Show Notes for April 24, 2014
- FUs
- French PACS
- Introduced in 1999, originally as an alternative to marriage for same-sex couple, but as of 2012, 94% of PACS are between opposite-sex couples.
- In 2013, marriage and adoption rights were made legal for same-sex couples.
- Pissenlit
- "De pisse en lit, en raison des vertus diurétiques de cette plante"
- Sazerac
- "The defining feature of the Sazerac is the preparation using Peychaud's Bitters and two chilled old-fashioned glasses, one swirled with a light wash of absinthe for the slight taste and strong scent."
- ("Sazerac is also a brand of rye whiskey owned by the Sazerac Company and produced at the Buffalo Trace Distillery.")
- Citrus fruits, and their name in French
- La lime (lime in English)
- "They are grown year-round and are usually smaller and less sour than lemons."
- "Limes were first grown on a large scale in southern Iraq and Persia, and the fruit was first grown commercially in what is today southern Iraq."
- La limette
- "Ce fruit est consommé assez couramment en Inde, notamment sous forme de jus, et il y porte le nom de mosambi."
- Life expectancy
- How long will I live? (ugly UI, but interesting results)
- Life expectancy by age (warning: the site is hideous)
- Mark Cuban "is an American businessman and investor. He is the owner of the [NBA] Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV […] In 1999, during the dot com boom, Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo! for $5.9 billion in Yahoo! stock"
- GitHub sexism story
- Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit
- Inside the GitHub scandal: is sexism part of the Valley's DNA?
- Github’s Tom Preston-Werner resigns at close of sexism investigation
- Tom Preston-Werner's message
- Theresa Preston-Werner's side
- Facts Conveniently Withheld - The Rest of the Julie Ann Horvath Story
- SIMD
- Dell Chromebook 11
- Dell Chromebook 11 review at The Verge
- The Intel Celeron 2955U "is an entry level, ULV (ultra low voltage) dual-core processor clocked at 1.4 GHz which has been presented in fall 2013. It is based on the Haswell architecture and manufactured in 22nm. Compared to the Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs, many features like Turbo Boost, Hyper-Threading, AVX and AES-NI are deactivated"