Thursday, December 30, 2010

iPhone apps and the Philip Morris business model

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Once upon a time tobacco companies distributed abundant free samples. It's a good business model when you're selling an addictive pr...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

A quiet revolution in naming and framing disorders of the mind

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Victory: The war against 20th century psychiatric diagnoses is all but won . It's been a long time coming, this rebellion has roots goin...
Monday, December 27, 2010

The history of post-neolithic humanity in 10 minutes - DeLong's annual Econ 1 post

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Brad DeLong, my favorite economist, has published the latest edition of his annual Econ 1 Berkeley: September 29 2010 Economic Growth Lectur...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

The Chinese net and machine translation

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Chinese, for a time, will pass English as a net language . The authors imply that a predictable course, but they forget that the world's...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Digital cameras 2011-2017

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David Pogue writes today about affordable, bigger-than-pocketable, cameras with reasonable ISO 800 images . That made me think about how the...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Which animal throws best? It's a mystery.

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Which animal is biggest? Smallest? Fastest? Good questions, and there are lots of answers. It's the sort of thing we talk about over br...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Gordon's scale of corporate evil - 2nd edition

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A post on  why Facebook, Netflix and Amazon will join the Google-Apple truce reminded me it's time to update Gordon's 15 point scal...

The greater enemy: why Facebook, Netflix and Amazon will join the Google-Apple truce

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The Google-Apple war officially ended in September . I've not seen any convincing explanation of why the war ended; my best guess is tha...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Hans Rosling's Ted Talk trendanalyzer is now Google Docs Motion Chart

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It's not new, but it's still awesome to see Hans Rosling demo the Trendanalyzer wealth/mortality graph . It's a great antidote t...

Research the past 200 years of memetic propagation: Google Books ngram viewer

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Google Ngram Viewer . Awesome. The frequency of the word "dementia" spiked in the period 1870-1885. It then rose gradually to 192...

Google's kid problem - something for the GOP led house to chew on

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Google has a kid problem. The latest example is the new  Google eBooks iOS app . It seemed like a good option for my kids iOS devices. Prob...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Jon Swift (Al Weisel) died Feb 27, 2010

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During the Bush years I found solace in the ironic writings of  Jon Swift . He didn't write every day, so I didn't notice when he st...

The Hugo Awards revisited - 58 years later

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Tor's Jo Walton is reviewing the Hugo Awards Nominees -- starting in 1953.  I started reading science fiction in the 1960s, so many of ...

Yahoo kills Delicious - don't say you weren't warned about the Cloud

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Not surprising ... Michael Tsai - Blog - Yahoo Shuts Down Delicious : Delicious was a good service, and I’m sorry to see all the data and...

Alta Vista RIP

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In the 90s I taught physicians how to use the Internet. It gave me an excuse to attend Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and American A...