Month: February 2012
February 11, 2012
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Our Social Nature: The Surprising Science of Smiles | Wired Science | Wired.com
All hail the powerful smile. The right smile, at the right time, wins friends and calms enemies. The smile held for too long, not long enough, flashed too intensively or too dimly, arouses suspicion, fear or anger. Far from being a straightforward show of joy, the language of smiles is filled with…
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Boy, having @dsearls say nice things about your baby sure feels great! Thanks Doc!
http://hvrd.me/Aw2gGH
February 10, 2012
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Web Actions: Identifying A New Building Block For The Web – Tantek
Every once in a while, design and development practices emerge on the web that enable a leap forward in our understanding of its potential. Developers’ asynchronous use of JavaScript (JS) led to AJAX and breakthrough interactive web applications. Designers’ semantic use of class names led to…
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Youngest daughter just txted me: “I’m currently building a roller coaster in Business class.”
February 9, 2012
February 8, 2012
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Work with me! We’re hiring!
Director, Marketing at Tucows
Toronto, Canadahttp://lnkd.in/pdbyfQ
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Maybe as an ocelot? RT @zoeschafer People are sooooooo confusing, wish I was born a simpler species.
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Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing – Rob Wheeler – Harvard Business Review
“Alright, you caught us. We’re actually not making any money. In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.” This is the essence of Groupon’s declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial…
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Every mother thinks their baby is beautiful. RT @richtyp There are some ambitious sellers 🙂
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The seller. RT @richtyp Who sets prices for premium domains? It seems random.
February 7, 2012
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The (actual) future of the Big Idea » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
The critics are right: Neal Gabler’s essay in yesterday’s New York Times — the one proclaiming the death of the big idea at the hands of Twitter and Facebook and the Internet in general — is wrong. And we should probably, after giving the thing a slow clap for its bold attempt to transform the Death…
February 6, 2012
February 5, 2012
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The Brain on Trial – Magazine – The Atlantic
Adrianna Williams/Corbis O n the steamy first day of August 1966, Charles Whitman took an elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower in Austin. The 25-year-old climbed the stairs to the observation deck, lugging with him a footlocker full of guns and ammunition. At the top, he killed…
February 4, 2012
February 3, 2012
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I am fully and completely in love with this video:
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Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 207, Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen’s fiction bears the mark of a Midwest upbringing, his books preoccupied with quiet lives nurtured there and broken apart by contact with the rest of the world. But four long novels into an unusually public career, Franzen now moves about the country quite a bit, living most of the…
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Lana Del Rey’s performance on David Letterman was markedly better than on SNL:
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The Lana Del Rey album has me very confused.
February 2, 2012
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Real-time webstats are highly addictive.
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My poor mother. She’s 91 and her retirement home has been hit by Norwalk virus. She’s the sickest she’s been in ages, but on the mend.
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Moog, Arp, Kurzweil, Fairlight, Korg, Casio, Roland.
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There’s a charming old model railroad club hiding in a former munitions plant in Liberty Village:
http://www.modelrailroadclub.com/
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I watched every Coen brothers movie. – By David Haglund – Slate Magazine
Click here for a ranking of the Coen brothers’ movies. Click here to read about their short films and advertising work. Raising Arizona When I was 9 or 10, I watched Raising Arizona on VHS and thought it was one of the weirdest and funniest things I had ever seen. A frequently jailed stickup artist…
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Ha! RT @KSpeicher Ken Schafer is as generous in person as he is online. (Taller and more youthful than his avatar implies.)
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Sweet! RT @mitchjoel I’m very excited to announce my next book:
http://bit.ly/zddaf1
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Hey, it’s tough to find 4-letter onomatopoetic words without multiple meanings!
MT @DomainIncite “Ting” is London slang, for “thing”
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OH: “Nobody told me I looked like a hobo.”
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So #trollhunter is fun movie. It’s like “Where The Wild Things Are” meets “Cloverfield” meets “Let The Right One In”.