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- The Supreme Court might destroy affirmative action because this white woman’s grades weren’t good enough - Slate
- A Colorblind Constitution: What Abigail Fisher’s Affirmative Action Case Is Really About - ProPublica
- Fisher v. University of Texas - Wikipedia
- SCOTUSBlog case file on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
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I can’t decide. It’s Any.do for now, as of February 25, 2013. Wunderlist has great native apps on most platforms, both mobile and PC, but Any.do is the best mobile solution I’ve found, and that’s where I really need a task manager. ↩
Kagi Search’s new Fair Pricing feature
The purveyor of Kagi, the indie search engine, on a new pricing feature:
In months where you don’t utilize any searches on your plan, we will automatically apply a full credit to your account for that month. This credit will be applied to your next billing cycle, effectively covering your subsequent month’s subscription at no additional cost.
I used the base plan in the past, and after I exhausted my 300-search monthly allowance in about three weeks, I swapped all my default search engines, with some frustration, back to Startpage.
I then proceeded to basically forget about it for the next month. I suspect I’m not the only one, and that’s probably what catalyzed this feature.
I have vacillated for a while between Kagi, Startpage, DuckDuckGo, and Brave Search – search engine comparison is the new to-do app comparison for my dopamine-starved brain. Kagi feels superior to the others, but even at $5, I’m just not sure the value sufficiently exceeds what I can do with the others, given the right ad blockers and keyboard incantations.
Akshay Kulkarni, Shaurya Kshatri and William Burr reporting at Canada’s CBC News:
B.C. Premier David Eby has announced immediate countermeasures in response to incoming U.S. tariffs, saying the province will take action to protect B.C. workers and businesses. […] As an initial response, Eby said he has directed the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch to immediately stop purchasing American liquor from Republican-led “red states” and remove the top-selling brands from public liquor store shelves.
You love to see it.
Rusty Foster at Today in Tabs has some good advice on how to approach what I refer to as the malevolent-jackass express:
First, deny this regime your compliance whenever and wherever you can, in ways as large or as small as you are able. Defend your communities, especially the most vulnerable—trans people, queer people, the chronically ill, immigrants, ethnic and religious minorities. And above all, seek to depose any officeholder, political appointee, bureaucrat, or business leader who cooperates with this criminal administration, as well as any who fail to effectively oppose it, by any means available to you.
"A slower-track school where they do well"
“A slower-track school where they do well”
I’m just going to leave this Justice Scalia quote right here:
There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.
Further reading:
Kevin Spacey knows what viewers want
Kevin Spacey knows what viewers want
Actor Kevin Spacey, speaking at the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival:
Clearly the success of the Netflix model – releasing the entire season of House Of Cards at once – has proved one thing: the audience wants control. They want freedom. If they want to binge – as they’ve been doing on House Of Cards – then we should let them binge.
It’s so simple, and while Netflix and a few others have learned the lesson the music industry so painfully failed to learn for so long, the television industry still fails to recognize and adapt to the dissipation of distinctions between which piece of glass is glowing with their product.
Evernote CEO hints at future task management integration
Evernote CEO hints at future task management integration
Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, talking to Lifehacker:
What’s your favorite to-do list manager?
You know, I don’t actually have one. I use Evernote, which isn’t particularly great for to-dos yet. Yet.
Despite having tried every task management app I can find, and settling on Wunderlist1Any.do for now, I’m very excited about an integrated Evernote task management solution.
TechCrunch's John Biggs on how to cover the Consumer Electronics Show
TechCrunch’s John Biggs on how to cover the Consumer Electronics Show
John Biggs, in a great post at TechCrunch about how they approached their CES 2013 coverage:
But when you take a step back and look at CES from an innovation standpoint, and with the expectation that the big money here makes the most noise but the small guys here make the most sense, then you’ve got a different show. There’s some really cool stuff here. We tried to celebrate that.
Go give it a read.
Lawyers on Quora
Former Facebook CTO and Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo, talking to Om Malik at GigaOM:
The real reward is in the response to your answer and the fact that millions can read it. You already see more people giving and sharing knowledge for free. Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
I haven’t seen many lawyers on Quora yet, but I’ll start looking for them to see exactly what D’Angelo means . I wonder if some use cases implicate ethics rules.
App to App Handshakes
Fred Wilson:
This morning I was at the gym listening to the Django Unchained Soundtrack on my phone in the SoundCloud android app. I decided I wanted to make Trinity my song of the day on Tumblr. I hit the share icon, up came a list of apps, I selected Tumblr, and I was taken to the Tumblr app but as a link share. I wanted an audio share.
This happens whenever I try to share something to Tumblr and it drives me crazy. Hopefully Mr. Wilson’s emails to SoundCloud and Tumblr will prompt resolution between their apps, and spur conversation about fixing this kind of thing overall.
Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
A spokeswoman for Senator Joe Lieberman, speaking to Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan of Mother Jones:
Senator Lieberman and his staff believe that McAfee, Symantec, and General Alexander are reputable sources of information about cybersecurity.
The evidence, in this case at least, would suggest otherwise, Mr. Senator.
Note: An earlier version of this post left out Megha Rajagopalan, a co-author of the cited ProPublica piece.
Geek preferences matter
We installed Firefox on every non-geek’s computer we could find. And while we were there, we set everyone’s search engine to Google instead of Yahoo or MSN, and we made fun of their AOL email addresses until they switched to Gmail. Our preferences matter.
I took this quote somewhat out of context and Marco Arment’s post about how Apple’s new OS X Mountain Lion handles third party app is worth reading.
I just particularly like the reminder that geeks, who sometimes feel marginalized, are often setting trends.