August 2010
Excerpt of the Day →
savingpaper:
It comes from a must-read story in The New York Times about Terry Jones, a Florida pastor who will “memorialize” September 11 this year by burning copies of the Qur’an (a book he’s never read but is confident it’s “full of lies”):
For local Muslims like Saeed Khan, who came here in the 1970s to study for a Ph.D. in biology at the University of Florida, the collective rejection of...
Re: The "Ground Zero" Mosque
evangotlib:
I’ve avoided commenting on this subject for a number of reasons. But things have gotten so out of hand that I decided to enter the fray. So here goes.
In the winter of 2001 about three months after 9/11 I traveled to Normandy to visit the D-Day beaches and the American Cemetery and Battle Memorial. It was a profound experience. Men - mostly boys really - so much younger than I...
Doctors Are Bad for Your Health →
jayparkinsonmd:
You may want to think twice before your next visit to the doctor’s office. According to Dr. Barbara Starfield’s now-famous study (in JAMA), iatrogenic deaths (those resulting from treatment by physicians or surgeons) are the third leading cause of mortality in the United States, resulting in the loss of 225,000 lives per year. Of that total, nosocomial (hospital-acquired)...
“Further, when I analyzed the One Touch data, I found the largest contributors to...”
– Over 88% of Hulu Plus Content is Already Available for Free on Hulu.com
“A new analysis of all the content available on Hulu Plus reveals that over 88%...”
– Over 88% of Hulu Plus Content is Already Available for Free on Hulu.com (via evangotlib)
Another way to put this: 12% of the content on Hulu+ is exclusive premium content that is not available to non-Plus Hulu users.
“Sometimes – about Sarah Palin – you just have to laugh…. But it’s not really...”
– AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
Union president slams Palin on her home turf (via apsies)
UX Won't Save You
52weeksofux:
I have this sneaking suspicion that a fair number of people are under the impression that User Experience is the hot new “silver-bullet”. Sorry to burst any bubbles, but I am afraid that just isn’t the case. While there can be no doubt that UX plays an important role in shaping, defining and creating a successful product, it is important to understand that there are often other...
“There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When...”
– J.K. Galbraith (via youmightfindyourself)
Watchevangotlib:
brooklynmutt:
“You would never know it listening to the news,” but the stimulus “saved us from a depression”- Fox News’ voice of reason, Shepard Smith
MediaMatters
“The average respiratory rate for adults is 12-20 breaths per minute, which is...”
– Flood Lite - Apple’s Attention to Detail (via zachrose)
“I trust emerging platforms. I trust creative people who have the enthusiasm to...”
– Dan Shanoff on the state of sports media, etc. (via jamiemottram) (via sbnation) (via soupsoup)
“If Andreessen is raising money now, does that mean he sees trouble down the road...”
– Andreessen Horowitz hitting up investors for a cool $650 million: report | VentureBeat (via david-noel)
That’s not why he’s doing it now. He’s doing it now because his fund is currently tiny and he’s developed a reputation and a bit of a track record. He can raise more on...
“I feel very sad,” Mr. Sharif said in a statement released by the taxi workers’...”
– Absolutely disgusted.
Man Held in Anti-Muslim Stabbing of Cabby in New York - NYTimes.com (via adamiss)
“In a twist, Becker said the foreclosure crisis could be helping to improve the...”
– Credit Card Debt Drops To Lowest Level In 8 Years
Grim. People are paying CC debt because they are skipping mortgage payments? At least they’re not buy jet skis, but jeez, if this is where we are finding the money to cover financial obligations because we’re defaulting on our single...
“The amount consumers owed on their credit cards in this year’s second quarter...”
– Credit Card Debt Drops To Lowest Level In 8 Years (via tedr)
This is good.
“A couple of years ago, Premiere magazine reported on an ingenious inquiry into...”
– Slavoj Zizek, in the Introduction to In Defense of Lost Causes (via easternblocparty)
What's most important: features, schedule or...
bijan:
I learned a lot of valuable lessons working with Steve Perlman at WebTV Networks and Moxi Digital.
If you worked or met with Steve you would easily agree with me that his passion is nothing but extraordinary. He is positively obsessed about building amazing products.
I learned other things from Steve as well. One of my favorites is V.S.C.F.
Those letters stand for: Vision. Schedule....
“It just had a sense of embracing or aligning with the Muslims. I don’t know. It...”
– Iowa Republican national committeewoman Kim Lehman, on why she believes a 2009 speech Pres. Obama gave in Cairo is proof that he is a Muslim. (via officialssay)
Replace “Muslims” with “Jews” and ask yourself if anyone would find this statement remotely acceptable. Lehman...
What Happened to Yahoo →
2105:
Paul Graham:
In technology, once you have bad programmers, you’re doomed. I can’t think of an instance where a company has sunk into technical mediocrity and recovered. Good programmers want to work with other good programmers. So once the quality of programmers at your company starts to drop, you enter a death spiral from which there is no recovery. [*]
…
The first time I visited...
“…Muslim Americans are, by and large, both socially and economically...”
– America’s First Muslim President - By Suhail A. Khan - Foreign Policy
(via brooklynmutt)
Reap what you sow. What a sad time for America. Sad Evan is sad. (via evangotlib)
“Critics of the proposed Islamic center said their right to speak out...”
– Protests, Rhetoric Feed Jihadists’ Fire - WSJ.com
This is also true of patriotic Americans who spoke out against the invasion of Iraq. Some on the right accused these folks of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Everyone’s memory is short.
“Copyright law is supposed to help consumers by protecting innovation, not...”
– Copycats vs. Copyrights - Newsweek (via publicknowledge) (via 2105)
“U.S. pay TV subscriptions have declined for the first time in history this...”
– New Numbers Reveal: Cord Cutting Is Real (via tedr)
“Chris works in the Pussycat Lounge, even closer to the site. When the airplanes...”
– Ten things I know about the mosque - Roger Ebert’s Journal
“We are deeply concerned, because this is like a metastasized antisemitism. ...”
– Daisy Khan, wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the “Ground Zero Imam.”
Mosque Planner Says Opposition Goes ‘Beyond Islamophobia’ - WSJ.com
She’s right. Much of the opposition to the Islamic community center near the World Trade Center has had a tone and tenor that...
The Mosque at Ground Zero
alqaeda:
Some of the recruits have recently asked me “Sheikh, does not the American anger over the mosque at Ground Zero demonstrate the hatefulness and bigotry of the Americans, and prove that we are correct in wanting to wipe them out?”
To this, my reply is to ask “And do you doubt that we are correct in wanting to wipe them out?” At my answer, they all suddenly become pale, something that...
“The calendar app seems to just remember the last screen it was on. I prefer the...”
– Anyway to Change the Default Calendar View? - Android Forums (via kortina)
Everything that’s wrong with Android. This is why I’m back on an iPhone.
