Linked List: August 9, 2012

Thursday, 9 August 2012

‘Fuck That, Eat the Nickels, You Have Your Dignity.’ 

Stephen Colbert on Papa John’s “Obamacare” price hike threat.

Google Employee Death Benefits 

Meghan Casserly, for Forbes:

Instead, Bock, who joined the company in 2006 after a stint with General Electric, blew me away by disclosing a never-before-made-public-perk:  Should a U.S. Googler pass away while under the employ of the 14-year old search giant, their surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive a check for 50% of their salary every year for the next decade. Even more surprising, a Google spokesperson confirms that there’s “no tenure requirement” for this benefit, meaning most of their 34 thousand Google employees qualify.

Serious kudos to Google; that’s a great benefit.

Burner: iPhone App Supplies Temporary Phone Numbers 

Eliza Kern:

Say hello to Burner, the app that lets users purchase short-term cell numbers that can be used and “burned” in a short period of time, all managed through a user’s personal iPhone without giving away that cell’s number.

Neat idea. But I wonder how the company is getting all these disposable phone numbers?

TextMate 2 Goes Open Source 

Pretty sure this is it for TextMate, but I’d love to be proven wrong. Text editors are hard, hard work.