Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field Lives On, Dan Lyons (excerpts) Remember that now? Apple’s new maps were going to kill Google. This was the death blow. Same for Garmin and others who, the Telegraph noted, were stubbornly “not conceding defeat.” (Fools!) The rule of thumb for [...]
Archive for September, 2012
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: on Simchas Torah
Lasy year, over at HorsesAss, David Goldstein chose the Sunday after Simchas Torah, the day Jews believe the Torah was given to man, to quote from the beginning of Genesis: Genesis 2:2 By the seventh day God had finished his work, and so he rested. God, or at least the persona “God” w[...]
September 28th, 2012 - 6:35 am § in Misc.
BERKELEY BLOG: Can Romney still win?
Four reasons why Romney might still win Robert Reich, professor of public policy | 9/21/12 Can Romney possibly recover? A survey conducted between Sept. 12 and Sept. 16 by the Pew Research Center — before the “47 percent victim” video came to light – showed Obama ahead of Romney 51% to 43% a[...]
September 27th, 2012 - 6:05 pm § in Misc.
ROMNEYISMS: Limbaugh helps Romney
Limbaugh “We Do Have Victims In This Country, And They Are Victims Of Barack Obama”[...]
September 27th, 2012 - 3:13 pm § in Misc.
MORE WGU
Unfortunately before I understood how valuable an education was, I was past the point where I could drop everything and go to school. I have sporadically attended traditional brick and mortar institutions but had difficulty working 50 plus hours a week, going to school and raising a family. I have b[...]
September 27th, 2012 - 1:35 pm § in Misc.
SCIENCE
History has been made! Parents with kids with a very rare disease created their own charity and that paid off! In 2003 geneticists identified a mutation in lamin A that causes children to die in their teens of what appears to be greatly accelerated aging. Now, a clinical drug trial showed impr[...]
College Athletics … Wealthy Private, Rockefeller Univeristy Competes Toe to Toe With Big Time NCAA Conference School
Down a goal to No. 2/3 Minnesota (13-2-0, 8-2-0 WCHA) with 2:22 to play in the third period, the No. 9/9 Rockefeller women’s hockey team, The Ladies, (5-3-0, 5-2-0 ECAC) earned a power play opportunity after a checking call landed the Gophers’ senior defenseman Anne Schleper in the pena[...]