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I don't agree with every thing he says here, but it's hard to deny that it is too easy for a crazy person to gain the power to kill a lot of people.

Interesting point on price umbrellas.

I assume the South leads in part because of the higher proportion black population?

Post offices!

Fun remix. Devices! Bing! Gates is a delightful dork.

Brief review of how Nokia's management squandered research opportunities.

Interesting and dated commentary on The West Wing from early in the Bush years.

Very cool dance/music/video game crossover effect using custom Kinect software.

What's crazy to me is not only was there password reuse, but it was over a year apart. Not a very large sample, but still.

Good way to make it easier to transition from testing to deployment.

How much capacity? 1,000.

Hear, hear. But I probably will get a license for having kids.

Yay!

Yet another analysis of the asymmetric polarization in American politics. The GOP has gone off the deep end, but people refuse to notice because they want the parties to be reflections of one another.

We truly live in the Anthropocene, where human activity will very likely reset parts of the ocean ecosystem half a billion years.

An interesting stance, that liberal Protestantism in the US has basically secularized itself in trying to keep up with modern liberalism. Not sure that I agree, although I feel the pinch as a Lutheran.

Mind-boggling: ".000063 percent -- 196 Americans -- have given more than 80 percent of the super-PAC money spent"

Minnesota breeds the best nerds.

Can't escape it. Works better when it's one person remixed.

So. Damn. Catchy. Although the skill of this mix is a bit less than the Obama one.

This is just asking to start a wildfire outside the circle, but it sure does look cool.

Another take on how Romney's speech to the NAACP was really for other people, and indicative of his classist nature.

Interesting that yet again a once conservative ideal is rejected by "conservatives" to meet their radical political interests.

The Qwikster thing was stupid, but Hastings is right: the future is streaming. The problem is Big Content. They think they can control distribution as they once did, with siloed content and staggered releases, when what customers what is the option of anything, right now.

Interesting that the older neighborhoods seem to have more consensus on their boundaries.

Great thoughts on Brave. I very much agree on the predictability point - I still expected a certain Princess Story ending, and was pleasantly surprised we didn't get one.

I won't deny I'll enjoy this benefit, even though I like supporting local businesses.

Excited about this. Hope it comes to Boston!

Hahah. Pretty good style and content parody. The George Lucas is creepy.