errthng: bryan: Here’s a hidden feature that shipped in Monday’s Tumblr for iOS update. You can now prefix a URL in Mobile Safari with tm to easily create a link post in the Tumblr app. If you’re into bookmarklets, you can save yourself the trouble of typing tm and bookmark the following JavaScript instead: javascript:window.location='tm'+(window.location.href); ugh we’re so cool

errthng:

bryan:

Here’s a hidden feature that shipped in Monday’s Tumblr for iOS update. You can now prefix a URL in Mobile Safari with tm to easily create a link post in the Tumblr app.

If you’re into bookmarklets, you can save yourself the trouble of typing tm and bookmark the following JavaScript instead:

javascript:window.location='tm'+(window.location.href);

ugh we’re so cool

“There is a technical term economists like to use for behavior like this. Unbelievable chutzpah.”

Edward Kleinbard, a law professor at USC speaking to NYT about Apple’s overseas tax situation — or lack thereof. 

One potentially good thing out of all this, Tim Cook will address it directly tomorrow in front of the Senate:

Mr. Cook is expected to emphasize that Apple is most likely “the largest corporate income tax payer in the U.S., having paid nearly $6 billion in taxes to the U.S. Treasury” in the last fiscal year. “Apple does not use tax gimmicks,” Mr. Cook is expected to testify.

He is expected to seek to rebut the Congressional findings by arguing that some of Apple’s largest subsidiaries do not reduce Apple’s tax liability, and to argue in support of a sweeping overhaul of the United States corporate tax code – in particular, lowering rates on companies moving foreign overseas earnings back to the United States. Apple currently assigns more than $100 billion to offshore subsidiaries.

I figured this would lead to a change in tax policy. Now I’m sure of it.

(via parislemon)

"I Couldn't See It."

parislemon:

Alexis Madrigal spoke with outgoing Intel CEO Paul Otellini about the time Intel talked to Apple about powering the original iPhone:

“We ended up not winning it or passing on it, depending on how you want to view it. And the world would have been a lot different if we’d done it,” Otellini told me in a two-hour conversation during his last month at Intel. “The thing you have to remember is that this was before the iPhone was introduced and no one knew what the iPhone would do… At the end of the day, there was a chip that they were interested in that they wanted to pay a certain price for and not a nickel more and that price was below our forecasted cost. I couldn’t see it. It wasn’t one of these things you can make up on volume. And in hindsight, the forecasted cost was wrong and the volume was 100x what anyone thought.” “My gut told me to say yes,” Otellini added.

First of all, either they passed on it or weren’t offered it — seems like a pretty clear-cut difference to me. Not sure why Otellini is trying to trying to obfuscate that. Actually, I get it — one way you’re arguably incompetent, the other way you’re dumb. Lose/lose. 

His follow-up statements sure makes it sound like Intel passed on it, even though Otellini’s gut told him to say “yes”. Yet another lesson in trusting your gut.

Man in the room.

Comedy Central's Indecision: Yahoo! has questions. We have answers.

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The Rebelettes were the pom girls at my dad’s Confederacy apologist high school. Their uniform: somewhere between Klan hood and circus clown. 

Update from dad:

Once the schools were integrated, they changed the mascot name… But the private Christian school that was started so people wouldn’t have to attend the integrated school has taken the name Rebels as its mascot. So the tradition lives on.

Update 2:

I think that was the christmas parade. They are elves.