Links for July 23
It’s Friday, do some recreational reading:
- Mobile carriers are loading Android handsets up with crapware.
- Khoi Vinh on why he left his dream job. I thought I knew what he was going to say, but it turned out that I didn’t.
- The Science of Sport looks at the power output of riders in the Tour de France. I’ve looked at the wattage measurement on the rower at the gym. These numbers leave me in awe.
- Apple doesn’t sell most of the handsets, but it makes most of the profit.
- Pamela Samuelson writes about the Berkeley Patent Survey, which asked technology startups about how they view patents and whether they file for them.
- Kerry Emanuel looks at how the media covers the climate change debate.
- My thinking on the decline of the newspaper industry is that national news coverage will be fine, but that local news is in real trouble. James Rainey has a great example of why local news coverage is really important.
- Andrew Leonard looks at how mobile carriers in China are adapting Android.
- Clay Johnson explains why Congress could use some software developers.
- Tyler Cowen looks for an explanation for the fact that economic output is up despite the fact that employment is down.
- Historically speaking, Republicans are not fiscally responsible.
- One way for America to improve its deficit problem is to be more prudent when it comes to our use of the military.
- I plan on digging into the Washington Post’s report on Top Secret America this weekend.
- Turns out there are ATMs in Antarctica.
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