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mdxch··on PIPA support collapses, with 13 new Senators opposed
Here are the senators seeking re-election this year. Asterisks indicate those who are newly opposed to PIPA.

  Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
  Tom Carper (D-DE)
  Bill Nelson (D-FL)
  Ben Cardin (D-MD) *
  Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
  Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
  Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
  Jon Tester (D-MT)
  Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
  Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
  Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
  Bob Casey, Jr. (D-PA)
  Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
  Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
  Joe Manchin (D-WV)
  Richard Lugar (R-IN)
  Olympia Snowe (R-ME) *
  Scott Brown (R-MA) *
  Roger Wicker (R-MS)
  Dean Heller (R-NV)
  Bob Corker (R-TN)
  Orrin Hatch (R-UT) *
  John Barrasso (R-WY)
  Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
mdxch··on When Banks Use Facebook Friends To Determine Your Credit Score
> And of course, people like me who just don't have an account are outright fucked.

That's not necessarily true; the models might predict that people who don't have accounts may be more creditworthy.

mdxch··on Sony Ericsson promotes Android bootloader unlocking
An unlocked phone could be updated with a kernel that allowed overclocking the CPU, which could result in fried hardware.
mdxch··on Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY
chrome://net-internals/#spdy
mdxch··on HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome)
I whipped up a Chrome extension for voice search if anyone is interested:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1047706/VoiceSearch.crx

https://github.com/raneath/chrome-voice-search

mdxch··on If you're an Android developer and looking for ideas, start here
For Android phones with a physical keyboard, the Gmail app allows you to select/copy text by holding the shift key and dragging over the text on the screen.
mdxch··on The median US house is now 4.9x median income, vs 3.5x in 1975
Here's a calculator that I came up with that will "appraise" a house based on inflation normalized Case-Shiller home value data.

It also spits out a couple of nice graphs so you can compare against historical values.

http://homepricer.appspot.com/

mdxch··on Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault
On the flipside, cheers to T-Mobile for not squashing this fantastic app on their Android phones. I love my G1.
mdxch··on XKCD's Randall Munroe runs Monte Carlo on Intrade's per-state markets
Betting sites like Intrade are lagging indicators with respect to the polls. Bettors adjust their bets whenever new polls are released, but it doesn't generally work the other way around (people responding to pollsters don't do so on the basis of what they saw on Intrade).