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TNC drops hammer on Richard Cohen.

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Good, but need whack Bezos WaPo.

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New Guidelines Redefine Use of Statins

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. At first glance looks smarter.

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Pinner 2 for iOS (pinboard client) review.

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I like it too, but it’s another Ives-inspired screen space waster.

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Google finally adds save-to-Drive for Gmail attachments.

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Took long enough!

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More on Canada’s forgotten guaranteed income project.

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Lots of odd stuff in the 70s, much of it forgotten. For one reason or another.

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Mincome: The 1974-1979 experiment in guaranteed income for Dauphin Manitoba

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. "A final report was never issued, but Dr. Evelyn Forget conducted an analysis of the program in 2009". Good refs.

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The Basic Income movement lives. (!)

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. 1970s Dauphin Manitoba experiment. One answer to the problem of mass disability in the post-AI era.

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How the US could get a real (big) carbon tax.

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. China, India Germany band together on Border Tax Adjustment. (for an app.net thread)

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How many people died in Hurricane Katrina?

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Between 1,500 and 3,500 depending on calculation. Many were elderly. Much higher than I’d remembered.

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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.”

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Maplecroft has it #6. Bangladesh and India worst.

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Why you can’t boil tea with a spoon and muscles.

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Ok, but what about liquid Helium?

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A box of discarded illustrations portrays the development of what was likely schizophrenia…

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. A strange glance into another’s mind.

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“Germany was able to achieve large gains in competitiveness without deflation, because Spain and others were willing to accept inflation well above 2 percent.”

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. "… now the eurozone has overall core inflation below 1 percent, which means that Spain can only achieve internal devaluation through crippling deflation"

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GOP Senator Issa’s government IT Reform legislation is not stupid.

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Cosponsored by Democrat Gerald Connolly. Weird to have something good to say about Issa, but …

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Forget Christie.

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. But… I never imagined Romney could be nominee.

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WTF, Richard Cohen — and WSJ!

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. TNC had same reaction. Does he have no editor? Time to retire.

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Analysis of BackBlaze hard drive lifespans.

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. BB has WAY better luck than me. I’ve gone SSD in disgust.

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Mavericks: Zooming images and PDFs with Quick Look Option Scroll.

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Win some, lose some :-).

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Gruber has seeies on how poor Bloomberg’s Apple reporting has been.

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jgordon

Link. ReSeems a trend. They don’t aspire to accuracy.

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Open Transport: a history.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I don’t have fond memories of MacTCP.

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iTunes 11.0.3 fixed genre bug.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I wonder if it would have fixed my podcast media type bug.

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Computational creativity in cooking.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by jgordon

Link. We’ll always have Paris.

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Great Moments in the Y Chromosome.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Alleged males disrupt woman’s meeting brandishing tubular objects.

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Google trying to break patent system with April Fool’s joke.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by jgordon

Link. "Lie-Detecting Throat Tattoo" is a joke, right? Let’s patent everything in the past 20 years of SF.

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Tor’s intensely spoiler-y commentary on Thor Dark World.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Yep. See the (excellent) film then read this.

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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”

Posted on November 11, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Claiming a body can be expensive.

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Extraordinary f/u on the 2003 US/Canada blackout – government worked.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by jgordon

Link. GR stimulus funds accelerated grid monitoring improvements.

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Adapting to the CO2 climate: “that this civilization is already dead”

Posted on November 11, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I like a bit more denial than this.

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XKCD essential: answers to inevitable technology questions.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Nicholas Carr’s inbox overflowing with this link.

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Why CBS is at ease with a reporting bungle: lefties aren’t crazy.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by jgordon

Link. No false equivalence, in 2013 the nuts are on the right.

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China’s voluntary organ donation system: early days.

Posted on November 10, 2013 by jgordon

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…

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Gassée is not amused by iWork ’13 – a leadership problem.

Posted on November 10, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Cook and iWork, Obama and the healthcare.gov. Leaders out of touch.

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Afghanistan: Year 13 of American bases.

Posted on November 10, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Is this our longest non-war war?

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Fallows on Bloomberg news caving to China.

Posted on November 10, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Terminal revenue at risk? China’s fear is strong.

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Google Hangout is going to replace Google Voice – ADN thread.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. UI and functionality replicates old GV. Requires G+, I have an alt identity for that. (Via @savaran)

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Economist on deflation: looking bad for Europe.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. ECB should emulate Fed.

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Sugeon performance resistant to sleep loss.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. They are selected for this.

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Republican Jim Ramstad helped shepherd mental health parity rule in House.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I thought he’d retired?! Antithesis of TP.

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A writer follows up on mental illness twenty years after his first book.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I wonder if he realizes what’s happening now to psychiatric classifications.

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Slate’s 1931 4000 year Histomap infographic is very readable in OS X Preview.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

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?

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Meta-infographic puts all infographic terribleness in one place.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Teaching aid.

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Target’s $200 iPad buyback was too popular.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. They weren’t ready for the onslaught. Almost over…

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Catfishing – an educational ADN thread for old folks.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

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"

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In depth analysis of Doctor Who trailer.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. clear the decks

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Review of the iPad Air personal hotspot.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Wonder if I can drop my iphone data down to 500 MB.

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Profile of a volatile NFL player.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Nobody wants to say traumatic brain injury.

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Lessons from Apple and Google: Typhoon Mobile and the iCamera.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. We can’t fight this — but I am looking forward to Apple’s prosumer iCamera.

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Olloclip lens for ipone 5s is a fun toy.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. At least. Put it on my maybe list v

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Bogost long rant on hyperemployment and email.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. See 19th cent correspondence. Also, my email is not like this; he needs training.

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Spains plastic sheets dwarf China’s great wall from orbit.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Think ponds, lily pads, exponential growth. Think solar panels.

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