I imagine the reason that social scientists might be interested in it is because of the big role social media has played in getting information out of places like the areas involved in the Syrian revolution. A reliable way to gauge the probable reliability of information coming from an unknown source on social media…

I'll just leave this here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp.

Here's the thing I'd question though — I'd argue that the measure of a good ISP isn't just how fast the internet is, but how fast it is in comparison to the number you're paying for. When broken down this way, it's always going to skew towards the ISPs that provide the highest speed top tier packages — which is great…

A cynical mind might be led to think that whoever it is in China who picked that logo is trying to create confusion in the mind of someone looking at a product, thinking it's passed a certification that it hasn't really.

Something interesting to note is the remarkable similarity between the Conformité Européenne symbol and the "China Export" symbol. See http://goo.gl/GMjzq.

Yeah, they were pretty clear at the time of the purchase that it was for patent reasons. If they wanted to have Motorola make a nexus device, they'd likely have been better off doing so WITHOUT buying them — so as to not create the notion of playing favorites in comparison to Google's other hardware partners.

Dead rock stars are serious business.

Gonna second the "No". Even if get past the notion that they took instagram pictures — why are they holding/wearing random things to make it clear that they're living in the present? Shirts with random social network logos on them? That doesn't make any sense. No artist today would wear that.

I love that people are confused by what your point is.

It sort of seems like you're going to have to let go of that nickname if you're going to try to enter the search engine game.

The one feature that I really love from Cyanogenmod at this point is ADB over Network — it means that when developing and testing android applications, I don't have to bother finding a USB cable and plugging my device in as long as it's on the same wireless network as my computer. The app can just be transferred…

Nope, it's definitely a three-speed internal gear hub.

Fair enough, maybe I'm reading too much into it.

That's really interesting, the way that you phrase that: "facebook DEFINITELY helped me out". It's like there's a second form of the noun Facebook that refers not to the company Facebook, but more just the phenomena of it. Before attributing your friend's generosity to her, your first instinct was to credit the social…

I was getting it for a bit this morning — every text I sent was from a seemingly randomized number in a totally different area code. That said, it's back to normal functionality now.

From what I understand it was largely for their patent portfolio. Something like 17,000 patents that could be in one way or another useful to google.

You've got to consider the fact that the nexus program isn't just about making good android phones — it's also in a broader sense about getting their manufacturer partners to make good android phones. LG is a company that probably wouldn't otherwise consider making a high end device running stock android, which could…

It's sort of cute that Microsoft thinks that the windows store is important enough that suddenly developers were going to stop "having peace of mind" about developing games like "Skyrim, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Assassin's Creed, and the Mass Effect series". It's just another store.

If LivingSocial lost $169 million in the last three months, that's a faster rate of loss than $558 million over a year.

This. Yelp is a really shifty company. I work in a restaurant and my manager could talk for HOURS about the reasons he hates yelp.