While he was on assignment in the Philippines earlier this year, television journalist Miles O’Brien accidentally dropped a case of very heavy video equipment case on his arm. The resulting injury caused compartment syndrome, a very serious condition where insufficient blood flow to an injured limb can lead to amputation or even death. Miles narrowly escaped death, but his injured arm could not be saved. Six months after his injury, Miles bravely opens up to New York Magazine about living his life “Mono Mano”.

I could tell you about toasting a bagel, opening a new box of cereal, or changing the trash bag, but you get the idea. A morning routine that used to take 30 minutes now lasts more than an hour. At the end of each day, I have always done less than I expected to do. This makes me cranky. I have, grudgingly, learned that it is not always good to try to do everything yourself. And I am asking for help much more than I ever did before. Guess what? People want to help. Especially other amputees, who have been generous with ideas and experiences.

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There are developers and then there are developers.
Samuel Clay of Newsblur is one of the latter.

Today I notice that Samuel has quietly added a feature that I have long dreamed of for a newsreader: a "vacation mode":

"You can now temporarily turn off sites by going to Manage > Mute Sites. This is for those feeds you want to keep but ignore for a while."

This means you can subscribe to both "river of news" sites as well as sites you want to make sure to catch up on.

Samuel is quietly, steadily, patiently building a truly amazing product. Newsblur is something really special, bringing back the social component of Reader but with even more features. If you're an experienced newsreader, you'll love it, and if you're not, why not give it a try?

http://newsblur.com

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"Baby Got Back:" Sir Mix-A-Lot with the Seattle Symphony

White girl in the black dress was doing way too damn much

I wish I had been there.

A Romanian princess accused of participating in a cockfighting ring in rural Oregon is scheduled to plead guilty next month, court documents show.

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that’s what I call a traffic jam

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When we were approached with the possibility of reviewing ISA, a movie collaboration between the Syfy, Chiller TV, and Telemundo, we jumped at the possibility. A cyberpunk movie set in Los Angeles' most Hispanic neighborhoods with a super-intelligent Latina lead? Absolutely up our alley. But while ISA successfully and effectively brings many themes and issues to the table that much of science fiction is sorely lacking, it ultimately falls down when it comes to making much sense.

International mega-events like the FIFA World Cup require increasingly expensive, high-tech security. It's not just the financial burden that's become worrisome. When the games are over, the host country will still possess the tech—which may have lasting repercussions for the privacy of its citizens.

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One of the small surprises to me in the Yosemite update is that Safari supports RSS again.

It’s not the same as it used to be, but it’s there. Links show up in the Safari sidebar.

I think this is cool.

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I remember the WWDC keynote when Safari/RSS was announced. I had been worried about an Apple RSS reader the year before, and I was worried again that year.

And then there it was. And right in the browser. So I figured my app NetNewsWire was screwed — off to meet Watson, wherever the hell it went.

But was sitting next to Daniel Steinberg. I don’t remember exactly what he said — something simple like “Oh, I think you’ll be fine” — and I believed him, right then and there, even as Safari/RSS was rolling out.

Now there’s a guy who’s good at being reassuring. I’m not sure anyone else could have handled me that day.

And he was right. NetNewsWire sales doubled when Safari/RSS came out. I think it was the best possible thing for my app, that Apple gave RSS a kind of seal-of-approval and let millions of people know that the technology existed.

And so, for nostalgic reasons, I’m pleased to see Safari pick up RSS again.

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Later that same WWDC I talked to an Apple engineer who explained to me that there had been quite a bit of discussion over whether or not to include a “Don’t be evil” popup in Safari’s preferences. (Her words.) That popup allowed a user to choose their default RSS reader, so it wouldn’t have to be Safari and could be something else.

To this day I remain grateful to the people who argued for the right side of that argument. I don’t even know their names, but I wish them all the best.

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Back when my friends were reading Dune and The Hobbit, I was reading this.

It’s one of the type books I fished out of trash cans at the advertising agencies where my dad worked. It listed every design available at one of New York’s many typesetting houses. Sober and loopy and everything between, all in tiny smudgy letters. I couldn’t say why these books were so riveting, but I kept looking anyway.

I decided that if I ever had the job to pick these myself, I would never use “Fuchsia” for anything ever, because it’s just plain silly.

But I was sure that “Noodles” was a multi-dimensional work of genius because — well, just look at it.

All Our Patent Are Belong To You – Tesla Motors.

Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.

Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

It begins. Smart companies will insert their name here [COMPANY NAME] will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

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If you're busy watching the World Cup over on ESPN, well, you're missing some important and exciting golf action over on ESPN2.

That's Andy North and Scott Van Pelt demonstrating ... something. The overturned salad bowl is, I guess, supposed to represent the "turtleback" Donald Ross greens at Pinehurst No. 2. So let's have a little fun and just start slamming golf balls everywhere while everyone else is watching soccer. Don't worry about the golf being played out there. This is more entertaining, and we found a musical accompaniment to make it even better.

Started from the bottom, now we're still at the bottom.

Drake has a bit of a reputation for supporting whichever team is doing well -- look! We've chronicled all his allegiances with very good teams! -- and people have a tendency for riding him about it.

Well, today, June 12, 2014, we can officially lay that trope to rest:

We've got @Drake here kicking off #HAW with the #Astros. #HTownPride pic.twitter.com/qXRszR3DHi

— Houston Astros (@astros) June 12, 2014

Yes, that's Drake, posing with the Houston Astros: them of three straight 100-loss seasons. They are 30-37 this year, which has them only -- ONLY! -- 10.5 games back, but, yeah, they're still quite bad.

So if this is bandwagoning, he's getting on a bit early.

Drake always has loved H-Town, and this is his "Houston Appreciation Week," but still, bold move showing your face at an Astros game. PROCESS.

The 71-year-old Hollywood star was at Pinewood studios in Buckinghamshire when a hydraulic door fell down and hit him as he began work on Star Wars: Episode VII. The actor, who also played Indiana Jones, fell to the ground in agony and after medics assessed him on the M Stage at the studios close to spaceship the Millennium Falcon, he was taken by stretcher onto a helicopter for further treatment.

Non-managers at computer-system design companies earned an average 4.1 percent more in April than a year ago, the latest in a string of increases beginning in 2012. Their pay hadn't risen in the three prior years. Pay is strong for specialists in "Big Data" — digital information that includes data culled from mobile devices to spot trends or build digital dossiers on people. Also hot are people who use technology to help health care providers digitize medical records. Nearly three-quarters of health care providers are having trouble attracting workers with expertise in e- records, according to a survey last year by Towers Watson, a consultant.

The concept is simple - rather than setting your own rates, each client decides how happy they are with the finished product and gives a gift of appropriate value in return. Through the gift economy method, Philadelphia-based web designer Adrian Hoppel has actually increased his freelancing rates. Most of his clients “gift” him money in return, which usually amounts to more than he would have originally charged. This increase, he believes, is due to a mutual feeling of fairness.

Despite budget fluctuations, women-owned businesses are maintaining their share of federal contracting dollars.

Wow, turn off the light please. #9gag #awwclub

[Photo: Veggie Planet/Facebook]

Veggie Planet, a pizza-focused vegetarian and vegan restaurant that has been operating out of Club Passim in Harvard Square since 2001, will close in the end of August, reports Boston Restaurant Talk. "Since Club Passim's seating capacity was reduced in late 2011 due to fire code enforcement, and given that there is no table turnover in their concert room every night, it has become unsustainable to continue to operate Veggie Planet in this space," the restaurant writes on Facebook. "Given that we also operate Veggie Galaxy, however, we feel that our attention is better focused on Galaxy than on the time and energy it would take to transfer Veggie Planet's operations to an alternative location." The team is hopeful that a new owner will step forward to take the concept to a new, dedicated space.

Veggie Galaxy is a vegan and vegetarian diner in Central Square. Sad Facebook fans asked whether Veggie Galaxy would serve some of the Veggie Planet menu, but it will not. "In trying to be true to the concept, we won't be introducing pizza there (and no room for a pizza oven in the kitchen there either...especially since we're putting in a dedicated fryer for vegan doughnut-making!)." No word yet on the future food situation at Club Passim.
· Veggie Planet [FB]
· Veggie Planet in Cambridge's Harvard Square to close [BRT]
· All coverage of Veggie Planet on Eater [~EBOS~]

Chicago video producer, musician, and vlogger Craig Benzin (a.k.a. “WheezyWaiter“) has created “Bad Parkour,” a funny video that shows him doing extremely simple parkour stunts all around town. Craig doesn’t hold anything back as he drives his car, foot-punches a fence, “looks no ways” while crossing the road, and more.

Parkour for the common man.

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