May 2010
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“Yesterday, I made a crucial discovery: Wii Fit offers a meditation video game. A...”
– AJ Jacobs: My colossal task burden | Life and style | The Guardian Go read it; it’s a great article. (via Instapaper)
May 31st
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“I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the...”
– Presidential Proclamation—Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month | The White House Respect.
May 30th
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The Source of Spinach’s Power →
A 1870 German study that served as the basis for Popeye’s spinach-fueled ‘roid rage accidentally printed the decimal place for spinach’s iron content one spot too far to the right. For our non-mathematically inclined readers, that means the report claimed the vegetable had 10 times its actual… Haha! Hilarious!
May 28th
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Apple Passes Microsoft as No. 1 in Tech →
Apple, which had been given up for dead a decade ago, is now the world’s most valuable technology company.
May 27th
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“You know, there really should be a special tag for sarcastic links to make them...”
– The Macalope, Macworld
May 25th
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Plane With 160 Aboard Crashes in India →
Firefighters tried to put out the fire on the smoldering Air India plane that crashed in Mangalore, India, on Saturday. The Air India flight appeared to have overshot the hilltop runway as it was landing in one of India’s trickiest airports in the southern city of Mangalore. My heart goes out to the families of those who lost their lives in the disaster. May they rest in peace.
May 21st
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May 19th
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May 19th
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“I’m no financial expert, but isn’t the point of investor meetings to get people...”
– Remains of the Day: Tweetie’s MIA, Jobs for president by Dan Moren Together with “The Macalope Weekly”, this is fast becoming my favourite column at Macworld.
May 19th
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In Defense of Facebook - Mashable →
chartier: “The web is a network of information, and information has no walls.” Then why are Facebook mail messages still “private?” Why are Facebook chats still “private?” Why aren’t their contents laid bare on the News Feed with Like and Share and Comment buttons? Why aren’t our phones’ SMS conversations automatically uploaded to our Facebook and Twitter and MySpace accounts with “Blog This!”...
May 17th
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May 6th
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Mobile Maps India puts GPS on the map →
My first article for Smoking Apples in a long, long while. I spent a hell of a lot of time on this one. If you own an iPhone and would like to know how good a GPS device it can be in India, go check it out.
May 6th
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“When the biggest problem in personal technology is that the leading company...”
– A good problem to have | Mike Industries Fantastically well written article. (via Instapaper)
May 5th