Link. Good, but need whack Bezos WaPo.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
New Guidelines Redefine Use of Statins
Link. At first glance looks smarter.
Pinner 2 for iOS (pinboard client) review.
Link. I like it too, but it’s another Ives-inspired screen space waster.
Google finally adds save-to-Drive for Gmail attachments.
Link. Took long enough!
More on Canada’s forgotten guaranteed income project.
Link. Lots of odd stuff in the 70s, much of it forgotten. For one reason or another.
Mincome: The 1974-1979 experiment in guaranteed income for Dauphin Manitoba
Link. "A final report was never issued, but Dr. Evelyn Forget conducted an analysis of the program in 2009". Good refs.
The Basic Income movement lives. (!)
Link. 1970s Dauphin Manitoba experiment. One answer to the problem of mass disability in the post-AI era.
How the US could get a real (big) carbon tax.
Link. China, India Germany band together on Border Tax Adjustment. (for an app.net thread)
How many people died in Hurricane Katrina?
Link. Between 1,500 and 3,500 depending on calculation. Many were elderly. Much higher than I’d remembered.
Post-typhoon: ” U.N. ranks the Philippines as the third-most vulnerable country in the world to climate change, thanks to a combination of natural exposure and poverty.”
Link. Maplecroft has it #6. Bangladesh and India worst.
Why you can’t boil tea with a spoon and muscles.
Link. Ok, but what about liquid Helium?
A box of discarded illustrations portrays the development of what was likely schizophrenia…
Link. A strange glance into another’s mind.
“Germany was able to achieve large gains in competitiveness without deflation, because Spain and others were willing to accept inflation well above 2 percent.”
Link. "… now the eurozone has overall core inflation below 1 percent, which means that Spain can only achieve internal devaluation through crippling deflation"
GOP Senator Issa’s government IT Reform legislation is not stupid.
Link. Cosponsored by Democrat Gerald Connolly. Weird to have something good to say about Issa, but …
Forget Christie.
Link. But… I never imagined Romney could be nominee.
WTF, Richard Cohen — and WSJ!
Link. TNC had same reaction. Does he have no editor? Time to retire.
Analysis of BackBlaze hard drive lifespans.
Link. BB has WAY better luck than me. I’ve gone SSD in disgust.
Mavericks: Zooming images and PDFs with Quick Look Option Scroll.
Link. Win some, lose some :-).
Gruber has seeies on how poor Bloomberg’s Apple reporting has been.
Link. ReSeems a trend. They don’t aspire to accuracy.
Open Transport: a history.
Link. I don’t have fond memories of MacTCP.
iTunes 11.0.3 fixed genre bug.
Link. I wonder if it would have fixed my podcast media type bug.
Computational creativity in cooking.
Link. We’ll always have Paris.
Great Moments in the Y Chromosome.
Link. Alleged males disrupt woman’s meeting brandishing tubular objects.
Google trying to break patent system with April Fool’s joke.
Link. "Lie-Detecting Throat Tattoo" is a joke, right? Let’s patent everything in the past 20 years of SF.
Tor’s intensely spoiler-y commentary on Thor Dark World.
Link. Yep. See the (excellent) film then read this.
NY’s Hart Island – a million unclaimed remains. “the first New York child to die of the virus is buried here in the only individual grave on the island”
Link. Claiming a body can be expensive.
Extraordinary f/u on the 2003 US/Canada blackout – government worked.
Link. GR stimulus funds accelerated grid monitoring improvements.
Adapting to the CO2 climate: “that this civilization is already dead”
Link. I like a bit more denial than this.
XKCD essential: answers to inevitable technology questions.
Link. Nicholas Carr’s inbox overflowing with this link.
Why CBS is at ease with a reporting bungle: lefties aren’t crazy.
Link. No false equivalence, in 2013 the nuts are on the right.
China’s voluntary organ donation system: early days.
Link. Many are willing to consider, but there’s no trust in either hospitals or the transplant system (for good reasons). That trust will come with reforms…
Gassée is not amused by iWork ’13 – a leadership problem.
Link. Cook and iWork, Obama and the healthcare.gov. Leaders out of touch.
Afghanistan: Year 13 of American bases.
Link. Is this our longest non-war war?
Fallows on Bloomberg news caving to China.
Link. Terminal revenue at risk? China’s fear is strong.
Google Hangout is going to replace Google Voice – ADN thread.
Link. UI and functionality replicates old GV. Requires G+, I have an alt identity for that. (Via @savaran)
Economist on deflation: looking bad for Europe.
Link. ECB should emulate Fed.
Sugeon performance resistant to sleep loss.
Link. They are selected for this.
Republican Jim Ramstad helped shepherd mental health parity rule in House.
Link. I thought he’d retired?! Antithesis of TP.
A writer follows up on mental illness twenty years after his first book.
Link. I wonder if he realizes what’s happening now to psychiatric classifications.
Slate’s 1931 4000 year Histomap infographic is very readable in OS X Preview.
Link. Download the linked full size scan and open on a big display using Preview. PDF not needed. Been months since this came out, where’s the modern update?
Meta-infographic puts all infographic terribleness in one place.
Link. Teaching aid.
Target’s $200 iPad buyback was too popular.
Link. They weren’t ready for the onslaught. Almost over…
Catfishing – an educational ADN thread for old folks.
Link. I had to look it up: "The phenomenon of internet predators that fabricate online identities and entire social circles to trick people into emotional/romantic relationships"
In depth analysis of Doctor Who trailer.
Link. clear the decks
Review of the iPad Air personal hotspot.
Link. Wonder if I can drop my iphone data down to 500 MB.
Profile of a volatile NFL player.
Link. Nobody wants to say traumatic brain injury.
Lessons from Apple and Google: Typhoon Mobile and the iCamera.
Link. We can’t fight this — but I am looking forward to Apple’s prosumer iCamera.
Olloclip lens for ipone 5s is a fun toy.
Link. At least. Put it on my maybe list v
Bogost long rant on hyperemployment and email.
Link. See 19th cent correspondence. Also, my email is not like this; he needs training.
Spains plastic sheets dwarf China’s great wall from orbit.
Link. Think ponds, lily pads, exponential growth. Think solar panels.