Month: May 2013
May 31, 2013
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Creationists and dinosaurs: Answers in Genesis teams with dissident scientists to deny feathered dino fossil record – Slate Magazine
Sinocalliopteryx as a stealth hunter feeding on the dromaeosaur Sinornithosaurus , left, and the primitive bird Confuciusornis , right. Illustration by Cheung Chungtat The dinosaurs of our childhood aren’t around anymore. The sluggish, swamp-bound pea-brains that haunted museum halls and trundled…
May 30, 2013
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Is the GOP Still a National Party? | The American Conservative
There are reasons to think it isn’t: Republicans have failed to win a plurality of voters (or a majority of the two-party vote) in four of the last five presidential elections. The single win was 2004, when George W. Bush was re-elected by the lowest margin of any successful incumbent since 1828 .…
May 29, 2013
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Paradox of Hoaxes: How Errors Persist, Even When Corrected | Wired Science | Wired.com
Photo: Mycomicshop / Ebay It was an accidental hoax. A screenshot from Back to the Future got passed around this summer, showing that June 27, 2012 was the date when the DeLorean hurtled forward in time. After a certain period of excitement, posts, and retweets, people soon realized that the image…
May 28, 2013
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Is It About to Get Much Harder to Own a Domain Name?
Question: why has air travel become so painful? Because the threat posed by bad actors requires making everyone jump through hoops before letting them board a plane. To the point that, despite obvious requirements to ensure air safety, some are now openly questioning if the cure is not worse than…
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Hey @lucyschafer! It’s your birthday!
May 27, 2013
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SHOWSTEALER PRO – TRIAL VERSION
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The Flat Design Era â LayerVault Blog
Completely agree, and love flat! "The flat design era" http://t.co/uEmKOxob HT @espiekermann & @standardistas
May 26, 2013
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The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula – Forbes
This is a guest post written by Bill Gurley , a general partner at Benchmark Capital in Menlo Park, Calif. He blogs at Above The Crowd . You can follow him on Twitter at @bgurley . Bill Gurley Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as…
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Crap, I was going to go outside today but Netflix posted Season 4 of #arresteddevelopment last night.
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Let’s see, what do I think @benlucier should listen today…
May 25, 2013
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Romney and Obama on American Inventions : The New Yorker
The politically correct way to think about American inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs, it seems, is to imagine them as divorced entirely from the rest of us: they rise up from the loamy soil of capitalism already fully formed, Model T or iPod in hand. That, at least, is the impression that’s…
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You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think: Scientific American
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Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories –
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May 24, 2013
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Are there still people on Twitter defending Mayor Rob Ford? What hashtag do they hangout on?
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May 23, 2013
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I know summer is here because #wipeout is back on TV.
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Saving Android From a Second-Rate Future | Wired Business | Wired.com
Illustration: Martin O’Neill By the official count, more than 50 percent of all smartphones in the US are running Android, while 32 percent are running iOS. So Google’s mobile operating system wouldn’t seem in need of saving. But the official count is a lie. It’s not that the industry groups that…
May 22, 2013
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I bet Chris Bosh wishes he still had his Raptors-era dreads so he’d have a chance in the Heat’s “Whacky Haircut” contest.
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I hope being featured in a Moosehead TV ad gets more people into Lord Huron’s amazing album.
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If you don’t use the Oxford Comma, you are doing it wrong.
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Seems like the whole Internet simultaneously realized that words can start with hard, soft or silent Gs.
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Cellphones Are Eating the Family Budget – WSJ.com
Families across America have cut back on food, clothes and entertainment to make room for ever-higher phone bills. Now, carriers are betting that they can push that bill even higher, as Anton Troianovski explains on The News Hub. Photo: Bloomberg. Heidi Steffen and her husband used to treat…
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Actual survey happening on the @tucows internal network right now.
May 21, 2013
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Given a choice between summering in West Egg or East Egg, I’d choose a kiddy pool on my balcony.
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Startup = Growth
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . September 2012 A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly foundeddoes not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessaryfor a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, orhave some sort of "exit." The only…
May 20, 2013
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We decides against seeing it in 3D. (@ SilverCity Newmarket Cinemas & XSCAPE Entertainment Centre – @cineplexmovies)
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Rethinking Sleep – NYTimes.com
SOMETIME in the dark stretch of the night it happens. Perhaps it’s the chime of an incoming text message. Or your iPhone screen lights up to alert you to a new e-mail. Or you find yourself staring at the ceiling, replaying the day in your head. Next thing you know, you’re out of bed and engaged with…
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I just backed Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform on @Kickstarter