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The Problem with Comments
Recently Popular Science turned off user comments entirely on new articles. In true PopSci style, they justified the move with a study, unlinked, but linked to the study’s author’s OpEd on the study, justifying their move by saying that the existence of polarizing comments unduly influence readers, and outweigh the ability of civil discourse to … Continue reading
Rattling Auto Maintenance Idiocy
Shock and Awwww After settling in with a set of good vehicles, a heated home garage and a reliable mechanic nearby, I had forgotten just how badly many are served by the auto repair industry… until my young cousin stopped by with his little Audi turbo and asked me about oil changes. Ever the middle … Continue reading
Statist Agendas
I expect articles in The New Yorker to be thoughtful if biased, but I never expected this. The “blog” writer, Avery Johnson, tries to rewrite climate, educational history, and class history with this astounding intro to the article The Day-Camp Boom: “The beloved ritual of summer vacation is often said to have begun in agrarian … Continue reading
Daily surfing failures
I went to Philips‘ site to compare their various headlamps for autos. I picked two for comparison. The results were: 12V versus 12.8V, and both were the same wattage. Oh, yeah. How about… Lumens? Color temp? Expected life? Lots of pretty Flash, though. Now I’m worried about that 0.8V! (Not really. There’s almost nothing 12.0V … Continue reading
digital lifestyle / linux / mint / ubuntu
Mint 14 Can’t Burn
After some struggles with a previous distro, I installed Mint 14 64-bit Cinnamon on my Desktop earlier this year, and couldn’t be more happy with it. It “just works”. Until today. Today I got a new laptop (yeah!) because my old one died (boo) and went to burn the latest, Mint 15, on the Desktop … Continue reading
Why the Awesome Lunametrics Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet Matters
OK, by now you’ve probably seen it, reposted across every blog of every stripe imaginable: Lunametric’s Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet. (Viewable in full below.) Awesome. For the casual Social Media user and blogger, it may seem a lot of fuss about nothing. Doesn’t Facebook (for example) resize and crop everything anyway? Don’t I get … Continue reading
If Chicken Wings are getting bigger…
…how come my local BWW keeps serving smaller and smaller wings? Continue reading
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