Link. New idea for me, and persuasive.
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Theories on the origin of information processing tools with self-replication abilities.
Link. Aka life.
John McCain’s Mitt Romney Bain File
Link. interesting.
Romney tax evasion amnesty?
Link. Explains a lot.
Bachman now GOP punching bag.
A journalist who gets too close to her sources?
Link. Great response. Funny.
The Endless Summer: climate.
Link. Citizen and GOP failure.
Shared Mobile Data Plans are good for carriers.
Link. Duopoly makes price fixing possible.
Script to delete huge sparsebundle images
Link. Flaw in fundamental OS X.
Apple releases fix for increased power consumption in new MBP and MBA.
Link. New Macs always have something like this.
McCain rips Bachman’s sliminess.
Link. Unexpected and powerful.
Franken’s torture smackdown.
Link. My senator is the best in the senate.
Climate engineering: early success.
Link. Up soon: climate wars.
The “Natural” Ride of a BionX-Powered Bike.
Link. An electric bike/trike is in my future.
→ What is the future of the iPhone 3GS?
Bridge to Nowhere
Cueva Ventana
Pioneer Anomaly: it was the heat, after all.
Link. As long expected, but many thanks to the volunteer team of crazed enthusiast physicists who did the work.
IHT Rendezvous: Chinese Lining Up in Record Numbers to Visit the U.S.
Link. Great news.
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Fighting Hatred And Proper Nutrition
Link. Chick-Fil-A boycott.
Sprint FaceTime on mobile.
Link. No extra fee. Maybe I should switch.
AT&T shared data plan pricing – the power of duopoly.
Link. Price increase – coordinated with Verizon. All legal I’m sure.
AnandTech.com – The 2012 MacBook Air.
Link. SSD and display panel manufacturers vary – and so do results.
Prosperity theology.
Link. Is this what Romney believes? “Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel or the health and wealth gospel)[A] is a Christian religious doctrine which claims the Bible teaches that financial blessing is the will of God for Christians. The doctrine teaches that faith, positive speech, and donations to Christian ministries will always increase one’s material wealth.”
Mormonism and prosperity theology. Harpers 2011.
Link. Explains why we should reduce taxes on the rich.
Canadians have long been richer than Americans.
Link. America has a LOT of poverty; extreme wealthy doesn’t make up the difference. Maybe we should think things over.
Atomtronics: alternatives to electronics
Link. “… cold atoms can carry information but also have a range of other exotic properties, such as superfluidity, superconductivity and quantum coherence.” More than one way to build a computing device.
The Syrian civil war: how a regime survives.
Link. Sri Lanka’s hellish lessons.
Was Romney in an amnesty program for his Swiss bank account?
Link. Would explain why he won’t reveal.
Romney’s tax – the theories
Link. “Mitt doesn’t want the Republican base to see that he and his wife made big donations to Planned Parenthood! He doesn’t want to reveal that he accepted an IRS amnesty for his Swiss bank account! Worst of all, he doesn’t want the American public to know that he paid no taxes in 2009!”
Thirty Troubling Years for Americans.
Link. We’ve gone a long way down a bad road.
Writing Styles
Link. Who has a keyboard and who doesn’t.
ICIJ study on tissue traffic profit.
Link. ICIJ is a heroic enterprise.
Rethinking organ and tissue donation: the profit industry.
Link. NPR was part of this investigation. We need an urgent rethink.
Unemployment rate about 2% higher if include prisoners?
Link. US imprisons more than any other country – makes our employment seem better than it is.
Why Some Physicists Bet Against the Higgs Boson (and lost).
Google World Wonders Project
Google World Wonders Project
Link. They don’t have all the antarctic imagery added yet.
America: the prison nation.
Link. Makes China look good.
Roger loves Chaz.
Link. Yes he does.
Gruber: Will Yahoo/Mayer ally with Apple?
Link. They need to choose a mobile platform, and Microsoft isn’t a contender. That means Google or Apple.
Did Mitt Romney pay any federal taxes at all in 2009?
Google Street View Now Lets You Walk Around Antarctica.
Link. Goosebumps. No sh*t.
Egypt conspiracy: US is Islamist.
Link. The GOP agrees. Obama=Osama.
McCain: Sarah Palin was a better candidate than Mitt Romney.
Link. Maybe he still thinks that.
Declining UK Inflation.
Link. The micro puzzle is why bankers aren’t betting on Krugman’s predictions. Why is the million dollar bill left on the ground?
HSBC: how rotten are we?
Link. Think old house with termites and bad gutters.
Nominally Legal.
Link. Wages are way sticky.
Cousera rising.
Link. A revolution in slow motion.