The Show Notes

EB Oracle v. Google (2010, USA) End Software Patents Groklaw MacBook Pro rumored to get Retina Display  - "we could see a MacBook Pro screen resolution of 2800 x 1800 pixels" How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp The Revenge of Wen Jiabao How the Dutch Got Their Bike Paths Colorado (Results of the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries) TP Deschutes brewery Deschutes River  - "The river was named Riviere des Chutes"

TP Rancilio Rocky grinder Rancilio Espresso Machine , and check this great review EB Better Rename AV Hazel , "automatic organization" for $25 TextExpander , for $35

AV Simple Mobile GB Sony Xperia pro Straight Talk Mobile , provided by Walmart, owned by Tracfone  (they use multiple carriers) BMW F800R TP Sixteenth Amendment  "allows the Congress to levy an income tax" "The New Spirit": Donald Duck encourages Americans to pay income tax (1943) EB Monty Python: Marriage Counselor Bill Maher's video on Mississippi  ( longer version  with Bill Maher's commentary) China The sacking of Bo Xilai , former  Chongqing  Committee Secretary Movie:  The Equation of Love and Death , taking place in  Yúnnán Two provinces of China "North/South of the Lake":  Húběi  and  Húnán  (not to be confused with  Héběi / Hénán , "North/South of the River"). The lake is  Dòngtíng lake , whose area varies between 2,820 km² and 20,000 km² depending on flooding. Highways in China  look like Switzerland's (in  Anhui province )

TP The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center AV Run IE9 in Virtualbox for free Vagrant - Virtualized development made easy

EB How Real People Will Use Windows 8 , or to get back to the rectangles thing NeXT logo by Paul Rand Eight reasons why Steven Sinofsky is Microsoft's next CE AV Sparrow — Get mail done JM Jeff Bates, also known as hemos Adrian McCarthy's  Blue Screen of Death

EB Play 2.0 with Peter Hausel of Typesafe Netty , an asynchronous event-driven network application framework, used to be part of JBoss, used by Play 2 Tether , is an HTML5 app , but then how can it connect to both the cell network and the WiFi network at the same time? AV PhantomJS , headless WebKit with JavaScript API, by  @ariyahidayat Zombie.js simulates a browser in JavaScript, by @assaf Travis CI , continuous integration in the cloud, free for open source projects, integrated with GitHub XPath 3.0 functions having access to the variables in scope but not to the context doesn't seem to make sense (what would be the downside of allowing both); let's see what @michaelhkay take is on @ebruchez 's question

EB Ballmer Peak Speed flying  vs  kitesurfing Prevalence of circumcision Shimon Peres Parsnip

EB Six langues vs. clang vs. Clank clang: a C language family frontend for LLVM Clank robot Diphthongs in English Portes du Soleil / Les Crosets / Avoriaz La Chavanette , la piste la plus intéressante  Photos d'Avoriaz avec ses "tours" Grand Ayatollah or Grand Old Party? Marine Le Pen Schools Palo Alto  (10/10) East Palo Alto elementary schools Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

EB Alex Payne — How Not To Sell Software in 2012 What's new in Scala 2.10 - Gedanken Ctrie