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Defending Lightning.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. It’s not all bad — just not useful yet.

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The Verizon LTE iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Curious.

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Priceonomics: “resale value is the best objective indicator of product quality”

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. By this measure iPhone is a bargain.

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Priceonomics: determine the fair price of things.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Launched Dec 2011. New to me.

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Is Apple Refurbished a Good Deal?

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Used is 17% less, but refurb is safer and easier.

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Benghazi’s drive out extremist militia.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. In part, a tribute to Stevens.

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Slashdot acquired.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Missed this. Kind of sad.

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Verizon LTE for home.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. “plans to use LTE as a broadband access technology in an areas where it can’t – or chooses not to “

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Coursera doubles number of university.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Extreme speed.

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Forget about airplane wifi.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Waiting for new physics.

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More on apple map alternatives.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link.

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Google Hopes To Have iOS Maps App In The App Store “Before Christmas”.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. I figured 2/2013 so this would be good.

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Guardian says Google iOS maps coming. One day. Not soon.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Feb 2013 is my guess. Staying on ios 5.

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Bike theft – a risk-free crime.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Whatever happened to broken windows policing?

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iPhone 5 and water resistance.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

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.”

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The tribal balance of modern American politics.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

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.

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iPhone 5 much harder to break in a fall.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Best feature so far. So how does it do with water?

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Mountain Lion speech recognition commands, including formatting.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

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.”

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Big money hedging bets.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Koch brothers donating yet?

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Redistribution – the central question of political economy.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. What is the duty of the strong to the weak?

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Mobile YouTube another iOS 6 casualty.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. No AirPlay. No parental control. Full screen ugly.

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Alternatives to Apple Maps.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Suddenly important. Bing?

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Two New Strong Polls For Obama.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Will big money decide to cut their losses while they can?

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What has Apple done for me lately?

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. We grumpy Apple geeks cry over beer.

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Premiere. xkcd.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Perspective.

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“G.O.P. has been taken over by an Ayn Rand-type vision of society”

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Confucian. Defer to your superiors.

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Verghese Kurien – India’s milk man.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. A difficult man. Obit.

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Kocherlakota – federal reserve – changed his mind.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Alive in the frozen mind era. (Krugman also looks at facts.)

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Geoengineering: Aborting Hurricaines.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Brave new world.

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Arctic ice: Sayonara.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. No predictions on secondary effects.

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Four Architectural Wonders Of India

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link.

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Podcasts in iOS 6.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Another reason to wait for 6.1.

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Lightning’s DRM.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

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”

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Lyons is right about iOS 6 early reviews.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Gruber fail.

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Apple’s iOS 6 Maps App.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. “decided to keep my iPhone 4S running iOS 5”. Me too.

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iOS 6 review Ritchie.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Best reference review.

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OS X 10.7.5 Update has lots of bug fixes.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Apple feels bad about Lion.

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Passbook vision.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. How can it work if Apple only?

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iMessage guide.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. A key Apple technology.

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Life Expectancy for Less Educated Whites in U.S. Is Shrinking

Posted on September 21, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Philip Morris stock is up.

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An illness of science – ADD edition.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jgordon

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.”

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Segregation Prominent in Schools.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Charter schools and end of busing/magnet schools.

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L3C corporation: low profit.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jgordon

Link.

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Dyer dismantles Romney’s honest moment.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jgordon

Link. The most calm and detailed take down to date. No wonder Pawlenty left Romney.

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What Romney doesn’t understand about personal responsibility.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Rich, spoiled, sociopath.

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IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggres – actions remain.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Good thing I deprecated Twitter last year.

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GOP circular firing squad commences.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Tommy Thompson squeezes off a few. Isn’t it a bit early to give up?

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iOS Facebook integration uses idiotic matching algorithm.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jgordon

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!

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With 10.8.2, Mountain Lion Saves Even Better.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Wow. Cook’s Apple really is different.

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Apple Maps: use report a problem?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by jgordon

Link. Maybe, but Apple has a history of ignoring user input. Why be different this time?

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