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Monthly Archive: August 2012
Aug 26 2012
Amazon and Apple and Love-Hate
After its beatdown of Samsung last week, a Fortune piece wonders who Apple will sue next. Analyst Florian Mueller: “If I were in Apple’s shoes the next company I would sue is not Google, but Amazon, which has an even weaker patent portfolio than Google and sells large volumes of Android-based devices with a subsidies-centric …
Aug 26 2012
Strange, Mindless, Near-Racist
My paraphrase of The Economist on Romney (words in bold used in the actual piece): “We’d love to love you, but you’re a strange man with mindless policy positions who says near-racist things. Please tell us you’ve been kidding.”
Aug 26 2012
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It’s very likely that there will not be a living human being who knows what Neil Armstrong knew. It will all be for videotape and digital libraries, for historians and, if we’re very lucky, for poets, as well. But there will be nobody alive who actually knows. Not a single one of our fellow humans, …
Aug 26 2012
An André / Thoreau Move
I’ve been kind of rolling my eyes at the series by Paul Miller at The Verge on his year away from the Internet, which I’ve prejudicially thought of as a bit contrived and a little too cute by half. (I even get the unsubstantiated impression that his colleagues are just bemusedly humoring him.) But in …
Aug 26 2012
In Case You Needed Further Proof That Obama Has it in the Bag…
Former Florida governor, Charlie “I Must Find out Where They are Going So I Can Lead Them” Crist, endorses the president.
Aug 26 2012
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If [Romney] is not successful, holy Toledo, there will be hell to pay in this party. The right wing is going to drive further right,” said Gross, Romney’s former Iowa chairman. But that may happen even if he does win. For the Republican Party has decided that Mitt Romney is the means to an end. …
Aug 26 2012
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Another joke, a bit more wistful and a bit closer to the bone, comes when people tell him that he would have governed differently than Mr. Bush. Mr. Gore usually replies, “You know what: I would have just made different mistakes. The End of the Line – NYTimes.com
Aug 26 2012
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We’re going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic. You don’t need a stylus. It’s far more accurate than any touch display that’s ever been shipped. It ignores unintended touches, it’s super-smart. You can do multi-finger gestures on it. And …
Aug 26 2012
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Right off the bat, Romney hits us with some unscripted juice. “My, oh my, you guys are great to be out here with this rain,” he says. He has declined the use of an umbrella and is getting rained on with the rest of us. He grins, jaw like a crescent moon. “This guy here …
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