Month: February 2012
February 24, 2012
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Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis « Clay Shirky
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Will the Tea Get Cold? by Sam Tanenhaus | The New York Review of Books
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February 23, 2012
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This Leap Day #30rock is awesome.
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I’m a #knicks fan tonight.
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How to pronounce “schadenfreude”:
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Nice! RT @gt Some of my best work. I photobombed @jamie_oliver.
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What’s the probability that we’re living in the Matrix?
The Simulation Argument: Why the Probability that You Are Living in a Matrix is Quite High Nick Bostrom Times Higher Education Supplement, May 16, 2003 The original academic paper is here: [ pdf ] The Matrix got many otherwise not-so-philosophical minds ruminating on the nature of reality. But the…
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JOHO – February 20, 2012
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The #jotform shutdown debacle recast as a story about a shopping mall:
http://raganwald.posterous.com/friendly-for-business
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What Happens If Banks Help Their Customers Instead Of Trying To Trick Them? | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and…
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A Torontonian parody of PSB’s “West End Girls”. Wonderfully done.
/ht @blogTO
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Amazon Web Services must have the squirreliest product naming strategy ever.
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/aws-solutions/
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Microsoft saw their old embarrassing ads on YouTube and said, “Hey, let’s do more like those!”:
February 22, 2012
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Ugh. I don’t think I’ve been this sick this century.
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The Great Bank Robbery – Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Spitznagel – Project Syndicate
NEW YORK – For the American economy – and for many other developed economies – the elephant in the room is the amount of money paid to bankers over the last five years. For banks that have filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the sum stands at an astounding $2.2 trillion.…
February 21, 2012
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Jeopardy! – Interview with Ken Jennings, Producer Harry Friedman, and More: Movies + TV: GQ
TV How Jeopardy! Defines Us The beloved trivia game show has evolved in the last two decades. But can a game show really reflect a nation’s shifting intelligence? Here are the Double Jeopardy! categories from a 1991 episode of the famed game show , wordplay, and two jokes, one with a Jewish…
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glogin
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The Ting Tings and that difficult second album | Music | The Observer
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“Global Warming Has Stopped”? How to Fool People Using “Cherry-Picked” Climate Data – Forbes
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True! RT @speedlines: @kenschafer Adele reminds me of Dusty for sure and of Lulu.
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#adele is the latest in a long line of British chanteuses. Doesn’t Dusty remind you of Adele?
February 20, 2012
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Apparently in olden times it snowed in Toronto:
http://www.blogto.com/city/2012/01/vintage_photographs_of_winter_in_toronto/
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I’m looking forward to the #AIMS reunion next week:
http://www.aimscanada.com/Default.aspx?pageId=322&eventId=450604&EventViewMode=EventDetails
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Malcolm Gladwell on the NBA lockout – Grantland
T he Boston Red Sox signed their first black player in 1959, a utility infielder named “Pumpsie” Green. 1 This was 12 years after the Brooklyn Dodgers broke the color line with Jackie Robinson. No other team in baseball dragged its feet on integration like the Red Sox. It wasn’t until 1965, in fact…
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Rands In Repose: When the Sky Falls
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Lana del Rey, Internet Meme – Technology – The Atlantic
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The Social Graph as Crude Oil (Go Ahead, Build that YASN!) – Forbes
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February 19, 2012
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Republicans Against Science – NYTimes.com
Jon Huntsman Jr., a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isn’t a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. And that’s too bad, because Mr. Hunstman has been willing to say the unsayable about the G.O.P. — namely, that it is becoming the “anti-science party.” This is an…