Apple's Steve Wozniak Appears on CBS's Big Bang Theory: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak appeared on CBS's The Big Bang Theory tonight. Woz appeared as himself in the show which made jokes about Steve Jobs and the early Apple II computer. The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom that airs on CBS on Thur...
Well, that settles that; whether to watch "Bones" or "Big Bang."
Report: 95 percent of all e-mail is spam: Report also finds that Trojans are to blame for 55 percent of all malware threats, with many focused on stealing information in order to access financial accounts.
Secret Apple TV Features Steve Jobs Won't Tell You About: The Apple TV is a lot more interesting than it sounds. Here's a roundup of the set-top box's hidden features that Steve Jobs never mentioned.
"Star Wars" films set for re-release in 3-D: Oh be honest, you knew this was coming. Why wouldn't George Lucas find a way to charge $18 per ticket for a movie you've seen many, many different versions of already?
Ultrafast Laser Pulse Makes Desktop Black Hole Glow: A desktop black hole created in a lab in Italy has been shown to emit light, a discovery that could seal one of the biggest holes in theoretical physics and pave the way for physicist Stephen Hawking to win a Nobel prize.
Apple's segmentation strategy, and the folly of conventional wisdom: The following inconvenient facts must be an affront to the horizontal, commoditized, open, market share zealots. Apple has launched three major new product lines since 2001 : the iPod (October, 2001); the iPhone (July, 2008); and the iPad (April, 2010).
The company's stock is up 3,000 percent since the launch of iPod, 60 percent since the launch of iPhone, and 20 percent since the launch of iPad.
Further, when you see how Apple has used its vertical integration of the iPod media player and the iTunes marketplace across all of its devices to create a billing relationship with 160 million consumers vis-à-vis simplified discovery, purchase and distribution, it provides a window into how they've facilitated a market segmentation approach that is simultaneously harmonious and discrete.
In the harmonious bucket is the way that iOS-based Apps and their corresponding "ecosystem surround" directly overlay on top of iTunes and the iPod media player. This approach is no doubt a business school study of how companies can marry strategy and tactics across product lines and product lifecycles.
PC Magazine reviews new Apple TV: ‘Our new Editors’ Choice media hub’: No other set-top box has yet to offer the feature set of the re-imagined, more-affordable Apple TV
Six Facebook, Twitter mistakes that can get you fired: What are some of the red flag behaviors an employer might look for in their employees' online profiles? CSO's Joan Goodchild lists six mistakes users make on sites like Facebook and Twitter that could lead to unemployment.
Review: Photoshop Elements 9: The latest iteration of Photoshop Elements--version 9--has a layer mask button, Facebook integration, and Content-Aware Fill features, and it comes packaged with the Adobe Elements Organizer.
Bacchus Seduces in New High-Res Imagery: Tourists have long crowded in museums to admire Caravaggio's Bacchus, but a new 3.4 billion-pixel image of the painting allows for an amazingly detailed look at an old master's work from your computer screen. See high-resolution images of this piece, as well as works by Leonard da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and other old masters.
'Star Wars' Series To Be Re-Released In 3-D - MTV Movie News| MTV: According to the Los Angeles Times movie blog Hero Complex, after observing the huge success of "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland," Lucas has decided to re-release the Jedi epic in 3-D. The current plan is to kick off the 3-D makeover in 2012 with the retrofitted first prequel in the space opera series, 1999's "Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace," and then follow with the five other movies, in numerical order, in consecutive years, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
FOXNews.com - Star Wars 3D Release, Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: George Lucas plans to rerelease the entire Star Wars saga in 3D starting in 2012. First up: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
Audio-Technica's AT-LP240 USB turntable offers quality, convenience: While most USB turntables tend to lack the quality components that provide great sound, Audio-Technica’s new AT-LP240-USB Direct-Drive Turntable aims to offer the best of both worlds by letting you easily digitize your old records without compromising on quality.
Roku inks deal with Hulu to bring Hulu Plus service to all Roku players: Roku, Inc., and Hulu today announced a partnership to offer the Hulu Plus service...
Arts & Letters Daily (28 Sep 2010):
The revolution will not be tweeted. Twitter did little for post-election events in Iran, and Facebook did not bring freedom to Moldova... more
Sarah Bernhardt's deceitfulness was a part of her very genius. Dumas said of the rail-thin actress, "She's such a liar, she may even be fat!"... more
Since Stephen Hawking is the smartest man on earth and "the most revered scientist since Einstein," when he tells us what it is to know the mind of God, he just can't be wrong. Right?... more
David Bowie, Earth's Perpetual Persona Machine: For more than four decades, David Bowie has adopted personas the way most of us adopt internet handles. No other musician, actor or genre-bending celebrity has been able to replicate the process with such artistic integrity.
UFOs Neutered Nukes, Air Force Officers Claim: Throughout the Cold War, a bunch of retired missileers swear, UFOs visited their nuclear bases -- and rendered their weapons temporarily useless. Not all of the officers actually saw the alien ships themselves. But the guys who told 'em about the UFOs were *really* reliable...
Build an Illuminating Light Table: A light table is just a small box with a frosted glass top and a light inside. Whatever you put on top of it will be illuminated from below. Use one to trace images, view old slides and negatives, or to get a better look at insects and leaves you've collected.
Sept. 27, 1822: Rosetta Stone Deciphers Ancient Mysteries: Jean-François Champollion shows a draft translation of the mysterious Rosetta stone and demonstrates to the world how to read the voluminous hieroglyphics left behind by the scribes of ancient Egypt.
sp!ked review of books | How to ask awkward questions and annoy people: In his endless, often exasperating pursuit of Truth, Socrates made many enemies. Yet his ideas and his questioning outlook remain invaluable to understanding the present.
SPINOFF: Watch the "All Star Superman" Animated Trailer: Warner Bros. Animation has released the first trailer for the Dwayne McDuffie written animated adaptation of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's "All Star Superman." SPINOFF has the details and the video.
iPad Tops Consumer Satisfaction Survey: CNBC reports that iPad is the highest-scoring product the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) has ever tracked.
LHC Detects Evidence of New Physics: After nearly 6 months of smashing particles, the Large Hadron Collider has seen signs of something entirely new. Pairs of charged particles produced when two beams of protons collide seem to be associated with each other even after they fly apart.
World's oldest man marks 114th birthday in Montana: A Montana resident believed to be the world's oldest man is celebrating his 114th birthday.
Sincerely Ours: Glee’s Success Cements Age of Geeky ‘New Sincerity’ | Underwire | Wired.com:
Ficks worries that this has become so rampant it’s made it nearly impossible for many of us to honestly know how we feel about anything, so we merely say things are “crazy” or “ridiculous” — vague critiques that can be perceived as either positive or negative — so we don’t get busted giving the wrong opinion in mixed company.
Wow. So that's why the people around me say stuff like that. They're not in touch with their feelings. I've often wondered arout that.
The right picked the wrong historical analogy - Tea Parties | Tea Party Movement, Tax Day Tea Party - Salon.com: Today’s Tea Party movement is much more like the misguided and ill-fated Whiskey Rebellion of the early 1790s, during the first term of America’s first president, George Washington.
Sci-Fi Visionary H.G. Wells Travels Through Time: Herbert George Wells arrived on our verdant Earth exactly 144 years ago. But the prescient writer's creative and analytical treatises on an alien future are still unfurling in time and media. Wired.com collates Wells' viral cultural replications.
Roseburg Planning Commission approves waterfront plan | The News-Review - NRtoday.com: Commissioner John McDonald acknowledged that vagrants are a problem, but that shouldn't stop the city from adopting the Waterfront Master Plan, he said.
“Overall, I'm pretty content with the plan,” McDonald said. “You can't do nothing.”
Downpour doesn't keep the brew from flowing:
The theme of this year's Umpqua Brew Fest was "It's All About the Water," and with the rainy weekend, it was in more ways than one. People from all over came to the free event, to escape the rain and try out a variety of local micro brews.
Run the venerable Newton OS on your magical iPad: The oft-mocked Newton OS has made its way to the iPad, if you're able to install it yourself.
Run the venerable Newton OS on your magical iPad: The oft-mocked Newton OS has made its way to the iPad, if you're able to install it yourself.
Gigantic Spider Webs Made of Silk Tougher Than Kevlar: A spider discovered deep in the jungles of Madagascar spins the largest webs in the world, using silk that's tougher than any known biological substance.
VLC Player makes its way to the iPad: After much anticipation, VideoLAN has brought its free, open source multimedia player, VLC Player, to the iPad.
New Flip camcorders add smoother video, accessory port: Your new Flip camcorders improve the line's video-capture frame rate and add digital stabilization--and one model introduces a proprietary accessory port.
I've played with a Flip before - nice.
Six Reasons Why I’m Not On Facebook, By Wired UK’s Editor | Epicenter | Wired.com: Well, Matt, I admit I’m the wrong side of 30, and that I still avoid using emoticons in formal correspondence. But let me explain why I’m not active on Facebook, nor sharing my credit-card purchases on Blippy, nor allowing Google Buzz to mine my contacts list, nor even publishing my DNA on 23andMe.com. My cautious use of the social networks has nothing to do with paranoia about privacy; and yes, I celebrate the unprecedented transparency and connectivity that these services can empower. But what’s increasingly bothering me is the wider social and political cost of our ever-greater enmeshment in these proprietary networks. Here are half a dozen reasons why.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1996 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon,[1] U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.[1] For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, matey!" The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy.
Intel Touts 'WiDi' for Connecting PCs, TVs: Intel has joined the parade of companies trying to beam video to your TV. The chipmaker is betting on "WiDi," its technology for streaming media wirelessly from the PC to the TV. Intel's WiDi, which is short for "wireless display," will remove the pain of stringing HDMI cables between the TV and the laptop.
Best Buy Chief: iPad Cannibalizes Laptop Sales by 50%: According to Best Buy Chief Executive Brian Dunn, the iPad has replaced around half of all laptop sales -- mostly from Windows-operated machines. Further, the little tablet is also slowing TV sales, despite the manufacturers’ desperate push to shift 3D sets.
BBC News - Sacha Baron Cohen to play Freddie Mercury: Ali G and Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen is to play Freddie Mercury in a film about Queen, the rock band's guitarist Brian May has confirmed to the BBC.
"We have Sacha Baron Cohen, which will probably be a shock to a lot of people, but he's been talking with us for a long time," May told the HARDtalk show.
Atom chip circuits slated to shrink to 15 nanometers: IDF talk shows that circuits inside Intel's Atom chip are slated to shrink to a size that is incomprehensibly small, the width of about 60 atoms.
Forget the pink pill, try a placebo: At long last, researchers say they just might have discovered the secret to "female Viagra" -- so long as you believe they have. Cindy Meston, a clinical psychology professor at the University of Texas and co-author of "Why Women Have Sex," recently reviewed the findings of a past clinical trial for using Cialis to treat female sexual arousal disorder in women. The male erectile dysfunction drug didn't do much for the ladies -- go figure -- but something else stood out, so to speak: the placebo effect.
Katy Perry: A newer, better Britney Spears: Katy Perry does not dabble in Bad Romance. She is not Hard. And no one tries to make her go to Rehab. Unlike her pop peers, the wide-eyed 25-year-old California Gurl is a Teenage Dream. She wakes up in Vegas. She kisses a girl, "just to try it." Wheeeeeee! After dominating the summer with not one but two unstoppable, earworm hits, her latest album is at the top of the Billboard chart, sitting daintily right above that crankypuss Eminem. A girl like that has a boatload of hate coming her way.
Moon Crater Map Reveals Early Solar System History: The first complete topographic map of the moon and its craters has revealed details of billions of years of bombardment by asteroids, and the history of our early solar system. Among other things, the map confirms theories of an onslaught of massive asteroids around 3.9 billion years ago that likely evaporated any water on Earth present at the time.
"Meek's Cutoff": Michelle Williams' extraordinary pioneer movie - Andrew O'Hehir, Movie Critic - Salon.com: This chilling, beautiful fable about the Oregon Trail might be Toronto's best new film
One in seven Americans now live in poverty: The number of people living in poverty has climbed to 14.3 percent of Americans, with the ranks of working-age poor reaching the highest level since at least 1965.
Car tumbles into Oregon's Crater Lake:
A car with a dog inside tumbled 1,100 feet into Oregon's Crater Lake, but the dog was able to jump from the vehicle with only minor injuries.
Woody Allen on Faith and Fortune Tellers - Question - NYTimes.com: Q. How do you feel about the aging process?
A. Well, I’m against it. [laughs] I think it has nothing to recommend it. You don’t gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you’d trade all of that for being 35 again.
Interesting how well this coincides with the novel I'm currently re-raeding, JURGEN by James Branch Cabell. A middle-aged pawnbroker may have mellowed with age, but he jumps at the chance to become young again.
Morals & the servile mind by Kenneth Minogue - The New Criterion: My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate, our rulers now make us accountable to them. Most Western governments hate me smoking, or eating the wrong kind of food, or hunting foxes, or drinking too much, and these are merely the surface disapprovals, the ones that provoke legislation or public campaigns. We also borrow too much money for our personal pleasures, and many of us are very bad parents. Ministers of state have been known to instruct us in elementary matters, such as the importance of reading stories to our children. Again, many of us have unsound views about people of other races, cultures, or religions, and the distribution of our friends does not always correspond, as governments think that it ought, to the cultural diversity of our society. We must face up to the grim fact that the rulers we elect are losing patience with us.
Christine O'Donnell, Tolkien scholar: We've learned a lot of quirky facts about Christine O'Donnell. We already knew the Republican Senate nominee abhorred masturbation and believed that looking at pornography was cheating. Well, yesterday, we learned yet more about her view of relations between the sexes – through, of all things, her analysis of J.R.R. Tolkien's work. In a 2003 essay, she wrote about the roles of women in "Lord of the Rings" and argued that Tolkein's female characters offer "insight into what it means to be a woman." But, more importantly, O'Donnell's exegesis gives insight into what she thinks it means to be a woman. Let's take a look, shall we?
Reading Club: America's prudish literary morality: Likability is indeed just another word for "morality." A huge section of the American reading public does not want art for art's sake, or even realistic characters; it wants the books we read and the movies we see to be clever public service announcements, meant to uphold public morality.
Sept. 16: Jobs Quits Apple in 1985, Returns in 1997: It's an auspicious day in the history of Steve Jobs. It's the day he quit Apple and the day he returned.
Can I take a lover in my 50s?: I want to believe I am a woman who can deal with having a lover -- a man I go to bed with who is neither boyfriend nor husband. Sex that is occasional, not quite casual. (Can sex ever be casual? If it's casual, is it really sex?) Lovemaking with no promises of love, just the opportunity to practice that most difficult of yogic challenges: Be in the moment. Do not try to connect this experience to anything before or beyond now.
Would you like some Coke with that "corn sugar"? - How the World Works - Salon.com: The invention of ultra-cheap high fructose corn syrup changed all that. In 1985 Coke switched to a 100 percent HFCS formula, as did its major competitors. The era of the Big Gulp was suddenly upon us: "Annual soda consumption soared to 56.1 gallons -- more than 600 cans -- per person in 1998, up 30 percent from 1985..."
Open webpages automatically | Mac OS X | Mac 911 | Macworld: I am wondering if Automator can be programmed to display particular Websites at a specific time of day. Is that possible?
Sure. It’s done this way:
Launch Automator and, when prompted, choose iCal Alarm from the template chooser that first appears. Click Choose and in the resulting workflow add two actions: Get Specified URLs and Display Webpages.
Apple orders additional 1 million iPad touchscreens per month: Cando is scheduled to start shipping 9.7-inch touchscreens for Apple's revolutionary iPad...
Hyatt Hotels enhances guest services globally with Apple’s revolutionary iPad: For over 50 years, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts have aimed to make guests feel more than welcome...
LogTen Pro 5.5.10 - Logbook solution for pilots. (Updater):
What was your latest departure time out of JFK last month? How much time did you log on flight number 317 last week? When was the last time you performed the landing in KASE? Is your flight time in the last 28 days within the approved limits? How many days until your next flight review? Medical? LogTen Pro has the answers.
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The paranoid style in American punditry: I spent most of August more or less disconnected from TV, the Internet and print news outlets, so when I caught up with a friend on the phone, I asked him to brief me on which stories had captured the nation's attention. He tried to explain the controversy over the Park51 Islamic culture center, but it wasn't easy. "So, why is this anti-Muslim panic coming up now?" I asked. "What triggered it?" "I keep going back to Richard Hofstadter's 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics,'" he replied. "It's not necessarily about Islam. These people need an enemy."
9/11 Memorial Lights Trap Thousands of Birds: On the evening of the ninth anniversary of Sept. 11, the twin columns of light projected as a memorial over the World Trade Center site became a source of mystery. Illuminated in the beams were thousands of small white objects, sparkling and spiraling, unlike anything seen on other nights. Those unidentified objects have now been identified as birds, pulled from their migratory path and bedazzled by the light in a perfect, poignant storm of avian disorientation.
This would make an interesting metaphor. But, for what?
Twitter unveils 'faster, richer' Twitter.com | Geek Gestalt - CNET News: Though site redesigns are often underwhelming, the new Twitter.com is tantamount to a fundamental relaunch of the popular microblogging service's Web-based interface, mainly because it introduces a new interface build around a second viewing pane in which users will be able to see all kinds of content--from photos and videos to user profiles to geolocation information and more.
Twitter.com Goes Media-Rich: Twitter revamps its website to make communicating and reading easier, with videos and photos in a right panel, and more information about users, in a bid to keep Twitterers on its site.
MacDailyNews: “Steve did visit Japan this summer for a vacation in Kyoto, but the incidents described at the airport are pure fiction. Steve had a great time and hopes to visit Japan again soon.”
iPod program helps school test scores: Last month, we had an exceptional panel talking about Mobile in Education at our largest Mobile Portland meeting ever. A report on how iPod Touches are making huge differences in third-grade test scores really stuck with me.
Report: Steve Jobs stopped at airport in Japan with ninja stars | abc7news.com: A Japanese magazine is reporting that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was stopped at an Osaka airport for trying to take a ninja weapon onto his plane.
Spa Magazine says in July, a security scan at Kansai International Airport detected ninja throwing stars inside Jobs' carry-on luggage.
Jobs was returning to the U.S. from a family vacation in Kyoto.
According to the report, Jobs told officials it wouldn't make sense for a person to try to hijack his own private plane.
He also vowed he'd never come back to japan.
Apple has declined to comment.
"True Blood" finale: The big showdown:
So, here we are at the finale of the most disturbing, violent, possibly nihilistic show on television right now. As we were all expecting, there has been a whole mess of blood, guts, burning and torture. But sadly we must say goodbye to … uh … wait, let me re-check my notes here … Wow, no one, unless you've grown unnaturally fond of Crystal's dad or her weird looking cousin who was caught naked, earlier this season, eating a deer.
Arts & Letters Daily (13 Sep 2010):
No species of animal outside of Homo sapiens rears the young of other species and supports them into old age. People love their pets... more
Thirty years on, and the WASP nest has broken open like a piñata. The new Preppy Handbook now includes gay preppies and black preppies... more
Attenborough meets Dawkins. It's almost too good to be true: on earth, life has come about in an intelligible process. And we're the only earthly species that can understand it... more
Wired's Guide to Picking Your Perfect TV Setup: From iTunes to Boxee to Netflix, there have never been more ways to watch TV. Here's Wired's guide to your perfect setup.
The Clicker - 'True Blood' says adios to Sookie in finale: Anna Chan writes: It was cliffhangers galore on the “True Blood” season three finale: Tara bails on Bon Temps, Sam shoots at his bro, Lafayette’s visions worsen and he turns to his witch boy toy Jesus, Jason becomes leader of Hotshot, Bill and vamp queen Sophie-Anne duke it out, Russell is buried alive, Sookie vanishes in a burst of light with her faerie pal Claudette … Whew! That wasn’t even everything!
The rise of "True Blood's" nihilistic vampire - True Blood - Salon.com: It's a radically leftist (and trenchantly contemporary) stance of moral relativity and unending existential crisis. In the "True Blood" world, there's no way to trust anyone; no way to predict anyone's actions; no fixed ruler with which to measure anybody's choices.
What I Think About When I Think About Pragmatism: First the editors of The Wall Street Journal warn Delawareans not to vote for Christine O'Donnell because she can't win in the general election, and then Sarah Palin weighs in with an endorsement of the same. I'm a little reminded of the final scene from Rambo III, except Ms. Palin would never use language like that.
Really? Are you sure about that? Or is this more of your undetectable sarcasm?
Why Alcohol Is Good for You: New research confirms that alcohol can be beneficial to your health. In fact, abstaining from alcohol increases your risk of dying.
Microsoft suspends 'Fort Gay' gamer: Presuming his location to be a pejorative slur, Microsoft suspends an Xbox Live gamer until the company discovers that Fort Gay, W. Va., is a very real place.
SPINOFF: Eastwood Could Have Been Superman: While Christopher Reeve will forever be the Man of Steel in the minds of movie fans worldwide, Clint Eastwood has revealed that prior to Reeves' casting, Dirty Harry himself was offered the role of Superman.
Why they want to burn the Quran - Joe Conason - Salon.com: Still, most conservatives would no doubt be alarmed by a book-burning, whether of the Koran or any other work. Yet they seem strangely oblivious to the relentless demonizing of Islam by figures in their movement, especially over the Park51 controversy, and how that furious drumbeat would encourage the burning of the Koran. They consistently refuse to take responsibility for their own role in encouraging those rancid emotions.
More daughters, more divorce: The sex of your baby can tell you all sorts of things -- namely, which pastel hue will soon overtake your life -- but rarely do couples consider what it will mean for their marriage. Cue this curious fact: Those with a daughter are 5 percent more likely to divorce than those with a boy, and the likelihood of a split only increases with each additional daughter. What's more, unwed couples are more likely to marry if they discover they have a boy on the way.
Op-Ed Columnist - 1938 in 2010 - NYTimes.com: From an economic point of view World War II was, above all, a burst of deficit-financed government spending, on a scale that would never have been approved otherwise. Over the course of the war the federal government borrowed an amount equal to roughly twice the value of G.D.P. in 1940 — the equivalent of roughly $30 trillion today.
Had anyone proposed spending even a fraction that much before the war, people would have said the same things they’re saying today. They would have warned about crushing debt and runaway inflation. They would also have said, rightly, that the Depression was in large part caused by excess debt — and then have declared that it was impossible to fix this problem by issuing even more debt.
But guess what? Deficit spending created an economic boom — and the boom laid the foundation for long-run prosperity. Overall debt in the economy — public plus private — actually fell as a percentage of G.D.P., thanks to economic growth and, yes, some inflation, which reduced the real value of outstanding debts. And after the war, thanks to the improved financial position of the private sector, the economy was able to thrive without continuing deficits.
The economic moral is clear: when the economy is deeply depressed, the usual rules don’t apply. Austerity is self-defeating: when everyone tries to pay down debt at the same time, the result is depression and deflation, and debt problems grow even worse. And conversely, it is possible — indeed, necessary — for the nation as a whole to spend its way out of debt: a temporary surge of deficit spending, on a sufficient scale, can cure problems brought on by past excesses.
Vanity Fair's Sarah Palin Profiler: 'The Worst Stuff Isn't Even In There': The author of the blistering Vanity Fair profile on Sarah Palin says he wanted to write a positive piece, but was shocked by what he learned as he researched his story.
"The worst stuff isn't even in there," Michael Joseph Gross said on "Morning Joe" Thursday. "I couldn't believe these stories either when I first heard them, and I started this story with a prejudice in her favor. I have a lot in common with this woman. I'm a small-town person, I'm a Christian, I think that a lot of her criticisms of the media actually have something to them. And I think she got a bum ride, but everybody close to her tells the same story."
In the profile, Gross paints Palin as an abusive, retaliatory figure with an extreme ability to lie.
"This is a person for whom there is no topic too small to lie about," he said. "She lies about everything."
"I started this with every good intention toward her," he said. "I was just shocked and appalled at every step at what I found. And I wrote this story sort of against my will. It wasn't what I wanted to write, it wasn't what I wanted to find. It was what was forced on me by the facts."
Zeta Woof: Sibling Rivalry: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
Sibling Rivalry
On our lawn about ten minutes ago.
They weren't going at it very hard; just rattling their racks. It's 90° in the shade and they were panting like dogs. After a minute or two they gave up and headed down to the river. There's a nice cool bar down there where they can have a drink and a swim.
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Murdoch Reporters’ Phone Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds | Threat Level | Wired.com: “The office cat knew,” one longtime reporter said.
Panasonic debuts first consumer 3D HD camcorder: Panasonic used the broiling, hectic setting of the U.S. Open tennis tourney in New York Wednesday to showcase the capabilities of its first handheld consumer 3D camcorder.
Sturges Hosts "House of Mystery Halloween Annual" - Comic Book Resources: Interesting. From this I learned that the "i, Zombie" series is set in Eugene, Oregon. How apropos.
Clustered Networks Spread Behavior Change Faster: Redundancy is key, as people are more likely to engage in a behavior if they see many others doing it.
This newly-discovered finding is called the "Monkey-See Monkey-Do" effect. Maybe it's not so new after all. In fact, it seems pretty obvious. Duh.
Earth's Magnetic Field Flipped Superfast: Magnetic minerals in 15-million-year-old rocks appear to preserve a moment when the magnetic north pole was rapidly on its way to becoming the south pole, and vice versa.
String Theory Finally Does Something Useful: String theory has finally made a prediction that can be tested with experiments — but in a completely unexpected realm of physics: quantum entanglement.
Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury | Politics | Vanity Fair: Even as Sarah Palin’s public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her. Following the former Alaska governor’s road show, the author delves into the surreal new world Palin now inhabits—a place of fear, anger, and illusion, which has swallowed up the engaging, small-town hockey mom and her family—and the sadness she has left in her wake.
This use of "North Star" to refer to herself is quite provocative. The ancient emperor's of China were similarly identified with the "North Star", lending credence to the idea that Fu Manchu is alive and well, and ready to take over the world, through puppets such as Palin.
The more I read of this article, the more it sounds like a satirical passage from the "Illuminatus" trilogy.
Narcissist.
Discover Preview's hidden image editing powers: With Preview, you can adjust an image’s tonality, color, and even select objects within the shot to copy and add to other photographs. Take a quick photographer’s tour of this handy imaging application.
First Look: iTunes 10: It’s become a tradition in recent years: to coincide with Apple’s September music event, where new iPods and related hardware are presented, iTunes increases its version number by a notch. This year’s vintage features one major new feature, a handful of interface changes, and some minor tweaks. Here’s an overview of what’s new and different in iTunes 10.
God didn't create universe, Stephen Hawking argues – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs: Hawking says in his book "The Grand Design" that, given the existence of gravity, "the universe can and will create itself from nothing," according to an excerpt published Thursday in The Times of London.
"Spontaneous creation is the reason why there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," he writes in the excerpt.
"Sandman" TV Series In The Works: The award-winning sales chart perennial by Neil Gaiman and company finds its prospects for adaptation in other media renewed as Warner Bros. Television makes a move for "The Sandman."
Glenn Beck's religious rally nothing new: Here we go again. A self-promoting TV evangelist has summoned yet another gullible throng to a Washington pep rally/prayer meeting, and everybody's expected to ponder its vast significance. But what if it hasn't actually got any? Except perhaps as a validation of H.L. Mencken's timeless observation that "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
5 Reasons Why Apple TV Is (Still) Boring: We know — the new Apple TV is really small, and cheap and easy-to-use. That's all good, but still not knocking our socks off despite being the ripest area for expansion by a company that has already firmly established itself on the computer, phone, portable media player and tablet. Here are five reasons Apple TV is still boring.
A Syllabus and Book List for Novice Students of Science Fiction Literature | Underwire | Wired.com: Want to start reading some science fiction, but aren't sure where to begin? We've put together an introductory sci-fi lit syllabus just for you.
The secret to the immortality of McDonald's food: Ever since Morgan Spurlock held up that jar of mysteriously well-preserved fries in "Super Size Me," the list of exhibits in the McDonald’s museum of food-that-refuses-go-bad has grown exponentially. The latest entrant is the Happy Meal Project, a burger and a packet of fries that have soldiered on undecayed for 143 days.
Hot Water Around Giant Carbon Star Creates Interstellar Mystery: Hot water discovered around a giant carbon star requires a new theory for the chemistry around stars to be explained. The new theory could significantly alter our understanding of what materials exist in interstellar space, and where water and life could exist in the universe.
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