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Friday, August 3, 2012
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich hits the Raspberry Pi
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Crane & Canopy Is Bringing Internet Business Models To The Home Goods Market
Crane & Canopy is a newly launched online home goods store that's benefiting from the power of the Internet to flatten the traditional supply chain and save on costs. Like many of the new arrivals in the e-commerce space, the company isn't hiding the same old business model from the brick-and-mortar era?behind a shiny new front-end. It's getting rid of all the extra people and processes in the typical supply chain scenario?by handling everything in-house, including design, CAD work, importing and exporting, prep work, and sales. And if that doesn't get you excited (what, are you dead inside?), then how about this: Crane & Canopy has some really, really cute duvet covers and shams for super cheap.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/omLBSwTBJOU/
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
What I Read in July 2012 | Jamie Todd Rubin
Posted on 01 August 2012
July appeared to be a Stephen King month for me. Most of the short fiction I read was King and every novel I read was King as well. Short fiction still suffered this month, but that is in part because I read three fairly long books (two of the three books added up to nearly 2,000 pages!) and I went on an article reading binge mid-month as well. I have a backlog of short fiction to catch up on. If only I can find the time to do it!
Incidentally, Stephen King?s?It (my second reading of it) marks my 494th book since January 1, 1996. I?ll likely finish book #495 today and since I have 2 books to read for my September book review column, that puts me at least 497 books by the end of August. Anyone want to venture a guess as to when I will hit book #500?
And a reminder: bold titles indicate stories, articles or books that I particularly recommend.
Short fiction
- 1922 by Stephen King (Full Dark, No Stars) [7/1/2012]
- Big Driver by Stephen King (Full Dark, No Stars) [7/2/2012]
- A Good Marriage by Stephen King (Full Dark, No Stars) [7/5/2012]
- Cain Rose Up by Stephen King (Skeleton Crew) [7/6/2012]
- The Man in the Black Suit by Stephen King (Everything?s Eventual) [7/7/2012]
- Cutting by Ken Liu (Electric Velocepede #24)?[7/30/2012]
Articles
- Reflections: ?Anthologies? by Robert Silverberg (Asimov?s,?Septmber 2012) [7/19/2012]
- Mannish Boy by Josh Eells (Rolling Stone,?August 2, 2012) [7/20/2012]
- The Only Human Superhero by Jonathan Lethem (Rolling Stone,?August 2, 2012) [7/20/2012]
- The Resurfacing of Anthony Ervin by Constaintine Markides (Rolling Stone,?August 2, 2012) [7/20/2012]
- The Consciousness Connection by Caroline Williams (New?Scientist, July 21, 2012) [7/20/2012]
- On the Brink by Craig Ryan (New Scientist,?July 21, 2012) [7/20/2012]
- Siri, Why Aren?t You Smarter by David Pogue (Scientific American, August 2012) [7/21/2012]
- The Benevolence of Black Holes by Caleb Scharf (Scientific American, August 2012) [7/21/2012]
- The Joyful Mind by Morten L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge (Scientific American, August 2012) [7/22/2012]
- Bruce Springsteen at Sixty-Two by David Remnick (The New Yorker, July 27, 2012) [7/23/2012]
- Calculating Value in Apple?s Upgraded Software by David Pogue (New York Times,?July 25, 2012) [7/25/2012]
Books
- Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King [7/5/2012]
- Bag of Bones by Stephen King [7/10/2012]
- It by Stephen King [7/30/2012]
And as always, if you are looking for inexpensive entertainment, a subscription to one of the many terrific science fiction and fantasy magazines out there is cheaper than an evening out at the movies.
Get your short fiction fix:
My nonfiction subscriptions:
*?Denotes magazines to which I have an active subscription.
Source: http://www.jamierubin.net/2012/08/01/what-i-read-in-july-2012/
Alaska GOP's ?old guard? questions what happened to ?new guard? funds
Frank McQueary, assistant treasurer of the Republican Party of Alaska, sent an email to GOP party officials on Monday about ?potentially improper fundraising by Chair Elect Russ Millette.?
McQueary wrote that as assistant treasurer of the party, along with his role as standing rules chair, he has had ?numerous enquiries forwarded to me regarding both interpretations of the rules and questions concerning the financial aspects of fundraising.?
Millette was not immediately available for comment.
McQueary told the group that he had contacted the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC), the state agency that monitors elections, seeking an opinion on whether funds have been properly reported by Millette. ?
At issue is more than $1,600 raised by the splinter group, or ad hoc committee, that met June 9 in a church after the reconvening of the Republican Party Convention, McQueary said.
?To the best of my belief, the funds in question were not turned over to the party for reporting purposes, nor have they been reported by any other organization,? McQueary wrote.?
Money raised by any political party must be documened. The APOC indicated it?s investigating the issue.
McQueary said that party practice dictates that donor information is received for money raised. If the donor is unknown, the party sends the money to the state Department of Revenue.
Funds were requested at various times before and during the meeting. Some of that money was used, according to a transcript of the meeting, to pay for a parliamentarian the group had hired from Washington state.
At the end of the meeting, Millette told the group that it had collected $1624.60. ?This covers expenses for (the parliamentarian), which includes his airfare,? Millette told the group. He also said that another person in the crowd, Gene Brokaw, was paying for the church and that members could pay him back.
The business manager of the church confirmed that it had charged the group $200 to use the building.?
The June 9 reconvening was the brainchild of Millette, Alaska?s next chair of the Alaska GOP. He put out a call for state Republicans to finish what they started during the?tumultuous state GOP convention?in late April.?Millette is a supporter of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul.?
With the help of failed 2010 U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, Millette captured the hearts and minds of Alaska's Paul supporters and dissatisfied Republicans to win the state GOP chairmanship at the April convention.
The war between the two factions of Alaska?s GOP has brewed since. At the June 9 reconvening, the group voted to censure U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski for joining ?far left interest groups? and ?maliciously attacking? Joe Miller, who ran as a Tea Party candidate in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, but lost in the general election to Murkowski's write-in campaign.
Censuring didn?t stop with Murkowski. The group also voted to censure a handful of Republican Party officials who weren?t in the room, including McQueary.
Millette will become chair of the party early next year. In the meantime, he is the treasurer of the party, and old party boss Randy Ruedrich is still in charge.?
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Contact Amanda Coyne at Amanda@alaskadispatch.com
Source: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/alaska-gops-old-guard-questions-what-happened-new-guard-funds
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