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The great Mac OS X Software Update chart
Recently, my friend Rob posed a question to twitter: Is Mac OS X 10.5.7 the single biggest patch Apple has ever released, or just one of the biggest? I thought that was an easy question to anwser. I was wrong. I looked all over the web for this information, and no one seemed to have …
Doctorow: reign in ISPs to foster innovation
Writing for The Guardian, Cory Doctorow explains why net neutrality is essential and dispells myths about billing to show us we need a free and open Internet to allow for innovation: Take filtering: by allowing ISPs to silently block access to sites that displease them, we invite all the ills that accompany censorship – Telus, …
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More bike lanes for Toronto
Via Andrea: the Toronto Star shares the good news that Toronto’s getting a bike lane on Jarvis Street: Mayor David Miller: “The city needs a network so cyclists can travel their entire trip safely.” Check out all these hlmets:
Hilarious FTC ads poke fun at Experian’s “free” reports
Seen those annoying ads for freeCreditReport.com? Been, er, annoyed? Not only are they annoying (sense a theme here?), they’re also misleading. The FTC has their own ads, promoting AnnualCreditReport.com, which actually is free.
Deep Agriculture: Michael Pollan at Long Now
Our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil. As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it’s creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky-high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge swings in …
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How many usability engineers does it take to buy a light bulb?
For those of you who just want the answer, here you go: Range hood bulb: 10 Watt G4 In-oven bulb: 50 Watt 130 Volt GY6.35 Head to your corner store and pick one up. Now, on with the story.
One Less Torture Advocate
I can’t really say this any better than The New Republic already did. Seems right-wing radio shock jock Eric Muller lasted all of seven seconds of waterboarding before he gave up and admitted it was torture: Turns out the stunt wasn’t so funny. Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the …
Verizon willing to let man die over unpaid $20 phone bill
Check out this piece in the Dover, Ohio Times-Reporter. Seem Verizon was wouldn’t help the cops until they paid the victim’s overdue phone bill: Williams said he attempted to use the man’s cell phone signal to locate him, but the man was behind on his phone bill and the Verizon operator refused to connect the …
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Credit card companies whine to press
Yesterday’s New York Times covers changes to credit cards. They spoke with David Robertson, publisher of the Nilson Report, which tracks the credit card business. Robertston lays it on thick: People who routinely pay off their credit card balances have been enjoying the equivalent of a free ride, he said, because many have not had …