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Detroit as example of necessity of net access for all.

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Assume large screen smartphone. WiFi or cellular?

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Why we need to retire at sixty (2010)

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Nobody talks about raising the retirement age to 70 any more. That’s an improvement.

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The Mundaneum. Belgian’s 1930s wikipedia on paper (2008)

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Memex precursor.

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Communication and collaboration: 2011 reflection on falling short of TBL’s web publication model.

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Which was Vannevar Bush’s Memex model once. Not changed much since.

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My 1990s Palm Pilot page is still around.

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Found it searching for something else. So much digital pain in one page.

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Before Simplenote, Palm Notes, iOS Notes, Keep, EverNote and OneNote there was Tornado for DOS.

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Later Info Select, which is still sold. We called these “personal information managers”

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Donald Trump Tells N.R.A. Hillary Clinton Wants to Let Violent Criminals Go Free.

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jgordon

Link. The Onion wants its satire back.

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Anthropology needed: slaver culture endures in slaver states

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Anthro needs resurrection.

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1916 Blue Book: car travel directions before road signs.

Posted on May 21, 2016 by jgordon

Link. 30mph looking for a stream after a school.

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Learn to pronounce (contact name).

Posted on May 21, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Siri. New?

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What car safety looks like in a libertarian setting.

Posted on May 21, 2016 by jgordon

Link. No regulation, unsafe at any speed.

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Apple behind the AI ball.

Posted on May 21, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Forget services, Apples software skills are atrophied.

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iCloud photo library upload stuck on iOS device?

Posted on May 21, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Try force deleting items in the delete queue.

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Taking Trump seriously.

Posted on May 21, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Not normal times.

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iTunes 12.4 and Home Videos

Posted on May 20, 2016 by jgordon

Link. If you don’t have any submenu won’t appear until add a home video (ripped DVD, etc)

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Salmon says pending GOP rule of Puerto Rico is best of the bad options.

Posted on May 20, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Makes a good case.

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T. Rex weren’t no stinkin’ vulture.

Posted on May 20, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Ruthless killer. Phew.

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Economist Berrigan obit.

Posted on May 20, 2016 by jgordon

Link. An unreasonable man. Jesuits, surprisingly, stuck with him.

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iTunes media ontology confusion.

Posted on May 20, 2016 by jgordon

Link. The problem of Kinds. Longstanding, bit worse now.

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Apple global share falls faster than Samsung’s.

Posted on May 20, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Mistakes have been made.

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iOS Restrictions can selectively disable Movies, TVs, or Apps

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. It’s obscure! Not just age range, but can disable altogether. Not Music though.

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New York Times VR kit shows up in the mail.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Impressed Emily and I, my daughter is blasé.

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Software guru suddenly learns most humans visualize at will.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I read about this 1-3 y ago. I’m towards narrative end myself.

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“genuine innovation in the emerging Trump delegate meltdown genre.”

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I fear Sanders delegates have issues too.

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Venezuala: lesson for the Sandistas.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. The path of Norway and Sweden, not Cuba and India.

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Learn How to Use WordPress: free ebook.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Return of the manual?!

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China’s propaganda army is gov employee working at home for a piece rate.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Pays surprisingly well.

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Microbot sticks landing with electrostatics.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Similar Spiderman.

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Canine contagious cancer swaps worn mitochondria for new ones.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Microtubule transfer?! WTF?

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Even the New Yorker is dumping on Apple’s software screwups.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Music is only the most infamous example. Apple software needs rehab.

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Collins to Clinton: Dumb Bill.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Completely agree. His time has passed. Get him off the scene.

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Google Assistant: Tsai Review

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Curious that Google’s nsAI, most powerful by far, has no name.

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Machineel – tree of death.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Eat not the fruit of this tree.

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Sanders turns into Ralph Nader 2.0.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Nader gave us GWB. Sanders wants to give us Trump.

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Geezers have lots of music, less keen on streaming.

Posted on May 19, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I’ll do it if Apple gets their $

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Bernie supporters trying to talk him down.

Posted on May 18, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Interesting comparison to Ron Paul.

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Google’s messaging mob.

Posted on May 18, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I/O kind of a mess this year.

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Why you have to enter your iPhone passcode despite TouchID

Posted on May 18, 2016 by jgordon

Link. It’s not random. Maybe too clever.

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“Out of 16,000 tracks in my Apple Music library, 843 are no longer available.”

Posted on May 18, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Perils of renting music.

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Giethoorn: Netherlands beauty and quiet on the water.

Posted on May 18, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Located in Zwolle, nearby Amsterdam. Tourist attack soon.

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MMGuardian – Review of an iPhone parental control and usage monitoring service

Posted on May 18, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Apple Profile Management plus web filtering.

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Deflation persists in Japan.

Posted on May 18, 2016 by jgordon

Link. We need to start selling things to whales.

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Only 30% of female physicians document direct sexual harassment.

Posted on May 18, 2016 by jgordon

Link. That’s less than I expected. I think it’s declined a lot since I trained.

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Apple putting heavy resources into iTunes deletion bug.

Posted on May 18, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Last week, a blog post from

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Sanders has the prophet’s disease.

Posted on May 18, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Not a Dem. Also, not a democrat.

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Sanders splits the Dems.

Posted on May 18, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Lots of anger. Sanders disappoints, proves he is wrong choice.

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Panama Papers: “360,000 names of people and companies behind secret offshore structures”

Posted on May 17, 2016 by jgordon

Link. 214,000 offshore entities in 21 jurisdictions.

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South Korea: 2 million dogs eaten a year.

Posted on May 17, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Dog farmer: “No one would do this if he could avoid it.”

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TSA Is Falling Apart.

Posted on May 17, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I wonder what their turnover is.

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Macs Boot via Target Disk Mode

Posted on May 17, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I forgot my Thunderbolt cable supported TDM.

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