Link. Great examples.
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For the Next Five Years or so, Until the Next Local Minimum, Steve Levitt and Steve Dubner Will Say: “Did You Know That There Is More Ice in the Arctic Ocean than in 2012?”
Link. Levitt is noise.
Pawlenty joins the paragovernment.
Link. Bipartisan my ass.
PA Rep: Lazy 47% Shouldn’t Get to Vote Anyway
Link. I love state reps.
ML: Multi-volume Time Machine.
Link. TM has always supported disk rotation, though until ML it didn’t support disk encryption (important for offsite backup). In ML TM also supports multi-volume rotation simultaneous backup.
VoiceOver in iOS 6.
Link. Apple accessibility work is their best work.
Who benefits from iOS6’s crappy maps?
Link. Keep 3GS on iOS 5, maybe 4 too.
iOS 6 on the iPhone 3GS
Link. Mail slower, maps worse, otherwise ok.
iPhoto for iPad iOS6.
Link. Amazing project.
Immediate publishing.
Link. “We need to accept that no paper is final”
Building bigger dolphin brains.
Link. The uplift gene. ASPM.
The ENCODE publishing project.
Link. Progress, but can do better.
Chomsky as Freud.
Link. Religion, not science.
Another med for early MS.
Link. Not for later disease, but good news.
Jen Rubin. I can see why she starred in the Hitler-Reacts-to-Romney-Video clip.
Link. In http://meemsy.com/v/3721 we’re told even Romney’s staff mocks her.
Say Hello To Harlem’s Hellfighters
Link. I tweeted about them three days ago. Weird.
Highest tax obligation is 2%.
Link. Yeah, me.
American tax code exceptionally progressive.
Link. Surprised me.
“What if Google doesn’t ever release a Google Maps app, to paint iOS as the platform with crappy maps?”
Link. Don’t upgrade until we hear from Google.
Hands on With iOS 6: Installation
Personal Picosatellites.
Link. Arduino + mobile = ambitious school project.
Password cracking protection – the xkcd and schneier schemes.
Link. Schneier 2008 is wrong. Passwords are broken.
iOS 6 Map.app sucks.
Link. One reason why I’ll delay iOS 6 installation for a few more months.
Verizon better for international travel? (Macintouch)
Link. “Verizon will unlock your iPhone 5 after 60 days for overseas use with cheap local SIM cards, whereas AT&T’s policy is never to unlock until your contract is finished … the LTE chip in the Verizon iPhone 5 supports 5 frequency bands, 3 of which are used by several overseas carriers, so if you choose your overseas partner carefully, you could do LTE overseas, whereas the AT&T iPhone 5’s LTE chip supports only on 2 frequency bands that are pretty much USA-only.”
Time Machine restore does delete before restore.
Link. Deep Sigh. Macintouch: “the kid who programmed Time Machine created the steps in the order that when you click the “do not save the current material” (or whatever the wording is) button, it deletes those files instantly, before restoring the archived ones … when the archived ones are not restored, as they weren’t in my case, you have NOTHING there.”
GraphicConverter 8.3 works with Aperture / iPhoto Libraries. (Macintouch)
Link. I’ll check it out. Haven’t used it for a very long time.
BC has a carbon tax.
Link. Promising results. There are other nations/provinces with a carbon tax.
DeLong dissects the state of the CEO candidate.
Link. Would be funny if he didn’t have a good chance of winning.
Innovation policy on a napkin: patents and innovation.
Link. Not only cause of innovation deficit, but a big contributor.
Obama’s Way.
Link. Vanity Fair. Read.
Obama: “the world thinks he spends a lot more time worrying about political angles than he actually does”
China worries.
Link. Japan has one ally.
Click and Drag
Link. Must view on a desktop browser. xkcd.
Debut of iOS6 and I realize iOS5 fixed my main iPhone complaint.
Link. Since last October we’ve been able to assign calendar colors.
Downside of a shared family iTunes Library.
Link. Kids are deleting playlists on iPhones – including each other’s playlists.
PIN number analysis.
Link. If you use 8068 change it now!
Where are the refutations of Bostrom’s Doomsday Argument?
Link. I’m sure there’s an error, but surprised it’s not more settled. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Indication_Assumption.
Nick Bostrom on the unfortunate attributes of a sentient AI.
Link. “The instrumental convergence thesis suggests that we cannot blithely assume that a superintelligence with the final goal of calculating the decimals of pi … would limit its activities in such a way as to not materially infringe on human interests.” Common Science Fiction meme. Would explain the Great Silence.
Richard Feynman — lessons from Connection Machine.
Link. From 2008, excerpts from a longer essay.
Retina screens have image retention problems.
XMRV de-discovery.
Link. “Mikovits fully endorsed the conclusion.”
Unexpected news from NK.
Link. A trend?
Six Incredible Yet Unknown Destinations Across The Globe
Link. superb.
The Evolution Of Europe.
Link. Insane volatility. Compare China.
Carroll’s arrow of time slides.
Link. Birthing baby universes increases entropy of the motherverse.
Matalin – the human guinea worms.
Link. We’re close to exterminating the guinea worm. I wonder where the GOP is going with this parasite meme.
The Evolution Of China’s Borders over 3000 years.
Link. The empire that usually grows.
Wishful thinking of the century award.
Link. “Middle age begins at 55 years, survey suggests”. Sorry, I just spit up my Ensure.
Isn’t autonomous flight an easier problem than autonomous driving?
Link. No bicycles, no pets, no pedestrians.
Romney’s premature tweet explained.
Link. Romney “… seems to be saying that if a major international crisis erupted he’d do what he could to turn it to political advantage.”