Something about this just speaks to me.

A congressman was ejected from the House floor after his attempt to stand in solidarity with Florida shooting victim Trayvon Martin — and draw attention to the scourge of racial profiling — ran afoul of the legislative body’s dress code.

Rep. Bobby Rush (D.-Ill) was escorted off the floor on Wednesday after he donned a hoodie during a speech deploring the killing of the unarmed teen.

“Racial profiling has to stop,” said the congressman as he removed his suit jacket. “Just because someone is wearing a hoodie doesn’t make them a hoodlum.”

I'm not really sure if I am happy about his action or not. In a way I think it was childish and he could have done more, in his position, than just putting on a hoodie. On the other hand, this is the kind of thing that makes the rebel in me rejoice.

The moment you get effortlessly lost in work goes by any number of names: focus, concentration, escapism, flow, and countless others. It's the point where you're able to blur the world around you and calibrate your brain to pay attention to one single task. It's your sweet spot. It's when you Get Things Done. Your entire cognitive effort is concentrated on one task and when you're in that moment the outside world disappears.

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A 4-inch display could possibly fit on to the iPhone at its current size, especially considering the fact that the next-gen precious will probably undergo a redesign of some sort.

Then we have the matter of 4G LTE connectivity to deal with. This is pretty… duh. If Apple felt comfortable enough to put LTE on the iPad, they should feel alright about slapping it in the iPhone. Of course, by the time the iPhone launches, AT&T’s 4G LTE network should be much more built out, and Verizon’s should be much more reliable.

I will take both please!

The wife of the film director who made a wildly popular video about brutal African warlord Joseph Kony says her husband has been diagnosed with brief reactive psychosis and is expected to stay in the hospital for weeks.

So sad.

A good read.

The latest version of the Linux kernel was released Sunday afternoon, and with version 3.3 comes something that just may get your inner-geek excited -- tons of Android changes have been merged. In theory, one should be able to boot and run an Android powered device using just the vanilla, mainline Linux 3.3 kernel. There's still work to be done, especially with power management, and the wake-lock issue that many think was at the core of the argument whether to merge or not to merge still needs full resolution. But since Android doesn't need to have wake-lock support (it just keeps your battery from draining in record time) our phones and tablets can now be considered officially supported by the Linux community. We'll stay out of the nerd battle royal over the wake-lock issue and trust the promises that it will be taken care of with the 3.4 version.

Awesome! I think this is a good thing for both platforms.

A source familiar with HP’s thinking regarding the reorganization said the combination of the two groups is part of a cost-cutting and simplification measure of the type discussed by CEO Meg Whitman during HP’s last earnings conference call on Feb. 22. During that call, Whitman discussed ways of streamlining HP’s operations, both in how it interacts with customers and in how its employees do their jobs internally.

This just feels like HP is in trouble and trying to figure out what it wants to become.

So do you guys think it is going to be Romney against Obama or do you think someone else will emerge?

I am going to have to read these books.