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Original Post from Chris Galardi: They actually used the phrase "right-size." This email. I just can't even - mjc

He’s so handy - everyone says so! “Weird Al” Yankovic shows off his skill set with a tool set in this parody of Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy.” Starring Al Yankovic, Eddie Pepitone, Justin Giddings, Ted Hollis. Director/writer/editor: Yankovic. Producers: Corey Moss, Shane Spiegel, Sam Kirkpatrick. Casting: Chrissy Fiorilli-Ellington. DP: Clyde Smith. Art: Katie Crawford. Wardrobe: Patrick Glendening. HMU: Sean James. Post Prod.: Evan Watkins, Andrew Mall... - mjc

Original Post from Addy Osmani: HUGE. Chrome 36 is now stable! ~300 million people will soon have full support for Web Components!  Screen Shot 2014-07-16 at 20.10.26.png - mjc

There’s a point I feel that I have have to make briefly as I begin this post. Basically, this might look familiar, but given that I was at TAM Wednesday through Sunday, I didn’t have time to produce two separate posts, and this is important enough to be distributed as widely as possible. In any… - mjc

I recently wrote about the claim that acupuncture can improve vision in patients with macular degeneration. In response, I received this e-mail: At Discovery... - mjc

Alternative Medicine's best friend, and in my opinion largely responsible for what popularity it has, is a gullible media. I had thought we were turning a... - mjc

One of the most common criticisms launched at defenders of science-based medicine by believers in pseudoscience and quackery is that we are “pharma shills.” The assumption, or so it would seem, is that no one would defend science, reason, and medicine unless he were paid off by pharmaceutical, chemical, and/or agricultural companies. The further assumption… - mjc

lol. Ed Helms concludes the camera phone combines the rapid battery depletion of a high-powered digital camera with the image production capability of a phone. - mjc

Original Post from Google+: When we launched Google+ over three years ago, we had a lot of restrictions on what name you could use on your profile. This helped create a community made up of real people, but it also excluded a number of people who wanted to be part of it without using their real names. Over the years, as Google+ grew and its community became established, we steadily opened up this policy, from allowing +Page owners to use any name of their choosing to letting YouTube users bring their usernames into Google+. Today, we are taking the last step: there are no more restrictions on what name you can use. We know you've been calling for this change for a while. We know that our names policy has been unclear, and this has led to some unnecessarily difficult experiences for some of our users. For this we apologize, and we hope that today's change is a step toward making Google+ the welcoming and inclusive place that we want it to be. Thank you for expressing your opinions so... - mjc

Right-wing grifter Dinesh D'Souza is terribly persecuted. Just ask him. There's a grand conspiracy afoot, perpetrated by the New York Times, Google and Costco (and, I'm sure, the Illimunati, the Fr... - mjc

Lo and behold, a crusade led by one young man against a titan of televised pseudoscience — and no, we’re not talking about Ancient Aliens. In a brilliant interview by Vox’s Julia Belluz that went up Monday, the world’s been introduced to University of Rochester medical student Benjamin Mazer, who - mjc

One fake, two fakes. Red fakes, blue fakes. Today we've got more fake images that you may have seen recently on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever else you get your daily dose of pixel-based newstainment. - mjc

Original Post from Chris Galardi: Ed Summers’ robo-tweet software hopes to increase transparency. - mjc

Original Post from Cognitive Dissonance Podcast: http://ow.ly/z5qBl Mine eyes, the goggles, they do nothing "My mom's cat was dying," a woman in a white blouse dotted with holographic silver sequins explains. ("I live in a community of healers," she told me earlier, in the same breezy, dismissive manner one might use to say in Queens.) "Couldn't eat. Had lost half her fur. And he saved her life." - mjc

Original Post from Chris Galardi: "When there is a structural reason consumers don’t have freedom of choice, and the free market can’t work, consumers need minimal protection from the government so that they don’t get abused. We need protection from the cable companies to keep the Internet fair and open." When there is a structural reason consumers don’t have freedom of choice, and the free market can’t work, consumers need minimal protection from the government so that they don’t get abused.  We... - mjc

Original Post from Adam Flanczewski: "But when he called to cancel his service over the phone and prepare the return of his cable card, the rep refused in the worst way possible. The pair entered into a Kafka-esque conversation where the only answer to any question asked would have been total submission to the Comcast Cause." http://techcrunch.com/2014... #Comcastic   - mjc

Original Post from CollegeHumor: What if Google Was a Guy (Part 3) Full Video: http://www.collegehumor.com/video... uZC5fF9.gif - mjc

Original Post from Romain Guy: On plagiarism A few weeks ago, a company called AppCam sent out a press release to several photography websites [1] to claim that +Leica Camera had stolen their software for the user interface of the new Leica T. I do not particularly care whether this is a true or not, even though I find their claim dubious. What I do care about is that this company decided to publicly accuse another of stealing actually stole my work. The screenshot of their website below [2] shows that their are using one of my photos. The original can be found on my Flickr account [3] or here on Google+ [4]. Almost all of my photos are available under a fairly permission Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Under this license, derivatives of my work should be licensed under Creative Commons and appropriate credit should be given. AppCam failed to do both. More importantly, they are using my work for commercial purpose. This is not the first time I've seen my... - mjc

As a former believer in alternative medicine who now speaks out against it, I've been asked by both believers and critics, "What harm did it actually do you? If most of it is just placebo, is it th... - mjc

What the fuck? Pastor who raped woman he was counseling gets three years probation. - mjc

Van Jones: Let's Stop Trying to Please Republicans - mjc

While many proponents of dietary antioxidants or supplements will claim they have incredible anticancer properties, amongst other things, the literature on these molecules is conflicting and animal and human studies of antioxidants as a potential cancer therapy have been largely disappointing. In fact, some trials have even found that antioxidant supplements can worsen some cancers. For example, vitamin E increases cancer burden and mortality in ... - mjc

With the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding state-sponsored prayer, we've been wondering when someone would show "Christians" who choose to ignore Matthew 6: - mjc

UK couple receive sentences of 12 months/9 months for hanging bacon on door handles of mosque. - mjc

Original Post from Cognitive Dissonance Podcast: http://ow.ly/yhIfK Can we all just agree that inoking MLK for any reason is unlikely to win you any points? “We are under an obligation to obey God and the law, and if necessary, to defy an institution that is out of control,” the former Arkansas governor continued. To make his point, Huckabee quoted from a letter that Martin Luther King's Jr. wrote while spending eight days in the Birmingham Jail for ... - mjc

Original Post from Adam Flanczewski: I'm sorry, I'm so very sorry. :( #Steam   #Sale   #Gaming   The annual Steam Summer Sale is on, and this year marks the introduction of the Steam Summer Adventure. - mjc

Original Post from Ilya Grigorik: Dirty secret behind animated GIFs? Their filesize is huge. Thankfully, WebP supports animation! Great analysis and writeup by the team at Cloudinary: http://bit.ly/SWwBXL - best of all, they've automated all the serving and conversion! animation.gif - mjc

Author Daniel Keyes, whose novel "Flowers for Algernon" became a classroom staple that explored the treatment of the mentally disabled and the ethics of manipulating human intelligence, has died, his family said. He was 86. Keyes died Sunday of complications from pneumonia, said his... - mjc

Original Post from Ilya Grigorik: A quick course on the Critical Rendering Path: http://bit.ly/1soxBEB - learn how the browser converts HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into pixels on the screen, and how to use DevTools to measure and optimize your pages to render in 1s or less! Had a blast making this course with Udacity. Check it out, let me know how it goes!  Web Perf Commercial - mjc

Original Post from Chris Galardi: Fiction compares poorly to reality o_o Police helped organize a bag drop at a parking lot but then lost the suspect. - mjc

Original Post from Cognitive Dissonance Podcast: http://ow.ly/y9FJH I've always wondered at the presumptuousness of priests giving married people relationship advice Former president tells UCD audience it is ‘profoundly wrong’ to ask celibates to carry out such a review - mjc