Link. It’s not all bad — just not useful yet.
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The Verizon LTE iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked.
Link. Curious.
Priceonomics: “resale value is the best objective indicator of product quality”
Link. By this measure iPhone is a bargain.
Priceonomics: determine the fair price of things.
Link. Launched Dec 2011. New to me.
Is Apple Refurbished a Good Deal?
Link. Used is 17% less, but refurb is safer and easier.
Benghazi’s drive out extremist militia.
Link. In part, a tribute to Stevens.
Slashdot acquired.
Link. Missed this. Kind of sad.
Verizon LTE for home.
Link. “plans to use LTE as a broadband access technology in an areas where it can’t – or chooses not to “
Coursera doubles number of university.
Link. Extreme speed.
Forget about airplane wifi.
Link. Waiting for new physics.
More on apple map alternatives.
Google Hopes To Have iOS Maps App In The App Store “Before Christmas”.
Link. I figured 2/2013 so this would be good.
Guardian says Google iOS maps coming. One day. Not soon.
Link. Feb 2013 is my guess. Staying on ios 5.
Bike theft – a risk-free crime.
Link. Whatever happened to broken windows policing?
iPhone 5 and water resistance.
Link. “You’d think that the option to protect your new £500 smart phone would be a no-brainer, but waterproofing and drop-proofing only seems to show up on mid-range Android phones like the JCB Toughphone.”
The tribal balance of modern American politics.
Link. “Obama’s edge among undecided independents comes down to … one out of every 1,250 … a small handful who aren’t particularly interested in politics.” Razor’s edge.
iPhone 5 much harder to break in a fall.
Link. Best feature so far. So how does it do with water?
Mountain Lion speech recognition commands, including formatting.
Link. I didn’t know this: “The more you use Dictation, the better it understands you. Dictation learns the characteristics of your voice and adapts to your accent.”
Big money hedging bets.
Link. Koch brothers donating yet?
Redistribution – the central question of political economy.
Link. What is the duty of the strong to the weak?
Mobile YouTube another iOS 6 casualty.
Link. No AirPlay. No parental control. Full screen ugly.
Alternatives to Apple Maps.
Link. Suddenly important. Bing?
Two New Strong Polls For Obama.
Link. Will big money decide to cut their losses while they can?
What has Apple done for me lately?
Link. We grumpy Apple geeks cry over beer.
Premiere. xkcd.
Link. Perspective.
“G.O.P. has been taken over by an Ayn Rand-type vision of society”
Link. Confucian. Defer to your superiors.
Verghese Kurien – India’s milk man.
Link. A difficult man. Obit.
Kocherlakota – federal reserve – changed his mind.
Link. Alive in the frozen mind era. (Krugman also looks at facts.)
Geoengineering: Aborting Hurricaines.
Link. Brave new world.
Arctic ice: Sayonara.
Link. No predictions on secondary effects.
Four Architectural Wonders Of India
Podcasts in iOS 6.
Link. Another reason to wait for 6.1.
Lightning’s DRM.
Link. “Apple is thought to be using a Texas Instruments authorization chip, making it difficult for third party manufacturers to build accessories without paying royalties”
Lyons is right about iOS 6 early reviews.
Link. Gruber fail.
Apple’s iOS 6 Maps App.
Link. “decided to keep my iPhone 4S running iOS 5”. Me too.
iOS 6 review Ritchie.
Link. Best reference review.
OS X 10.7.5 Update has lots of bug fixes.
Link. Apple feels bad about Lion.
Passbook vision.
Link. How can it work if Apple only?
iMessage guide.
Link. A key Apple technology.
Life Expectancy for Less Educated Whites in U.S. Is Shrinking
Link. Philip Morris stock is up.
An illness of science – ADD edition.
Link. Don’t blame the journalists. This is a science problem … “published in respected outlets such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet. The deflating follow-ups, by contrast, languished in more obscure publications.”
Segregation Prominent in Schools.
Link. Charter schools and end of busing/magnet schools.
L3C corporation: low profit.
Dyer dismantles Romney’s honest moment.
Link. The most calm and detailed take down to date. No wonder Pawlenty left Romney.
What Romney doesn’t understand about personal responsibility.
Link. Rich, spoiled, sociopath.
IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggres – actions remain.
Link. Good thing I deprecated Twitter last year.
GOP circular firing squad commences.
Link. Tommy Thompson squeezes off a few. Isn’t it a bit early to give up?
iOS Facebook integration uses idiotic matching algorithm.
Link. This is really dumb: “I’m friends with two other people on Facebook with the same name as me. Looking at my own information in Contacts (on my phone, iPad and laptop) I found that *their* information had been dropped into *my* card.”. via Macintouch.
I really don’t think that should happen!
With 10.8.2, Mountain Lion Saves Even Better.
Link. Wow. Cook’s Apple really is different.
Apple Maps: use report a problem?
Link. Maybe, but Apple has a history of ignoring user input. Why be different this time?