February 2011
47 posts
“Old dogs can be cloudy-eyed and grouchy, gray of muzzle, graceless of gait, odd...”
– The last word: Why old dogs are the best dogs - The Week
January 2011
79 posts
“Besides looking at assault patterns, he began studying patterns in the way...”
– Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients : The New Yorker
“Think those ingredients in your TV dinner are scary? Prior to 1966, there was no...”
– 5 Complaints About Modern Life (That Are Statistically B.S.) | Cracked.com
Cops Probe IHOP Melee Caught On Tape | The Smoking... →
Insane video in the story.
“That’s the sort of treatment Windows Phone 7 hackers report receiving from...”
– Microsoft Responds to Jailbreakers With Free Schwag, Not Lawsuits | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
“[Bruce] will be performing on duet with Murphys frontman Ken Casey covering the...”
– Bruce Springsteen Records 1913 Hit With Dropkick Murphys :: Music :: News :: Paste
Americans strongly favor military cuts (Times/CBS... →
mrgan:
seoulbrother on where the budget should be trimmed:
Here’s the thing: When they do make cuts in military spending, the government doesn’t make fewer missiles and bombs, they either freeze or cut pay and benefits for soldiers, sailors and their families. The soldier’s quality of life is unfairly held hostage by the defense budget as a whole.
A story I may have told before:
When I was...
Beer-Dispensing System Will End Ballpark Lines →
It’s all based on magnets — how do they work? — that open up a valve on the underside of the cup when it’s placed on the Bottoms Up beer-dispensing unit. Once the beer (flowing in at a tremendously faster pace than scientists or drunk ballpark patrons ever assumed possible) fills the cup enough, the valves closes and all you have to pop the cup off the stand and off you go, legal drinker.
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Software updates: Windows Phone vs. iPhone →
On the first 3 months of the iPhone versus the first 3 months of Windows Phone:
The sheer pace of improvement and innovation there is stunning in retrospect. And it makes what Microsoft has done in a similar time frame—i.e. absolutely nothing—look even sillier by comparison.
Out of the big 3 platforms, Apple seems to be the only one with software updates figured out.
“No, most people are still convinced that “times have changed” - for...”
– Lenore Skenazy: The reality is, violent crime against children is down, way down - Pasadena Star-News
“In short, Android 2.2 is on hold for Galaxy S phones until the U.S. carriers and...”
– The Samsung Secret - Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1 Still - xda-developers
Exit Interview — Technically Philly →
The exit interviews that Technically Philly is doing to document the problems with Philadelphia’s “brain drain” are a great read.
France is Bacon →
mrgan:
This was voted the best comment on Reddit in 2010. Enjoy it.
The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us |... →
Guys, it’s the future.
But you may still have your doubts. Allow me to put things in perspective. Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have cellphones, pagers are the norm; dial-up modems screech and scream to connect you an internet without Google, Facebook, or YouTube; Dolly has not yet been cloned; the first Playstation is the cutting edge in gaming...
