Why Amazon Can’t Make A Kindle In the USA (Forbes)
Some of us have been nattering about this since the 80s. The suits and bean-counters haven’t wanted to listen. Some, just SOME, …
Read more...Some top male athletes had a woman as their sports idol (USATODAY.com)
One of those unintended, but very welcome, consequences of letting women excel. Role models are role models. Some top male athletes had …
Read more...Rules? What Rules? (Patricia C. Wrede)
If somebody’s writing “rule” has the word “never” in it, or can be easily rephrased so as to have the word “never” …
Read more...New study shows that knowing spoilers doesn’t ruin a story (io9)
About time. I’ve never been a fan of spoiler warnings. At first they were “until broadcast” in regards to TV, but …
Read more...The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (io9)
I still say we need to get good at traveling to the Moon first, but Mars needs to be the next stop …
Read more...All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup (Mother Jones)
You: doing more with less. Corporate profits: Up 22 percent. The dirty secret of the jobless recovery. I was on this roller …
Read more...Rob’s Wonder Woman TV Pilot FAQ! (Topless Robot)
You know, as awful as the other descriptions had been, this makes me weep. Not just for WW but for the art …
Read more...The NBA has become a dunkfest and it’s time to raise the rims (Chicago Sun-Times)
I’ve been saying this for years. I also wouldn’t mind the court being also proportionally enlarged. Watch old NBA stuff from the …
Read more...Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language (ExtremeTech)
Once they start talking, will we ever get them to shut up? I mean, people have tried altering my programming to stop …
Read more...NBC Rejects “Wonder Woman” (EW.com)
Merciful Athena–thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Wonder Woman NBC | Inside TV | EW.com.
Read more...Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks? (Slate)
Finally, people are starting to agree with me that the American convention doesn’t make sense. With the rise of self-publishing, maybe we …
Read more...Proposed Changes to Shot Clock and Backcourt Rules for Women’s College Hoops–a Big Step Backwards (Full Court Press)
“Maybe it makes sense to add the 10-second count to the women’s game, though I’m not really convinced, but going to a …
Read more...Ku Klux Klan Says It Doesn’t Condone Tea Party or Koran Burning – (GOOD)
A clear sign that perhaps you’ve gone off the deep end? When even the Ku Klux Klan tries to distance itself from …
Read more...New Mexico Wins America’s Best License Plate Award
I don’t know what they’re smokin’ over there, but this is an awful real-world plate. If you aren’t close to it, and …
Read more...What The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations
The founders understood the lessons of history, and were keen observers of human nature. As a group, we here in the now …
Read more...Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% (Vanity Fair)
Having gotten to see the US in both its ascendancy and its decline, I have to say that, overall, the ascendancy is preferable…maybe not …
Read more...The Iceberg of Radical Conservatism (reddit comment)
While “Working-class Radical Conservatism” seems oxymoronic, it isn’t. At best it’s misguided, at worst is deluded self-loathing. The net effect is that people …
Read more...Why women really are better at almost everything: Q&A with author Dan Abrams (shine.yahoo.com)
I’ve been saying this for almost all of my life. It’s pretty obvious if you pay attention. Why women really are better …
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