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Ars Technica takes a pragmatic but tough stance on ad blockers, turning off the website's content entirely for users who refuse to look at arstechnica.com ads. The freedom-fighers in the comments (and, I imagine, pro-ad-blocker folks like David Pogue) are mad, but Ars makes a good point from which they refuse to back down. "[If you won't whitelist our ads] please go get your news from a higher quality source. As it stands you're a net loss to us." Great read.
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Eric Gales never made it big, but man, is he a talent. Check out this footage from when he was 18 (I still have this CD). The latest Eric Gales news is less exciting: http://bit.ly/dkj6ol
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I was a T-Bone Wolk fan in his day. I liked Hall & Oates, and I loved him and GE Smith, who were really the best reason to watch SNL in the late 1980s. (via Titivil)
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I can't tell if Penelope is a genius or a kook, but I am certain that she cracks me up. "The most popular name for upscale strippers to use is Lexus. Do you know what this tells you? Pseudonyms are for strippers."
Terrific analysis of pitcher-hitter mindgames by Joe Posnanski.
So, when you see a guy who gets a lot of curveballs — say Aaron Rowand
— that is not because he can’t hit a good curveball. It’s because
pitchers believe he can’t hit a mediocre curveball. It’s a great game.
The pitcher knows Rowand isn’t very good on breaking stuff. Rowand
knows the pitcher knows this and comes to the plate expecting to see
breaking stuff. The pitcher knows that Rowand knows that the pitcher
knows, so he is on alert that if he throws a hanging curveball, Rowand
might just crush it. But Rowand knows this, so he might be overanxious
if he sees the hanging curveball and hit it nine miles foul. Or he
might be thinking curveball so much that he promises himself to not
wing, and the pitcher might cross him up and throw fastball — even
Aaron Rowand got more than 50% fastballs last year — and Rowand is so
screwed up in his head that he just watches it go by for strike three
and … yeah, it’s a great game.
Yeah, it is.
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And you thought the "Here It Goes Again" video was good? Check this out (aside: I'm waiting for Amy to tell me if it's really one take)
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Mac zealots are going to ride this one for years
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Fact of the Day: broadcast TV use–that is, the number of people that get their channels over the airwaves–is down to 9% of Americans
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Article: "His career-defining moment came in the old Yankee Stadium in the form of an 11th-inning, Game 7 of the 2003 AL Championship Series that lifted New York past the Boston Red Sox and into the World Series." Not entirely true. I best remember him for playing basketball that off-season, screwing up his left knee, and getting his Yankee contract voided. ESPN has a habit of hiring analysts who are not very good at making smart decisions (see also: Phillips, Steve)
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The entire OS is on its way into the cloud. If this works smoothly on the iPad the paradigm shift will be striking
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See you there.
From my post on aiaio:
Yes, there are premium seats available; no, you can’t have them. I asked if I could pay extra to reserve those seats: no. I asked if I could get a seat assignment, any seat assignment, so I knew I would make it on the plane: no. I eventually gave up my attempts to cajole customer service into helping me, and after a few hours of deliberation, I took my business elsewhere.
My story isn’t all that uncommon, but it still strikes me as a miss on Continental’s part. Why must they hold a random middle seat for an unbooked elite member, thereby denying a paying customer a chance to confirm travel?
Between this and Continental’s other discomforts—a small 31″ seat pitch in coach; 60,000 miles to book coach-class reward travel—I haven’t flown CO in more than five years. In the interim I’ve been on American, JetBlue, Virgin Atlantic, Northwest, Alitalia, Midwest, US Airways, United and Virgin America, and I’ve enjoyed all of them more than I enjoy my typical interaction with Continental. (Well, maybe not Alitalia.)