Link. “Duverger’s Law … the surest way to get a two-party system within a nation was to adopt “first-past-the-post” plurality voting with single-member districts.”

Link. See what the cool geeks are using. Netbot, Wedge, Felix, quickApp, Rivr, IFTTT. Yeah, I’m late to #appnetizens.

Link. The Facebook bubble deflating.

Link. Not pretty, but exposes a lot of the APIs and test features. @teawithcarl using it.

Link. Turns out GOP doesn’t care so much about taxes after all. Shocked we are.

Link. Education is already transforming, “Analytics” is the current public face of medical AI.

Link. I missed out on this. Google Drive is getting more interesting.

Link. We have many pre-lightning iPods and iPhones. They will live out as kid-radio room stereos. So we’re checking out falling prices on iPod clock radios …

Link. Tesla, Tyson and ?Shoenice?

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Link. Mostly new to me. Nice review.

Link. Planning for my Nov ML update. Looks like base ScanSnap is supported, but the companion apps are toast. The ScanSnap site has pages for ML downloads.

Link. A Bogle-style move. Good.

Link. Jobs liked sports cars.

Link. “App.net is potentially an important development. If it can become the de facto stream for microblogging, then App.net combined with RSS – the syndication format supported by almost all publishers nowadays – may become the standard for streams” #RSS

Link. “Construction and simulation of highly non-linear dynamics in systems of multiple equilibria”

Link. Easy to automate, easy to globalize.

Link. The real problem is not the technology, it’s the 15yo E&M accounting rules. Blame the AMA for those.

Link. Old QM interpretation long depecated, now retired.

Link. Better than nothing.

Link. Weirdly, I was just reading about e lethargica. Not true there are no explanations.

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Link. Insane pay gap.

Link. Tension between donation to the public bank, and saving with private ($) banks for uncertain future personal use.

“Umbilical cord blood stem cell transplants are used to treat a variety of oncologic, genetic, hematologic, and immunodeficiency disorders …. a lower incidence of graft-versus-host disease in transplant recipients, and it can be made available more quickly than bone marrow or peripheral stem cells .. can be transplanted to a recipient with only a partial human leukocyte antigen match … can be collected relatively simply without risk to mother or baby.”

Link. Foxconn punishes scratches.

Link. YES! Nordic skiing not quite dead yet. Each year getting precious.

Link. Time to transition to SHA-2/SHA-3.

Link. Limited appeal.

Link. Romney’s greatest opponent is the GOP.

Link. Not counting RSS – where I read it.

Link. xkcd rules the net. Next, a web service.

Link. Superb analysis. “Radically curtailing itemized deductions, Increasing taxes on families with children by eliminating exemptions, Eliminating incentives for education, Making it harder to save for retirement, Taxing on health benefits, or Shifting a significant version of the tax burden to higher-income taxpayers. “

Link. Shocked. Not. “The Republican Party … paid Mr. Sproul about $3 million this year for work in five states..”

“Since 2004, Mr. Sproul’s companies … have collected more than $17.6 million from Republican committees, candidates and the “super PAC” American Crossroads, mostly for voter registration operations, according to campaign finance records.”

Link. Did he dissent from the Romney pivot?

Link. He said it did. He pivoted so quickly his team was left behind. Guess whoever wins Obamacare is here to stay.

Link. “Somewhere out there in the galaxy there might just be other organisms connected to us through the massive stars that forged our common mix of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and everything else – the ultimate stellar gene-pool.”

Link. AirVideo on iOS and OS X routes unsupported video streams from desktop stream to iPad to AirPlay to Apple TV.

Link. My employer has seen these, and also sync/push issues. ActiveSync is an essential monster. (Microsoft specializes in those.)

Link. Rise and faaaaalllllll.

Link. Rely on health insurance from other sources. I suspect these are common in Canada.

Link. Cache.

Link. Obama’s squeeze may be working.

Link. iCloud, iTunes, PhoneView.

Link. Despite thousands of hours of use, there are a lot of things I didn’t know about.

Link. “Printer cartridges were once responsible for over 90 percent of H.P.’s profits”

Link. Huh?! This has been a big problem for years. Funny to have it delivered like this.

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