Link. worth remembering. imagine the ones they missed
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German Adjustment
Link. Germany is “demanding that Spain and others do what they never did, which is deflate their way to competitiveness.”
Existence (Excerpt) by David Brin
Link. I’m in.
S14G-humanin improves cognitive deficits and reduces amyloid pathology in the middle-aged APPswe/PS1dE9 mice.
Link. prevention perhaps.
Ceph: exabyte storage
Link. I heard the strata talk. I was impressed.
genetic frontotemporal dementia
Link. dominant gene. onset middle-age. new science.
Apple extends MobileMe subscribers’ free 20GB of iCloud storage until September
Link. is apple going to keep MobileMe open until September?
Junior Seau Is Dead Cont.
Link. free will is a white lie
Daniel Kuehn Is Frightened by Modern Libertarians…
Link. vote him off the island.
A Battle With the Brewers
Link. “one in four babies are born with fetal alcohol syndrome”.
A natural history – ebert
Link. deceptive
language and sentience
Medicaid costs are growing … slowly?
Link. Ryan: let them eat cake
CGC – getting to plan B
Link. PRC wants Chen in US
The death of genre – stross
Link. all genre. not just sci fiction. brilliant.
Bear on science fiction
Link. “But look at Terry Pratchett. (I know, we should all be Terry Pratchett. But then what would he read?) He manages to be incisive without being pretentious. He manages to be sharp and illuminating by being funny”
Obama’s Wonderful Town
The Incredulity of macroeconomics
Link. “the closed-loop nature of macro” is hard for us to grasp. it is where economics becomes hydraulics.
A Glimpse at the Divisions Within China Over the Chen Guangcheng Case
Link. unpredictable
Dyer responds to bin Laden’s gift
Link. desperate
International Conference on Climate Change | Our Billboards
Link. tobacco admen have not lost their touch
The Dream of the Dirigible
Link. Dead?
AT&T CEO bemoans iPhone unlimited data, iMessage
Link. die AT&T die
iMessage was a secret from carriers
Link. I’d wondered how Apple did it. Nice stab Steve Jobs.
Google may face massive fine from FTC for bypassing Safari privacy controls
Link. once chance.
The Spellbinding Antennae Galaxies
Link. bad neighborhood
Merck Veterinary Manual – online (free)
Link. It’s a bit dated, but it’s a free online reference aimed at vets.
Find My iPhone won’t support older models?
Link. Looks like older iPhones will lose Find My iPhone support. Would include any 3G devices.
MobileMe: About moving to iCloud
Link. Ugly.
The neutrino arbitrage
Link. mind boggling. not, I think, a joke.
Contribute Photos from May 15th to Aday.org
Health care progress and IT: not so much
Link. It is important to ask why – and to test assumptions.
Walmart cuts iPhone 4S $74
Link. I didn’t think Apple allowed that.
Jobs report is “petrifying” (Salmon)
Link. We crashed in 1999 and we’re still crashed. Allowing for female labor force participation we’re in new territory.
This is a recipe for right wing extremism.
Zagster – Zipcar for bikes
Link. bikes are popular
AT&T’s blame game: We didn’t raise prices; the FCC did
Link. “no one forced AT&T to raise prices. AT&T just raised prices because it wanted to”
State Bonds Backed by Tobacco Payments in Jeopardy of Default – NYTimes.com
Link. china never agreed to the settlements
Now Europe wants you to prove how old you are online
A Reminder That It Will Be a While Before We Fully Understand the Chen Case
Link. Chen
Chen – something to remember …
Link. “After years of living in semi-solitary confinement, his fears appeared to have been magnified in the unfamiliar environment. He was also upset that his dinner was not delivered by 9 p.m. Wednesday, telling a friend that “retaliation” had begun.” Bad all around.
Google Groups Redesign
Link. I’m surprised they’re keeping it. I’ll take a look.
What Would the End of Football Look Like?
Link. Like the end of boxing.
MobileMe to iCloud – Is Apple getting nervous?
Link. An unhappy transition all around.
The Measure of Things
Link. We are almost half-way between neutrino and visible universe. There’s a lot of emptiness between the planck length and the neutrino.
Getting happy: 8 practical tips
Link. The most practical and persuasive list I’ve yet seen:
1. Buy experiences instead of things
2. Help others instead of yourself
3. Buy many small pleasures instead of few big ones
4. Buy less insurance
5. Pay now and consume later
6. Think about what you’re not thinking about
7. Beware of comparison shopping
8. Follow the herd instead of your head
I’ve pasted the text into my SimpleNote app so I have it at hand.
How to save $705 billion in health costs: Be like the Netherlands
Link. ACA resembles Dutch.
The Greatest Speeches In Modern History
Link. MLK ad libbed those famous lines. Harvey Milk – Hope.
Why our models missed the financial crisis
Link. Finance is an end in itself now, not a means to an end. Hell of a crash.
NFL suicides – no surprise any more
Taxing capital
Link. “The old models, they point out, ignore inheritances.” Romney, famously, advised borrowing from parents