Month: January 2012
January 31, 2012
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Maybe he’s on a bluetooth headset. #ikid RT @JamesKoole Watching a deaf guy talking to himself on the streetcar in sign language.
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Face-recognition software: It’s coming, everyone will use it, and you can’t stop it. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine
According to the Wall Street Journal , police departments across the nation will soon adopt handheld facial-recognition systems that will let them identify people with a snapshot. These new capabilities are made possible by BI 2 Technologies , a Massachusetts company that has developed a small…
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So far I’m really enjoying global warming.
January 30, 2012
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Another (super short) #chronicle clip:
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I wish I’d discovered Korallreven earlier. They’d have been a great addition to my Top 30 album list.
http://www.korallreven.se/
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The Unselfish Gene – Harvard Business Review
The Idea in Brief Executives, like most other people, have long believed that human beings are interested only in advancing their material interests. However, recent research in evolutionary biology, psychology, sociology, political science, and experimental economics suggests that people behave far…
January 29, 2012
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Interesting. Here’s the first “paid subscription Twitter feed” I’ve encountered.
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Every time @thepubliceditor opens his mouth I have less confidence in the NYT:
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We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/we-have-every-right-be-furious-about-acta
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You Got Gamified! How Our Government Runs Like Foursquare | The Awl
The Awl Be less stupid. The Awl Be less stupid.
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Infringement and Innovation in Online Platforms
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Former Apple Retail Exec Reinvents the Car Buying Experience – Forbes
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The Only Lasting Competitive Advantage Is Extreme Trust | Fast Company
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Average Is Over –
http://NYTimes.com
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Seven Lessons from SOPA/PIPA/Megaupload and Four Proposals on Where We Go From Here | TechPresident
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How Speeding The “Most Important Algorithm Of Our Lifetime” Could Change This Modern World | Fast Company
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Agile Backlogs. Sigh. | Tiny Giant Books
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Who Really Stopped SOPA, and Why? – Forbes
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Hard Truths About Disclosure –
http://NYTimes.com
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SEO Question: Is there a way to tell Google to treat content on a subdomain as if it was at the domain level?
January 28, 2012
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Salad King! RT @EdenSpodek Restaurant reco. required: somewhere for dinner near Yonge/Shuter
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I’m watching Gumnaam.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247394/
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The War for Catch-22 | Culture | Vanity Fair
CORRECTION APPENDED Adapted from Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller, by Tracy Daugherty © 2011 by Tracy Daugherty. I. Prologue J oseph Heller crawled into the transparent womb at the front of the B-25. It was August 15, 1944. He was about to fly his second mission of the day. That morning,…
January 27, 2012
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Was Aaron Swartz Stealing? | The Awl
Maria Bustillos change my mind The Awl Be less stupid.
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That’s quite amazing. Well done! RT @johnmartz While you were sleeping I redesigned my website.
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“Omar’s comin'”
January 26, 2012
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TIL: b& = banned
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Online commenting: the age of rage | Technology | The Observer
Websites are increasingly encouraging readers to leave comments, but with users able to hide behind aliases, often such attempts at discussion end in hate-filled bile and a mob mentality. Photograph: Sami Sarkis/Getty F or a while after his first TV series was broadcast in 2009, comedian Stewart Lee…