Link. Uh Oh. Watch this. Clue to etiology of SLE though.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
TNF safety in selectedrheumatic disorders.
Link. An advance with risks.
Image Retention on Retina iPad Mini
Link. Variable. I like to wait for kinks to get worked out.
Chromebook FINALLY goes below $200.
Link. Now it _begins_. Took years longer than exoected.
There’s a subtle defect with 7.0 iMessage for correspondents who have intermittent data service. It used to reply to SMS with SMS, now it persists w/ iMessage if contact has past iMessage use. No fail message but need to manually resend as Text. #t
From app.net – http://alpha.app.net/johngordon/post/15063243.
A realistic analysis of the future of the ACA – and media coverage.
Link. Insurance fix is tossing an unpopular passenger to the wolves, but sleigh is nearing shelter.
Leonard on the power of Google.
Link. Skip to his Google Now section. Imagine Gamazon.
Salmon explains why NYT should promote his employers wire stories. Persuasively.
Link. NYT twitter feed very influential.
Koch bros spent 122 Million in 2012 elections.
Link. So is it for Tea Party primaries?
The price of civilization is wisdom tooth extraction.
Link. We find better mates more beautiful.
Obama throws health insurance companies under the bus.
Link. Good thing everyone hates them.
Cloud photoshop via Mainframe2
Link. I thought we did this with Citrix in 90s.
JP Morgan paid 1.8 million dollat bribe to Chinese power broker.
Link. Isn’t that, you know, illegal?
Augusto Odone, father of Lorenzo and his oil. Obit.
Link. An unreasonable man. "… three-quarters of the cases studied it prevented the development of symptoms" I didn’t realize it worked that well.
“People also seem to be more beautiful now than they were in the past—precisely as would be expected if beauty is still evolving.”
Link. Shrinking noses.
Judge Chin rules Google’s book scanning “adds value or uses the work in a different and beneficial way”.
Link. I hope this stands.
Smartphone baseband processor OS supports Hayes Commands.
Link. I’m sure the NSA doesn’t know about all these vulnerabilities. What, you don’t know what a Hayes command is?
Retraction for 1863 editorial calling Gettysburg Address “silly remarks”
Link. Well done! My morning laugh.
DeLong – 5 views of Tea Party land.
Link. Read MLM bit. Need more anthro-journo.
Venice mapped and photographed into Google “Street” view.
Link. Google’s blend of calculated evil and beauty is very Renaissance Italy.
1920s bathing fashion variation — but what about 1960s?
Link. If I wore my 1972 Speedo to a 2013 pool I’d be arrested — and not just for aesthetic reasons.
IBM Watson REST API – CCC – cognitive computing in the cloud.
Link. More acceptable than AIC. By invitation only; VC funding maybe.
NYT on Mini: “The Mini is not a product you truly need, like, say, a smartphone. But it is such a fun and useful device, you will quickly become convinced that it is.”
Link. True.
Chinese animal right activists win one.
Link. China has everything.
Australia’s climate fail is quite American.
Link. The triumph of hope.
So every male over 65 will be on Statins now?
Link. Or even over 60. Hell of a lot of statins.
A New Knee Ligament?!?
Link. I wonder it is a variant. Amazing. Really.
Odón a 59 yo Argentine car mechanic invents an safer alternative to obstetric forceps.
Link. Ok, so he is also an inventor. I like that he is an old dude.
UN Human Rights Council: China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Russia.
Link. North Korea unavailable?
Terrifying technical article on synchronization.
Link. It was supposed to be scary, right? He didn’t mention time zones.
Infective intelligence: a misplaced piece of retrovirus at work in our memory subsystem.
Link. Evolution makes do.
More on the Moonies.
Link. Takes me back. In college visiting cults was a minor hobby of mine.
How to make millions providing bots to publishers.
Link. Desperate days.
WonkbloCBO’s 103 ways to reduce deficit.
Link. "Impose a Tax on Emissions of Greenhouse Gases, $1.1 trillion"
Non-LTE Android phone $180 unlocked from Motorola.
Link. A new world. I thought this would be 2015.
So will Adobe be liable for its crummy security practices?
Link. There must be hundreds of lawsuits in process.
Facebook Snapchat offer makes it official – stocks a bubble again.
Link. I’m parking some cash to buy into the crash. Good things kids 529 shift out of market automatically.
NYT is all over Bloomberg’s China news management techniques.
Link. Plausible deniability for China’s censors; if it doesn’t show up in China it doesn’t exist.
Millenials – can we pick on some other generation now?
Link. My kids for example. They’re quite snarky.
Saturn image did manage to give me goosebumps.
Link. Of all the versions this one is best on a big screen viewed at 100% res.
Wandering and Autism – excellent editorial on a scary problem.
Link. She didn’t mention today’s tracking devices and services kind of suck.
WaPo’s Richard Cohen is 72 and is stuck in the America of 1972.
Link. Retire him.
The Moonies – a follow-up
Link. "Republican Roscoe Bartlett bowed down before the couple, and Democrat Danny Davis carried in one of two golden crowns"
EtreCheck – find the cruft in oft updated OS X machines.
Link. Via Macintouch: "..quickly and simply produces a clean and very detailed report on your system configuration, including … kernel extensions, launch daemons, launch agents, and user launch agents"
Mini and Air have same resolution: 2048 x 1536
Link. I entirely missed this from all the coverage. ooookkkkaaay.
Road Diet with bike lanes – we’ve done this in the Twin Cities and it really works.
Link. I _choose_ the slimmed street on my _car_ commute because it’s smoother, more relaxing, and very predictable.
Economists start to suspect education isn’t a cure all.
Link. Took long enough. I don’t buy their explanation though.
Pope too liberal for Sarah Palin.
Link. Good thing she’s not Catholic.
Beyond the Red Cross: “When Disaster Strikes, Send the Enterprise”
Link. We need a disaster response that can clear land and build a runway in 24 hours anywhere on earth.
Israel starts dating China: “Who is Israel with, the United States or us?”
Link. A friendly separation?