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mazuhlon A new Google Docs

Ctrl+Shift+F to hide the controls. View > Uncheck 'Fixed width view' to ensure you're ready. F11 to make your browser window full screen.

For further distraction free writing use one of these Firefox user styles:

http://userstyles.org/styles/17366 http://userstyles.org/styles/9889

mazuhlon German family granted political asylum in U.S. over home schooling

American culture has no place for the jock-nerd. You are either an all-American jock or a nerd (pencil-necked, or mobidly-obese).

mazuhlon Iran says it will permanently shut down Gmail

Iranians are pretty sophisticated when it comes to finding ways around government filters. I think the reason for the government banning access to Gmail is Google's decision to switch to HTTPS for all users. That makes it harder to spy on what people are emailing about. Do Yahoo and Hotmail use HTTPS by default?

This probably makes the deep packet inspection the IRG have been accused of much harder.

mazuhlon The Human Body Is Built for Distance

Helio Gracie comes to mind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helio_Gracie). Apparently he was still training at the age of 95. Some of the videos of him in his 80s in YouTube show him still to have been a force to be reckoned with.

mazuhlon The Human Body Is Built for Distance

Feet in the Clouds: A Story of Fell Running and Obsession by Richard Askwith is about the British pass time of running up and down very steep peaks, fells and hilltops. He says fell runners usually peak in their mid-thirties to fifties. Youngsters don't have the stamina that a Bob Graham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Graham_Round) or Joss Naylor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Naylor) have.

mazuhlon Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

I'd like to be notified when authors have new book coming out. You get this from some publishers, but what if the author jumps to another publisher?

mazuhlon Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?

I'd pay $10 a month for a service that finds podcasts and videos about specific subjects.

I don't have the time to scour TV listings or subscribe to busy podcasts/RSS feeds in the hope of finding something to listen to at work/when I'm out and about. What I'm doing now is going to the BBC iPlayer website every week, putting in my keywords and hoping something comes up.

I'd pay a monthly subscription to a reliable service that could bring me high quality content from universities, YouTube Edu, Authors@Google, iTunes store, the BBC iPlayer, NPR, PBS, Fora.tv, etc. about the subjects/keywords I enter. What I don't want is homemade slideshows from YouTube or micro-segments of news. I shouldn't have to sit in Google's search box and now be able to drill down to find this interesting stuff.