June 2012
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“The New York Times this week reports that President Obama has created an...”
– Please don’t kill me, Obama - National security - Salon.com
“In its current implementation, Apple’s sandboxing breaks some common...”
– Apple’s sandboxing restrictive for some applications | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews
“I missed the mark with HyperCard,” Atkinson lamented. “I grew up in...”
– 25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web | Ars Technica
May 2012
“Did Microsoft intentionally create a versatile platform analogous to the app...”
– How Kinect Spawned a Commercial Ecosystem - NYTimes.com
“Standing in front I thought about how little Sub-mission feels like a club. It...”
– Warm Leatherette Offers Dark, Synthetic Sounds and Lots of Fog - San Francisco Music - All Shook Down
“Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of...”
– Republicans to Spend More Money Than God — Daily Intel
“The tomato, though a fruit to botanists, has been decreed a vegetable by the...”
– The Tomato - Ripe, Juicy and Bursting With Genes - NYTimes.com
“The true gloomsters are scientists who look at climate through the lens of...”
– Climate Armageddon: How the World’s Weather Could Quickly Run Amok [Excerpt]: Scientific American
“the EFF proposes a bill of rights for mobile computer owners that’ll let...”
– The EFF on Apple’s “crystal prison” | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
“There has never been a conclusive DNA test proving that Mitt Romney is not a...”
– Mitt Romney a unicorn? Fighting ‘birthers’ with their own ploy - The Washington Post
“most us think that we see the world continuously throughout the waking day when...”
– The Self Illusion: An Interview With Bruce Hood | Wired Science | Wired.com
“Scientists say something else must be going on in Earth’s depths to account for...”
– Earth’s Core - The Enigma 1,800 Miles Below Us - NYTimes.com
“The authorities couldn’t have more effectively made the Occupy movement look...”
– How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing ‘Terrorists’ - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook | Rick Perlstein | Politics News | Rolling Stone
“I think we’re past the computer age. You can be living in a third-world village...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson
“An advisory to readers who may be driving on this Memorial Day weekend: If, as...”
– John Waters Tries Some Desperate Living on a Cross-Country Hitchhiking Odyssey - NYTimes.com
“By planting nine gas pods onto the rear roof line of his car—a square backed...”
– Leonardo of the Deep -
“Leap Motion unveiled its new gesture control technology earlier this week, along...”
– Leap Motion gesture control technology hands-on — Engadget
“Microsoft’s decision to charge for the more powerful versions of Visual...”
– No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8 | Ars Technica
“The court effectively let stand a jury’s $675,000 damages award against Joel...”
– Supreme Court Passes on File-Sharing Case, but Still No End Is in Sight - NYTimes.com
“A live mongoose, believed to be the first captured on Kaua‘i, was caught in a...”
– Live mongoose captured on Kaua‘i
“Okay. When Jessica sang “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” a few weeks ago, it...”
– American Idol Recap: Take Us Home, Season Eleven — Vulture
“Deer can swim, but not very far. When they showed up for the first time on the...”
– Mystery deer growth pitting hunters against Hawaii
“Wayne Thiebaud once lived down the street from me in the Potrero Hill...”
– Philip’s Garden Blog » Art and The City; Artist’s Depictions of San Francisco I: Wayne Thiebaud
Some of these picture taken on Potrero Hill make me homesick…
Honolulu passes Los Angeles as worst city for... →
“Dividend recapitalization is the most insidious subset of financial engineering...”
– The Bain Of This Campaign, Ctd - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
“Since 1994, about 30 motel customers have been arrested on drug-dealing charges....”
– When government is the looter - The Washington Post
“If you have already got 96 percent of what you want,” Ferguson told Salon, “why...”
– Corporate criminals gone wild - Salon.com
“The Start button was so undiscoverable that, despite having the word Start right...”
– Microsoft opines: Vista was ‘cheesy’; drops Aero | Business Tech - CNET News
“Older adults who say they’ve had a life-changing religious experience are...”
– Being ‘Born-Again’ Linked to More Brain Atrophy: Study
“When Vassilakis did return, he found that police had seized home brewing...”
– G8 summit at Camp David and Nato protests in Chicago – Friday 18 May | World news | guardian.co.uk
Interesting that the UK Guardian has better reporting on US news than US press…
“All three of these guys, interestingly, were in the car about a week ago that...”
– Nato protesters arrested in Chicago raid held on terrorism conspiracy charges | World news | guardian.co.uk
“Facebook’s underwriters had to step in to support the company’s...”
– Facebook Falls Back to IPO Price - WSJ.com
“The French graffiti artist Kidult recently tagged the Marc Jacobs store in SoHo....”
– The Art Of Comeuppance - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
“One number that’s interesting, and easy to remember, was in the year 1953,...”
– A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge
“Until now, researchers have looked only at common mutations as possible...”
– Many Rare Mutations May Underpin Diseases - NYTimes.com
“Being poor itself is not yet a crime, but in at least a third of the states,...”
– The poor: America’s piggy bank - Poverty - Salon.com
“Muybridge could be obsessive — and eccentric, too. His erratic behavior...”
– Eureka! When a Blow to the Head Creates a Sudden Genius - Brian Fung - Health - The Atlantic
“What if the long-term future for 3D bioprinting converged with some of the...”
– 3-D printing’s radical new world - AlterNet - Salon.com
“There’s something about the way that Facebook’s Seamless Sharing is implemented...”
– Can Anything Take Down the Facebook Juggernaut? | Epicenter | Wired.com
“We’re going to put the GPU into the cloud,” Huang said. Kepler is...”
– Nvidia CEO: We’re Bringing GPUs into the Cloud
“In San Francisco, a city of 805,000, there are 108,000 children, according to...”
– In San Francisco, Coyotes in Parks Are a Concern - NYTimes.com
“At JPMorgan, nothing changed. The incentives, the behavior, even the trades...”
– Make Banking Boring - NYTimes.com
“But that is not ordinarily the case in Hawaii, where the typical response to...”
– Hawaii’s Beaches Are in Retreat, and Way of Life May Follow - NYTimes.com
“Imagine this. You and your girlfriend walk into a neighborhood bar, order a...”
– Overexposed? Thanks to SceneTap, San Francisco bars are now profiling you | VentureBeat
“Taking a much bigger-picture view, however, what was really going on here was...”
– Jamie Dimon’s failure | Felix Salmon
“At 4:55 a.m. on Saturday, a rocket is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral,...”
– Contracts Help Private Sector Edge Deeper Into Space - NYTimes.com
“They called it a “test stroll,” which aimed to determine whether it was possible...”
– Russian Writers Demonstrate the Might of a March - NYTimes.com
Well we know that if they had done this in the USA it probably would have ended with one or more of the above…
“Paluska and Meyer Sound, a world-renowned audio engineering company in Berkeley,...”
– High-tech system lets restaurant set noise level