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The email I got from 23andMe linked me to legal@23andme.com.

To duck out of the new ToS, just write this email to legal@23andme.com--

To Whom It May Concern:

My name is [name], and my 23andMe account is under the email [email]. I am writing to declare that I do not agree to the new terms of service at https://www.23andme.com/legal/terms-of-service/.

Yeah, it's not immediately obvious how to play, but I thought with some clicking around folks would figure it out.

Hah, thanks! What was your heuristic?

I find that extremely hard to believe....

Attachments? Google Drive? And why not lazy-load long emails?

I posted a new We the People petition about this issue: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/close-guantanamo-b... .

The Strokes - Alone, Together

Here, "married" is a past participle, and the headline is in the passive voice. Headlines from Google News analogous to this post's title:

-Sleep apnea linked to cancer in latest studies -Falcon 9 countdown aborted in last second before launch -Apple, Samsung CEOs set for court talks

The article can also be found here: http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/18/bbc-future-column-why-your-b... .

"Discretely?" Really?

Why tau, BTW? Why not winnie, after the Wonder Years character portrayed by the eminent mathematician Danica McKellar?

Yeah, yeah, and degrees are wrong for expressing angles, and steering wheels are wrong for driving cars.

Incidentally, there's already a symbol for \tau: 2\pi. Same number of syllables and characters as 14, so what's the problem?

Yeah, a couple of other people have said the same. The fonts seem thinner in Windows than on my Mac across browsers. I'll look for more readable fonts that are still appealing.

No mobile version yet. Planning to experiment with jQuery Mobile for that....

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I'll add repeat functionality soon.

Intended use case for "preview": you get a burn link from someone, you don't know any of the songs, and you want to sample many in a short time. It's not selected by default because I imagine it's not what most people want. Maybe it plays too prominent a role on the page.

I really wish I could play songs without the video, but other music sites have gotten in trouble trying.

How would people feel about "add album" and "add random related songs" buttons?

I suspect a large fraction of fans have watched Chuck online. Surely Nielsen ratings are a poor measure of the show's popularity given the its target demographic. . . .

We're debating the relative importance of connotations of entrepreneurship; there's, say, a discrete (maybe multivariate) probability distribution of connotations, dictionary definitions are supposed to capture its peaks, and the debate is over where the "true" peaks are. I doubt most people would call the subway vendor a Steve Jobsian entrepreneur. But if he hired others to sell for him, took out loans to increase his inventory, and attached Sodoku puzzles and small pencils to his candy to give bored passengers something to do, more people would likely agree he can be called an entrepreneur. Nevertheless, I believe a high bar for innovation is not an essential component of entrepreneurship -- and the more interesting entrepreneurs are not necessarily more innovative. So the subway vendor's living between the cracks, he's breaking the law. Maybe that makes him more interesting! What types of people tend to strike up conversations with him? How often do policemen confront him? Which foods are more popular after a Yankees game? Interesting entrepreneurs may be engaged in very ordinary activities that afford them unique perspectives.

Incidentally, I love the NY subway for all its various distractions -- the breakdancers, the flashmobbers, and yes, even the panhandlers, because it's always interesting to observe how passengers react to them.