Link. “Duverger’s Law … the surest way to get a two-party system within a nation was to adopt “first-past-the-post” plurality voting with single-member districts.”
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Popular app.net clients: Appnetizens client usage analytics.
Link. See what the cool geeks are using. Netbot, Wedge, Felix, quickApp, Rivr, IFTTT. Yeah, I’m late to #appnetizens.
The Fall of Farmville (Zynga, via app.net)
Link. The Facebook bubble deflating.
appnetizens.com: seriously powerful app.net web client.
Link. Not pretty, but exposes a lot of the APIs and test features. @teawithcarl using it.
GOP ideology is flexible – when the alternative is unthinkable.
Link. Turns out GOP doesn’t care so much about taxes after all. Shocked we are.
Baumol’s cost disease: medicine, education and post-AI disruption
Link. Education is already transforming, “Analytics” is the current public face of medical AI.
Google Docs v. Drive: Labels vs Multiple Folders
Link. Pre-Drive docs had labels, not true folders. Post-drive they have folders mapped to OS folders without use of Shortcuts/Aliases/Links. So when you “… add something to more than one folder, hold the Ctrl key (⌘ command for Mac) and select multiple folders.” the file appears twice on the local file system. I don’t know what happens if you edit in one but not the other.
I can think of better designs, and I’m sure the Google team did as well. I wish they hadn’t chosen this route.
Google’s Chrome web store includes Google Drive apps.
Link. I missed out on this. Google Drive is getting more interesting.
Amazon prices on obsolete iPod clock radios falling.
Link. We have many pre-lightning iPods and iPhones. They will live out as kid-radio room stereos. So we’re checking out falling prices on iPod clock radios …
The 5 Weirdest Patron Saints of the Internet.
Link. Tesla, Tyson and ?Shoenice?
John E. Buhler: an American bigot.
The 5 Most Surreal Financial Apocalypses from History.
Link. Mostly new to me. Nice review.
ML Update: ScanSnap
Link. Planning for my Nov ML update. Looks like base ScanSnap is supported, but the companion apps are toast. The ScanSnap site has pages for ML downloads.
Vanguard squeezes index fund fees further.
Link. A Bogle-style move. Good.
Bicycle routes: Android pounds iOS.
Link. Jobs liked sports cars.
App.net and RSS: they belong together.
Link. “App.net is potentially an important development. If it can become the de facto stream for microblogging, then App.net combined with RSS – the syndication format supported by almost all publishers nowadays – may become the standard for streams” #RSS
Reeder.app and Buffer.
Link. Good review of state of the art in feed read/share.
The new economic challenge.
Link. “Construction and simulation of highly non-linear dynamics in systems of multiple equilibria”
Middle-Skill Jobs Are Lag.
Link. Easy to automate, easy to globalize.
GOP against electronic health records.
Link. The real problem is not the technology, it’s the 15yo E&M accounting rules. Blame the AMA for those.
QM: measurement doesn’t alter reality.
Link. Old QM interpretation long depecated, now retired.
Recovery: modest.
Link. Better than nothing.
Encephalitis lethargica.
Link. Is this article legit?! Doesn’t match wikipedia entry.
The 5 Most Terrifying Diseases that Doctors Can’t Explain.
Link. Weirdly, I was just reading about e lethargica. Not true there are no explanations.
Wang’s progress: the mob/party nexus in modern China.
Why American primary care won’t be done by physicians.
Link. Insane pay gap.
Something newish: Placental (cord) blood markets
Link. Tension between donation to the public bank, and saving with private ($) banks for uncertain future personal use.
“Umbilical cord blood stem cell transplants are used to treat a variety of oncologic, genetic, hematologic, and immunodeficiency disorders …. a lower incidence of graft-versus-host disease in transplant recipients, and it can be made available more quickly than bone marrow or peripheral stem cells .. can be transplanted to a recipient with only a partial human leukocyte antigen match … can be collected relatively simply without risk to mother or baby.”
Maybe we shouldn’t complain about iPhone scratches.
Link. Foxconn punishes scratches.
Snowing in Minnesota!!!
Link. YES! Nordic skiing not quite dead yet. Each year getting precious.
Current encryption standard dead within 6 years. (Schneier)
Link. Time to transition to SHA-2/SHA-3.
Van living – a subculture.
Link. Limited appeal.
Romney Jobs Report Trutherism.
Link. Romney’s greatest opponent is the GOP.
xkcd.com has 1 million daily visitors.
Link. Not counting RSS – where I read it.
Using Mathematica to create xkcd-like diagrams.
Link. xkcd rules the net. Next, a web service.
Romney’s tax plan decrypted.
Link. Superb analysis. “Radically curtailing itemized deductions, Increasing taxes on families with children by eliminating exemptions, Eliminating incentives for education, Making it harder to save for retirement, Taxing on health benefits, or Shifting a significant version of the tax burden to higher-income taxpayers. “
GOP caught funding voter registration fraud.
Link. Shocked. Not. “The Republican Party … paid Mr. Sproul about $3 million this year for work in five states..”
“Since 2004, Mr. Sproul’s companies … have collected more than $17.6 million from Republican committees, candidates and the “super PAC” American Crossroads, mostly for voter registration operations, according to campaign finance records.”
Paul Ryan invisible.
Link. Did he dissent from the Romney pivot?
Romney’s plan doesn’t cover preexisting conditions.
Link. He said it did. He pivoted so quickly his team was left behind. Guess whoever wins Obamacare is here to stay.
The Stellar Gene Pool.
Link. “Somewhere out there in the galaxy there might just be other organisms connected to us through the massive stars that forged our common mix of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and everything else – the ultimate stellar gene-pool.”
Hacking AirPlay with AirVideo to watch unapproved video streams on Apple TV.
Link. AirVideo on iOS and OS X routes unsupported video streams from desktop stream to iPad to AirPlay to Apple TV.
Corporate users should hold off on iOS 6 – ActiveSync problems.
Link. My employer has seen these, and also sync/push issues. ActiveSync is an essential monster. (Microsoft specializes in those.)
Jack Welch is a nutter.
Link. Rise and faaaaalllllll.
Gaunt startups.
Link. Rely on health insurance from other sources. I suspect these are common in Canada.
iOS 6 Maps support automatic offline use for a wide area.
Link. Cache.
Hyperinflation finally arrives… in Iran.
Link. Obama’s squeeze may be working.
Multiple Backups for iPhone, iPod, and iPad.
Link. iCloud, iTunes, PhoneView.
What I learned from reading the iPhone 5 manual.
Link. Despite thousands of hours of use, there are a lot of things I didn’t know about.
RIP HP.
Link. “Printer cartridges were once responsible for over 90 percent of H.P.’s profits”
ML supplement: “Allows Safari to access secure sites when parental controls are enabled”
Link. Huh?! This has been a big problem for years. Funny to have it delivered like this.