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Great to hear. I signed up to check it out but I'm also of the view that I can't give direct access to online banking credentials to third parties (at least in the US, you're liabl…

I have a summer 2009 MBP whose battery failed in... 2013, I think. I removed the battery and have been running it off just the Magsafe adapter ever since (just as a low-power home …

I saw this at Boxcar last time I was in Denver -- a couple articles about their setup: http://www.freshcup.com/high-altitude-brewing/ http://sprudge.com/in-colorado-delicious-metic…

Good collection of links on the topic a few weeks ago at Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/151993/It-was-necessary-also-to-fi...

I've found this to be fairly uncommon, but I usually notice since I eschew bookmarks in favor of remembering what page I'm on. I've never seen it not correspond to the physical num…

Borges is what actually got me interesting in literary criticism -- because of the nature of his output, it's actually possible to read nearly all of his major work (poetry and non…

A classic for a reason! If anyone is interested in the more complex brewing process and chemistry of lambic beer, Jeff Sparrow's "Wild Brews" is another great read.

Sigh. I grew up on the Olympic Peninsula (far western Washington) and this is basically my whole wardrobe. Moved to the bay area over the summer and now I feel gross wearing it. Ho…

Not specifically video-adapter-related, but on a tangential note this teardown by Ken Shirriff of an Apple charger and imitation Apple charger is interesting: http://www.righto.com…

One of my favorite essays! Anyone interested in the topic should find themselves a copy of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's book "On Growth and Form" and give it a read. Fascinating dis…

On a tangent, this is pretty great article about wild honey gathering in the Sunderbans (including some stories about tigers): http://blog.longreads.com/2014/09/28/the-honey-hunter…

A couple short stories: Arthur C. Clarke's "Crusade" is set on a starless planet between galaxies. A.E. van Vogt's "Black Destroyer" has as a minor plot point the idea that a civil…

each particle and each subset of particles would have their own individual laws governing their interactions. An interesting (philosophical science fiction) read on this topic is S…

Many systems still use passwordless sudo to permit certain users to run specific commands -- but now, if those commands are shell scripts run via bash, the users can execute arbitr…

As a result, quasicrystal coatings have found their way into nonstick cookware. I remember reading about these pans back a decade or so (Sitram Cybernox). At the time I tried to fi…

For me, László Krasznahorkai, Carsten Jensen, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Roberto Bolaño are some of the best recent non-English writers around.

Absolutely agreed. There's another (non-fiction & not about Franklin, but excellent Arctic survival from the age of exploration) book that just came out by Hampton Sides called "In…

Interesting and semi-related: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?id=140598 Essentially, solving the traveling salesman problem in quadratic time using photon interferenc…

The commenting system on Google Reader (despite being neither open or distributed) is the closest I've seen to a system that acts the way I'd like online. I can imagine a distribut…

In fact, it's still not known if pi is normal (contains all finite patterns of numbers[π]), so you can't guarantee that any search will terminate. π: Not quite the definition of no…

To this day, my favorite naming scheme I ever encountered was names of elements, everything CNAMEd to the elemental abbreviation, with the last octet of the IP address as the atomi…