June 2010
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The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut →
jstn:
Salander opened the door a crack and spent several paragraphs trying to decide whether to let Blomkvist in. Many italic thoughts flew through her mind. Go away. Perhaps. So what. Etc.
@rachsyme
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“[O]ne of the main things we’ve found about the 1 billion plus Nokia devices that...”
– Nokia Lets You Hold Devices “Any Way You Like”
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WatchI’m listening to this Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti album (Before Today) over and over and over. Stream it courtesy of the LA Times.
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“‘For example, we found that an HTC Tilt’s total power consumption...”
– How Wi-Fi Drains Your Cell Phone
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"Oh Sookie" by Snoop Dogg →
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“When Jake and Elwood Blues, the protagonists in John Landis’ cult classic “The...”
– Vatican endorses ‘The Blues Brothers’ on the 30th anniversary of the film’s release
[T]he Vatican’s official newspaper, called the film a “Catholic classic” and said it should be recommended viewing for Catholics everywhere.
(via anyclip)
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Watch“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me eight times, am I a fucking idiot? … The last eight presidents have gone on television and promised to move us toward an energy independent future.” -Jon Stewart
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Is the BP Gusher Unstoppable? →
From a comment on The Oil Drum:
Contrary to what most of us would think as logical to stop the oil mess, actually opening up the gushing well and making it gush more became direction BP took after confirming that there was a leak. In fact if you note their actions, that should become clear. They have shifted from stopping or restricting the gusher to opening it up and catching it. This only makes...
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“We had trouble clearing the cha-chunk from ‘Law & Order.’ I had...”
– Chuck Lorre of “Two and a Half Men” on the difficulty of licensing music, quoted in Coldplay apologizes for snub, gives ‘Glee’ entire catalog
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Xbox 360 Gets Live Sports In HD From ESPN →
3,500 events in HD for $50 per year. Huge news.
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Aaron's Life: Why don't New Yorkers Bike to Work? →
It’s a beautiful day with no humidity and it took me 5 minutes to go the twenty blocks to my office. Later, I will bike 3 minutes to a midtown meeting, and 7 minutes home. It’s so easy, I’m literally stunned how few people do it.
Here are, in no particular order, the reasons people list for…
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“They have about a month before they declare Chapter 11. They’re going to...”
– Matthew Simmons: BP Has About One Month Before It Has To Declare Chapter 11
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23andMe Sends Wrong DNA Test Results To 96... →
It’s hard to overstate how disturbing receiving the wrong DNA results can be. One customer, writing on 23andMe’s community forums after receiving the results, recounted her experience in a post titled “Results in, my son is not my son?“. Here’s an excerpt:
I checked my son’s and it stated that he was a carrier for hemochromatosis, I was upset. How could he be a carrier and we weren’t. Well my...
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Fed's Bernanke doesn't see double-dip recession →
crazynutjob:
Given that he didn’t see the first recession, is this good news or bad news?
Ok, I had nothing to write about today. G.19 showed total consumer credit expansion, but revolving credit contracted at a rapid clip.
Comments like this from Bernanke are completely meaningless. I don’t know exactly where the line is but there comes a certain level of public power where you just...
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WWDC Keynote and iPhone 4
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I was really surprised that Steve Jobs did not announce more cloud capabilities for Apple during his WWDC keynote. It had been rumored that MobileMe might become free and Apple has been investing heavily in data centers. I believe that this is critical for Apple if they want to maintain their currently super impressive position. The iPhone 4 is cool and has some neat...
John Wooden, UCLA basketball coach who won 10... →
RIP (and not to be confused with Richard “Duke” Llewellyn, founder of the John R. Wooden award, who also died today.)
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“I’m told that the finale of “Lost” had the third highest ad rates of this...”
– Megan Mcardle, “There is No Such Thing As a Mass Culture Anymore”
It should be noted there were also 70 million fewer Americans in 1983 when the MASH finale aired.
In other words, 4% of Americans watched the Lost finale; 45% percent watched MASH.
(via jewpiter)
Perspective.
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Jeff Jarvis: How NOT To Save the News Business →
If the FTC wants to reinvent journalism, perhaps it should align with news’ disruptors. But there’s none of that in this report. The word blog is used but once in 35 pages of text—and then only in a parenthetical mention of soccer blogs. Discussion of investing in technology comes on the last page in a suggestion about tools for “improved electronic note-taking.”
I...
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