antimeria » nerdiness http://antimeria.com/blog a complete impediment to understanding Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:52:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Linkwad. http://antimeria.com/blog/nerdiness/linkwad-140 http://antimeria.com/blog/nerdiness/linkwad-140#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:56:35 +0000 martin http://antimeria.com/blog/?p=3741 More potentially-related posts:
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  • Jonah Weiner’s Louis CK interview and profile.
  • This eye-controlled computer is excellent, but undoubtedly already patented.
  • For Baltimore job creation, filmmaking > racing. For the record, fixing potholes > racing. PS: the Brew is now on Kickstarter.
  • Skip past the Tebow part for some actual knowledge on fourth down calls, momentum, and challenges.

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  • I desperately wanted this to be wrong.
  • It’s not great for a product when “It really doesn’t suck” is the best defense you can make. Somewhat ironically, here’s a former-Amazon-turned-Googler who thinks Amazon’s done at least one thing much better than el Goog.
  • Does this mean Ezra Klein and I are getting married on the same day? Hey, also, if you didn’t know why posting has been sparse lately: I’m getting married.

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    ]]>     Thanks to Slate’s piece on the ifttt web app (it stands for “if this, then that”), I am in life-hack nerd heaven. It lets you string all kinds of conditional commands together from a whole host of services: Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Gmail, GCal, Instagram, Instapaper, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress, Youtube, and a whole lot more1. Even better, people have set up a lot of the most common tasks, such as:

    There are a lot of others, including the absurdly specific “Have ifttt call you and read a specific user’s tweets aloud,” but I tried for something more useful, creating a taped-together Instapaper “read later” replacement for Android. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start!

    Anyway, the app is highly-recommended for nerds, although most people will have next to no use for it.

    1. Yeah, that’s a partial list. ↩

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  • An excellent post on how superheroes and villains come to their wealth and power.
  • Harvesting hydrogen from wastewater.
  • Neutrinos go faster than the speed of light, possibly, shattering pretty much everything we thought we knew about anything, maybe.
  • I imagine “the sudden death of a guinea pig, shocking enough in itself, can also place the hapless owners outside the law” is the most unlikely phrase you’ll read today. Things like this and Sweden’s “heavy metal disability” go way past “nanny state”–maybe “diaper state” would be more appropriate. Also, click through for a thoroughly adorable photo and caption. Via Yglesias.
  • Bonus: hello, Quipu!

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  • An interesting multipart Slate discussion of transhumanism.
  • I sort of thought Bones made up this job.
  • Brad Plumer on Solyndra and the state of solar power.
  • Netflix: crazy like a fox?
  • If this volcano blows, the 2012er morons will be even more insufferable.
  • G+ lives again.
  • Behind the scenes of Louie with Louis CK.

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  • Did you want a reason to hate at least 50 of your fellow Americans?
  • Did you want many, many reasons to hate the NCAA?
  • Twitter analytics are on the way. @RWW, via @GinaTrapani.
  • Graphs > words, because we are all three they’re more effective.

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  • Hey, (feel better about your body) ladies!
  • A more in-depth breakdown of ESPN’s new QBR stat.
  • Robocop Jr., via Emily.
  • Guess the inventor. Didn’t do very well on that one.

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  • ESPN to counter some of their football coverage’s reigning idiocy with a smarter QB stat.
  • A profile of Gramercy Tavern and Shake Shack’s Danny Meyer.
  • China’s escapades in government hacking.
  • A new cheap, fast HIV test.

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  • Although Matt Yglesias has a very good point about rising relative incomes and wedding costs, it’s cold comfort to the soon-to-be-married. Also, the answer to his last three questions is “Well, yeah.”
  • Stuxnet was probably a bad idea for reasons exactly like this.
  • Glenn Greenwald thinks Obama really wanted the awful, terrible, no-good debt ceiling deal.
  • An introduction to the Internet freedom movement.

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  • Definitely a dick move, Facebook.
  • Reddit co-founder accused of stealing over a million JSTOR articles with plans to distribute them.
  • Baltimore cop charged with dealing heroin. The officer, Daniel G. Redd, “was fired in 2002 after being found asleep on the job at the reservoir at Druid Hill Park, where he was supposed to be on anti-terrorist duty… Redd sued and was rehired under a court order, and the city had to pay him $75,000 in back pay.” So. That worked out well.
  • An interesting article about Google+’s potential to become a “social backbone.”
  • If you rent a car with your Visa card, they provide collision and theft coverage, although it doesn’t cover personal belongings or liability. Good catch by @StevenMBone.

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