Things in my Inbox

Some articles:

• Security analyst Julian Sanchez points out that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is totally wrong when she says Apple using the legal process to oppose a subpoena puts them "above the law."
• Crain's columnist Joe Cahill points out that outgoing United CEO Jeff Smisek's $36m golden parachute "exposes the hollowness of the 'pay-for-performance' rhetoric so many companies spout."
• The Atlantic's CityLab blog points out that Jane Jacobs (whose 100th birthday was this week), looking at urban development today, would say "I told you so."
• Timothy Snyder, writing in the New York Review of Books in 2009, pointed out that hundreds of thousands of Jews and others were killed randomly throughout Nazi-held territory, and people should not forget this.
• State and city police pursued a car through the streets of Cook County for an hour last night, coming within 150 m of my apartment and prompting me actually to turn on local news to see what was going on.
• Anita Sarkeesian interviewed Tatiana Maslany, star of Orphan Black.

Today's other tasks include cleaning my house and writing code for about four hours.