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Hezbollah vs Al Qaeda?
Syrian civil war creating new enemies.
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4 hours ago by jgordon
How wolves adopted humans.
Plausible, we now know was around 32K y ago, probably around time humans became domesticated (group tolerant).
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4 hours ago by jgordon
Flickr price regression.
"$22/year for unlimited uploads and no ads. Now that the free account includes 1 TB of storage, removing the ads for $50/year doesn’t seem like a good deal."
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7 hours ago by jgordon
Windows Server 2012 from a sysadmin perspective.
Not my domain, but interesting to see where MS is now.
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7 hours ago by jgordon
"Rosen essentially burned a US intelligence asset ... in a hostile foreign country, for no clear reason"
The AP leak was a national security problem.
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7 hours ago by jgordon
Bedrock and tornadoes are a bad combination in Oklahoma
"... Bedrock. It's cost-prohibitive to put in a basement ..." ""if you don't have a basement you will not survive a direct strike from this tornado - better to get into your vehicle and try to drive away".
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9 hours ago by jgordon
Tornado adaptation - building differently.
The post-Oklohama analysis will likely focus on building codes and shelter status.
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10 hours ago by jgordon
Special forces translator tortures Afghan to death.
Seventeen disappearances. Obviously American denials are not credible given our past record.
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10 hours ago by jgordon
Schneier reinvents David Brin's transparent society.
Has he never read it?
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11 hours ago by jgordon
Pre-Tornado briefings and school closures.
If short term tornado prediction gets good enough, should we start closing schools? Depends how good the school shelters are.
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11 hours ago by jgordon
How far Tumblr users can trust Yahoo.
"He watched a couple of slides and thanked me ... I asked What about my chief architect role? He told me that was something they told me to get me to do the deal."
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11 hours ago by jgordon
National security and the AP link - why the GOP won't pursue this "scandal".
Whether Obama has above average leak sensitivity or not, the GOP isn't going to pursue this issue.
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11 hours ago by jgordon
Bowling Ball Earth xkcd.
Molten holes.
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13 hours ago by jgordon
SAP to bring in autistic workers as software testers and programmers.
A good thing.
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13 hours ago by jgordon
House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin
Never heard of it, but now we'll have to visit.
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22 hours ago by jgordon
Bacterial phages are likely animal symbiotes supported by mucus production.
Obvious in retrospect. Wish I'd thought of that.
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22 hours ago by jgordon
Krugman has a copy of Neptune's Brood.
Charlie, why does he get a copy and not me? What's so special about the K?
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23 hours ago by jgordon
Apple Operations International - clever legal scam.
Bet Congress won't fix this.
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yesterday by jgordon
The Irish trick cannot last.
Apple's exposure means this infamous loophole may finally close.
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yesterday by jgordon
1TB Flickr, add free for $50/year.
Much cheaper than Picasa web.
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yesterday by jgordon
What privileges do citizens get in the job market? H1B and S.744.
Cringely: "S.744 ... will give a green card to every foreign STEM student receiving a master’s degree ... less than 50 percent of U.S.-born STEM graduates are finding employment in their fields of study"
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yesterday by jgordon
Zombie future now: zoned out Google reps
Yep. Great picture.
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yesterday by jgordon
GOP IRS scandal already collapsing?
"The President ... was giving dog whistle sounds". Right.
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yesterday by jgordon
Yahoo's Tumblr acquisition - entering the porn business?
Wikipedia: "Tumblr is an ideal platform for image porn". I wonder what % of Tumblr traffic is porn related, and whether Yahoo sees that as a positive or negative.
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yesterday by jgordon
Fear of losing Koch money after Gibney documentary inspires PBS pre-apology to Koch brothers.
Piper payer picks pieces.
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yesterday by jgordon
OregonCare: innovations in health.
Our lab, watch Vermont too.
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yesterday by jgordon
Rename Feeds in Feedbin.
The methodical build-out of the Reeder-compatible Google Reader replacement is reassuring.
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yesterday by jgordon
Eleanor Roosevelt's License to Pack Heat
Neat little story.
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yesterday by jgordon
High Plains Aquifer is Gone.
That was fast. Farmers will adapt, some relocate.
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yesterday by jgordon
The monopolists who control the net.
"In 2012, Verizon entered into a joint marketing agreement with the cable companies ... so the former competitors are now firm allies."
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yesterday by jgordon
Karma hotspot: Simple pricing.
$80 for device and 1GB, after than $14/GB no expiration.
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yesterday by jgordon
The State of Instant Messaging.
Best review I have read. Walled gardens. iMessage and Trillian win.
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2 days ago by jgordon
Why 'My Little Pony' Is About to Get Even Creepier.
Ee-yuch. If daughter were a fan I'd get the streaming version.
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2 days ago by jgordon
How to Know When Apple Finally Gets iCloud Right
Foundation.h! Omigod.
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2 days ago by jgordon
Yahoo buys Tumblr - so will they do an RSS reader?
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2 days ago by jgordon
One reason for the high imaginary prices of US hospitals...
Tax writeoffs for charity care. Ahhhhh.
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2 days ago by jgordon
What a stupid idea.
If only.
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2 days ago by jgordon
"Under the genetically modified chestnut hybrid The village cyborg stands"
I just liked that line.
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2 days ago by jgordon
Aperture option click to view projects side by side in single window.
Since 2010. Cmd click puts them into a single window. I've been wanting this for years; I will now scream into a paper bag. Not as nice as multiple windows, but something.
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2 days ago by jgordon
The massive wealth created by containerization.
A truck guy was one of history's greatest inventors.
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2 days ago by jgordon
Stock prices - resorting to another dumb hydraulic analogy.
We need a bigger market; probably 3-4 times bigger.
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2 days ago by jgordon
Stocks are overpriced. So?
Apple is illustrative. Nobody believes 1-3 year stock price swings are rational. So much for efficient market.
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2 days ago by jgordon
Europe's problem is democracy.
The choices ask a lot of voters. Probably too much.
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2 days ago by jgordon
Salmon and the wearable panopticon.
"Kodak fiends". Brin's transparent society and fiction doesn't get enough respect.
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2 days ago by jgordon
BlackRock manages 4 trillion in US investments.
Bigger than Vanguard. Remember when a billion was real money?
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2 days ago by jgordon
Illuminating story on Hong Kong trade it books forbidden on mainland.
Many small gems in this short story. HK has been a tough nut to crack.
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2 days ago by jgordon
Evolution in action: how a microbe digests a novel toxin.
Good enough hacks.
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2 days ago by jgordon
An Apple guy reviews Google IO.
Whither Android? (via clark)
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3 days ago by jgordon
Violence inherent in Hooke’s Law
Superb tutorial. "The purpose of applying torque to a bolt is to use the mechanical advantage of the thread (which is essentially an inclined plane wrapped around in a helix) to stretch the bolt and induce tension in it."
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3 days ago by jgordon
SS inspection of the Gas chambers at Auschwitz on 14-16 May 1943.
A short read. You won't regret it. Don't be chicken.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Kowloon: Hong Kong's walled city.
I saw it before it fell. Great graphic.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Nate Silver says Peggy Noonan is dim.
But we knew that.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Dodd-Frank is not a joke.
No wonder bankers hate it.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Detroit now dumping ground for Koch bros tar sand coke.
Proof that our post-singular Simulation is a comic book for AI gods.
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3 days ago by jgordon
GOP scandal-mania is a Dem's best friend.
America needs a sane conservative movement.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Hollywood boom bust cycle continues.
Superhero crash looms. Could teach us about Wall Street.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Suicidal behaviour as an impulse disorder?
Names are Power in fantasy novels and in our models of disease.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Superb succinct commentary by psychiatrist on DSM nosology.
"Diagnostic nihilism is the only way to treat individual patients, given the modern state of psychiatry."
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3 days ago by jgordon
Pharma turns eccentricity into illness.
Yes, though the evolutionary implications of cognitive variation is more subtle. Human minds run on hacked and buggy wetware.
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3 days ago by jgordon
What the history of obscenity teaches us.
Middle class swears least. "Retarded" is an emerging extreme obscenity.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Human intuition is a bad fit for macroeconomics.
Brains not made to do macro. Same problem with QM.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Five takeaways from the CBO's analysis of Obama's budget.
Worlds away from the idiocracy.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Scorched Earth - if Google can't own the web then it must destroy it.
Corporations do what they must.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Tourists in America's simulated Afghan battleground.
"11th Armored is always the pretend enemy"
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3 days ago by jgordon
Smoke in Nonsmoking Hotel Rooms.
Burnt tobacco residues go everywhere. Great for killing bugs.
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3 days ago by jgordon
The tragicomic state of American college sports.
Quintessentially American snafu. But what can't go on doesn't.
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3 days ago by jgordon
The peculiar enthusiasms Markdown fans.
Reinventing WordPerfect 1990.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Gordon Cooper had the right stuff: manual reentry in failing Mercury capsule.
Those were primitive devices.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Feces and swimming pools.
What role did public pools play in polio outbreaks in 20th cent America?
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3 days ago by jgordon
Formulas for constructing curves that assemble into faces.
Minds on Mathematica wield weird power.
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3 days ago by jgordon
The price of the Manhattan Project
$30 billion in 2013 dollars. Mostly building massive latge scale weapons production facilities.
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3 days ago by jgordon
OpenWorm: the simulation of a roundworm.
Unlikely to succeed, but something like it will one day. A week after that, they get the vote.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Justice for Ranbaxy's CEOs: "shipping the people who did this off to live in a shack somewhere southern Africa, infected with HIV, and having them subsist as best they can on the drugs that Ranbaxy found fit for their sort."
Sounds fair.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Obama Fondly Recalls Frustration Of First Term.
The Onion. Why did he want this job again?
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3 days ago by jgordon
Geeks who love feed readers.
Neat story.
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3 days ago by jgordon
Gupta: another story of rich crooks.
Asyounding that the SEC can get these guys.
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3 days ago by jgordon
iOS quick tip: Turn on spoken notifications
Accessibility feature.
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4 days ago by jgordon
Google: "we’re currently living the singularity, where the tool stops and the mind begins will start becoming blurry."
Singularity.corp
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4 days ago by jgordon
US Politics 2013: The fight is over what government does besides SS, medicare and warfare.
That's a legitimate fight.
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4 days ago by jgordon
"Colorado woman accidentally shoots and kills herself with her new assault rifle"
Maybe wingers should stop hugging their guns.
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4 days ago by jgordon
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