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The Many Mysteries of Air Travel – NYTimes.com: > If you’d like the answers, I highly recommend Patrick Smith’s new book, “Cockpit Confidential.” Mr. Smith is a pilot and blogger; much of the book’s format and contents are on display at his Web site, AskThePilot.com, or in the archives of the “Ask the Pilot” column he wrote for Salon.com for years.
Harvard Business School Case Study – Gender Equity – NYTimes.com: > The administrators and the class of 2013 were parting ways, their experiment continuing. The deans vowed to carry on but could not say how aggressively: whether they were willing to revise the tenure process to attract more female contenders, or allow only firms that hired and promoted female candidates to recruit on campus. “We made progress on the first-level things, but what it’s permitting us to do is see, holy cow, how deep-seated the rest of this is,” Ms. Frei said.
You should read this book: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
What Did Edward Snowden Get Wrong? Everything | RAND: > Incidents like the Snowden affair put my former colleagues in the intelligence community in an impossible position. Yes, the official explanations about the virtues of data-collection efforts...
Read more →I stumbled across this web site. I can’t say anything about their status or quality but I was suprised that someone developed what looks like a complete “university admin in a box” cloud based software. Maybe I can use it for Bootup Academy! [Get a Feature tour of Fedena – Management Information Sy...
Read more →A really useful link. For Ruby programmers only. Jorge Coca | [HOW-TO] Build a Rails gem with Bundler – Gumby Framework: > Since I’m building a new Rails website, and I wanted to use Gumby as a part of my Gemfile, and I couldn’t find a gem with the newest version of the framework, I decided to write my first Rails gem and publish it to the community.
I am reading a really cool book right now: GARBO: The Spy Who Saved D-Day worth the effort? You bet — though ...
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The way you try to get me to renew my subscription is just as bad as many of the merchants you call out in your reviews. It is August. I have now received 3 mailings saying things like “It’s almost too late” and “ THIRD NOTICE” reminding me to renew my subscription. My subscription doesn’t expire until December 2013, 4 months from now. We are barely half way through the subcription period. LEAVE ME ALONE please. You are setting a horrible example.
How to Use Siri – Full list of Siri Commands for iPhone, iPad, Video: > Below is a comprehensive Siri Commands List (updated for iOS6) for the new Siri Personal Assistant, optimized for mobile Safari browsers. These cool and useful Siri Commands can be used on your iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, iPad, iPad mini, and the iPod Touch. If you find this list helpful, or if you would like to add to our list of top Siri Commands, please use the comments section below.
Master’s Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online – NYTimes.com: > Next January, the Georgia Institute of Technology plans to offer a master’s degree in computer science through massive open online courses for a fraction of the on-campus cost, a first for an elite institution. If it even approaches its goal of drawing thousands of students, it could signal a change to the landscape of higher education.
Seth Godin is said to have said that anonymous commenting is not a good thing: > “…Mathew, the forces for anonymous are running out of time. For almost two decades, the internet has been anonymous friendly, and what has come of it?…” (from [GigaOm](http://gigaom.com/2013/08/21/dear-arianna-ano...
Read more →I came across this article a few days ago. The Ticktock of the Death Clock – NYTimes.com. Yes a depressing topic. The author muses on the wonderful internet resource DeathClock.com which purp...
Read more →A couple of entrepreneurs asked me whether I’d be interested in investing in their project at a very early stage. The question arose, what kind of information would I need (and by extension would any other potential angel need) to see before even considering this? - Most obviously, what would the ...
Read more →We were on vacation in Greece and Turkey a few weeks ago and I noticed many TripAdvisor Certificate of this or that, hanging in windows of random shops on remote islands (and big cities) and I got to thinking, are these for real? Is there a simple way to get a counterfiet certificate? It’s just a pi...
Read more →Cory Doctorow: Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently Trees talk…: > “Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently Trees talk to each other at night. All fish are named either Lorna or Jack. B...
Read more →About a year ago I started reading Rolling Stone magazine. It’s true what Taibbi says, it’s definitely not People or EW magazine. Yes it does have good ‘cultural’ coverage about music and art and so on, but the writing is good and interesting and very often has nothing to do with music. All the upro...
Read more →I’ve been using Gmail like forever now and have converted many friends and family members to using it. It’s great and it’s ridiculously cheap. Coupled with a good ad-suppressor plug-in for Safari (Mac) it works well for me. I do access it, almost always, via the desktop Mail app on Mac OSX, so I don...
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