Links for 12-11-2014

• The 2014 Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog
• Livin’ Thing: Boogie Nights
• The Madness Of Queen Shanley
• Log In - The New York Times - RT @nickbilton: Lyft needs to shave off its "cuddlestache," pop its pink balloons and kill the cutesy branding to compete with Uber:
• Boston Is an Innovation Hotbed and Doesn’t Care Whether You Know It | Re/code
• Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo — Medium - RT @cindyalvarez: Apollo 11 was able to land because [lead eng Margaret Hamilton] designed the software robustly enough…
• Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez - Feature - TechRepublic
• ian bremmer on Twitter: "Could be the Best Cartoon Ever http://t.co/UPTVTPMhCJ" - RT @ianbremmer: Could be the Best Cartoon Ever
• Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather? | FiveThirtyEight
• The reality of IoT today, not hype about 2019 – Donnie Berkholz's Story of Data
• Docker, Rocket, and bulls in a china shop – Donnie Berkholz's Story of Data
• The New Republic’s demise: The magazine’s heterodox liberalism is what made it unique. - "The impending transformation of the New Republic from a liberal magazine into a “vertically integrated digital media company” is regrettable for many reasons, not all of them sentimental. Conservatives need a liberal magazine that’s unpredictable enough to make them want to read it. Liberals and leftists need a magazine that will prod them to question their beliefs, and revise or strengthen them. All of us need robust intellectual debate of a high caliber that treats politics and ideas with the seriousness that they deserve."