Ang Lee’s Hulk Is a Bad Movie, Except for This One Amazing Thing. Brian de Palma’s Carrie used split screen, sliding panels, and split diopter to great effect.
June 21, 2018
AT&T funded democrats in California just “eviscerated” the best net neutrality bill in the country. Difference between Dems and Republicans: Dems are in favor of concentration camps only if you put the whole family in there together.
The Dark Side of ‘Service With a Smile’. Emotional labor is much harder than physical labor. Source: have done both.
3 Problems With USB-C You Need To Know About. USB-C is the IPV6 of the hardware world: planned by the clueless, for the ignorant, manufactured by the careless and apathetic.
June 20, 2018
The Death of a Once Great City. The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence. All major cities seem nearly identical and very, very boring. And it’s getting worse.
More than one in three drivers doesn’t know when their tires are bald. I see people driving around all the time on bald tires, and/or absurdly under-inflated ones.
At the end of 2017, 68.5 million people had fled their homes because of violence, persecution and human rights violations, the most ever recorded. The future will bring much more of this.
Angelo Mozilo has identified the real victim of the housing bubble: Him. He is the orangest human in existence.
June 19, 2018
Aileen Milton, 67, isn’t worried about what Republicans will do to Medicare and Social Security, in part, because their reforms won’t affect her generation. “They are kicking the can down the road,” says Milton. “It’s a young-person problem.” Boomers perhaps should be the ones in concentration camps, not children.
Decoding the Earliest Symbols. Petzinger’s book is worth reading; I have read it.
Wall Street experts are crying foul on an overlooked yet dangerous signal that a market meltdown is near. Government debt is irrelevant, but there is tons of hidden debt out there that will melt down somewhat soon.
June 18, 2018
UPS’s $20 Billion Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century. Truly, we have not begin to pluck even the low-hanging fruit of possible automation. We are where electricity was in 1900. That will change.
Gnome 3.28 review – Minimalism gone wrong. Gnome is utter interface garbage, fit only for children.
June 17, 2018
June 16, 2018
DOJ Lets Cops Know SESTA/FOSTA Is For Shutting Down Websites, Not Busting Sex Traffickers. SESTA/FOSTA is for sweeping things under the rug, not helping anyone.
June 15, 2018
Apple’s design language has killed fun in consumer electronics. I am tired of bland design, flat design, boring crap.
The Tech Industry’s Psychological War on Kids. How psychology is being used as a weapon against children. Facebook et al. are pure evil and should be fucking destroyed with extreme prejudice. Let’s use those murder drones for something actually useful for humanity for once.
New evidence shows that our anti-poverty programs, especially Social Security, work well. The only evidence showing they didn’t work was fake conservative propaganda.
June 14, 2018
Apple bans developers from creating, selling user Contacts databases. Apple hasn’t gone totally to hell, at least.
Trump has turned words into weapons. And he’s winning the linguistic war. With the full cooperation and support of the press.
Kids in these U.S. hot spots at higher risk because parents opt out of vaccinations. This is one of the few cases where I am in support of jail time, because it’d be mostly affluent people who go to the slammer and this would work on them.
June 13, 2018
American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults. Thank you, Fat Acceptance folks, for normalizing this.
It’s 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess. All the variants of USB became “standards” that standardized absolutely nothing.
Strength training in older adults: The benefits for osteoarthritis. Strength training seems to roundly benefit everyone nearly always.