Link. NASA in trouble with GOP now. (theology)
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Autism and bowel disorders: more of a connection.
Link. Brains and bowels use similar messaging and protein systems.
BlackBerry story interesting patent twist.
Link. Live BB better than Google getting those patents.
Credit card regulation worked: why?
Link. Maybe banks didn’t love these scams. Analog to scam health insurance.
ACA startup mess – Obama didn’t know.
Link. So who shoots messengers and does 2013 cabinet need a techie?
Mental health parity law: impact on psychiatry?
Link. Psychiatry, the medical profession, needs love and money.
Bloomberg News self-censors to keep its China access.
Link. China’s block of the NYT has been very successful.
21st Century Science Fiction anthology – sold without DRM
Link. Tor does well. Weirdly, not in iBookstore, but this download will go with iBook.app.
South Korean extreme #342: “Mr. Sim, a determined man if there ever was one”
Link. Yeah, you could say that.
Google drive for iOS now supports account switching.
Link. Very nice — I can switch from work to personal on iOS, just as on Android.
“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.”
Link. This sounds different.
China scams: celebrate a deal.
Link. At least victim survives with a great bar story.
Senate Bill on Bias Against Gays Finds Support in Mormons
Link. Heartwarming, honestly.
Why an 80% market share might only represent half of smartphone users.
Link. Five iPhones in constant use in our home; bought one this year.
Atul Gawande 2007: The Way We Age Now.
Link. Saw this in my feed, don’t remember seeing it before. Completely topical, nothing has changed past 6 years.
Adobe hack: my throwaway password is popular
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.
Adobe Hack: Your “secret question” answers are public now.
Link. "We kept the password hints, because they were very handy indeed" Good thing those can’t be used to breach anything. Oh, wait …
Early 20th century white slavery craze.
Link. Excuse to get soft core porn to the masses.
Urban Institute estimated 1.6 million nonprofit groups operate in America today. Huh?
From app.net – http://alpha.app.net/johngordon/post/14559378.
South Korea’s suneung school exam.
Link. SK specializes in extremity.
American mental health care – world leading transformation ahead.
Link. Note very quiet bipartisan response to gun violence. US can be oddly progressive at times.
The French safety net – a profile.
Link. I assume ‘strain’ is partly demographic, partly global wealth shifts. Interesting contrast to US.
Conservative non-fiction press book on Benghazi heroics is … fiction.
Link. There will be another one.
NYT’s Roger Cohen has hippie flashback.
Link. We want a photo of his long hair.
Haiyan resets scales for storm intensity.
Link.
GOP reformers want to end caucus primaries.
Link. I hate caucus in MN Dem primaries. Awful system.
Apple Releases Mavericks Mail Update to Address Gmail Compatibility Issues
Link. Follows iWorks apology. Good stuff.
The left on reducing trade deficits to boost employment.
Link. I can’t judge economics. I would worry about China stability.
The Tools and Toys 2013 Christmas Catalog.
Link. For the geek you love.
FDA: “no safe level for consumption of artificial trans fats”
Link. I ate a lot and I never had a prob
(*urk*)
App store twist: Problems with installing old iWork on new machines.
Link. Clark Goble spots a new problem with Apple’s iWork retcon.
New Kindle Fire HDX: “rich parental controls “
Link. Apple should fear Amazon more than Samsung.
iPhone M7 vs FitBit Zip step counting.
Link. Nike plus app is somewhat interesting too…
Photo Backup Services … do not exist.
Link. Everpix is lesson #57.
South Korea’s legal mandate for IE/Active X use…
Link. And Android security apps. I’m sure Samsung doesn’t mind.
Economist exoplanet headline: “My God, it’s full of planets!”
Link. That is such a geeky headline.
Europe converting to Krugmanism – fears deflation, approaches ZLB.
Link. China and tech/AI are huge deflationary pressures.
Obamacare: weak on tech, strong on policy.
Link. Leadership technically incompetent, but legal structures are robust. Maybe that’s more important.
NSA accelerates net security.
Link. Google’s mission conflict remains a key problem.
China’s water problems are eye opening.
Link. China will become world center of water management technologies and processes. They have no choice.
The weirdly under-appreciated power of Microsoft Access – Saved queries behave like Oracle Views.
Link. My worldwide Access fan club has 3 members.
Bicycling related kickstarters wanted: integrated cam/light, power platform, autonomous vehicle communication
Link. I’d buy into these …
Collapse of the pc imdustry cont.
Link. People used to replace cars every 2-3 years. Then they didn’t.
Salmon on the only rational way to invest in Twitter.
Link. Or invest in the trading companies?
“inner beauty doesn’t exist. That’s something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves.”
Link. Venezuelan plastic surgeon and philosopher.
Mobile is eating the world – Benedict Evans.
Link. High end Android smartphone $250? I don’t think so. Failure of social network lockin is interesting.
Sean Carroll’s Fermi resolution: the “Enlightentment/Boredom Hypothesis”
Link. Facile Drake dismissal. My/Stross variant of EBH is that AIs don’t travel — and everything goes AI.
Contact and Calendar Sync without iCloud – Mavericks Server.
Link. Sometimes iCloud feels like a big OS X Server instance.
Is the iPad Air Right for You?
Link. Best summary to date, but needs to factor in eBook solution, iPhone use.
TidBITS has a bizarre workaround for the Mavericks/ePUB/iBook metadata mess.
Link. Apple’s kludgy hack broken by iBook/iTunes divorce. eeeyuck.