There is this annoying thing where if you send an email from your iPhone (and maybe other smartphones?) via Google’s Exchange service it’ll put line breaks in for you, which is okay when your recipient views it on a wide enough screen, but if they read your email on a phone or other small screen then the email wrapping is terrible. Here is a workaround by ryanschmidt:

The way I did it was to add a space to my email signature, select the space and make it bold. This won’t show to the user unless they are reading it as a plain-text email. That’s why it’s not 100% perfect but it’s much better than before.

You need iOS5 to add formatting to an email.

Cool, Khan Academy hired Vi Hart! Like peanut butter and chocolate.

Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father. "Sit just as I have told you, and do not lean to one side or the other, nor slide down until you are nearly slid away. Heed me; for if you sit like that, your hair will go into the syrup. And now behold, even as I have said, it has come to pass."

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success. "Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity."

I love my webhost. Here is their statement on SOPA.

The Possibilian. "A few years ago, Eagleman thought back on his fall from the roof and decided that it posed an interesting research question. Why does time slow down when we fear for our lives? Does the brain shift gears for a few suspended seconds and perceive the world at half speed, or is some other mechanism at work? The only way to know for sure was to re-create the situation in a controlled setting. Eagleman and one of his graduate students, Chess Stetson, who is now at Caltech, began by designing and programming a “perceptual chronometer.” About the size of a pack of cards, it had an L.E.D. display connected to a circuit board and powered by a nine-volt battery. The unit could be strapped to a subject’s wrist, where it would flash a number at a rate just beyond the threshold of perception. If time slowed down, Eagleman reasoned, the number would become visible. Now he just needed a good, life-threatening situation."

Smoke Screen. On airport "security theater." There’s a trillion dollars I’d like to have back.

The Great Economic Divide Makes Everyone Poorer. Hard to see this ending well, of the divide keeps growing.

The Kiss. "You must remember this: Amid the chaos of the rioting after Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, a young couple, captured in a moment of intimacy. Here is how fate and chance converged on the streets of Vancouver to create the most compelling sports image of the year—and what the mayhem of that night says about the nature of modern fandom."

Wow, I gotta get a copper pipe and some magnets and try this myself:

Couple things on comedian-for-our-times Louis CK. First, a theory as to why he holds that title: shame. Second, he recently skipped all middlemen and sold his recent comedy special directly on the Internet. Five dollars, no DRM, do with it what you will. Worked out really well, and he’s being quite awesome about it all:

hi. So it’s been about 12 days since the thing started and yesterday we hit the crazy number. One million dollars. That’s a lot of money. Really too much money. I’ve never had a million dollars all of a sudden. and since we’re all sharing this experience and since it’s really your money, I wanted to let you know what I’m doing with it. People are paying attention to what’s going on with this thing. So I guess I want to set an example of what you can do if you all of a sudden have a million dollars that people just gave to you directly because you told jokes.

Good week for trailers! First The Dark Knight Rises, then The Hobbit, and now Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel (?) Prometheus: