Being an Apple fan I have to admit I’ve always scoffed at the Kindle; why would anyone pay a couple hundred dollars for this thing when they could buy an iPod Touch for the same price or an iPad for a bit more and get so much more functionality in the bargain. Now, after seeing [...]
It’s going on two months since I gave my iPhone a coffee and cream bath. I put it in rice for a few days and it seemed to work fine for a day, then… Gone. When it will turn on, it reboots itself randomly. When it’s not rebooting itself, app store apps don’t launch. The [...]
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A Man, A Plan And A Sharpie: ‘The Great Typo Hunt’: Incensed by a “no tresspassing” sign, Jeff Deck launched a cross-country trip to right grammatical wrongs. He enlisted a friend, Benjamin D. Herson, and together they got to work erasing errant quotation marks, rectifying misspellings and cutting unnecessary possessive apostrophes. The Great Typo Hunt [...]
Scott Greenfield comments on a recent 9th Circuit decision allowing officers to place “a GPS device on the underbed of a suspected drug dealer’s car while it was parked outside of his house” without a warrant. The court found that the defendant did nothing to show he had an expectation of privacy in his driveway, [...]
A new colleague of mine occassionally says “I like the cut of your jib,” which is a great phrase and, well, makes me like the cut of his jib, as well. Most people are probably roughly familiar with the nautical origins of the phrase, but I’d never considered speculation that “there may be an allusion [...]
Glenn Greenwald, referring to news that some cities and states around the nation are closing schools and libraries, turning off streetlights, allowing roads to go unpaved, and stopping bus service because of lack of funds: Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and [...]
Abe Sauer: The truth is not that Target and its leadership have suddenly turned on their commitment to gay rights. It’s more that it never really existed to begin with. Further research shows that Target has funneled significant funding to the most socially conservative of Republicans and that it boasts a frightening culture of anti-gay [...]
Heather Havrilesky on S4e2 of AMC’s “Mad Men”: So how do you hold on to some spirit of innocence and naive happiness in your life? “Mad Men” demonstrates that unless you’re very rich, or very drunk, or in denial — or all of the above — it’s not that easy. If you thought the sound [...]
Scott Christianson on the anti-death penalty dinner party argument: You have to be aware that the government makes mistakes, that the criminal justice system makes mistakes and that it’s possible that an innocent person could be wrongfully accused and subjected to capital punishment. So, you’d have to ask the person at the party: Do you [...]
