June 2011
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This is one of those days I look forward to on the web: when something big drops. Something big happens when you’ve heard about that something before, rumors which oriented you to understand that this is big, whatever it is. You look forward to getting your hands on it, being the first to get it, but realizing it is only fun when other join in on it. Its potential is limitless, yet its...
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Kill Windows
iCloud’s real purpose: kill Windows
Apple’s announcements yesterday about OS X 10.7 pricing (cheap), upgrading (easy), iOS 5, and iCloud storage, syncing, and media service can all be viewed as increasing ease of use, but from the perspective of Apple CEO Steve Jobs they perform an even more vital function — killing Microsoft.
Cringley is off here. Since Jobs came back to Apple he has never...
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Annie Jacobsen's Area 51
I listened to the podcast of Fresh Air this week with great expectation. The topic was Area 51, the subject of a new book by Anne Jacobsen.
Listen Here.
Area 51 is a concept in American culture born in the 1990s. That was the decade of the alien conspiracy theorist, with X-Files and Independence Day mercilessly exploiting the concept of the myth of Roswell. As a boy I remember spending many...
Death of Doctor Death
‘Dr Death’ Jack Kevorkian dies at 83
Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist who helped dozens of ailing people to end their lives, has died in a Detroit hospital after a short illness. He was 83.
Kevorkian, who claimed he had helped about 130 people to kill themselves between 1990 and 1999, died at William Beaumont hospital in Michigan, close friend Mayer Morganroth said.
Nicknamed...
DAREfail
‘Global War On Drugs Has Failed,’
“The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world,” a high-powered commission whose members include former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan warns today.
No way.
The UN report goes on to recommend the following reason based,...
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Walther PPK
May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?
I dislike a man who comes into contact with all sorts of formidable people using a .25 Beretta. This sort of gun is really a lady’s gun, and not a really nice lady at that. If Mr. Bond has to use a light gun he would be better off with a .22 rim fire; the lead bullet would cause more shocking effect than the jacketed type of the .25....
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Coming This Summer: "RAGE"
Mad as Hell
Could these emotions escalate into revolt? Corporate earnings have soared to an all-time high. Wall Street is gaudy and confident again. But the heyday hasn’t come for millions of Americans. Unemployment hovers near 9 percent, and the only jobs that truly abound, according to Labor Department data, come with name tags, hairnets, and funny hats (rather than high wages, great benefits,...
