Now that my household is desktop-free (with his-and-her's laptops), it's difficult to share photos, music, and documents across our wireless network. I previously had Orb running on the desktop, which allowed me to share files as well as use my at-home desktop's TV-card to watch TV anywhere, including [...]
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I ran the text of the GOP's Purity Test as reported in the NYTimes through Wordle to generate a visualization:
It appears that the GOP is supporting opposition of, well, everything. Or something.
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What the hell is going on with the Catholic Church?
I have been seeing a ridiculous amount of Catholic-related news, starting with the local archdiocese announces they are closing my high school. I can remember the following exchange, at North Catholic, junior year, in Father DeMeo's Psychology class, and how it [...]
Nobody is buying, nobody is selling, nobody is reading, and nobody is sending mail. The USPS is a subsidy for business – it ‘costs’ a lot more than $0.43 to send a letter.
The only way to ’save’ the Post Office is to let it run a deficit [...]
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Labor Day by the numbers – Note that all numbers are current as of September 4, 2009. American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins – We're gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of [...]Apparently Obama is like Hitler. Or a communist. Perhaps a socialist. Or a fascist. All of the these ideologies and comparisons have been thrown about. Obama can’t possibly be all of them.
Hitler killed 7 million in the holocaust, excluding civilian and military deaths from the war. Stalin killed three [...]
The Pontiac Aztek goes down in history as one of the worst regarded automotive products ever. The Ford Edsel also shares that notoriety.
It now looks like Honda may be going for a double fail – creating a product no one will like (the [...]
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Scientists Seek Warning Signs for Catastrophic Tipping Points | Wired Science | Wired.com – Tipping points are found in ecosystems, economies and even bodies. But they’re usually recognized in retrospect, when it’s too late for anything but regret.Now a growing body of [...]
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At Last, A Graph That Explains Scifi TV After Star Trek – Chart porn – io9 – The time-travel line is especially interesting, less for what it indicates about the popularity of time travel than for what it says about the variety [...]It appears that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s “hike in the Appalachians” was just the beginning. The anti-gay Lt. Governor – Andre Bauer – that would replace Sanford should he resign has been outed (Blogactive via Gawker), and Sanford’s social conservative, home schooling member of the [...]
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Another Reason Why My Doctor Tells Me The Nation Shouldn’t Read Megan McArdle… « The Inverse Square Blog – This very long post can be summed up thusly – Megan McArdle is a glibertarian hack and should not be taken seriously. Education [...]All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
Money Supply – Where Does New Money Come From? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice – President Obama’s stimulus bill is a reminder of how creative our government can be when injecting cash into our economy. However, many are [...]All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
Mike Enzi, Gang Of Six Republican, Admits He’s Simply Blocking Health Care Reform – Mike Enzi, one of three Republicans ostensibly negotiating health care reform as part of the Senate's "Gang of Six," told a Wyoming town hall crowd that he had [...]All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
New Research Examines How Career Dreams Die – "Most people don't give up easily on the dreams. They have to be given a graphic picture of what failure will look like if they don't make it," said Patrick Carroll, co-author of the [...]Military personnel accused of ‘torture’ often claim they were just ‘following orders’. During the court martials at Nuremberg after World Was II, ‘just following orders’ didn’t cut it (just like “ignorance of the law is no excuse”). Nuremberg focused on the planners of the depravity:
The case as presented by [...]
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AAAS – AAAS News Release – "AAAS Debuts New Voting Research Database to Aid Study and Improvement of Elections" – The ambitious project—the first of its kind in the United States—will permit fast, free access to research focused on a broad range [...]All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
The Curse of Cheap Money | The Big Picture – This is the central enabler of the Housing Bubble. How to Ease Your Transition to Google Voice – Google Voice – Lifehacker – Once you accept an invite, register your number, and [...]A federal law went into effect this month that allows people to adjust student-loan payments based on their income. The program limits monthly payments to 15 percent of the difference between the debtor’s income and [...]
I’m still not personally sold on the concept and format, but for the heavy reader, the Kindle may become more appealing at a lower price point. The Kindle (not the DX) is now $299, a reduction of $60.
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The Meanings Behind the Symbols: Family Crests, Blazons, Coat of Arms, Personalized Crests – Please note that the following descriptions and meanings are gleaned from a variety of sources, some of which disagree on those meanings. The most commonly accepted meanings are [...][Updated: Via ThinkProgress, Max Blumenthal reports this may be an embezzlement pay-for-play scandal similar to that which led to Palin's fellow Alaskan Senator Tubez' defeat and near-conviction.]
Resist the urge to pick the low hanging fruit on Sarah Palin. Her abrupt resignation (transcript here) may be just the beginning:
Fascinating. I was just talking about this idea today (via the Telegraph):
Local politicians believe [Flint, Michigan] must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area.
The radical experiment is the [...]
I can’t tell you how weird it is to see “elderly white supremacist” in print? We’ve now found that he also dabbled in the arts (via BoingBoing). TPM has a very complete bio as well as a collection of his various diatribes from around the internet.
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Lot’s of people linking to this newspaper suicide pact article. Of course, it will fail miserably and will actually result in more of what they are trying to avoid:
Newspapers that are turning to paywall plans today are gambling on a risky revenue [...]
The killing of Saturn by General Motors and the sale of the brand to automotive mogul Roger Penske may be just the salvation Saturn needs. By turning to contract manufacturing by GM, Penske’s Saturn could be freed from GM’s internal [...]
I’d really like to see how the developing torture timeline correlates to the historical political climate (with Bush’s approval ratings, news coverage, and web sentiment as proxies) and the periodic raising and lowering of the threat levels.
Someone should make a chart or [...]
Both Obama and Cheney have spoken. Obama’s transcript is at ThinkProgress; The NYTimes Caucus blog provides a summary and links to the full-text at AEI [PDF].
Most blogs and/or bloggers have an issue, topic, subject, or event that they simply own and dominate. Brendan Skwire has been doing just that with the Inquirer’s disastrous hiring of John Yoo as a columnist. Read all of his posts on Yoo, or his open letter on [...]
The venture industry is in crisis [...]
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.’s appearance at a Michigan county Republican Party event was scrapped this week after the county chairwoman said that hosting the moderate Utah governor would mean abandoning the party’s conservative principles.
Kent County Republican Party Chairwoman Joanne Voorhees abruptly canceled the party fundraiser scheduled for Saturday.
“The voters [...]
It’s official - Chrysler is looking to shed nearly 800 dealers.
The auto dealers have an extremely strong lobbying arm, but mostly at the state level. You can rest assured that if 100 new car dealers (and their promises of campaign contributions) appear before Congress, there will be some [...]
I wonder how many of the various governmental surveys (such as employment) or political surveys are dependent on phones as point of contact, and what, if any adjustments are made for no-landlines-slash-cell-phone only respondents? If some percentage of the entire population is cell phone only, how does that [...]
Yet more news that everyone should have expected by now (Rawstory via Crooks and Liars)[Full report, PDF]:
In all, 98 detainees have died while in US hands. Thirty-four homicides have been identified, with at least eight detainees - and as many as 12 - having been tortured to [...]
I really like the idea of the Kindle, especially for textbooks and newspapers. At the same time, I think Amazon’s presence in the hardware business is not a long-term strategy. Amazon should be in the software business, with a virtual Kindle available on all manner of devices, as [...]
Is Newsweek hoping for a self-fulfilling prophecy by suggesting magazine need to go upmarket? See this article.
Newsweek’s 5-year plan, expected to go live in May, will see it abandon the mass market in favour of a select audience earning an average annual [...]
Churchgoers are more likely to support torture. As Obama said, waterboarding IS torture. Don’t believe me? We executed Japanese soldiers for performing it post World War II , and the Reagan US DOJ prosecuted a sheriff for performing it in the 1980s, resulting in a 10-year sentence [...]
When I think back to September 11th, my thoughts go back to the impact of technology that day. I previously had written that the major news sites were down and cable news was simply repeating what little they knew. I tracked the story by listening to Howard Stern and [...]
I don’t have a snarky headline for this. The swine flu (H1N1) is spreading. You can use this map to track reported outbreaks.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has a fact sheet available. It also appaers that the World Health Organization (WHO) is poised to declare H1N1 [...]
When elections are decided by no more than a couple hundred votes, the tea tantrums of fringe groups suddenly become enough to push a politician to extremes, regardless of the political risks. They simply cannot afford these children to stay home out of spite on election day.
This story best represents the intersection of several seemingly disparate threads that intertwine the last American decade. It appears that an NSA wiretap ensnared Democratic Representative Jane Harman of California discussing a quid pro quo arrangement with a “suspected Israeli agent”.
TalkingPointsMemo summarizes from the source at CQ Politics:
There [...]
Warren Ellis’ ‘GI Joe: Resolute’ webisodes ARE NOT the GI Joe of our youth. They’re much better: in the first 5-minutes, two main characters are killed. Check out Adult Swim for more.
Click here to view the embedded video.Galileo heralded the end of the dark ages with the term "visible certainty". The term celebrates the use of visible evidence to prove that the earth revolved around the sun. Previously The Church had required that all [...]
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