My iPhone now works as a remote control for my laptop anywhere in the house, provided it’s on the same WiFi network. The laptop, in turn, can stream to speakers in the living room hooked up to the router. If I start morphing into Justin Long, you have permission to put me [...]

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One thing that’s recently become clear to me is that I really need to read a biography of J. Edgar Hoover. Anyone care to recommend one?

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Lemme just second Tom Lee: Jailbreaking = teh awesome. Not sure why I didn’t do it earlier. If you’ve got an iPhone you haven’t unlocked yet, go here.

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The FISA battle is giving me some perspective on how the process of beshrillification unfolds:
(1) Republicans make a series of dubious or straight-up false claims in support of their position.
(2) Because the matter is complex, a relatively small number of people are actually paying close enough attention to know how and why the statements are [...]

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