In Texas, it’s now legal to kill a hooker. Because, you know, $150 is big money.
Kinda makes me wonder how much devaluation of prostitutes is driven by making their job illegal. I can’t imagine Texas saying it’s okay to shoot the UPS guy because he won’t hand over a Kindle.
Rich men, who would benefit least from redistribution, were more likely to be opposed to it — but only when they also had large biceps. There was a negative correlation between the two, so that rich men with less muscle strength were more open to redistribution. In men of lower socioeconomic status, the correlation was reversed: stronger men were more in favor of redistribution, while men with smaller muscles were less likely to support it.
Ricky Gervais reminds me on Twitter that today is the 23rd anniversary of Jim Henson’s death, so passing along the photo he tweeted in memoriam:
Tipped off by Daring Fireball: I’m amused by the feature list of Party Monster, a DJ app for iOS:
Trying to figure out why this is in a mostly residential Philly neighborhood. (Wahrter: pronunciation of that stuff that comes out of the tap.)
I have to get some e-money from my virtual bank so I can play cyberpoker. That sounds so 1997. How long before gay marriage sounds equally quaint?
I’m generally in favor of the results that come from crowdsourcing, but Internet mob mentality is one place it falls down hard. This Rebecca Watson quote is about a discussion on Reddit, but it’s generally applicable to most unmoderated online spaces:
To recap, men’s stories are valued and their struggles are supported. Women’s stories are worthless and are derided. Men overcome. Women are fucked.
Fire your graphic designer.
We used to make fun of the nurses, but at least they know that you don’t need a print to take home a smartphone picture.
HTC One running Jelly Bean. Slightly “upgraded”. Yes, these buttons work.
Number of people in this photo: zero. Via @Earth_Pics, retweeted by @rickygervais.
So, how do you publish a hotline phone number that kids can call for help, when they’re likely to be accompanied by their abused when they see it?
Print the poster so only children can read it.
I hope someone in the US steals this.
There’s too stupid to legislate, and then there’s too stupid to live.
Kentucky Senate Overwhelmingly Passes Bill Prohibiting Federal Gun Laws
Even better, it passed 34-3.
Nature, you are impressive. From Astronomy Picture of the Day, original here:
It made news that a man who’s won 23 Daytime Emmy Awards was nominated for another one.
It’s impossible to watch Being Elmo and not be heartbroken that the man isn’t still on the job. I’m genuinely torn on this one—on one hand, I think it’s utterly bizarre that we make such strong distinctions between 17 and 18 in terms of evaluating people for their choices in sexual partners. On the other, there’s something reprehensible about middle-aged people with people not old enough to drink.
And on the third hand, I’m wondering just why I find that reprehensible, when I’m generally of the opinion that what happens in the bedroom isn’t any of my business for any reason. There are plenty of reprehensible ways that can happen, but is that a universal truth? I think I’d have been pretty pissed at 18 if someone had told me I wasn’t old enough to make my own choices.
OCR software that recognizes text from iPhone photos. Sounds interesting to me, especially if it works with a panoramic photostitched iPhone 5 pic. But at $50, it’s too pricey for a “buy it in case I need it” purchase; would definitely reconsider at a lower price point, or if it shows up in a future bundle.
Also wondering, for occasional OCR needs, whether Evernote wouldn’t fit the bill. Haven’t played with that feature enough.
Macworld Review: Get scanner-like features for any camera with Prizmo 2
Never mind that a “time crystal” sounds like what happens if you crash a TARDIS into the Enterprise engine room. This theory about atomic perpetual motion machines is still melting my brain.
[T]ime crystals derive their movement not from stored energy but from a break in the symmetry of time, enabling a special form of perpetual motion. [Physicists] plan to build a time crystal, not in the hope that this perpetuum mobile will generate an endless supply of energy (as inventors have striven in vain to do for more than a thousand years) but that it will yield a better theory of time itself.
