January 2011
37 posts
Tin Isles : Should you trust lastpass.com? →
I’ve always been nervous about the prospect of trusting my entire online life to lastpass; apparently it is safe. Maybe I will give it a try
“Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies....”
– Francis Ford Coppola: Maybe the Downloaders Are Right
Muller — News & Blog » The Coenfographic →
dizzingly comprehensive infographic charting the most prevalent actors in Coen Brothers movies
“For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide...”
– Congress.org - News : More troops lost to suicide
“‘The dirty little secret,’ a former AOL executive says, ‘is...”
– 60% of AOL’s Profits Come From Misinformed Customers - Slashdot
philebrity.com » Creating Bicycle Infrastructure... →
A case study from the Political Economy Research Institute, “Estimating The Employment Impacts Of Pedestrian, Bicycle, and Road Infrastructure,” examines job data from 2008 in Baltimore, and proves that there are 11 to 14 jobs per million dollars of spending on bike and pedestrian projects, compared to the 7 jobs created through spending on road infrastructure.
Exclusive: Duke Nukem Forever Has A Release Date,... →
a short 13 years after being announced, Duke Nukem Forever has a release date!
“I’ll go further and say that the repeated compulsion to resolve and resolve and...”
– Merlin Mann on New Year’s resolutions (via marco)
WatchLyndon Johnson orders pants. This is funnier than you’d think
Put This On: LBJ Buys Pants
Daring Fireball Linked List: App Store 10 Billion... →
John Gruber gives us a perfect illustration of why Android does not have iOS’s appeal outside of geeks and early adopters
“It’s not often you get to call an airline classy—or really anything other...”
– Pilot Stops Plane for Family of Murdered Child
Amazon.com: The Penguin Classics Library Complete... →
great item for book lovers. a $13,000, 750lb pallet of classics!
Who's Afraid of the Verizon iPhone? →
marco:
The iPhone is going to gain a lot of U.S. marketshare by being on Verizon, and it’s going to come significantly at Android’s expense. (BlackBerry will lose some of their Verizon customers to iPhone, too, but I bet Android will lose proportionally much more.)
One effect I expect to start immediately: developers of popular iPhone apps are going to feel a lot less pressure to write Android...
“It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman’s act directly to...”
– The New York Times (via marco)
Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be... →
That’s what makes Twitter’s move so important. It briefly carried the torch for its users during that crucial period when, because of the gag order, its users couldn’t carry it themselves. The company’s action in asking for the gag order to be overturned sets a new precedent that we can only hope that other companies begin to follow
Watchthis song isn’t the best in the world, but it’s got a pretty well done video
Sweet Lights - A Hundred Needle Pins (by Sweet Lights)
“But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s...”
– Assassination Attempt In Arizona - NYTimes.com
But Which HDMI Cable To Buy For My Console? →
The findings? That in the vast majority of circumstances (excepting very cheap and very long cables) a sub-$2 cable bought over the internet gives as good a signal as the $130 Monster cables.
“in this case, we have a very different picture of what seems to be a deliberate...”
– Retracted autism study an ‘elaborate fraud,’ British journal finds - CNN.com
Idea: Crowdfund a Mission to Put a Monolith on the... →
The goal: Erect a monolith on the moon.
Post-Midterm Approval Ratings Don't Predict... →
Historically, there has been almost no relationship between a President’s approval rating following the midterms and how he eventually fared at the next presidential election
Camaro Beats Mustang; America Wins →
There’s a real muscle-car battle in Detroit, not between two companies but two groups of enthusiasts who don’t have to make life-changing compromises to own a worthy sports car
RunKeeper Pro—Our Favorite Mobile Running App—Is... →
for any runners with smartphones:
“The impact on the economy would be catastrophic,” Goolsbee told “This Week” on...”
– Republicans would rather default than raise taxes? Seriously?! - CSMonitor.com