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“It’s not that cyclists have no regard for traffic laws, it’s that traffic laws have no regard for cyclists.”

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Perfect. Via Twitter.

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Late Night EQ for iPhone speaker music.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Forgot that setting.

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“iPhone often gets confused when I try to resume audio playback”

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Worse lately I think.

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HyperCard on the Internet Archive.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Justice.

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Rome still rules the map.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. A vast 3rd cent map in marble.

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Brain Wave 1954: elite speak terse.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. 140 char non-elite.

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Axis of CO2 Evil. Profit vs Reason.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Seems hopeless, but remember tobacco.

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Mastery based learning. Again.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. My 1960s reading class was this. Steve Yelon taught better version at MSU in 90s.

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Trump considers a carbon subsidy.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Occam’s razor says I’m raving mad and this is all psychotic delusion.

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South Korea considers first robot tax equivalent.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. International Federation of Robots opposed. (ok, robotics)

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Defending Indiana Jones, Archaeologist.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. “active death traps in Jones’ universe are a common concern for archaeologists”

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The case for and against resurrecting the Democrats.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Profit is stronger than love.

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“how to crack Wi-Fi networks that are secured using weak passwords”

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Your friends don’t wznt yo know.

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Subscription software: why Office works and Lightroom doesn’t.

Posted on August 11, 2017 by jgordon

Office: Cheap. TB storage. Easy exit.
Lightroom: Adobe owns your ovaries.

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DNA malware. Of course.

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Information must be free.

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NK Ruler: “Mr. Jang had as many as 20 children and that Mr. Kim had them all killed.”

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Their sociopath is nastier than our sociopath.

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Vocational training – abandoning “college for all”

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. College for all was really bad idea.

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Porcine organs without retroviruses.

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Step closer.

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“Facebook is using a VPN app that is supposed to protect users’ privacy to violate their privacy by analyzing which apps they use.”

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Wrist slap coming? Probably not.

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Alabama, Trump “approval rating is at 85 percent among likely primary voters”

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Do not go near Alabama. It is insane.

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Make Twitter.app use Safari Reader Mode in iOS

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Yes! Love reader mode.

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Ulysses goes subscription only.

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Damned well better have superb exit options.

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Microsoft Surface is junk.

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Who did manufacturing?!

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“Germany is unlikely to respond to a presidential tirade with an attack on Guam”

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Feeble attempts to discern logic in Trump eruptions.

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Dem party turns to white men: “those who stayed home in 2016, namely black voters”

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. And white women went to Trump.

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House Science Chair Lamar Smith has alt-right pseudoscience disease.

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. My Soviet Atlantis book is similarly scholarly.

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Throw out TCP: “use wifi in a mode, called “infrastructure mode,” which literally simulates a giant star topology”

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. He worked on arcnet!

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Google Keep: still around, getting better.

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Google has burned too many products like this.

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Google Classroom. Crushing Apple.

Posted on August 10, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Did Cook not care?

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CrossFit 58

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Another birthday.

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“on a rainy day, big orange googly arms will come out of that thing,”

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Freaky fungi and giant dogs vomit amoebae

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They collide: “100 million black holes in our galaxy alone”

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Simulations fit LIGO results.

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Shocker: Increasing rewards reduces involuntary flight bumps.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Credit to Delta for leading on this.

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Google OpenRefine: tool for cleansing large data sets with dirty data.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Fix up those SSN.

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“I’ve found that I don’t use the Touch Bar much.”

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Nobody loves it.

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Winners and Losers of the Recent Nuclear Holocaust.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Winner: Rupert Murdoch.

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Gliding “mammals” 100my before bats.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Not winged.

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Fake news on Apple news.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Google better at this.

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In Praise of Ulysses.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Could it replace Simplenote?

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MRSA evolved due to heavy penicillin use.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Older than once thought.

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Sabine Hossenfelder goes there.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. As only a physicist who is female dares. Perhaps unwisely.

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China again eludes economic disaster.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. I know nothing.

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Intense long duration exercise and weight loss.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Hah! I was asking for this study 3 days ago!

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Stop mocking Trump’s vacations.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. He listens and responds. Irrationally. I’m serious.

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Kolmogorov, Galileo and “the psychology of unspeakable truths”

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Truth is the wrong word.

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The argument against AI driven mass disability.

Posted on August 9, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Automation augments as well as displaces.

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Editorial & company: ios writing apps

Posted on August 8, 2017 by jgordon

Link. I like these personsl stories.

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Lucene scales … to Internet archive phrase search.

Posted on August 8, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Kind of awesome.

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Pence doom. “Maybe the howling is cathartic. Won’t change a thing.”

Posted on August 8, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Agony well deserved.

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Fundamentalism allied to Koch inustries on CO2: “whatever happens in God’s creation happens with His blessing”

Posted on August 8, 2017 by jgordon

Link. Reason routed.

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