Link. Did Scalia et al spend even an hour thinking on their decision?
Monthly Archives: November 2013
“Majority of red-state Americans believe climate change is real”.
Link. Nothing ever changes, until it does.
John Tavener TE obit: a mystical-hedonist-materialist-genius composer.
Link. Made me look up sempiternal. Great word.
Why you can’t always make money shorting a pyramid scheme.
Link. Selling the experience of buying. "If you tell investors and the rest of the public that you’re selling boxes of air, you’re fine, you can charge $100 for them"
Acer dying: another casualty of the mobile revolution.
Link. "unexpected, staggering losses in Q3". I don’t use "revolution" lightly.
The New Space movement.
Link. The Valley is where America still dreams.
Safeplug: $50 Tor on Linux web proxy for anonymized net access across home LAN.
Link. Purchase puts you on a special list.
Harry Reid to end judicial filbuster.
Link. GOP broke deal, I think they wanted this.
White supremacist building North Dakot enclave has ancestry glitch.
Link. Probably Jewish grandmother and gay.
Physicists on “five things”.
Link. Funny, the physics parts are same for me.
3,000 yo prosthetic toe.
Link. As always: why didn’t Egypt have a lunar landing by 700 AD?
TE has a wonderful snapshot of modern Bangladesh.
Link. I lived there a while. Fascinating.
Dunbar numbers: 150 friends, 3-5 close friends.
Link. Falls with age though.
CloudPull 2.5.3 with more nice fixes.
Link. I run it once a month. Makes me happy.
The Best Carry On Luggage
Link. TravelPro Crew 9 22” Rollaboard Suiter – $180 for me.
The Perpetual Cycle – ear wax and the inheritance of fear.
Link. Took me a few reads to get it.
Who pays the CO2 costs of burning coal – inventors or inheritors?
Link. Arguably the technology carries its own carbon debt. In which case we start from ground zero.
The Sweet Setup – mandatory addition to every iOS/OS X geek’s feed.
Link. RSS, which is dead of course, working well here.
“Failure is always an option”. Shirky on healthcare.gov
Link. Unoriginal, but nice rant. I want to read a real investigative report, one that actually improves government.
Die like a doctor.
Link. We know when to fold ’em. There are worse things than dead.
Professional iPhone calculator review.
Link. Cruel dismissal of my the lovely HP emulatir I like, but best calc review ever. Sweet Setup is great.
Discover does a review of the Simulation thesis (Bostrom)
Link. If the Fermi Paradox applies to your reality then you’re in a simulation. That was easy…
Antwerp Ruien: A fitting spot for national toilet day.
Link. Heck of a way to build a sewer system.
Why introverts make great explorers.
Link. "the loneliest human in history was just happy to have a few minutes of peace and quiet"
Weird ATT unlock problem.
Link. I had a good unlock experience a few days ago. Wonder if this is new trend.
“Sexual competition among females seems to increase due to circumstances that tend to be particularly common in affluent societies”
Link. Yikes. Hope my daughter can dodge some of this.
Gina Kolata publishes another article on the statin guideline debacle.
Link. So old risk calculator was lousy and the people who knew that didn’t publish because it was … embarrassing?! The ACA needs to disappear for a while.
iOS 7: How to search for text on a web page.
Link. Been around forever, I never noticed it.
“Dow is approaching its actual inflation-adjusted closing record”
Link. Has the Dow ever broken this record without being in a bubble?
Rubio’s clever response to church/state separation questions.
Link. Equivalent to: ‘Are you saying God is weak?’
Imaging the moon with muons.
Link. Ok, so photons give slightly sharper image. Still.
A US National mapping project for mountain biking.
Link. There are a lot of bike related mapping projects!
Cognitive evolution: modern reptiles smarter than thought. New or longstanding?
Link. How inevitable is the march to intelligence? Fermi paradox implications.
Paul Davies addresses one of the unknown Drake equation terms – how common are microbes?
Link. We’ve got data on many Drake variables, which puts "pressure" on the unknowns.
A majority of Toronto’s voters really should be ashamed.
Link. Everyone who didn’t vote, everyone who voted for Ford. Shame on you.
Power button in Mavericks behaves like old Ctrl-Alt-Power shortcut.
Link. Puts screen to sleep. I’m so used to old method …
Has Omni solved the App Store upgrade dilemma?
Link. They ensure Apple gets its cut.
Apple’s Reuse and Recycling program accepts some windows machines, water damaged iphones, etc.
Link. Commendable! No reason to ever toss iPhone in trash.
Chrome OS Shell (crosh): new age DOS
Link. Ctrl-Alt-T is very 80s.
What Alpha knows, Siri knows: Song lyrics.
Link. Deeper point that a lot of Siri capability is tied to what Wolfram does with Alpha.
Sapphire Screens for Apple in 2014.
Link. Bad news for the screen protector industry.
How did labels do after iTunes prices went from 99 to 1.29 during the DRM drop
Link. Revenue up in 2012 on iTunes and subscription services. Did well post-DRM thanks to price bump. Lesson for eBooks.
A journalist drops in on an art sale: “the event’s unannounced theme was Father-Daughter.”
Link. Fun time, insanely rich patrons almost human.
Even without Oswald, JFK was likely to be assassinated
Link. "a shockingly casual approach to presidential security based on utterly false assumptions" Only a truly incompetent assassin could fail and thus improve security.
London suffers from the oil disease?
Link. Interesting analogy. Would apply to NYC and SF as well.
Krugman on the dysfunctional economy.
Link. Why clock-radios suck? Side-effect of mass disability?
Last good toaster (2006) – researching FM Clock Radio choices reminded me of the ‘missing middle’ problem.
Link. FM Clock Radio is even worse – a product wasteland.
New statin guidelines crash: Framingham risk calculator is a dud.
Link. I was right years ago.
OS X Mavericks: Contacts now understands pasted addresses
Link. I long ago gave up hope.
“Angry white men” – profile of one segment of the fallen middle class.
Link. A cohort that’s deeply confused and very angry but still hopeful. They’re wrong about the hope.