I love the game Rocket League, but I do have one question: why are they simulating the physics of a beach ball instead of a soccer ball?

Hmm. Banks promoting highly-leveraged illiquid loans with questionable collateral. Haven’t we seen this movie before? nytimes.com/2015/08/23/bus…

Happy to upgrade my 2012 MacBook Pro retina to 1TB of SSD Monday. I’m only adding 0.25TB to my current 0.77TB, but it’s worth it.

Gruber makes a compelling argument for why I stopped reading TechCrunch commentary a while ago. daringfireball.net/2015/08/it_may…

The stock market appears determined to have a bad day. Either that or a trading algorithm has a bug.

If you think China’s economic bust dooms $AAPL sales, remember that iPhone’s huge growth occurred during the worst recession in US history.

OK Google, you have officially lost my search business.

If Google moves to bandwidth-hogging video ads in search results, I’m switching search engines to DuckDuckGo. digiday.com/platforms/gush…

The stock market is having it’s August sale event! Everything 10% off through the end of the month!

My favorite line from Benedict Evan’s piece: “It’s as though you’re Elastigirl, doing the laundry.” Totally right. ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…