November 2011
15 posts
The Contents of Kris Donegan's Road Bag
krisdonegan:
I’m the guy that carries a flashlight. And a Leatherman. And a lot of other stuff.
The more I travel, the more I value preparedness. I spend half of my year away from my home, working or on the road, so I decided to take what I think I might need with me. I guess you could call it a possibles bag, but I don’t have survival stuff in it, and it isn’t designed to get me...
Valletta Ventures: The price of a messy codebase:... →
sneakattackphilosophy:
vallettaventures:
Any LaTeX user with an iPad has had the same thought: I want to use my favourite document creation system on my favourite device. Despite everything I am about to say about the LaTeX codebase, there is nothing like it for composing beautiful documents, and the iPad is the most beautiful platform…
Sad Bernard.
EU Officials Conclude Water Might Not Prevent... →
Another WNA find: a three-year investigation by a group of 21 scientists concludes that there’s not enough evidence to prove that drinking water prevents dehydration, so bottled water companies will be prohibited by law from claiming otherwise. Said a Member of European Parliament, “This is stupidity writ large. The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart, and yet here they are: highly-paid,...
“So, our serious Republican [Romney] is committed on ideological grounds to...”
– Krugman, at his best.
“Nurse practitioners are not physician extenders. We are highly skilled and...”
– Karen Roush, for AJN
“Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful,...”
– Former Apple CEO John Sculley On The Future Of Medical Technology And Health Care’s Killer App (via wnstn)
Steven Frank's dream notes app? →
stevenf:
Here’s a rough spec of what I think would comprise my ultimate note keeping environment. I’m writing this down in the hopes that someone will implement it, as I don’t have sufficient spare time. “Have you tried…?” Yes, I’ve tried that app. It didn’t do at least one of the following things. …
Open Letter to The New Yorker's iPad App...
The iPad app for the New Yorker could be great, but as it is now, it isn’t.
First, the Newsstand version of the app has been very disappointing. The app is not downloading new content automatically. I’ve updated my iPad to a fresh copy of iOS 5. I’ve downloaded and redownloaded the New Yorker app several times. I’ve ensured that “download content...