Link. Daniel Bell lives in an interesting world.

Link. Stross writes the best tech reviews.

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Link. Yes.

Link. Hold off on those nexus 7 purchases.

Link. Better than cron.

Link. Bugs, fixes, annoyances. Not bad.

Link. True for me. Interesting wetware use. Bet pay is lousy.

Link. “Cities tolerate crazy people,” West observed, “Companies don’t.”

Link. The 8″ iPad may be $200 after all.

Link. The world is not ordered as you imagined.

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Link. Still a challenge.

Link. Monsters rule Sri Lanka.

Link. Crazy in a good way. Still, that’s a unusual level of mosquito tolerance.

Link. Bite tongue. This is as good as it gets. Bite harder.

Link. Really, the peasants are happy that way.

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Link. Aircraft detection pre-radar.

Link. Putting cars in their place.

Link. Wonder what went wrong.

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Link. “In some species, the central nervous system occupies much of the spider’s front half and has even invaded space in the first segment of the legs”. Takes a lot of brains to spin complex webs.

Link. Hard to argue with.

Link. US military is ultimate stimulus package.

Link. I used to get a magazine for physician house sharing.

Link. Funny and affectionate.

Link. Listen please Mr Cook.

Link. Sigh. Huemons.

Link. Unexpected! Genuinely new.

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Link. Share a dysregulated immune response?

Link. I hope I give em a headache.

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Link. Voted least likely to be readable in ten years.

Link. Thank you Jerome.

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Link. Mountain Lion is a good improvement.

Link. He’s crackers.

Link. Thanks Nigel!

Link. “Seven years after I came to this country in 2001, I got to shake the hand of the president of the U.S. and got the chance to carry the American flag at the 2008 Olympics. This country gave me an opportunity to represent them in something that billions and billions of people saw.

You can make it in this country if you believe it and do things right. This country belongs to all of us, whether you’re from Africa or Afghanistan. For me, my dream came true.

I think this story belongs to the Lost Boys, but who are no longer the Lost Boys – the lost and found great kids.”

Link. He is making up for past sins. I am grateful.

Link. “the Dick Cheney wing of the Republican Party (some, notably John Bolton, veer well to the right of even that). While not all presidents wind up following their advisers, Romney has placed his byline atop some of his coterie’s most egregious arguments—not least, several op-ed pieces against President Obama’s New START with Russia, pieces that rank as the most ignorant I’ve read in nearly 40 years of following the nuclear debate.”

Link. “Obama catches hell when he raises money from Hollywood movie stars. What would happen if he flew to London or Paris and raised money from European movie stars (who don’t have as much influence as, say, European bankers).”

Romney seems desperate. What does he know that we don’t?

Link. “ince it is the Higgs mass that sets the scale for the masses of all other known elementary particles, one might guess that it should be similar to another mass that plays a fundamental role in physics, the so-called Planck mass, which is the fundamental unit of mass in the theory of gravitation. (It is the mass of hypothetical particles whose gravitational attraction for one another would be as strong as the electric force between two electrons separated by the same distance.) But the Planck mass is about a hundred thousand trillion times larger than the Higgs mass. So, although the Higgs particle is so heavy that a giant particle collider was needed to create it, we still have to ask, why is the Higgs mass so small?”

Guess we won’t be producing the Plank mass particle anytime soon.

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Link. Standards gone bad.

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