July 2012
“10 seconds to perform a search, 14 seconds to open an email message, 10 seconds...”
– Hey Google! I Don’t Care About Hangouts, I Just Want To Read My Email | TechCrunch
“Turns out MySQL’s utf8 charset only partially implements proper UTF-8 encoding....”
– How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases · Mathias Bynens
“To help cosmologists with their chalkboard equations, they have assigned the...”
– The Universe Could Tear Itself Apart Sooner Than Anyone Believed
“Arcades were more than just magnificent geek Shangri-Las, filled with all sorts...”
– Wil Wheaton, Happy Don’t Be A Dick Day! - WWdN: In Exile
“I grabbed him and said, ‘John, I think I can build a jellyfish.’ He...”
– Kit Parker, a biophysicist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in ‘We Took a Rat Apart and Rebuilt It as a Jellyfish’ - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic
“The recommendation, in a report by the Education Department and the Consumer...”
– Obama Administration Backs Bankruptcy Option for Some Student Debt - WSJ.com
“Barack Obama’s campaign team rejected demands on Sunday that the president...”
– Obama campaign tells Romney to ‘stop whining’ about Bain Capital attacks | World news | guardian.co.uk
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn...”
– Buckminster Fuller (via ansil)
“But now Amazon has a new game. Now that it has agreed to collect sales taxes,...”
– Amazon same-day delivery: How the e-commerce giant will destroy local retail. - Slate Magazine
“It’s a bit as if, having heard the word “princess,” the reviewers all stopped...”
– Just Another Princess Movie – The New Inquiry
“The Mexican-born Castro was governor of Arizona from 1974 to 1977. He was the...”
– Agents stir outcry by detaining former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro, 96
“I once had a home in San Diego,” Castro said. “One day my daughter and I...”
– Arizona ex-governor Raúl Castro detained
“The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have...”
– The ‘Busy’ Trap - NYTimes.com
