I'll tell you, I didn't have much Love for the Pluto haters. But I've come to accept the truth of it. Pluto crosses the orbit of Neptune, it's tilted out of the ecliptic, there's other crap all around it, and it's small---almost as small as its moon, which doesn't even orbit a point inside Pluto. It's a rock. Just like all the other outer-system dwarf planets: Haumea, Makemake, … [Read more...] about Pluto and the Final Stage of Grief
“What if everyone whose account was canceled sued Google?”
Google offers some fantastic services to users of the internet, but they're so big that we're all small potatos to them, which is probably why they seem to avoid giving one-on-one customer service whenever possible. So when Aaron Greenspan of Think Computer Corporation had trouble getting anyone at Google to explain why they cancelled his AdSense account, still owing him $721, … [Read more...] about “What if everyone whose account was canceled sued Google?”
Getting Your Pen Back
As I get older, I feel the need to pass on some of the accumulated wisdom of my years, so with this post I'm starting the Windypundit Life Lessons Department. It's too late to help poor Scott, but the secret to getting people to remember to give back a pen you've loaned them is to hand them the pen but keep the cap. When they absentmindedly put the pen away, the need to … [Read more...] about Getting Your Pen Back
Health Status, Yoo, TP, Legal Costs, and a White Wedding
Random shots around the web: I've often thought the best way to provide health insurance for pre-existing conditions would be to have the lifetime cost of the condition paid by whatever insurance company you had when you were first diagnosed. Ronald Bailey explores a hybrid variation of this called health status insurance that seems to provide portability, choice, and … [Read more...] about Health Status, Yoo, TP, Legal Costs, and a White Wedding
Are We Living In the 21st Century or What?
My wife is flying back home right now, and I've got to pick her up from the airport. In one window, I've got a display of the plane's flight track from FlightAware. In another window, I'm running a Google Earth satellite image with her plane's current position superimposed, thanks to fboweb.com. In yet another window, I'm running streaming audio of the airport tower courtesy of … [Read more...] about Are We Living In the 21st Century or What?