New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans for World’s Most Popular Mobile OS | Wired Business | Wired.c

If you want a good example of how to sound very smart, while not actually answering any question, read this interview with new Android and Chrome head, Sundar Pichai.

Great example of a completely link-bait style headline. I now know less than when I started reading this. Apparently, his plans are to continue to confuse customers.

In his first interview since taking over as the head of Android, Sundar Pichar talks about his plans for the world’s most popular mobile operating system and how it can play nice with Chrome.

via http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/exclusive-sundar-pichai-reveals-his-plans-for-android/

Silicon Valley Needs Houses

sigh.

The enormous wealth that’s pouring into Silicon Valley ought to be trickling down to at least some extent as a vast array of local service providers gain jobs and income as chefs, waiters, doctors, nurses, yoga instructors, gardeners, interior decorators, taxi drivers, accountants, opthamologists, t…

via http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/03/silicon_valley_housing_boom_there_s_no_such_thing.html?fb_ref=sm_fb_share_chunky_bottom

I Love Winnie Cooper

Truer words have never been written. This is great pop culture criticism.

“I have no statistical evidence to support this thesis, but, believe me, it’s true: a disproportionate number of American men who are now between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty-eight will forever love Winnie Cooper. It is not so much a phenomenon as a textbook example of nature versus nurture—we were all nurtured to love Winnie Cooper, and to see ourselves as her counterpart, Kevin Arnold.”

Still, her cultural significance hadn’t occurred to me until recently, when my wife gave me a T-shirt that reads “I Love Winnie Cooper.” Since the shirt is made of unaccountably soft cotton, and I agree with the sentiment expressed on the front, I wear it regularly. And often, as I’m walking down the street, a delighted man, somewhere between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty-eight, will, as if we’re brothers in a secret alliance, point at me and say, “I love Winnie Cooper too!”

via http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/04/i-love-winnie-cooper.html?mobify=0

The Re-education of Chris Copeland: How a 29-year-old rookie made it to the NBA

Great story of determination.

After a lackluster college career at Colorado and years of crafting his game in Europe, Chris Copeland finally got the break he dreamed of when the Knicks offered him a roster spot this season. He’s made the most of it.

via http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/4/11/4174374/chris-copeland-new-york-knicks-profile?utm_source=sbnation&utm_medium=nextclicks&utm_campaign=articlebottom