Link. I don’t recall this getting much attention “Atiyah, who was killed a few months after bin Laden, in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan last August…”. Atiyah was the man bin Laden wanted to succeed him.

Link. “The FCC should force the carriers to cease charging for incoming messages until the spam menace is solved.” yes.

Link. they must have patents

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Link. Africa is better than this.

Link. this one is for my wife and daughter

Link. Fallows tears Romney: “Jimmy Carter is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who spent ten years in the uniformed service of his country. As far as I can tell, this is ten years more than the cumulative service of members of the Romney clan.”

Link. At last, others note the connection.

Link. “Creole is a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis … enabling wiki users to transfer content seamlessly across wikis”.

compact cheat sheet: http://www.wikicreole.org/attach/CheatSheet/creole_cheat_sheet.png

Great stuff.

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Link. Doing evil; the early days. After that, it got easier.

Link. I did one repair; after five I’d be safe. Not a bad home business if you build a rep. This is where a lot of broken (and stolen too) iPhones go – for parts.

Link. China on everyone’s mind.

Link. Incompetence in China’s govt. It happens in US too, but rarely so flagrant. (Malign action yes, but complete incompetence not so much.)

Link. “Storify is one of several services that lets you construct plain or annotated narratives from a variety of publicly available sources, including Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. The site has an interactive drag-and-drop approach to finding messages or posts and putting them into the construct of a story. You can write connective material to explain how the narrative you’re presenting holds together, share it in a way that anyone can read, and allow comments on it…

… Tweetbot’s latest update, version 2.3, has direct support for publishing to Storify… If you have an existing Storify account linked to your Twitter account, the post will also be linked to your collection of stories…

… You may post messages to Twitter that you’d like to sink to the bottom of the sea of bits forever. But I find increasingly that smart ideas are captured in the ad hoc banter there. Tweetbot’s connection with Storify should make it simpler to archive dialectics for later dissection…”

Skynet slouching towards Bethlehem.

Link. “The biggest surprise from the year so far is how doable it is to live a 21st-century life in someplace stunningly beautiful. Many people could do what we are doing and reconnect with the outdoors, rural life and nature. It’s not that hard.” Not just rural, they’re rural-isolated. Satellite internet is better than it once was, but also seems they have a cell signal.

This is what was predicted in the 80s, but instead workers are moving to cities. Curious.

Link. very good news: Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft all at war.

Link. A lot like Apple.

Link. Now I need to learn Storify.

Link. temperament v character

Link. violence in humans as cultural. I suspect the potential is programmed, the implementation is cultural

Link. This is mostly wishful thinking and faux-evolutionary reasoning, but denial has its place.

Link. I’m not a wimp, I’m a killer whale. “Like killer whales … we follow the unusual practice, Bainbridge says, of sticking with post-menopausal female partners, rather than continually trying to mate with younger models. This makes middle-aged men, apparently, “the most impressive living things yet produced by natural selection” and “the pinnacle of evolution”…”

Bainbridge fan club t-shirt mine.

Link. I think he’s my age.

Link. Is China at last ashamed of NK?

Link. Euthenasia is how we’ll solve our dementia crisis.

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Link. Facebook is not Google

Link. unlike Pakistan or India, Iran has no true strategic need for a nuclear weapon

Link. anyone believe special forces wouldn’t like to kill Kony? Even I’d put him down.

Link. Glamor. Declining ambition. Regret.

Link. “Emmott abandoned “economic and social liberalism” in favor of rightist”.

Link. 1970s

Link. third. what will DRM be?

Link. humans are sigh inducing

Link. VCs don’t call bubbles.

Link. Gassee is top notch.

Link. gripping

Link. The Martians: “‘Moby-Dick’ is about the oil industry,” they said. “And the Ship of American State. The owners of the Pequod are rapacious and stingy religious hypocrites. The ship’s business is to butcher whales and turn them into an industrial energy product. The mates are the middle management. The harpooners, who are from races colonized by America one way or another, are supplying the expert tech labor. Elijah the prophet — from the American artist caste — foretells the Pequod’s doom, which comes about because the chief executive, Ahab, is a megalomaniac who wants to annihilate nature.”

Link. “…this time, it’s gotten worse …. We’re back to companies throwing around funny money. The economic values don’t add up.”

“These companies are simply being founded to be bought,”…

… . “Mark-to-mystery was developed as a large part of the last bubble, but it’s gotten a lot worse this time around …

Link. Bubble. Definitely a bubble. Again. Damnit.