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6 signs you’re a tech douchebag

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

http://mashable.com/2016/07/20/6-signs-tech-douchebag/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#JpDsF5It7Eqp

for those cold, lonely winter evenings…

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

Guess the correlation http://guessthecorrelation.com/ Perhaps a useful sanity check for data from published papers. It’s so easy to fool oneself.

Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

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“He advised readers to “concern themselves more and more with general theme, rather than detail.” That theme, he emphasized, was that “the rate of change has implications quite apart from, and sometimes more important than, the directions of change.””
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#AlvinToffler, Author of Future Shock, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/books/alvin-toffler-author-of-future-shock-dies-at-87.html Emphasized rate of change is as important to people as its direction

How to Breathe – The New York Times

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/magazine/how-to-breathe.html?_r=0

Tick season is here, and it’s time to learn how to stop the suckers – The Washington Post

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/2016/07/22/a392067c-4f79-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html?postshare=6301469315657848&tid=ss_tw

Capture One Express Imaging Software for Sony | Phase One

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

also sonyupgrade

https://www.phaseone.com/en/Products/Software/Capture-One-for-Sony/Sony-Express.aspx

Review: ‘Mad Men’ says goodbye

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/columnist/2015/05/17/mad-men-finale-review/27483903/

List of Mad Men episodes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

last Mad Men epidsode currently is season 7, #14 (“Person to Person”) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mad_Men_episodes

Terminal 101: Making your Mac talk with “say” | TechRadar

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

say -f declaration-of-independence.txt -o a.mp4 -r 300

Reads the declaration of independence to an MP4 very quickly (300 words/min)

http://www.techradar.com/us/how-to/computing/apple/terminal-101-making-your-mac-talk-with-say-1305649

Just five sunburns increase your cancer risk – Health News – NHS Choices

Friday, July 22nd, 2016

Just 5 #sunburns [when young] increase your #cancer risk, by 80% for
melanoma http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/06June/Pages/Just-five-sunburns-increases-your-cancer-risk.aspx As determined from surveys of nurses