Sunday, July 29, 2012

Minnesota: There is official bicycle parking at the Rosedale Mall (aka Rosedale center)

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(and now for something completely different). I made  my most recent Apple store trip  by bicycle. Before I set out I tried to find a bike ...

Poverty in the west

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For much of human history slavery , rape, abuse of children and women, heavy drinking, murder, cruelty, and animal torture were commonplace ...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Facebook's share price: based on my ads, it's going to stay in the 20s

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Facebook opened at 38 and it's down to 24  (7/28/2012). Facebook has earned less money than expected. I don't know where Facebook...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Google Fiber: a blog, not a G+ share

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Google uses a blogspot blog , not a G+ channel, to tell us about  Google Fiber . I'm probably making too much of this ray of sunshine, ...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

You're 50 now. It's time to start plan 0.

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Ken Murray hit a nerve when he wrote " how doctors die " last November. Now he's back with  Doctors Really Do Die Differently ...

A shot in the dark - Am I my brother's keeper?

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Roger Ebert wrote a column on gun control and received 650 comments. He read them all. Then he responded, with one of his best columns eve...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Zenith CruisePad 1996

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I found this in some archives. A little bit of history from 1996. An antecedent to the iPad, the CruisePad was a wireless thin client sold ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Apple's profits disappoint. So what has Apple done for me lately?

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Apple's margins disappointed today, and the stock dropped. Coincidentally, I just ordered a Nexus 7 for $200.   Or maybe that's n...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Usenet: it's time to put a stake in it

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Google has rebooted  Google Groups for Business . I'd was surprised by the reboot, so the announcement brought me back to my old Groups ...

Facebook changing: it's not about friends or games any more ...

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My slice of Facebook is changing in ways that are interesting, but not necessarily profitable for Facebook. Consider this "Likes"...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

Aurora - the rational response is better schizophrenia management

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Robert Ebert:   "Here is a record of mass shootings in the United States since 2005. It is 62 pages long ... The hell with it. I'm ...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Google World Wonders Project

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Google World Wonders Project . Wonders, world, pretty much what is says on the can. As of today not all of the new antarctic street view i...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Why Montreal is the #1 bicycle city in North America.

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Portland and Minneapolis have been fighting for bicycle glory over the past few years. We usually trade #1 and #2 spots with the hilly city ...

Why does Thrifty Rental provide car key sets bigger than my iPhone?

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When I rented from Thrifty recently I got this set of keys: There were two keys with batteries, each 1cm thick at the head. A third valet...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

How Google can save itself - sell privacy.

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It's been 3 years since the Google-Apple divorce , eight months since Google 1.0 died , and six months since I tried divorcing Google . ...