Gordon's Notes

Commentary: politics, science, technology and humanity. Secular humanist.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

After the decision - healthcare 2012

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America's ObamaCare monster lurches forward. It is hideous. Bits and pieces have fallen off, more will fall. It lost an elbow with the u...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Browsing the blog backlist - we need a new app

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I follow about 150-250 active blogs including the "Core" blogs I read religiously . It's a good reading list, far superior to...

Google's A.I. recognizes cats. Laugh while you can.

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Google's brain module was trained on YouTube stills. From vast amounts of data, one image spontaneously emerged ... Using large-scale...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Best cities of North America - Chicago, New York, Montreal ... and Minneapolis

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A report on bike share safety in NYC makes a number of safety recommendations and includes a graph of North America's best cities: W...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Wayback machine: My 2001 web site

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The Wayback machine archived at least part of my old web site in 2001... It was just a personal site, I think it is cool that a shade ...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

The Minneapolis Friday Night Skate: 1998-2011

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I wasn't at the very first Minneapolis Friday Night skate, but I remember Allan and Mike ... Inline Skating (Rollerblading) Resource C...

The evolution of spam: Nordstrom and mandatory spam acceptance

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We've come a long way baby. A year ago Nordstrom's began offering optional email receipts as "a convenient, environmentally f...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Median net worth stasis: health and demographics?

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Salmon of the Trinity [1]  notes that Median net worth has actually been static for about 30 years . So we can either fund social security, ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Why bicyclists run red lights

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France Grants Cyclists the Right to Run Red Lights . Basically, cyclists are to treat a red light as a one-way stop sign. There are moves t...
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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Buying bicycle gear online - some sources

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Bicycles last a long time, and touring bicycle technology [2] was pretty much optimized by the 1990s [1]. My oldest bike is 35, my youngest ...
Thursday, June 07, 2012

NYT's Bob Tedeschi gives me a parting gift - iOS Parental Controls don't work

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A few months ago  NYT's Bob Tedeschi missed the iOS Porn story  - Apple's Parental Controls don't actually work . I know, for e...

Fifty Lives: A Work of Historical Fiction

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I want to view a work of historical fiction called "Fifty Lives: The Story of Humanity". It could be an iPad app or a hard cove...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

I said Romney could never win the GOP primary ...

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Five years Romney was running for President. Back then I wrote: Gordon's Notes: Romney: not possible In order to win the GOP primarie...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Apple's quality problem is a complexity problem too

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Marco Arment, builder of a respected OS X app, writes Three Things That Should Trouble Apple – Marco.org :  ... Apple’s software quality...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Periodic Table of the US Navy?

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My son brought home a Periodic Table from his school science class. It's also an ad for "America's Navy", "A GLOBAL F...
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