Link. Compare to price of making a US Senator.
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Even NYT iPhone news spends 2 graphs on $30-$40 $! cable adapter.
Link. Are you there Mr Cook?
CalenGoo supports Google Task sync to iPhone
Link. “sync CalenGoo with Google Tasks to view and manage your tasks in CalenGoo and in Google Calendar”
Ovarian cancer screening fails.
Link. Not surprising.
The ABC Conjecture And Cryptography
Link. Drink coffee before reading.
Men and labor.
Link. Lots of disability. Which, in a sense, is true.
Szasz dies, claimed schizophrenia not an illness.
Link. He was delusional.
Pussy Riot Should Be Freed, Medvedev Says
Link. Opposing Putin?
Lewis on Obama: back story.
Why The Vileness Matters.
Link. Journalists disliked Gore. They will like Romney even less.
Global LTE iPhone: Sprint and Verizon.
Link. Nice turmaround for Sprint.
Apple to sell 3 variants of iPhone 5 for international LTE coverage
Link. Bit if a mess.
Tarzan Never Dies.
Link. 1934 nude sychronized swim with Jane. Must watch.
7 Bizarre Ways You Didn’t Know 9/11 Changed the World.
Link. Cracked. Most new to me.
Credit Pogue – he joins the $30 adapter grump crowd.
Link. “That’s way, way too expensive. These adapters should not be a profit center for Apple; they should be a gesture of kindness to those of us who’ve bought accessories based on the old connector. There’s going to be a lot of grumpiness in iPhoneland, starting with me.”
iPhone 5: meh.
Link. Apple flipped us a bird with that $30 adapter.
Are 500M Androids a success or no?
Link. No revenue from an Android fan.
Google Course Builder.
Link. Open source ed platform.
LTE and future of mobile data.
Link. LTE Advanced good fit to Google Fiber?
iPhone 5 is ripe for T-Mobile.
Link. Competition welcome!
iCloud Mail Outage continues.
Link. Don’t use iCloud.
What’s important about the new iPhone?
Link. Better phone except the $30 adapter problem.
The Other Protest In Libya.
Link. Sorrow and shame.
Lightning dock connector is an iPhone 5 downer.
Link. No real user benefit, completely incompatible, proprietary, expensive. Apple screwed us with this one.
iTunes disaster coming my way…
Link. I bet the ‘makeover’ will eliminate most of the things I rely on.
Worst Republican Candidates since Nixon/Agnew?
Link. GWB should feel better now.
Romney response to attack: rash and shameful.
Link. Making GWB look good.
Lightning adapter costs #$%#!#$ 30$.
Link. #%#! Apple
Fuel economy standards make sense, as do gas and carbon taxes …
Link. Salmon is brilliant.
Can Romney tell belief from reality?
Link. A creature of Belief.
iPad on shared data plan – danger.
Link. Information asymmetry in carrier contracts.
iCloud – why does anyone rely on it?
Link. “17% of iCloud users couldn’t access mail or notes”. Apple can’t do server reliability.
Average price of iOS device cables to rise 84%.
Link. The new connector is a lot of pain.
Mochizuki probes primes: beyond elliptic curves.
Link. New tool impact compared to that of geometric objects, sets, permutations, topologies and matrices.
Waste in health care – Be skeptical.
Link. Cliched BS: “medicine is becoming so complex that it is virtually impossible for an individual doctor to keep pace”.
Real problem is medicine is changing very slowly. Reimbursement and regulation are insanely complex.
Be skeptical of all these ‘waste’ discussions. Most have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.
Fallows on Libya.
Link. “Our nation’s respects and gratitude go to the families and friends of Ambassador Stevens, and the guards and others killed along with him, and their counterparts representing our country around the world.”
Lock-in: How is Kindle DRM different from Apple FairPlay?
Link. Kindle is to books as iTunes is to movies.
Dodd-Frank: helping employment.
Link. Need competition, got “compliance costs of Dodd-Frank will run to tens of thousands of full-time positions.”
Why is the GOP panicking?
Link. Are they afraid they might win?
Computer Crime: History.
Link. Not hacking people, hacking process.
Building bigger dolphin brains.
Link. Uplift. We could do this for elephants.
Fox sets new standards for lying.
Link. Murdoch.
New York: climate change much bigger than 9/11.
Link. Ideologues ignored 9/11 warnings. Same for this one.
Facebook is for friends lives not politics.
Link. Really, really true.
Amazon’s P/E is nuts.
Link. Crash.
Siri cofounder leaves Apple.
Link. Siri has been a flop.
Updating the iphone story.
Link. “Nothing about it was obvious.” I remember my shock at iPhone 1.
US Government employment fallen during Obama administration.
Link. Krugman demolishes the opposition.
Watching Cities Grow.
Link. Wow. The shift to the SW is mind-boggling. Air conditioning ….
Have we reached the end of economic growth?
Link. Good discussions. I’m with the ‘change so rapid its destabilizing’ crowd.