Notes
GreatCall is advertising mobile phones for “Baby Boomers and their parents” with big buttons, easy-to-read displays, and simplified UI. This is ingenious, and I expect they’ll be quite successful.
One of the phones features three big dial buttons. Although the middle button is configurable (along with a contact list: do-it-yourself, ask a friend or have us update your phone list and features at your personal, secure Jitterbug web page) the marketing pictures show it labeled “tow”.
Because your elderly parents who can’t manage a phone with actual numbers on it should be driving.
A crazy idea that needs to be written down to get it out of my head: a wordless, visual weblog. Posts are pictures with no explanation prose, and the comments form is a sketchpad for visitors to draw upon.
J: I may or may not be in this afternoon
HG: which way will you be spinning?
J: not sure yet
HG: I guess we’ll know when we measure
J: are we talking about the same thing?
HG: quantum physics humor?
J: i guess not
…the Constitution doesn’t say every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas.
The best reaction to this attitude towards habeas corpus I can imagine is Mark Jaquith’s: it wasn’t long before he went from “pedantic tool" to “the reason for the 2nd Amendment" in my mind.
While I’m on the subject of Constitutional rights, here’s another from Mark Jaquith:
Racial slurs may be covered by the First Amendment, but you’re still an asshole for using them
The UCI’s threat to reduce the grand tours is the single biggest threat our sport has faced in years. And if they do it, it will be the nail in the coffin of a sport that was born out of the ashes of long-distance suffering. The very thing that makes our sport so popular will be destroyed.
From the RBR newsletter, on a proposal to shorten the tours of France, Italy and Spain from three weeks to two. The theory is that easier tours will mean riders are less likely to resort to doping.
I think Phil’s engaging in a bit of hyperbole, but I agree with his point nonetheless.