ESPN:
The NCAA has hit Penn State with a $60 million sanction, a four-year football postseason ban and a vacation of all wins dating to 1998, the organization said Monday morning.
The career record of Joe Paterno will reflect these vacated records, the NCAA said.
Penn State must also reduce 10 initial and 20 total scholarships each year for a four-year period.
Nothing can set right the wrongs done at Penn State, but nevertheless, this is the right move by the NCAA.
This whole story is still crazy to me, but its good to see Apple’s got it under control.
While Viticci’s method is cool, I use a much simpler one to get inline Markdown links inserted: TextExpander.
When I type ;mdl TextExpander takes the URL I’ve previously copied and does this with it:
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The cursor gets inserted where I can type the text that should be linked. It’s a little backwards, but I’ve learned to think about the URL first, with the text second. It’s fast, easy and works in TextExpander-equipped iOS apps, too.
This is chilling to read; but, thankfully, the plan never had to be used.
This is one of those commands that just makes life a little bit easier for the power user.
Zack Beauchamp:
One of the principal weapons used by James Eagan Holmes in the horrific Dark Knight Rises shooting would have been subject to a series of sharp restrictions under the now-expired federal Assault Weapons ban. The AR–15 rife carried by Holmes, a civilian semi-automatic version of the military M–16, would have been defined as a “semiautomatic assault weapon” under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. If the law was still in force, semiautomatic assault weapons would have been outright banned.
The Dark Knight Rises director Christopher Nolan, on the shooting in Aurora.
If you’re running a PowerPC Mac and are getting sad about your browser choices, add this to the list.
If there’s one thing constantly running through the heads of nerds watching Breaking Bad, it’s that Walter White might be the most badass chemist of all time. Most of the badass part comes from the skills of Bryan Cranston, who plays the chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-cooker, but the chemist part comes from the diligent work of researchers Gordon Smith and Jenn Carroll, who make sure every molecular formula that comes out of the character’s mouth is perfect.
Canon’s EOS M has leaked, and appears to be mirrorless.
Good for them; maybe not so awesome for the rest of us.
Updated: From Sparrow’s email to users:
We will continue to make available our existing products, and we will provide support and critical updates to our users. However, as we’ll be busy with new projects at Google, we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps.
It’s been an honor and a pleasure to build products for all of our wonderful users who have supported us over the years. We can’t thank you enough. We look forward to working on some new and exciting projects at Google!
Gruber:
The big thing to remember about the iPhone 4 is that it’s the first CDMA iPhone. No way it’s going to disappear from the lineup, because now Apple could offer a “free” iPhone on Verizon and Sprint, too.
The iPhone 4 would be one heck of a free (on contract) device.
On a related note, I’m shocked at how many people go in to AT&T and still come out with a 3GS in 2012.