’s not super nerdy but it’s still pretty funny right? God is a DJ, Life is a dance floor…

[A friend’s cover photo]

Pac-Man Pint Glasses

I would never stop using them. They’re too damned cool! You get a set of 4 16oz pint glasses made of heavy duty glassware. I want so bad.

[$34.95 from Neatoshop | $27.97 from Amazon (only 10 in stock at time of writing!) | Via GeekAlerts]

Camping’s Not A Good Time [Video]

 

Priceless parody of the Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen song, “Good Time.” Oh College Humor, you get me every time.

Here’s the original if you haven’t seen it:

[Via College Humor]

The “Giger Counter”: A Geiger Counter Inspired by H.R. Giger

Phil Plait made an alien joke in a tweet (“If I ever go to an alien planet, I’m bringing a Giger counter.”) which sparked the inspiration of one Steve D. to build a geiger counter as H.R. Giger might see it (that’s the guy who did the design work for Alien, for the less alien-movie-geeky among us).

If you happen to work in a field where you need to detect radiation levels, you might look a whole lot more awesome using one of these. Not sure if it’s for sale though…Also, this video doesn’t do an amazing job showing it off, but it still looks awesome.

Check out MadArtLab to see a more detailed explanation of how it was made – you could just make one yourself.

[Via NerdApproved]