Researchers in Texas are binding cocaine to deactivated cholera proteins to create a vaccine that fools the body into attacking cocaine molecules, thus making the drug ineffective
Crazy.
Knowing Arrington, I’m sure there’s more to this story than meets the eye. A design shop startup doesn’t steal the idea of their feature client on a whim. I’m willing to bet there were either events leading up to this or that this is simply heavy handed negotiation. If it’s the latter, count Arrington’s post on TechCrunch as his rebuttal.
But ValleyWag nails it: here we have an unreleased, now “dead,” tablet that was declared Popular Mechanic’s ‘Product of the Year.’ How odd.
Between this and Condé Nast and The NY Times betting the farm on a vaporware Apple Tablet, tablet hype is beyond ridiculous. We’re beyond iPhone levels of anticipation.
…I’m not sure if they’re under 21 or just actually Hardcore. Do people still do that?
The main goal of this book is to introduce the reader to the use of R as a tool for performing data mining. R is a freely downloadable language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Its capabilities and the large set of available packages turn this tool into an excellent alternative to the existing (and expensive!) data mining tools.
A great free eBook on R. I’ll be perusing this my next flight…
In honor of the commish starting the three-year countdown clock until retirement, I thought it would be instructive to take a look at his tenure a fair and thorough manner: bullet points! Allan Huber Selig gave us the Wild Card, two new teams in the Sun Belt, and landed MLB hugely impressive TV deals. Is that enough to overcome the myriad fiascoes? Let’s take a stroll down memory lane…
Spoiler alert: it doesn’t.
Out here in San Francisco, the burnt out rich open wineries. In New York they open cupcake shops.
Heading to casinos first became a Thanksgiving activity for Chinese immigrants decades ago because the holiday is one of the only days that Chinese restaurants are either run by a skeleton staff or closed. Mohegan Sun is one of several regional casinos that compete for this crowd. On any other day, 50 buses might run between Mohegan Sun and Chinese neighborhoods in New York, along with some from Massachusetts; on Thanksgiving, there are 100.
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Thanksgiving is an odd day, internet-wise, when you’re not in America and celebrating it yourself. For the rest of us, this is just any other day, a Thursday like any other, except that with the U.S. coming to a near-complete halt, you really do notice when you’re online.
Opening up Google Reader would normally yield a lot to look through, today not so much. Twitter isn’t chirping as much as it usually does. Tumblr is quieter than usual, too. This obviously also depends on how America-skewed your RSS feeds, Twitter and Tumblr contacts are, but it’s hard not to notice to some degree. It makes me feel like today is a holiday here too, even though it’s not.
Anyway.
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends, Happy Belated Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends, and Happy Internet Is Slow Day to the rest of you.
Stay tuned for the new project…
