Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Intel Beats The Street In Q3 2013 With $13.5 Billion In Revenue And $0.53 EPS | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/15/intel-beats-the-street-in-q3-2013-with-13-5-billion-in-revenue-and-0-53-eps/


---SPSmith

The Dangers of Pseudoscience - NYTimes.com

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/the-dangers-of-pseudoscience/?_r=1&

The borderlines between genuine science and pseudoscience may be
fuzzy, but this should be even more of a call for careful
distinctions, based on systematic facts and sound reasoning. To try a
modicum of turtle blood here and a little aspirin there is not the
hallmark of wisdom and even-mindedness. It is a dangerous gateway to
superstition and irrationality.
---SPSmith

Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review (2013) | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/7/4811694/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-review-2013

Last year's $119 Kindle Paperwhite was the best ebook reader ever
made, the default choice, the one I recommend to everyone without a
second's thought — and 12 months later it still is. There isn't even
viable competition at this point.
---SPSmith

Tuesday, October 01, 2013

'Breaking Bad' Quotes: 20 Most Badass - Hollywood Reporter

The most famous Walt quote has been celebrated by fans and inspired an homage by Samuel L. Jackson.Breaking Bad writer Gennifer Hutchison, who wrote the episode, told THR she didn't realize the monologue would become iconic. "It was always a cool scene. I didn't realize how big it would become." Here's the quote in full: "You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I amthe danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No! I am the one who knocks!"

---SPSmith

Monday, September 16, 2013

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Monday, August 19, 2013

10 Things You Didn't Know About Oktoberfest...Zinzinnati That Is

10 Things You Didn't Know About Oktoberfest...Zinzinnati That Is: " Oktoberfest Zinzinnati is the second biggest Oktoberfest celebration in the world - the only one bigger is the original in Munich."

'via Blog this'

Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Homeowner Legal Options Against HOA | The Bainbridge Law Firm, L.L.C. | Scottsdale Arizona


Arizona law places certain restrictions on HOAs, regardless of the powers given to the HOA in the community documents. Below is a list of some common restrictions on HOA power. If the following principles are not followed, an HOA decision could be invalidated.

  • Board members must act as fiduciaries to the association, meaning all board members must put the interests of the community ahead of their own personal interests when acting on behalf of the HOA.
  • If any HOA action could financially benefit a board member or that board member's immediate family, the board member must state this conflict at an open meeting before voting on the issue.
  • HOAs must act reasonably and treat members fairly. An HOA may not carry out its duties in a manner that is arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable. In other words, community rules must be reasonably enforced.
  • HOAs may not selectively enforce community rules against particular homeowners. HOA rules must be enforced as equally as possible.

---SPSmith

Josh Haberman: Hello, JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs

http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-simple-jits.html


---SPSmith

Former President George W. Bush recovering after heart surgery | wfaa.com Dallas - Fort Worth

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/blockage-discovered-in-president-george-w-bushs-heart-218505281.html

"He had a stress test as part of his annual physical. During the
stress test there were EKG changes, which prompted a CT angiogram that
confirmed the blockage."


---SPSmith

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Slate: Lennon + McCartney = Nilsson



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doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.05.030

Despite public perception to the contrary,12,46,47 when all types of injuries are considered together, rural areas, not urban, bear a disproportionate amount of injury-related mortality risk in the United States 


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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Thursday, July 11, 2013

95% of everything I do is 100% legal

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Protecting Users of the Cyber Commons | September 2011 | Communications of the ACM

http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/9/122784-protecting-users-of-the-cyber-commons/fulltext


---SPSmith

Rationally Speaking: Democracy: the Egyptian conundrum

Contra what many of my secular humanist and atheist friends seem to think, it is not necessary for religious discourse to be sealed off from the public square. It is perfectly all right — indeed, inevitable — for politicians, say, to be guided in their thinking by their religious faith. What is not acceptable is the advancement of religious arguments when it comes to policy debates. Rather, the religious person needs to translate his objections (or positive proposals) into neutral language that can be debated on secular (in the sense above, not as in "secular humanism") terms.

---SPSmith

Thursday, July 04, 2013

UA MAGAZINE: False Numbers: Muslims And Population Growth

http://www.united-academics.org/magazine/getting-right/muslim-global-population/


---SPSmith

Victor J. Willi: Letter From Cairo


Once again it showed the Brotherhood's limited understanding of democracy, which is restricted to the mechanics of voting, elections and ballot boxes, while showing precious little appreciation for the values that make up the essence of a democracy, such as the rule of law, citizenship, equality and human rights

---SPSmith

Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss? | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/gut-microbiome-bacteria-weight-loss


---SPSmith

Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Bead-Chain VIDEO Uses Slo-Mo To Show How Falling Beads Seem To Float

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/bead-chain-video-falling-beads-float_n_3529944.html


---SPSmith

Paula Deen's Ugly Roots : The New Yorker


The controversy stems from a suit brought by a former employee, who claims, among other things, that Deen presided over a culture of racial and sexual impropriety, particularly at Uncle Bubba's Oyster House, the Savannah restaurant Deen set up for her brother, Bubba Hiers: pornography in the workplace, racial insults, nostalgia for the antebellum South. (In planning Bubba's wedding, the employee asserts in the complaint, Deen allegedly said, "I want a true southern plantation-style wedding.… Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n-----s to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around.") In other words, we now have "Kitchen Confidential: Georgia Edition," with an inverted power structure and markedly un-Vassar politics.

---SPSmith