Economists are sometimes chided for disagreeing about the importance of such basic questions as the relative role of aggregate demand and aggregate supply but physicists can’t even find most of the universe and microbiologists don’t agree on whether the human genome is 80% functional or 80% junk. Is disagreement a result of knaves and fools? Sometimes, but more often disagreement is just the way the invisible hand of science works.
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New Hidden Feature in Tumblr for iOS →
If you’re into bookmarklets, you can save yourself the trouble of typing tm and bookmark the following JavaScript instead:
javascript:window.location='tm'+(window.location.href);
When There Is No There There →
I wrote a post on the implications of “missing” scandal coverage based on Roy Unz’s “Our American Pravda” essay. I wanted to name the post “Trouble Will Find Me” but Colbert beat me to the joke.
Unz conflates attention paid by investigative reporters with coverage. Unz blames the lack of coverage in these cases of government “disasters” on “bipartisan” concerns over blame. Neither of these claims hold-up under scrutiny…. Lack of headlines shouldn’t be used as a measure for investigative attention because media outlets face a file drawer problem similar to the one that affects scientific researchers.
Cloud Competition →
Read about the moment when I realized competition over operating systems had moved into the cloud →
Better Know a District — Wisconsin 4th
The great and powerful Gwen Moore via the also great Wisconsin Forward who is right to suggest watching all of the Colbert-Gwen Moore interview. Easily one of the best in a great series, right up there with Robert Wexler.
I only know the two-spaces-are-bad rule because [John Gruber] taught me. But now I can’t even look at a double-space without literally puking every one of my guts out.
The One-Person Product →
Marco Arment on Tumblr, David Karp, and the Yahoo acquisition. Great post.
If they treat Tumblr the way Facebook has (so far) treated Instagram, I think this will work out well.
P.S. When I went to your office I saw all the band stickers and noticed you were into Pavement and some cool bands. My band plays our first show on [REDACTED] at [REDACTED] and we’re better than Pavement. You should come.
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