two scoops

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03rd November 2011

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If all readership is on the website and an iPad app, how much of the layout staff is necessary? Web publications don’t need custom layouts for each post. On the iPad, I find that the magazine-like layouts get in the way and make the reading experience more difficult. iPad magazine content shouldn’t look like scanned printed-magazine pages.

Are incredibly complex and expensive-to-develop iPad apps necessary, or would simpler ones suffice? Are enough customers really demanding the expensive features — especially those with big per-issue costs, like all of the multimedia “extras” — to make them worth their costs, or would most of the readership still pay the same amount for just the text and a few optional photos in a nice, reusable template?
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Some responses to the magazine counterarguments

I think it’s sort of funny that Marco has basically suggested magazines move to something more like Instapaper. The content is key, but design can help tell the story.

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03rd September 2011

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Human brain may have reached its peak of intelligence: Researchers

dkalab:

in order to become any more intelligent the human brain would need vast amounts of extra energy and oxygen – and we simply cannot provide it.Cambridge University researchers have analysed the structure of the brain and worked out how much energy its cells use up. http://bit.ly/oWS478 -> I thought only CPU has power wall, it turns out our brain suffering from the same problem

I am so smart. S-M-R-T!

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30th August 2011

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First you copy as much data as possible, without retrying or splitting sectors:

ddrescue --no-split /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

Now let it retry previous errors 3 times, using uncached reads:

ddrescue --direct --max-retries=3 /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

If that fails you can try again but retrimmed, so it tries to reread full sectors:

ddrescue --direct --retrim --max-retries=3 /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

— DataRecovery Wiki

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11th August 2011

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Reptiles evolved a three-bone multihinged lower jaw to permit swallowing large prey, but two of these three bones became an expatiation for improved hearing. The convenient location of these bones made possible the evolution of two little sound-amplifying bones inside your middle ear. No engineer would have dreamed of such an inelegant solution, which goes to illustrate the opportunistic nature of evolution.

(As Francis Crick once said, “God is a hacker, not an engineer.”)
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The Tell-Tale Brain, VS Ramachandran via pith.

This explains duct tape (although I do prefer gaff tape).