Month: January 2012
January 10, 2012
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Who said there weren’t? RT @pbevin Why are there no dinosaur ghosts?
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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS | More Intelligent Life
(If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I’d advise you to go ahead, because I’m sure going to. In fact I’m gonna [mumbles while pulling up his gown and taking out a handkerchief from his pocket].) Greetings ["parents"?] and congratulations to Kenyon’s graduating class of 2005. There are these two…
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Pretty! RT @neilio Merci et a plus tard, Winnipeg
http://instagr.am/p/gAVvG/
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I’ll say goodbye by leaving you with The Velvet Underground & Nico’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties”:
January 9, 2012
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The Illusions of Psychiatry by Marcia Angell | The New York Review of Books
United Artists/Photofest Mimi Sarkisian, Louise Fletcher, and Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , 1975 In my article in the last issue, I focused mainly on the recent books by psychologist Irving Kirsch and journalist Robert Whitaker, and what they tell us about the epidemic of…
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I think CAPTCHAs may have reached maximum entropy (and uselessness):
http://img.ly/cuqu
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Name-Calling on the Internet Is Serious Business: Susan Crawford – Businessweek
http://j.mp/xaGrS9
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January 8, 2012
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Clogging to “Lovesong” by The Cure:
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Information Diet | Why Horses Are Not in the Constitution
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The Shocking True Tale Of The Mad Genius Who Invented Sea-Monkeys | The Awl
The Awl Be less stupid. The Awl Be less stupid.
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Elad Blog: How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012: Social Content Curation As The Next Big Thing
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Crowd dynamics: The wisdom of crowds | The Economist
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Closed Loops, Open Minds: Why ‘Negative Feedback’ is Social – The Cloud
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Sara Dickerman responds to our black-pepper poll.
http://j.mp/z7ZVHK
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I just started a tumblog called “A Young Person’s Guide to Punk & New Wave”. I hope you enjoy it.
http://ayoungpersonsguide.tumblr.com/
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Ron [Paul] Swanson:
http://ronpaulswanson.tumblr.com/
January 7, 2012
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No! RT @benlucier I also just accidentally watched the season finale of Breaking Bad.
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I was eager to watch it but sadly found it a let-down. RT @MichaelThorner Has anyone watched the HBO Todd Haynes version of Mildred Pierce?
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Feedback Loops Are Changing What People Do | Magazine
In 2003, officials in Garden Grove, California, a community of 170,000 people wedged amid the suburban sprawl of Orange County, set out to confront a problem that afflicts most every town in America: drivers speeding through school zones. Local authorities had tried many tactics to get people to…
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And now that I’ve boarded Mr Peabody’s Wayback Machine, here’s Michael Jackson singing about a rat:
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How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy: Virginia Postrel – Bloomberg
http://j.mp/zH4oJO
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January 6, 2012
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“Everybody Hurts”
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I’d like to see Betty White and Louis CK star in a remake of “Oh God”.
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Should be “Rick S******m” for those easily offended. RT @gruber Since when does the New York Times print dirty words like “Santorum”?
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Michele Bachmann’s Holy War | Rolling Stone Politics
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don’t laugh. It may be the hardest thing you ever do, for Michele Bachmann is almost certainly the funniest thing…
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I was gonna ask WHY Coke had a Tumblr, but that’s a great site. RT @randymatheson Stylish looking Coke Tumblr page –
http://bit.ly/xKkeMi
January 5, 2012
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You know Island Foods is great when you see folks line up 10 deep.
