Currently on The Flood- Eat More Kale November 28, 2011
- Fliers Still Must Turn Off Devices, but It's Not Clear Why - NYTimes.com November 28, 2011
- Teen Tweeter Won't Apologize To Kansas Gov. : NPR November 28, 2011
- ranked choice blah November 14, 2011
- Tolls thin traffic in Bay Bridge carpool lanes November 7, 2011
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link- How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
It was a stunning failure in vision, and more or less the same thing happened at Flickr. All Yahoo cared about was the database its users had built and tagged. It didnt care about the community that had created it … Continue reading
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What’s HBO Go’s Problem?
HBO claims that (a) people aren’t interested in a la carte HBO Go and (b) the transaction costs are too high to do their own billing, etc. The technical term for these explanations is “bullshit.” via What’s HBO Go’s Problem? … Continue reading
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Conquering The Impossible – ****
Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle by Mike Horn My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really liked this account of Horn’s journey around the Arctic Circle – even though it was really stressful to read. … Continue reading
The Foiled Faux Underwear Bomber: An Ongoing Series – Hit & Run : Reason.com
According to Glenn Carle, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats on the National Intelligence Council, at its height al Qaeda had just about 20 members who could be regarded as officer grade. Indeed, if the latest underwear bomber is … Continue reading
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Steve Kerr on the problems with the age limit in the NBA – Grantland
True story: I once had an extremely young teammate ask me when our Christmas break was. He then became visibly shocked and saddened after learning that we didnt get to go home for a week or so. Another time, a … Continue reading
