Covered this week; Some insane bullshit in the turning over of the North Carolina Governor’s seat… the inside story of Apple’s $14 billion tax bill… Apple computers getting far less attention than they used to… Pogue reviews the AirPods and thinks folks are complaining about the wrong things… Seinfeld writers tell how Festivus came to be… a New York Times retrospective on those we’ve lost this year… Pop Star George Michael dies at 53 at home in England…
December 19, 2016
Amid a tense and dramatic backdrop of outrage and frustration, North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature on Friday approved a sweeping package of restrictions on the power of the governor’s office in advance of the swearing in of the Democratic governor-elect, Roy Cooper.
December 20, 2016
Arcane perhaps, but when US $14 billion is on the line… international tax law seemingly grows a little more interesting… this article also illuminates how big money flows around the planet and why… the inside story of Apple’s $14 billion tax bill.
December 21, 2016
Inside Apple Computer, the computer’s themselves are getting a lot less attention than they once did… this is a sad turn of events for many… hoping like hell the plan to force us into the ‘new vision’ of how people compute… say by swiping on tablets… incurs a backlash that can’t be ignored.
December 22, 2016
David Pogue reviews the newly released Apple AirPods… he thinks that people are complaining about the wrong things, he also thinks Steve Jobs would agree.
December 23, 2016
Happy Festivus all! ‘Stop crying and fight your Father…’ In this piece, Seinfeld writers tell how Festivus came to be…
December 24, 2016
Artists who died this year left behind expansive legacies — some in film or television or music — but all of them in words, whether a special verse, a lyric from a song or a spoken perspective on life. The New York times retrospective…
December 25, 2016
“George Michael, the sultry-voiced English songwriter who sold tens of millions of albums as a member of the duo Wham! as well as on his own, was found dead on Sunday at his home in Goring in Oxfordshire, England. He was 53.”
