June 2009
When Market Incentives Lead to Bad Outcomes →
One of our readers recommended a fascinating and important article on health care economics, “The Cost Conundrum,” in The New Yorker. It’s by Atul Gawande, a surgeon and a professor of public…
Troll Slayer →
Just upgraded to a California king bed. Oh, the luxury…
May 2009
iHateHolding.com - Phone Number Shortcuts →
"It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us.... →
““It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be: you came up with the idea. Why do you believe it?”” - Ricky Gervais on being an atheist (via kottke) (via dpstyles)
Lifelock Found To Be Illegally Placing Fraud... →
There are all sorts of questions about Lifelock, the company that claims to help protect you from identify theft. There were the stories that the founders of the company had previously been…
Papyrus →
Study Says DRM Pushes Users To Illegal Downloads →
A new study from a Cambridge law professor says that DRM doesn’t stop piracy, but rather prompts users to illegally download DRM-free pirated content (via Boing Boing). In short, the study found…
Police Blame Video Games For 2-Year-Old Stabbing... →
It seems that whenever there’s any kind of violence involving kids, someone rushes to blame video games. Steve L points us to the latest such case, where it’s taken to something of an extreme….
Excuse me, I’m off to punch things until they explode http://wondermark.com/
Time Warner Cable asks customers for... →
J. Christenbury blogs this hilarious exchange that occurred on Twitter between a Time Warner Cable marketing stooge and a customer who had real ideas:
@jeffTWC: Please RT: working on customer…
“When reality is labeled unthinkable, it creates a kind of sickness in an...”
– Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
NimbleKit - Smart kit for fast iPhone apps... →
The lung rot has worsened. I woke up sounding like Tom Waits.
Patent Lawsuit Over Shazam Highlights The... →
A few folks have sent in variations on the news that Apple and AT&T have been sued for patent infringement over the fact that the music recognition service Shazam can be used on the iPhone. The …
Judge Slams Administration For Ignoring Orders In... →
We’ve covered the Al-Haramain case for a while, as it’s the one case where there’s actual evidence of a party being the subject of warrantless wiretaps by the administration. So far, the judge has…
On Tom Friedman, Maureen Dowd and Edmund Andrews →
A lot of people are sending me links to this story about Tom Friedman, Maureen Dowd, and Edmund Andrews of the Times getting in trouble for various alleged ethical transgressions. I’m not sure…
Airport Puffer Devices Expensive And Don't Work... →
Like many of you, I’m sure, I’ve had the “pleasure” of going through airport security in one of those newer “puffer” devices that shoot little puffs of air up and down your body. I was told that…
WatchHardTime :: Illusion on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
I contracted some form of lung rot in the wilderness. ♫ http://blip.fm/~71jhf
listening to "Black Lung - Rancid" →
I contracted some form of lung rot in the wilderness.
I can feel the consumption moving into me lungs.
Free CSS and XHTML Template Browser →
Yahoo! Media Player →
Typogridphy — A Typographical and Grid Layout CSS... →
WatchNate Silver: Does race affect votes? | Video on TED.com
Back from the woods. A good time was had by all. Every body part hurts.
Total Recall is on sci-fi. They bleep shitless but show the blood slowly drain out of the bullethole in Sharon Stone’s head.
FCC claims warrantless search if you use Wi-Fi,... →
Ryan Singel:
You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home…
blue-ridge headles Javascript testing is pretty amazingly awesome http://bit.ly/INtJE