How many Apple IDs should your family have?

http://gigaom.com/apple/how-many-apple-ids-should-your-family-have/

If your family owns multiple Apple devices and you have several different Apple IDs among you, it can become overwhelming or confusing or just plain maddening to figure out where your content is. It doesn’t have to be that way: To manage your media and app purchases more effectively, you may want to consider having a single family iTunes account.

The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs and many other celebrities

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/05/18/the-story-of-the-secret-room-at-pixar-frequented-by-steve-jobs-and-many-other-celebrities/

It was a nook, really, created by the shape of the building around it and the needs of the air conditioning system when the company’s new headquarters were built. Animator Andrew Gordon discovered it while investigating a human-sized hatch in the back wall of his new office. After finding that the tunnel ended in a ‘lost space’, he decided to start decorating.

50 Years Ago: An inspiration for the iPhone?

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/50-years-ago-the-world-in-1962/100296/#img03


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Dr. John W. Mauchly, inventor of some of the original room-size electronic computers, poses in Washington, DC, on November 2, 1962 with one the size of a suitcase after addressing a meeting of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. He now is working on a pocket variety which, he says, may eliminate the housewife's weekly shopping list and the chore of filling it by hand. He predicted everyone will be walking around with his own personalized computer within a decade. (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)

Charles Murray's Quiz: How Thick is Your Bubble?

My score was 34.

The latest Ricochet podcast has an interview with Charles Murray and discusses the quiz.

The title refers to the quiz included in Dr. Charles Murray's new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960 – 2010.