To the genius who put The White Stripes – Ball and Biscuit in their commercial. Fantastic song.

Are we wildly underestimating solar and wind power? Posted by Brad Plumer

Let’s start with this chart from Gregor Macdonald, using data from BP’s 2012 Statistical Review of World Energy, showing that global use of solar power has grown exponentially in the past few years. Watch that graph go parabolic:

I can’t wait for my house to have solar panels.

I want one.

Is that Bill Gates staring back at you from Outlook 2010? by Peter Bright

Possibly the coolest easter egg I’ve ever seen in a piece of software.

Just purchased LastPass Premium for a year. The price was cheap ($12 a year) and I love the service. Add this to Remember the Milk as services I can’t live without.

In case you use Last.fm, eHarmony or LinkedIn check out these sites.

https://lastpass.com/lastfm/

https://lastpass.com/eharmony/

https://lastpass.com/linkedin/

Note: I have been a fan of LastPass for years and I trust them. That being said, you should change your password for any of these services as well as any other services in which you use the same password. THEN check to see if your password has been compromised. 

I FOUND ICE CUBES ‘GOOD DAY’

CLUE 4:
Dates of those Laker wins over SuperSonics where it was a clear day with no Smog:
Nov 30 1988
Apr 4 1989
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992

The only way this could have been better is if the author figured out what days Ice Cube got his grub on, but didn’t pig out.

The Exchange: Gladwell vs. Simmons IV By Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Simmons

GLADWELL: Although surely Bird isn’t telling the truth here. On the court, he fits much better with LeBron than Kobe. Kobe’s ideal teammate is a ball boy. But go on …

Two of the best writers in their respective disciplines trade emails in what must be one of the most impressive exchanges I’ve seen from either one of them. Bill Simmons was always the first thing I read in ESPN the Magazine back when he was ‘The Sports Guy’ and Malcolm Gladwell should need no introduction in this blog.

The best part of the interview is that every response is more insightful than the one before it. You don’t even need to like sports to be able to get something out of this one.

HBO has started to put the pilot episodes on YouTube. I couldn’t be happier with this. If only they allowed me to pay for just HBO Go then I would be ecstatic.

The first show is Girls and it is actually pretty good. Judd Apatow produced it and it definitely has his signature on it.

Apple, publishers to settle e-books price-fixing suit by Joe Aimonetti 

According to Reuters’ sources, Amazon (as well as consumers in general) stand to gain the most from this settlement. Amazon could sell e-books cheaper, making its Kindle hardware more attractive for potential tablet buyers, and if the prices on Amazon fall, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and any other e-book retailers would have to tailor their prices accordingly — a win for consumers.

Price fixing is the work of cartels, not capitalist companies. If Apple had Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ slogan I’d point you over to John Gruber’s Daring Fireball blog to watch him rationalize.

Kanye West has a new project and it is WHODAT.biz. It just shows plain old whois data.

http://whodat.biz/#ngetchell.com