Link. I’d expect much worse.
Tag Archives: s
San Francisco: The Wiggle.
Link. “the path of the Sans Souci Creek”.
How to tweet from a Commodore 64
Link. “The second is to buy a modern C64-to-ethernet adapter and run Breadbox64, a native Twitter client written for the C64 in 2009 by Johan Van den Brande.”
New York City From Central Park.
Link. Is this real? Amazing.
Nations hotel locks fail.
Link. Maybe they can install chains on the inside of every door?
Simperium and Dropbox beat iCloud.
Link. Good to learn about Simperium success. I love SimpleNote.
GOP gambles all on jimmy crow.
Webex crashes on ML: sounds like the proxy bug.
Link. ML has a known proxy bug problem.
VerizATT or ATTizon?
Link. Which is the better label?
Lakshmi Sehgal – Economist obit.
Link. Must read. Can’t describe.
The Drake Equation gets real numbers.
Link. “…30,000 habitable worlds within 1,000 light-years of Earth … 34% of sun-like stars could host habitable planets … tens of billions of such worlds exist in the Milky Way …”
And yet we only hear crickets …
In Defense of Trilogizing ‘The Hobbit’.
Link. Take a big swing Peter.
Olympics reaching the limits?
Link. Time for some genetic engineering.
The problem of Japan’s household savings
Link. “elder generation is living on fixed incomes and loves deflation and cheap imports”
‘just like going to the fields to farm’
Link. Humans are good at hell.
Did gun control work in Australia?
Link. Maybe. Mostly to reduce suicide, but suicide is much more common than murder.
Romney’s tax plan: Unhinged.
Link. The modern GOP in miniature. No longer even trying to be credible.
Disable automatic application termination in OS X.
Link. Not sure how bad this really is. I’m not in a rush to disable yet.
Cultural relativism and poverty: DeLong on Landes – 1998.
Link. Classic review. Science, government, imitate.
India’s energy problem in 1 sentence.
Link. “energy is sold for less than the cost to produce it”
Google’s Kansas Gigabit and the wireless war.
Link. LTE-Advanced towers atop homes of GoogleFiber customers?
Welcome to the Singularity: Algobots beyond human understanding.
Link. Salmon: “… high-frequency algobots, operates on a level which is simply beyond intuition. Pattern-detecting algos detect patterns that the human mind can’t see, and they learn from them, and they trade on them, and some of them work, and some of them don’t, and no one really has a clue why.”
In Stross terms, this is Finance 2.0. As DeLong used to say, the Singularity is in our past.
We are on one hell of a ride.
Understanding Japan’s Options in the Early 1990s. (DeLong)
Link. Fascinating question.
Romney rewards the rich and clobbers the middle class.
Link. Election a remarkably clear choice.
The HP capital-structure arbitrage.
Link. “go long the stock … go short the debt”. I miss when index funds worked.
Nexus 7 – first impressions.
Link. Disruptive price, very geeky.
Maxell AirStash – streaming movies to kids iDevices.
Link. Stross reviewed this, but he didn’t mention the car travel use case. Pretty neat idea.
Weibo proves Twitter’s 140 is not enough.
Link. Weibo with 280 is far more successful than Twitter.
“Twitter limits each tweet to 140 characters (no matter Chinese or western). Weibo’s limit is 140 Chinese characters or 280 western characters. Since Chinese carries more info in each character, Weibo users can express so much more in 140.”
Dilbert: Natural selection and CEO Compensation.
Link. We are selecting for CEOs that need infinite compensation to be inspired.
Stross: the computed city.
Link. Panopticon plus.
Markets are for bots.
Link. Humans too slow.
Why porn sites have high tech malware.
Link. Spies like them.
VerizATTGoogle vs Apple.
Link. Someone keeping bad company.
Many android phones are not used as smartphones.
Link. Marketing only.
VerizATT – Apple war is on.
Link. Android allies with the devil.
API Authentication Tokens
How to apologize for a privacy breach.
Link. This is how it is done. Pinboard.
Startfor: 50 years of the terror war.
Link. Presidents were once soft targets. Hardening the world. Technology driven?
States Where Fracking Can Happen in Secret.
Link. Dont live there.
Free web services are expensive.
Link. Never buy free.
Human evolution 50K BC.
Link. Something big then.
Fiscal cliff: GOP quietly negotiating?
Link. Cracks in the wall.
Romney and Cultural superiority (fallows).
Link. Tricky and dangerous terrain, and Romney’s driving under the influence.
Exercise and weight loss – new science.
Link. Metabolic efficiency rises with calorie reduction and is unaffected by exercise. Means need to readjust calorie/weight loss expectations. (Article is confused, makes it sound like exercise doesn’t burn calories.)
Entangled Particles Break Classical Law of Thermodynamics.
Link. Thermodynamics is the hottest area in modern physics. (sorry)
Microsoft: what really happened?
Link. The book is still to be written. We don’t have enough studies of business failure.
Update: LaunchBar 5.3
Link. One of my favorite all time applications.
PA voter ID law bad?
Link. But it solves problem of voter choice.
Romney and superior cultures/religions.
Link. Bad advice? Or core belief?