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lianamaris: Things that cannot screen for breast cancer and...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:10:46 -0800

Things that cannot screen for breast cancer and things that can.

And for those who are yelling about PP not doing mammograms, “screenings” are not just mammograms. ”Screenings” are also breast exams, which are the first line of defense. Those breast exams are done every time a woman has a pelvic exam, which she needs in order to get birth control or STI testing. Get it together. Semantics do not change the facts.

For more information on supporting REAL pro-women organizations, check out this great article by Kaili Joy Gray.

Bueller? Bueller?

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:00:06 -0800

Bueller? Bueller?

Cool early Jim Henson short for a Bell System (i.e. AT&T)...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:24:06 -0800

Cool early Jim Henson short for a Bell System (i.e. AT&T) seminar back in 1963!

Opportunity on Mars: 8 years and counting! (by JPLnews)

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:16:24 -0800

Opportunity on Mars: 8 years and counting! (by JPLnews)

Hello (by ant1mat3rie) This is pretty impressive editing. h/t to...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:15:13 -0800

Hello (by ant1mat3rie)

This is pretty impressive editing. h/t to @daringfireball

My first Mac - seven years ago this spring I switched to a Mac...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:45:08 -0800

My first Mac - seven years ago this spring I switched to a Mac and I haven’t looked back. Thanks, Steve!

Go Bears! Thanks to #SFChronicle and @cmarinucci!

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:54:06 -0800

Go Bears! Thanks to #SFChronicle and @cmarinucci!

I don’t need a new car, but these new Fiats sure look...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:38:43 -0800

I don’t need a new car, but these new Fiats sure look cool. And how can you not love this ad?

I know it isn’t Thanksgiving yet, but Yahoo!...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:07:00 -0800

I know it isn’t Thanksgiving yet, but Yahoo! Music (replaced with the YouTube version) has two of my favorite recent Idol contestants - Haley Reinhart and Casey Abrams - with a great video of their holiday single, Baby, It’s Cold Outside. Great way to get into the season a little early!

Great video showing coding directly on the iPad using Codify.

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:52:19 -0700

Great video showing coding directly on the iPad using Codify.

How The Austerity Class Rules Washington | The Nation

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:09:12 -0700

How The Austerity Class Rules Washington | The Nation:

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Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit | Mother Jones

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:28:34 -0700

Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit | Mother Jones:

(via Instapaper)

Apple's "Fall From Grace"

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:08:16 -0700

Apple's "Fall From Grace":

parislemon:

This is, quite simply, one of the worst pieces I’ve ever read on Apple.

Zach Epstein starts off trashing Apple’s iPhone 4S announcement as perhaps “the beginning of the end” — and does so citing a bunch of analysts.

Analysts.

As anyone who watches Apple closely knows, analysts are absolutely fucktarded when it comes to Apple. If you bet directly against what they’ve said about the company over the years, you’d be a very rich person. They’re always wrong. And it’s clear that the vast majority of them do not understand the company.

Of course, posts citing analysts about Apple are nothing new. Some writers keep going back to the well despite getting diarrhea of the mind over and over again from what they drink there. It’s fascinating to watch.

But what makes this post particularly bad is the way Epstein pussyfoots around the position he sets out to take. The entire end of his post is basically “don’t get me wrong, I think the iPhone 4S is great but…”

So he loves the device, but analysts don’t, therefore it’s the end of Apple? Right.

He also cites the seemingly tepid reaction from the crowd during the event itself. I’ve been to pretty much every single Apple event over the past five years. This is the reaction about half of the time.

Rumors leading up to these event often set the stage for things that simply aren’t coming. This leads some to be disappointed — a natural reaction. It’s only when Apple is able to truly surprise people — like with the iPhone — that everyone is wowed. Even the initial iPad announcement was dubbed “underwhelming”.

If you judge Apple’s products by the reaction of analysts and the press, you’re an idiot. Pure and simple. Apple doesn’t make products for analysts and the press. They make products for everyone.

American McCarver: There's Always Hope

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:37:00 -0700

American McCarver: There's Always Hope:

Nice article from Jason Snell at the new sport blog American McCarver about Sunday’s USA-Brazil World Cup soccer match.

americanmccarver:

It’s easy to joke that the only thing Americans care less about than soccer (translation for our non-U.S. readers: “the sport called ‘football’ that’s being ruined by Sepp Blatter, rather than the one being ruined by Roger Goodell”) is soccer when it’s played by women. Then again, the…

Another song leak from Smash! How are they going to do...

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:34:00 -0700

Another song leak from Smash! How are they going to do broadway-quality songs every week of a TV season?

deliberatepace:

When the season’s over
The play won’t end
‘Cause a baseball diamond is a girl’s best friend

I really can’t wait for this show. Is it mid-season...

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:40:00 -0700

I really can’t wait for this show. Is it mid-season yet?

popculturebrain:

Hear Katherine McPhee and Megan Hlity sing an original song from NBC’s upcoming musical pilot Smash.

The Understatement: Digital Subscription Prices Visualized (aka The New York Times Is Delusional)

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:00:08 -0700

The Understatement: Digital Subscription Prices Visualized (aka The New York Times Is Delusional):

understatementblog:

Here are the annual prices of a variety of services, all of which allow users to access the service from the web and across multiple devices with a single unified subscription. See if you can pick out which one is the outlier:

Full sized chart

As Frédéric Filloux and others…

Apple's Three Laws of Developers

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:32:34 -0800

yourhead:

A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm.

A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

— I. Developer

Park51, the proposed mosque near Ground Zero

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:42:20 -0700

Park51, the proposed mosque near Ground Zero:

Nice commentary in The New Yorker on the proposed mosque in New York City.

"If American Muslims are allowed to build mosques only where Christians and Jews are gracious enough..."

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:10:14 -0700

“If American Muslims are allowed to build mosques only where Christians and Jews are gracious enough to allow, we will be proving the Islamists’ point that the West is every Muslim’s enemy. If this mosque is blocked by popular prejudice or political demagoguery, that’s when Bin Laden will claim a second victory — in the shadow, as they say, of ground zero.”

- A mosque near ground zero: It’s the wise choice - latimes.com