The Show Notes

Kodak Easyshare W1020 10-Inch Wireless Digital Frame Shotblocker 4.5 stars on Amazon, but only 8 reviews "The contact points on the underside saturates the sensory nerves distracting the patient from the pain signals caused by the needle poke" Blue ribbon "a symbol of something of high quality" comes from "The Blue Riband, a prize awarded for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by passenger liners" "Cordon Bleu, which referred to the blue ribbon worn by a particular order of knights" hardware HP z620 not configurable, comes in 14 versions (!) Alex note: the landing page is decent, but it's worth clicking on Shop now , and then in breadcrumb on "HP Z620 Workstations" to see how the 14 versions are presented; it is such a disaster that this is incomprehensible to me; they seem to be doing everything they can to convince you not to buy HP hardware (and Dell is no better) 802.11ac Wikipedia "exp...

medley as in BJ's  Garden Medley Salad "a collection or mixture of miscellaneous things" religion my brother the islamist documentary "calling for Sharia law across the UK" "As Robb spends time with Salahuddin, he witnesses a very particular phenomenon - the embrace of radical Islamism by young men, many of them white" debate between John Cleese and the Bishop of Southwark the ten commandments  (and why they are not 15) ça sert d'os what is known about  PRISM (according to Wikipedia)

Movies Synecdoche, New York (2008)  (7.2 on IMDB) (recommended) My Sister's Keeper (2009) , with Cameron Diaz (7.3 on IMDB) (a tear-jerker) Réunion Le faham "est une orchidée endémique des Mascareignes […] traditionnellement récoltée dans la nature pour confectionner le rhum arrangé. Elle apporte à ce breuvage son goût de caramel caractéristique" Le Rhum arrangé "est une préparation de rhum dans laquelle ont macéré divers ingrédients tels que des feuilles ou des fruits. C'est une spécialité de La Réunion et de Madagascar." Le Rhum Charrette "est la marque de rhum la plus connue de l'île de La Réunion et la plus vendue en France" Living Colour - Flying ( YouTube , lyrics ) Camus et la révolte The Myth of Sisyphus Le Mythe de Sisyphe Absurdism L'Homme révolté

patents Twitter Innovator Patent Agreement "We will not use the patents from employees’ inventions in offensive litigation without their permission" IPA on GitHub Obama's executive orders to limit damages done by "patent trolls" places Back Yard Coffee Company , in Redwood City Ohlone Regional Wilderness construction / solar rafter : "sloped structural beams" solar micro-inverter "Micro-inverters contrast with conventional string or central inverter devices, which are connected to multiple solar panels" "The main advantage being small amounts of shading, debris or snow lines on any one solar panel, or even a complete panel failure, does not disproportionately reduce the output of the entire array" vendor: SolarEdge islanding "condition in which a distributed (DG) generator continues to power a location even though electrical grid power from the electric utility is no longer present" Sazerac  c...

Etymology of cerf-volant in French "[…] viendrait de serp-volante, serp étant un mot féminin en ancien français pour désigner un serpent" "Le mot serp ayant disparu de la langue française, il a été alors transcrit phonétiquement, mais de façon erronée, dans « cerf-volant », les mots sèrp et cerf se prononçant de la même façon." Facebook Chat supports Jabber/XMPP Construction heavy equipment French:  tractopelle (or  pelle rétro ); English:  backhoe loader French:  pelle mécanique , English:  excavator  (or  digger ) French:  chargeur sur pneus , English: loader Bulldozer  (in English and French) Philosophy/religion Le  jansénisme "est un mouvement religieux, puis politique, qui se développe aux xviie et xviiie siècles […] quelques traits caractéristiques, comme la volonté de s’en tenir strictement à la doctrine de Saint Augustin sur la Grâce, conçue comme la négation de la liberté humaine pour faire le ...

Gradle build system Android is switching to Gradle "primarily focused around Java, Groovy and Scala development" "builds upon the concepts of Apache Ant and Apache Maven and introduces a Groovy based DSL instead of the more traditional XML form of declaring the project configuration" supports Scala , including incremental compilation through Zinc supported by IntelliJ Nissan Leaf 2013 model "better range, faster charging capabilities, a more efficient cabin heater, and a lower starting price" "S trim replaces the LED headlights with less expensive projector beams, and uses 16-inch steel wheels with plastic covers rather than alloy wheels" 2013 Leaf S lease at $89/month, with $2,500 downpayment; is it worth it? Gmail gets 4 tabs : primary, social, promotions and updates Palo Alto housing market 25% increase Y-o-Y San Carlos: 25.7% Y-oY Belmont: 21.2 % Y-oY Foster City: 18% Y-oY Professorville , Palo Alto historic distric...

WebGL supported on Safari, but disabled by default supported on Chrome Mobile, but disabled by default "leaked builds of IE11 in Windows Blue have support for WebGL" Google Glass API Solutions to run native code in the browser Google Native Client "Mozilla has no intention of running native code inside the browser" asm.js LLVM bytecode generated by Clang is compiled to asm.js with Mozilla Emscripten V8 issue for implementing asm.js Ars article from yesterday: Surprise! Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web Eye examinations for toddlers "The recommended schedule set by the American Optometric Association is similar: at age 6 months, at age 3 years, and just before kindergarten, followed by routine exams every two years." Palm VII "the first truly wireless data-capable information devices" $700 + $15/month for the data service "Web Clipping applications, also known as Palm Query Applications (PQAs...