May 2013
24 posts
“A recent study on human willpower, involving college students and baked goods,...”
– From Here You Can See Everything - The Morning News
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“The scheduling of television has quickly become meaningless, and it’s hard to...”
– Warren Ellis » Some Thoughts On The Disruption Of Television
“The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the...”
– The three types of specialist
“I love all this new technology, it’s great. It’s smaller, lighter, faster. You...”
– Deadline.com » Blog ArchiveSteven Soderbergh’s State Of Cinema Talk - Deadline.com
“The Listserve is a mailing list lottery. Sign up for the Listserve, and you’re...”
– The Luck of the Listserve – The New Inquiry
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“Yet so many people seem enchanted enough by the decadence described in...”
– The Sublime Cluelessness of Throwing Lavish Great Gatsby Parties - Zachary M. Seward - The Atlantic
“Besides the comments on proms and crushes and parents and school and #yolo, the...”
– All Our Little Lives – The New Inquiry
“…here is a quick trick that may save you much time and effort, especially...”
– How to Spot a Weak Argument — Editor’s Picks — Medium
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“I thought about titling this post, “Google Glass: The Beginning of White Flight...”
– Status Flight and the Gendering of Google Glass » Cyborgology
“Just to give you a sense of what these villages in Ethiopia are like, the kids...”
– Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction | DVICE
April 2013
21 posts
“America’s 78 million aging baby boomers are heading into retirement with more...”
– A Rising Tide of Substance Abuse - NYTimes.com
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WatchBruce Sterling extending the SXSW disruption talk with a very interesting point about the symbiotic relationship between the 1% and startup culture. (via A life more aggregated)
“The investor expects two things from columnists. They should develop their own...”
– Columnism - Ulrike Meinhof | libcom.org
“This is the sort of detrimental practice that people like Ben Goldacre and Simon...”
– The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | ‘A Thousand Braying Asses’: Kim Gordon & Churnalism’s Busy Sewer
“News stories are overwhelmingly about things you cannot influence. The daily...”
– News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier | Media | The Guardian
“He added one little factoid I did not know: offering a Groupon deal is by now so...”
– The Locust Economy
“Bitcoin’s built-in mistrust of institutions doesn’t just set it apart from fiat...”
– The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency — Money & Banking — Medium
“Meanwhile, Phil Porter, who had worked with [Richard] Frenkiel on the original...”
– Why Your Cell Phone Doesn’t Have a Dial Tone
“You know what warm blood straight from a bull’s heart tastes of—it tastes of...”
– A. A. Gill on Drinking Blood From the Heart of a Bull—“It Tastes Like Steak” | Vanity Fair
“That’s where Bitcoin thrives: where people would prefer to throw in their lot...”
– Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven - Businessweek
“Amazon isn’t a store, not really. Not in any sense that we can regularly think...”
– Algorithmic Rape Jokes in the Library of Babel | Quiet Babylon
March 2013
36 posts
“The new generation of teens and post-teens are blocked from generating novel,...”
– The Rolling Stones will reign supreme until there is a new counterculture | Paul Morley | Comment is free | The Observer
“You’re going to miss stuff. On any given day, in New York City,...”
– JOMO! - Anil Dash
