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Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel | Video on TED.com. “And next year: toilet paper.”
Space Shuttle Launch Audio. Crank it up!
"roughly 30 minutes of down time. That means email delivery, signups, and tracking will not work"
Service interruption for scheduled maintenance? Seriously amateur in this day and age, especially for a large scale email service. I’m a bit embarrassed now for having recommended MailChimp to clients.
MailChimp Server Maintenance
“made with a single active ingredient, the drugs are not dyed or coated, and each drug is labeled clearly for the specific symptom”. Awesome. (via BLTD)
Brilliant xkcd today! I do so hope that someone uploads a live performance of this to YouTube.
"Basically, don’t set target-densitydpi unless you really know what you’re doing, and are prepared to consider the actual physical dimensions of your CSS pixels, which means testing on a lot of devices. Otherwise, trust the mobile browser to render those CSS pixels at a size that is comfortable for most users. If the user wants more control, the browser zoom setting is just a couple of taps away."
Goldilocks and the Three Device Pixel Ratios - Martin Sutherland. Ain’t it nice when things (mostly) work the way they’re supposed to?
RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS
I would’ve killed for this 4 years ago, because at the time I used Ruby daily and hadn’t written serious C code in years. But I’m extremely glad that RubyMotion did not exist then because I was forced to learn Objective-C, which is quite frankly an incredible development platform. The language and API are high-level enough to support serious productivity, but since it’s all built on C you can still feel the bits between your toes as you code.
Seriously, Facebook? You’ve changed the button label from the explicit “Allow” to a deceptive label that has nothing to do with what the button actually does. I already clicked on the video, so obviously I want to watch it. The whole point of this dialog box is to grant a 3rd party access to my Facebook account, but you’ve obfuscated that by making it look like a pointless dialog I have to click through to really watch the video. Lame.
"Justice Antonin Scalia took a “why even bother” approach, asking the solicitor general: “Are you objecting to harassing the people who have no business being here?"
The Lower Floor - NYTimes.com. A Supreme Court justice said that, from the bench?!? WJW.
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But the scientists who know endocrine disruptors best overwhelmingly are already taking steps to protect their families. John Peterson Myers, chief scientist at Environmental Health Sciences and a co-author of the new analysis, said that his family had stopped buying canned food.
“We don’t microwave in plastic,” he added. “We don’t use pesticides in our house. I refuse receipts whenever I can. My default request at the A.T.M., known to my bank, is ‘no receipt.’ I never ask for a receipt from a gas station.”
I’m taking my cue from the experts, and I wish the Obama administration would as well.
"How Chemicals Change Us - NYTimes.com. Why didn’t anyone tell me that thermal receipts are coated in BPA? And why the fuck haven’t we banned it yet?!?
iWebInspector
Connects the Web Inspector from desktop Safari to a MobileSafari instance running on the iOS simulator. Sweet!
"What was garbage in 1860 was fertilizer in 1870, cattle feed in 1880, and table food and many things else in 1890."
How Vegetable Oils Replaced Animal Fats in the American Diet - The Atlantic
Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief: UBC study
In other news: the Earth is round, and orbits the Sun.
"We sat at the bar and struck up a conversation with Patrick, who turned out to be the manager. When he heard we had never dined there before, he immediately said, “You’ll have to try the porketta sandwich. It is what we are known for.” Perfect."
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“P.T.S.D. in a high-risk cohort like war veterans could actually be a physical disease from permanent brain damage, not a psychological disease,” said Bennet Omalu, the neuropathologist who examined the veteran. Dr. Omalu published an article about the 27-year-old veteran as a sentinel case in Neurosurgical Focus, a peer-reviewed medical journal.
The discovery of C.T.E. in veterans could be stunningly important. Sadly, it could also suggest that the worst is yet to come, for C.T.E. typically develops in midlife, decades after exposure. If we are seeing C.T.E. now in war veterans, we may see much more in the coming years.
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