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Most amazing product innovations of the week

1. The rubber clicky keyboard / cover for the MSFT tablet. 2. The camera sensor stuff in Galaxy S 3 — hand on the screen to silence, watch your eyes to keep screen on or dim 3. Apple’s 3D satellite

Most amazing product innovations of the week

1. The rubber clicky keyboard / cover for the MSFT tablet. 2. The camera sensor stuff in Galaxy S 3 — hand on the screen to silence, watch your eyes to keep screen on or dim 3. Apple’s 3D satellite

Great line from Rimbaud: “Since then the Moon has heard jackals cheeping in thyme deserts”

Founder of literary modernism, in case you were wondering. Retired from writing at 20. Hat tip, The New Yorker.

Great line from Rimbaud: “Since then the Moon has heard jackals cheeping in thyme deserts”

Founder of literary modernism, in case you were wondering. Retired from writing at 20. Hat tip, The New Yorker.

US Govt R&d changes the game again

Military spy technology poised to go blackhat malware.  How Flame virus has changed everything for online security firms http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jun/17/flame-virus-online-security?CMP=twt_fd (Sent from Flipboard)

US Govt R&d changes the game again

Military spy technology poised to go blackhat malware.  How Flame virus has changed everything for online security firms http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jun/17/flame-virus-online-security?CMP=twt_fd (Sent from Flipboard)

Red meat and risk of death

http://m.theheart.org/article/1368509.do Armchair science is dangerous. Almost everyone I know that heard of this study said "oh it must be correlation wit other bad stuff like smoking". And nobody investigated further and they were all wrong.  // Overall, eating processed and

Red meat and risk of death

http://m.theheart.org/article/1368509.do Armchair science is dangerous. Almost everyone I know that heard of this study said "oh it must be correlation wit other bad stuff like smoking". And nobody investigated further and they were all wrong.  // Overall, eating processed and

The “Outrunning the bear” pattern

Startups are often framed vs the bear. Here is a problem. We will solve it. The world will not address. We outrun the bear. But usually the “technology” will inevitably outrun the bear. Something new like GPS or picture streams

The “Outrunning the bear” pattern

Startups are often framed vs the bear. Here is a problem. We will solve it. The world will not address. We outrun the bear. But usually the “technology” will inevitably outrun the bear. Something new like GPS or picture streams

If “Side Navigation” picks up, then credit goes to MSFT

http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2012/06/emerging-ui-pattern-side-navigation…. Hey Android blogger, no mention of WM7?

If “Side Navigation” picks up, then credit goes to MSFT

http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2012/06/emerging-ui-pattern-side-navigation…. Hey Android blogger, no mention of WM7?

Shout out to my portraitist Ralph Heimans (got to paint HM Queen Vic on the 60th)

http://media.smh.com.au/life-and-style/life/an-aussie-painters-sitting-with-t…

Shout out to my portraitist Ralph Heimans (got to paint HM Queen Vic on the 60th)

http://media.smh.com.au/life-and-style/life/an-aussie-painters-sitting-with-t…

Whit Stillman in Metropolitan: “The acid test is

Do you take any pleasure in answering the question ‘What do you do?’” Some wise lines in 1990. I am reading F Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Beautiful and the Damned” – which reads about the same way.

Whit Stillman in Metropolitan: “The acid test is

Do you take any pleasure in answering the question ‘What do you do?’” Some wise lines in 1990. I am reading F Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Beautiful and the Damned” – which reads about the same way.

My favorite popular writer on philosophy

Why do physicists have to be so churlish toward philosophy? http://nyti.ms/NXJZ6O Jim Holt. Read his book on jokes sometime.

My favorite popular writer on philosophy

Why do physicists have to be so churlish toward philosophy? http://nyti.ms/NXJZ6O Jim Holt. Read his book on jokes sometime.

You should be so lucky, to enter history this way

A sentence in the times: Cody Eppley pitched a scoreless eighth and Ryota Igarashi, the former Met, allowed one hit, walked two and allowed one run in the ninth in his Yankee debut // The Yankees roughed up Johan Santana

You should be so lucky, to enter history this way

A sentence in the times: Cody Eppley pitched a scoreless eighth and Ryota Igarashi, the former Met, allowed one hit, walked two and allowed one run in the ninth in his Yankee debut // The Yankees roughed up Johan Santana