Link Post - A New Direction In Fusion

Crash Test Dummy Fusion Sounds More Catchy

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June 26, 2018

Real Clear Science - Like all articles on fusion, even the author warns to be skeptical of progress. However, a promising new idea may actually move forward the idea of Fusion and bring its endless horizon a little closer.

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Link Post - Pirates versus Giants

Codemasters versus Nintendo and the early DRM battles for video games.

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June 25, 2018

Tedium - Nintendo had a stranglehold on the video game market in the late 80's and used DRM in the US to protect that stranglehold. Tedium has a story about a UK developer whose workarounds for Nintendo's DRM led to the Game Genie.

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Link Post - Cheap Chargers Kill Your Battery

Why the charger matters in the life of your phone.

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June 25, 2018

Motherboard - This is a great explainer on why you want more than just a cheap USB to lightning cable when charging your phone.

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Reading List - Know It All By Michael Kupperman

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June 22, 2018

Know-It-All By Micheal Kupperman

I’m still on the comics kick, but honestly, because I can plow through one of these in a day or so. I’m making a slower plod through a nonfiction book right now that’ll end up here in a couple of weeks.

Michael Kupperman is an underground comics artist, probably best known for his work on TV . . .

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Link Post - How To Be Internet Famous

Desperate Journalists + Paranoia = Your Next Viral Hit

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June 22, 2018

Digital Trends - As we all start to be surrounded by more and more technology that people don't understand, these sort of things are inevitable. Amazon wants to sell you crap, not use an immobile speaker to murder everyone. Get which genre of dystopia you live in straight.

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Link Post - Saturday Morning In The 36 Chambers

This is great editing

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June 20, 2018

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Link Post - When Silicon Valley Was Counter Culture

Before becoming the halcyon days of the new yuppies, Silicon Valley was ruled by the weirdos.

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June 19, 2018

Boing Boing - Boing Boing links the story on how drugs lead to Hypercard. It got me thinking about how the original early days of computers were ruled by all these weirdos obsessed with making new stuff. Most of them were still in it for the money, but their techno-utopianism at least didn't feel like a mask used to fleece VC and exit . . .

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