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“I don’t know of any astronauts who think we’re alone in the universe,”

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. NASA in trouble with GOP now. (theology)

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Autism and bowel disorders: more of a connection.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Brains and bowels use similar messaging and protein systems.

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BlackBerry story interesting patent twist.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Live BB better than Google getting those patents.

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Credit card regulation worked: why?

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Maybe banks didn’t love these scams. Analog to scam health insurance.

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ACA startup mess – Obama didn’t know.

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. So who shoots messengers and does 2013 cabinet need a techie?

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Mental health parity law: impact on psychiatry?

Posted on November 9, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Psychiatry, the medical profession, needs love and money.

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Bloomberg News self-censors to keep its China access.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. China’s block of the NYT has been very successful.

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21st Century Science Fiction anthology – sold without DRM

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Tor does well. Weirdly, not in iBookstore, but this download will go with iBook.app.

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South Korean extreme #342: “Mr. Sim, a determined man if there ever was one”

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Yeah, you could say that.

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Google drive for iOS now supports account switching.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Very nice — I can switch from work to personal on iOS, just as on Android.

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“There is no limit to the amount of photos you can upload to My Photo Stream … Photos uploaded to My Photo Stream or shared photo streams are not counted against your iCloud Storage.”

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. This sounds different.

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China scams: celebrate a deal.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. At least victim survives with a great bar story.

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Senate Bill on Bias Against Gays Finds Support in Mormons

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Heartwarming, honestly.

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Why an 80% market share might only represent half of smartphone users.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Five iPhones in constant use in our home; bought one this year.

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Atul Gawande 2007: The Way We Age Now.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Saw this in my feed, don’t remember seeing it before. Completely topical, nothing has changed past 6 years.

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Adobe hack: my throwaway password is popular

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Evidently I used my "nuisance" pw with them: "4 other people used the same password". Some of those 4 are other emails of mine though.

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Adobe Hack: Your “secret question” answers are public now.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. "We kept the password hints, because they were very handy indeed" Good thing those can’t be used to breach anything. Oh, wait …

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Early 20th century white slavery craze.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Excuse to get soft core porn to the masses.

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Urban Institute estimated 1.6 million nonprofit groups operate in America today. Huh?

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

From app.net – http://alpha.app.net/johngordon/post/14559378.

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South Korea’s suneung school exam.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. SK specializes in extremity.

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American mental health care – world leading transformation ahead.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Note very quiet bipartisan response to gun violence. US can be oddly progressive at times.

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The French safety net – a profile.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I assume ‘strain’ is partly demographic, partly global wealth shifts. Interesting contrast to US.

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Conservative non-fiction press book on Benghazi heroics is … fiction.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. There will be another one.

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NYT’s Roger Cohen has hippie flashback.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. We want a photo of his long hair.

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Haiyan resets scales for storm intensity.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link.

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GOP reformers want to end caucus primaries.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I hate caucus in MN Dem primaries. Awful system.

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Apple Releases Mavericks Mail Update to Address Gmail Compatibility Issues

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Follows iWorks apology. Good stuff.

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The left on reducing trade deficits to boost employment.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I can’t judge economics. I would worry about China stability.

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The Tools and Toys 2013 Christmas Catalog.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. For the geek you love.

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FDA: “no safe level for consumption of artificial trans fats”

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I ate a lot and I never had a prob
(*urk*)

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App store twist: Problems with installing old iWork on new machines.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Clark Goble spots a new problem with Apple’s iWork retcon.

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New Kindle Fire HDX: “rich parental controls “

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Apple should fear Amazon more than Samsung.

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iPhone M7 vs FitBit Zip step counting.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Nike plus app is somewhat interesting too…

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Photo Backup Services … do not exist.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Everpix is lesson #57.

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South Korea’s legal mandate for IE/Active X use…

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. And Android security apps. I’m sure Samsung doesn’t mind.

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Economist exoplanet headline: “My God, it’s full of planets!”

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. That is such a geeky headline.

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Europe converting to Krugmanism – fears deflation, approaches ZLB.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. China and tech/AI are huge deflationary pressures.

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Obamacare: weak on tech, strong on policy.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Leadership technically incompetent, but legal structures are robust. Maybe that’s more important.

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NSA accelerates net security.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Google’s mission conflict remains a key problem.

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China’s water problems are eye opening.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. China will become world center of water management technologies and processes. They have no choice.

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The weirdly under-appreciated power of Microsoft Access – Saved queries behave like Oracle Views.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. My worldwide Access fan club has 3 members.

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Bicycling related kickstarters wanted: integrated cam/light, power platform, autonomous vehicle communication

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I’d buy into these …

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Collapse of the pc imdustry cont.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. People used to replace cars every 2-3 years. Then they didn’t.

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Salmon on the only rational way to invest in Twitter.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Or invest in the trading companies?

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“inner beauty doesn’t exist. That’s something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves.”

Posted on November 7, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Venezuelan plastic surgeon and philosopher.

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Mobile is eating the world – Benedict Evans.

Posted on November 6, 2013 by jgordon

Link. High end Android smartphone $250? I don’t think so. Failure of social network lockin is interesting.

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Sean Carroll’s Fermi resolution: the “Enlightentment/Boredom Hypothesis”

Posted on November 6, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Facile Drake dismissal. My/Stross variant of EBH is that AIs don’t travel — and everything goes AI.

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Contact and Calendar Sync without iCloud – Mavericks Server.

Posted on November 6, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Sometimes iCloud feels like a big OS X Server instance.

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Is the iPad Air Right for You?

Posted on November 6, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Best summary to date, but needs to factor in eBook solution, iPhone use.

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TidBITS has a bizarre workaround for the Mavericks/ePUB/iBook metadata mess.

Posted on November 6, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Apple’s kludgy hack broken by iBook/iTunes divorce. eeeyuck.

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