Link. She was overrated.
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Klein on Ryan: all lies.
Link. But will it work?
Will the Liar Thing Break Through?
Link. Ryan tests American journalism. Is there life there?
Funding boost for the arXiv.
Link. Astounding value for tiny money.
T violation, entanglement and time. Big result.
Link. Wow.
Why Facebook didn’t have to go public
Bento 4 – finally has encrypted fields – but now it’s only.
Link. Bento for iPhone is stuck at 1.2 and looks to be an ex-product.
Economist update on Syria’s civil war.
Link. Brutal, nasty, and the rebels are not winning.
Hucakbee on Romney (Collins)
Link. “If you’ve just been diagnosed with a brain tumor, you honestly don’t care if your neurosurgeon is a jerk,”. We love ya Huck.
Are Big Banks right to be fearful?
Link. It’s true that some powerful right wingers are making noises about too big banks. I assume it’s all for show, but …
Obama Reponds to Ryan (via DeLong)
Link. “I would also like to apologize to him for canceling “Friends” and for creating New Coke.” Obama is just warming up …
Detailed summary of the AT&T iPhone unlock procedure
Link. “Sometimes AT&T sends the unlock emails out within an hour but it can take up to 10 days as well, the time varies widely based on the volume of unlock requests.” Matches my experience after 3 unlocks.
When paper dies, what will happen to all the mill towns?
Link. Often pretty nice places.
Low-Calorie Diet Doesn’t Prolong Life, Study of Monkeys Finds
Link. Great science.
“Author of South Carolina’s voter ID law apologizes for writing “amen” in reply to email comparing blacks to “bees going after a watermelon.”
Link. Keep it coming guys.
A Critical Juncture – how much lying will Americans accept?
Link. Romney is testing the limits. Fits with the theory that he’s a highly functional sociopath.
AT&T US now has an iPhone Customer Device Unlock Request form
Link. Slower than the chat method, but good to see this option.
America’s wind in realtime.
Link. Why you never want to ride your bike from East to West.
We don’t have inflation, but we should have deflation. We don’t.
Link. Unknown country.
Half a gigameter of biking navigation in 12 countries in Google Maps.
Link. Android only.
Xi not so bad for Tibet?
Salmon: Apple vs Microsoft edition
Link. Microsoft price peak was a bubble. Not so Apple.
The post-truth GOP.
Link. “It’s working, they say. The fact-checkers can go screw themselves.”
Apple, Qualcomm won’t get to hog TSMC chip fab capacity
Link. The big leagues.
Mitt’s Cayman island party boat.
Link. Straight out of Batman Rises.
Meritocracy and oligarchy (TNC).
Link. America and China converge on the Han dynasty.
Affirmative-action: Romney and Obama.
Link. The rich are not like you and me.
Uber blogger Han Han: “naughty but nice”
Link. ” space opened up in China’s journey from tyranny to oligarchy.”
Energy drinks: caffeinosis
Link. Studies have shown almost 30 percent of college students consume energy drinks regularly … high concentrations of caffeine they contain can produce cardiovascular complications…
… The amount of caffeine differs widely among drinks but can range from about 80 milligrams to more than 500 milligrams. By comparison, a 12-ounce cola contains about 50 milligrams of caffeine, while a 5-ounce coffee has about 100 milligrams….
Presumably paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia in young people who don’t routinely drink coffee.
Piracy Around Horn of Africa Has Plunged.
Link. Success gets little attention.
Leaping and falling. A life.
Link. “But the journey from one America to the other is epic,” he said. “Once you’ve become a citizen of one, it’s really hard to find citizenship in the other.”
GOP convention chants down Hispanic accent.
Link. Race card has sharp edges.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
Link. A classic paper.
In Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, 89% of Those Arrested for Jaywalking Are Black
Apollo 11’s Astronauts Received an $8 Per Diem for the Mission to the Moon
Link. Clearly not in it for the pay.
Armstrong and dilemma of enhancement.
Link. Good discussion.
Arctic Ice Melt – the reason to worry.
Link. Our climate change models are too conservative.
Time for browser Java to die.
Link. Just kill it.
Minnesota to get new state bicycle map.
Link. First since 2001 from state govt. Soliciting input now.
App.net review – best so far.
Link. Im adding Fleishman.
Don’t lose your Apple iPhone SIM extractor tool (or other small things).
Link. Closing gate after 1 horse gone.
Watermark now with app.net support.
Link. Twitter can keep Jersey Shore.
How the GOP “feeds animals”.
Link. Playing the race card. Might motivate a few potential voters.
Apple Store becoming like all other retail stores.
Link. Blame Tom Cook. “Specialist performance will now be directly measured in part by how many accessories they can sell with each hardware item sold. So if you walk in to buy a MacBook Air, the new metrics would encourage sales people to push you to buy cases, hard drives, AirPort base stations, and more.”
Federal judicial panel blocks Texas Republicans’ redistricting plan for being purposely discriminatory.
Link. Excessively honest.
Why we despise the modern GOP – example 343143.
Link. “If there had been no Bush tax cuts, no wars, no financial crisis and everything else had been the same? Debt would be between 20 and 30 percent of GDP today, rather than almost 100 percent.”
The end of Printing.
Link. Wirecutter: “Most people don’t deal with printing … very often”. What will happen to all the mill towns? Many are loved, which surprises those who’ve never lived in one.
Burner – Disposable Phone Numbers Review.
Link. One solution to the phone spam problem, though many uses will be for non-legal or non-moral activities.
OS X 10.8.1 fixes Active Directory, Exchange, SMB problems.
Link. Mountain Lion may be the best release since 10.3
Apple Retail: Cook vs. Jobs.
Link. Apple becomes a more typical publicly traded corporation.