Linked List: June 26, 2015

Friday, 26 June 2015

DuckDuckGo Adds Live Scores for Every MLB Game ★: One feature at a time. Just keep chipping away.
The Deck ★: There are a few slots on The Deck available in July and August. Need to get your product in front of millions of curious folks? Drop Jim Coudal a line for a nice price for a new advertiser. Tell him I sent you.
‘Hooray for Obamacare’ ★: Speaking of momentous Supreme Court decisions, here’s Paul Krugman on the Affordable Care Act:

Put all these things together, and what you have is a portrait of policy triumph — a law that, despite everything its opponents have done to undermine it, is achieving its goals, costing less than expected, and making the lives of millions of Americans better and more secure.
Knockoff Beats Used in Teardown? ★: Remember that widely-linked but controversial teardown of a pair of $199 Beats headphones last week? Looks like they were actually a pair of knockoffs. This just keeps getting weirder.
‘They Ask for Equal Dignity in the Eyes of the Law. The Constitution Grants Them That Right.’ ★: To me, that line from Justice Anthony Kennedy’s landmark 5-4 decision today says it all. More:

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.