“The Wall Street Journal reports that ‘picky eating’ is being considered as a new mental illness for the next DSM. I think they’re just trolling us now.”
—mind hacks
July 2010
“… how likely is some sort of massive methane generated tsunami? Well, according to BP, the possibility of this happening is “unfounded.” Well, I’m reassured, if BP says it can’t happen, then we have nothing to worry about.”
—doug’s darkworld
“Will Closed-Source End Apple?”
—i don’t bloody think so.
“So, what, I need to start trolling youth hostels and the U.N.? Please, I have my self-respect.”
—the frisky.com
“You have to be careful what you choose to engage yourself with, because the thing you’re fighting could be the very thing you want.”
—diane ravitch on being wrong
“
… instead of grappling with his damaged honor the way he has in the past, by examining his soul and apologizing, McCain has retreated into a kind of political second childhood.
… as disappointed as some of us may be with the latest John McCain, I suspect he is even more disappointed with himself.
” —the saddest senator | slate
“(When a critic repeatedly opines about “a certain” anything, you can be pretty sure that something isn’t being studied closely enough.)”
—mark ahitakis’ american fiction notes
“• Wells Fargo used two of the first shipment of 15 iPads to demonstrate financial products at an investors’ conference in May and has ordered more.
• At SAP, it’s a top-down adoption: when Rob Enslin, North America president at SAP travel only with a Blackberry and an iPad.
•Tellabs, which designs and manufactures telecommunications equipment for service providers, paired with SAP and Sybase for an iPad app to quickly approve customer orders.
•Some 40 Mercedes Benz dealerships are testing the iPad program, which uses the company’s MB Advantage software. The sales staff can scroll through info on the latest offers, check rebates and start running the credit application while the customer sits in the Mercedes they are interested in buying.” —cult of mac
• At SAP, it’s a top-down adoption: when Rob Enslin, North America president at SAP travel only with a Blackberry and an iPad.
•Tellabs, which designs and manufactures telecommunications equipment for service providers, paired with SAP and Sybase for an iPad app to quickly approve customer orders.
•Some 40 Mercedes Benz dealerships are testing the iPad program, which uses the company’s MB Advantage software. The sales staff can scroll through info on the latest offers, check rebates and start running the credit application while the customer sits in the Mercedes they are interested in buying.” —cult of mac
“But Kenny G says he will do what it takes to stay connected, especially since he just released a new album, the R&B-flavored “Heart & Soul.”
—you don’t know what a relief this comes as.
“… copyright, like the people who originate the material and the industries that promulgate it, has a lifespan … the classical piano sheet music world gives a glimpse of the end state — out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business (as John Perry Barlow once said). It also, more importantly, shows what happens when a society does a poor, random job of preserving their cultural heritage to nurture future generations.”
—see pogue
“… sentiment analysis … is a booming industry in online marketing which numerous services having recently sprung into existence.”
—i feel nauseous
“By now you have probably heard about my new neighbor here on ScienceBlogs, a nutrition blog called Food Frontiers. It is a corporate blog run by PepsiCo. I wish I were kidding.”
—laelaps leaves seed
“Great news! 27,000 abandoned oil & gas wells in Gulf of Mexico might or might not be leaking!”
—morford
“5. “We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn’t appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.” Sigh.”
—r. p. again.
“… Palin lays out a foreign policy doctrine that can best be described as “Hey, world, blow us.”
—rude pundit
“Another day, another Catholic priest swiping $1.3 mil from his church for gay hookers, lux hotels, clothes.”
—morford
“That the Vatican has forgiven us for being, what, satanic? Whoever wrote it was thinking about the Stones.”
—ringo
