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Yes and the raid of his company illustrates the high level of cooperation between HK and U.S. law enforcement, and that was only over movie downloads.

Hong Kong as his safe harbor from the U.S. government. I wonder what Kim Dotcom would say about that.

It's terrific that Tumblr and its investors get to make a lot of money.

I just don't understand all this talk about Tumblr remaining independent of Yahoo. Yahoo is mostly a pretty stagnant company that needs new ideas and ways of thinking and doing business. Tumblr offers that opportunity - making the central point of interaction a user-defined dashboard rather than an overly-programmed portal that fewer and fewer people visit out of inertia.

Sure, let Tumblr be Tumblr so you don't scare off its audience. But unless Yahoo itself becomes more like Tumblr, what's the use of spending $1.1 billion?

Here's a collection of modern-day 6-word memoirs: http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

Something about this doesn't smell right.

Why is it a great business? Because it has users and almost no barrier to entry? How sustainable is that?

Here's an article claiming the best dollar slice in Manhattan is at Percy's in Greenwich Village, which I haven't tried yet:

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/food/the_best_slice_in...

I think the most interesting point is that all pizzerias in New York City will soon be either the <$1 places or the higher end places like Artichoke, with not a lot in between. A $1 slice place moved into my neighborhood, and then there were 2, and it's clear that some of the other pizza places are getting hammered - one sent their daughter out on the street handing out leaflets. Of course, that place isn't very good, either, so it's hard to cry them a river.

That's a good point. But on the other hand, could 100 negative tweets be considered the equivalent of one lengthy and really blistering blog post?

Certainly I agree that one cannot succeed in one's field without deep knowledge of the fundamentals. I just wonder if constant cramming for exams is the best way to attain that knowledge, in place of exercises that actually attempt to apply knowledge as it's learned.

And I'm willing to acknowledge that perhaps I'm not giving enough credit to contemporary engineering curricula, in which much of that 'study' time might be devoted to problem-solving exercises in place of preparing for tests of one's memory.

Does all the study do much for you engineers when it comes to your careers?

When I was an undergrad (warning: liberal arts majors), I had a lot of friends who were engineering students. I asked one if all the study was all that relevant. He said once he was in the workforce, he wouldn't need to have every little thing he learned memorized because he'd have manuals to consult and pull off the shelf when he had a problem he couldn't solve on his own. Another engineering friend seemed way more energized by the assignments where he had to come up with an actual solution to a real problem, in contrast to cramming all night for some horrendously difficult timed test.

So is all the ceaseless studying of engineers really just an effort to weed out those who are not diligent?

While we're looking at other predictions of the future, here's another standout from a 1981 KRON broadcast which I'm sure you'll remember:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ

Glad I'm not the only one who likes it...apparently several people dislike it so much they're downvoting me. I'm not a sock-puppet, honest!

I really like the guys at Short Form Blog, who have a really great, attractive-looking approach to aggregating the day's news online.

http://www.shortformblog.com