Seems especially bad this year.
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Conservatives love to say that liberalism and political correctness have led to a `War on Christmas .... the war is actually against Thanksgiving.
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Samsung, Barnes & Noble team up on tablet design

Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook: B&N to use Samsung Hardware

If this works it will be good news for everybody who uses e-readers, including Amazon Kindle users. Competition will be good for readers. An Amazon monopoly would be bad news.

The Dangers of Planning.

From The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, which I am reading now. Excellent book.

MathBabe looked at JPMorgan suicide is 3rd mysterious death in weeks. The result is a clear debunking using simple mathematics: JP Morgan suicides and the clustering illusion

Apparently nobody at the New York Post thought about making this simple calculation.

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There is a filk song by this title that has been around for at least a couple decades, and several SF stories as well, all about the issues that the time dilation of near lightspeed travel will pose for human interactions. These are a long way in our future, but our money is "pushing the speed of light" today:

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Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax

How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail.

Physical retailers have long argued that once Amazon plays fairly on taxes, the company wouldn't look like such a great deal to most consumers. If prices were equal, you'd always go with the "instant gratification" of shopping in the ( Read more... )

Plastic clamshell packaging.

It causes wrap rage.

From Slashdot

Since I read this blog post I have been tuning up my eggbeater drills.

Here are two of them:
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