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NotesA trio of boys tramps alongĀ the length of a wooden fence, back and forth, shouting like carnival barkers. āThe Land! It opens in half an hour.ā Down a path and across a grassy square, 5-year-old Dylan can hear them through the window of his nanaās front room. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesOk, nobody said that, but you can imagine someone having done. The Blue Shell steals progress from a rightfully earned win on behalf of the lazy and the incompetent. The Blue Shell wrests spoils from leaders' fingers just as they reach for the laurel. via PocketUnfurl
NotesThis is a story about ARM Holdings (ARMH), the mobile technology company. But before it gets going, here are a few things you need to know: Ā 1. ARM is a company made up mostly of chip engineers. They design parts of chipsāsuch as graphics and communication bitsāand they design entire chips. via PocketUnfurl
NotesThe open-source community has officially donned its Heartbleed hairshirt. ComputerWorld's Richi Jennings slammed "another horrible, horrible open source FAIL." (Trolling for page views much?) ZDNet's Steven J. via PocketUnfurl
NotesThe Internet of Things has been hyped for 15 years, but until now technological realities haven't supported technological possibilities. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesEnthusiastic consent is not a legal rubric. Instead, it's a tool that reframes consent as active - as more about āyes means yesā than āno means no.ā Sex educator Heather Corinna emphasizes that consent is an āactive process of willingly and freely choosingā the activity consented to. via PocketFeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesA quarter century ago, a young writer broke free of comic-book cliches by using sheer, brave goofiness. If only he, and the rest of the industry, had kept that spirit alive. For most superheroes, fighting for truth and justice means fighting for the status quo. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesSuddenly, there is a new economist making waves ā and he is not on the right. At the conference of the Institute of New Economic Thinking in Toronto last week, Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century got at least one mention at every session I attended. via PocketUnfurl
NotesAmerica is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. via PocketUnfurl
NotesAndrew ābunnieā Huang and Sean āxobsā Cross want to sell you a laptop you can completely trust. Earlier this year, the two Singapore-based engineers fashioned a laptop made almost entirely from open source hardware, hardware whose designs are freely available to the world at large. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesI come from a fairly sensible family when it came to buying cloths. My Mother planned ahead, knowing I would outgrow pants and shirts and would often size up so that I had room to grow into things. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesAre Microservices the Future? Our main aim in writing this article is to explain the major ideas and principles of microservices. via PocketUnfurl
NotesWe humans are a smart bunch, but we really suck when it comes to understanding and handling excessively large numbers. Here's why we're so bad at it ā and what you can do to make sense of concepts and figures that are unreasonably huge. via PocketUnfurl
NotesBenedict Evans has a tremendously good analysis of Facebookās acquisition of WhatsApp up thatās highly worth reading. Thatās it. Let that roll around in your head a while. via PocketUnfurl
NotesI promise this is about Star Trek. Sort of. Bear with me a moment. Iāve been reading a lot about robots lately. When I read about robots, and the future, I canāt help but think about it in economic terms. via PocketUnfurl
NotesAs the 1980s came to a close, a curious thing happened to American consumers: they began to really understand what the word "upgrade" meant. This realization occurred thanks to a magical fusion of technological advancement and capitalistic opportunity: the video game console. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesAs production of "Pavel Piezo - Trip to the Kite Festival" draws to a close later this year I reviewed the material I collected for the Postmortem and found it too much and too diverse to put in one huge article. via PocketUnfurl
NotesOne of the most significant contributions to a reduction of domestic social tension in the United States as the Vietnam conflict wore down was the ending of the draft in 1973. (The Selective Service system, which is the administrative backbone of the draft, remains active. via PocketUnfurl
NotesSingle page applications are on the rise, and in many cases they make the web faster, richer, and more interactive. The HTML5 history APIs have allowed us take advantage of the benefits of SPAs while still allowing pages to be deep linkable, server renderable, and easily shareable. via PocketUnfurl
NotesI recently admitted to partially owning a Keurig. Many look at the Keurig as a bad thing for coffee. In many ways it is. But, in some ways its also a bridge to a better coffee world for millions who just donāt know better Letās use an analogy. via PocketUnfurl
NotesA few years ago, my wife and I spent three weeks hiking the backcountry of California. We walked more than 200 miles without crossing a roadāand even better, without fielding any calls, emails, tweets, or other day-to-day Internet bullshit. It was heavenly. via PocketUnfurl
NotesāI am terrible at video games,ā Tomohiro Nishikado says. His admission sounds hardly unusual for a man of sixty-nine, but itās a secret that he has kept for thirty-five years, ever since he created the classic arcade game Space Invaders, in 1978. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesEvery country that outperforms the U.S. has a constitutional or statutory commitment to this right. āThe Learning Curve,ā the global ranking of education systems produced by the publishing company Pearson, is by most accounts a beautiful publication. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesMitchell Baker is contributing as part of #TheOpenAgendaāa campaign by TelefĆ³nica Digital to provoke debate around the benefits of an open philosophy for digital, technology and innovation. Get involved with the debate using #TheOpenAgenda on Twitter or view more at www.theopenagenda.com via PocketUnfurl
NotesGoogle was building a secret mobile product to fend off chief rival Microsoft. Then Apple announced the iPhone, and everything changed. In 2005, on Googleās sprawling, college-like campus, the most secret and ambitious of many, many teams was Googleās own smartphone effortāthe Android project. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesIs the software industry trying to write the script for Hamlet by hiring a million monkeys to bang on keyboards? Perhaps we should rethink that strategy and hire one bard instead. Perhaps, instead of hordes of novices, we need a small team of professionals. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesAt least in the Senate, at some point, Republican primary voters may realize that nominating the Christine O'Donnells, Todd Akins, Sharron Angles, Ken Bucks and Richard Mourdocks of the world only leads to Democratic victories in all but the reddest of states. via PocketUnfurl
NotesThe word āfreedomā looms large in modern conservative rhetoric. Lobbying groups are given names like FreedomWorks; health reform is denounced not just for its cost but as an assault on, yes, freedom. via PocketUnfurl
NotesA lot of marriages donāt survive raising a gender-creative son who is, statistically speaking, most likely going to be gay or transgender as an adult. I wish I could to talk to those men. I wish I could be there for their kids. I've been a police officer for more than 15Ā years. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesHow much money do I waste in a given month by doing most of my grocery shopping at the Whole Foods thatās directly on my route home rather than taking the three-minute detour to Safeway? I have no idea. via PocketUnfurl
NotesYears ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevskyās Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay. āI am fat,ā it began. āI am disgustingly fat. I am the fattest human I know. via PocketUnfurl
NotesI was a Libertarian in college. I even volunteered for the 1980 Ed Clark/David Koch (yes, that David Koch) Libertarian party presidential campaign. As promised, the following is the story of how I outgrew Libertarianism. There were three factors: 1. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesI'm a bit nervous when I finally turn down the long dirt road to the brewery after a two-hour drive. The road doesn't seem to lead anywhere. I'm in the middle of nowhere and there is no brewery in sight. It certainly doesn't seem like the most logical place for one. There is no major city nearby. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesVim is a great text editor for writing code. Anyone who claims otherwise is either an Emacs user (and you should be OK with that, because Emacs is pretty neat) or a ācasualā code wrangler who sometimes dabbles in programming but knows very little of it. via PocketUnfurl
NotesPeter Buffett, the second son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, worries that the state of philanthropy in America ājust keeps the existing structure of inequality in place. via PocketUnfurl
NotesManning is no hero but the army knew he was unfit and sent him anyway. How we ended up with a known security risk guarding classified secrets. Brian Van Reet explains. Bradley Manning is not Edward Snowden and he is most definitely not a hero. Letās get that straight, for starters. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesWhen Congress returns from its summer recess in early September, it will have exactly nine legislative days to agree on a budget or the government will shut down. via PocketUnfurl
NotesThis great American franchise, and by extension, childhood itself, almost never existed. You may not know this, but Chuck E. Cheese's -- yes, the pizza place -- has its origins as firmly planted in the soil of Silicon Valley as Apple, HP, or Intel. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesThe word mooc sounds a bit like slang from Goodfellas or the affectionate shortening of the already-affectionate name of a former outfielder for the New York Mets. via PocketUnfurl
NotesWhat do northwest Washington, D.C., South Beach Miami and upper Manhattan have in common? Less than 50 years ago, the now vibrant communities didn't look much different from most of Detroit, says emergency manager Kevyn Orrāwhom Gov. Rick Snyder tapped in March to revive the broken Motor City. via PocketUnfurl
NotesDoug Engelbart knew that his obituaries would laud him as āInventor of the Mouse.ā I can see him smiling wistfully, ironically, at the thought. The mouse was such a small part of what Engelbart invented. via PocketUnfurl
NotesThere is an ongoing (and interesting) discussion on the API-craft mailing list revolving around designing new media types for enabling hypermedia APIs primarily for programmatic consumption. As some folks may know, I like to use HTML as the media type for my hypermedia APIs. via PocketFeedUnfurl
NotesIn 2013 at Institute for the Future, the non-profit forecasting thinktank where I'm a researcher, we explored what we're calling the Coming Age of Networked Matter. via PocketUnfurl
NotesIn August 2005, the New York Times Magazine published an article by Amanda Hesser that effectively introduced sous videāthe process of cooking bagged, vacuum-sealed food in a precisely controlled, low-temperature water bath, sometimes for days at a timeāto the American public. via PocketUnfurl
NotesSomething terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. Weāve gone beyond bad economic doctrine. Weāve even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. via PocketUnfurl
NotesValve's idealised 'flat management' structure is not all it's cracked up to be, according to one of the developers fired from the studio earlier this year. via PocketFeedEmbedUnfurl
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Every Kid Wanted this Hot Wheels Belt Buckle back in 1983 | The Retroist
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Daily Kos: First, kill all the 'gerrymander-ers'
My Son Wears Dresses; Get Over It - Matt Duron - The Atlantic
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The Republican Budget Cut that Would Crush Silicon Valley | New Republic
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MOOCs could be disastrous for students and professors. - Slate Magazine
codeartisan: Using HTML as the Media Type for your API
Sous vide at home: Why thermal immersion circulators are the microwave of the future. - Slate Magazine
