Link. “… I noticed that it didn’t list any safety certifications, or even a manufacturer…this sub-millimeter gap is all that’s protecting you and your phone from potentially-lethal 340 volts..”
eBay vendor, but I bet it’s sold on Amazon too.
Tag Archives: s
The iPhone Charger / Computer
Link. Be very wary of cheap alternatives. Also, modern power supplies are computers.
“If you’re interested in power supplies, please take a look at my other articles: tiny, cheap, dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger, where I disassemble a $2.79 iPhone charger and discover that it violates many safety rules; don’t buy one of these. Also take a look at Apple didn’t revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did which examines the history of switching power supplies…”
Conservatives in favor of renouncing citizenship for tax avoidance
Link. Tricky topic for the GOP.
None So Blind
Link. Faith based economics.
Romney and Bain
Link. his job was wealth creation, not poverty alleviation
Macro Policy Disasters: The Manchester Guardian’s Observer Is Super-Shrill
Link. remarkable
Doonesbury on Romney’s haircut
Link. “… do you at least remember the screams?”
Newbies guide to HL7 Committees
Link. Esoteric, but where healthcare is defined
Caballo Blanco’s Last Run
Link. i lived a search like this.
CNBC Blows It On Bowles-Simpson
China is a lot like Russia and Italy
Link. mafia state
teleportation: new record
Link. interesting times
A Reader’s Take on the Booker Gambit
Link. Playing to his rich sponsors.
Finding partly played podcasts: In Our Time
Link. wish this was part iTunes
the end of integration.
Link. resegregated America. echoes of “reconstruction”
Nebula Awards Winners
The Levellers.
Link. “The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he.” Could reuse that name.
Dyer: English triumphs over other languages
Link. network effect
“Ah, For the Ignorance that Is Ignorant of Itself”
Romney was good at excommunications
Today’s Filibuster Reading List, with Practical Suggestions!
The Current Post-Recession Labor Market in Historical Perspective
humans in americas: before Clovis
Rap and private prisons – Stross
Link. “the private prison industry in the United States is a gangrenous moral ulcer rotting away that country’s judicial system”
more floods and droughts
Mark Zuckerberg Ties the Knot
Link. likeable
Peak Fish
Link. all fall down
Who were the crazy genius scientists?
Link. Minds like no other
Navigating AT&T mobile’s web site: a cheat sheet
Link. Getting around the marketing
Alzheimer’s starts in middle age
Link. as expected
Of Bile and Billionaires
Link. Obama is good at managing haters. rickett plays to his strengths.
smoke children
Link. very creepy
WPP and the corruption of Congress
Link. WTF?!!
Tibet
Link. waiting for China collapse 2030
why Spain will leave the euro
Link. Italy next.
Data Only SIM + SkypeIn
social mobility dying
Yang Rui
Link. his daughter studies in the US. Maybe she’s disobedient.
The Real Story of Send
smartphone peripheral wristwatches
Link. interesting
E-ZPass payment explained
Link. good knowledge
LA bicycling
Link. big change from my tenure
How to rename vcs files so iCal can open them
‘Metrosexual Black Abe Lincoln’
Link. ““A nasty race suits Obama just fine. If the independents, especially moderate independents, get so disgusted with the process, the parties and the candidates that they conclude that all are unworthy, they may not vote.”
Musical Meta (Self-Indulgent)
Link. guess arcade for me
No Systemic Issues Here
Link. Break up JP Morgan
Going To Extreme
Link. GOP off the chart
Cameron to Critics: Shut Up
Link. Cameron hysterical?
Why Facebook will go to $30
Link. Maybe it will stabilize at $25 or so. Still overpriced but we’ll see. A lot of my friends have given up on Facebook, and kids are fickle.
This 1999 graph of exponential times is still amazing
Link. I scanned this from the economist in 1999. Still haven’t seen anything quite as remarkable.