Month: March 2012
March 13, 2012
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Woohoo!
My “new iPad” should arrive on Friday.
March 12, 2012
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#CARL2012. We have to make him famous. So famous that everyone knows Carl and knows his atrocities.
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Deep, deep respect to all the women sharing using the #ididnotreport hashtag.
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A Long Day at ‘The Office’ with Mindy Kaling – NYTimes.com
In the last few months, Twitter followers of the writer and actress Mindy Kaling have been treated to these observations : “re: kombucha, at its best, it tastes like drinking delicious wine coolers with phlegm in it. At its worst, phlegm.” “At this point there must be some teenagers who think Brian…
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I’m really looking forward to this Bobby Womack album:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13293-please-forgive-my-heart/
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It’s wonderful to see old friends and colleagues achieve such success. Congrats Roma Khanna!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mgms-roma-khanna-miptv-award-297034?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Compose%20-%20international%20(23)%20(1)&utm_content=
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March 11, 2012
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness
http://j.mp/n5PFmH
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Yammer Engineering – Yammer Engineering Blog – Social Similarities: Yammer, Facebook and Why They Look Alike
http://j.mp/zRQl1t
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A VC: The Nature Of The Firm and Work Markets
http://j.mp/z44Lft
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Mindy Kaling: “Flick Chicks” : The New Yorker
Credit Illustration by Kirsten Ulve A few years ago, I sat down for a meeting with some executives at a movie studio that I will call Thinkscope Visioncloud. Thinkscope Visioncloud had put out several of my favorite movies, and they wanted to see if I had any feature ideas. I was very excited. I…
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“a strong scientific knowledge base is not enough to insulate a person against irrational beliefs”:
http://instapaper.com/zwrh5an4w
March 10, 2012
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Dropping my Zoe off for her first plane ride. She’s off to Cuba! (@ Terminal 3 w/ 3 others) [pic]:
http://4sq.com/zMqd8i
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It’s TV, but not as we knew it – FT.com
When I was growing up in the 1970s, the lowliest form of cultural consumption was to stay home and watch television. All other art forms, any other art forms, were fine. To have made the effort to leave the house, travel to a temple of culture and see a performance or exhibition was proof of a…
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Seduced by Food: Obesity and the Human Brain – Boing Boing
http://j.mp/xCUjvK
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Nonhuman Personhood Rights (and Wrongs) | The Primate Diaries, Scientific American Blog Network (via Instapaper)
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America, The Beautiful (And Nutty): A Skeptic’s Lament | Wired Science |
http://Wired.com
http://j.mp/wy30Pb
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http://networkedstreets.com/wordpress/archives/4595
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Why Is That Nice Girl From ‘Friday Night Lights’ Fighting a Bunch of Ninjas? –
http://NYTimes.com
http://j.mp/yT893M
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Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life
http://j.mp/zKNGZP
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I loathe Pinterest.
March 9, 2012
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Stephen Marche on Toronto, the worst sports city in the world – Grantland
T his past summer, ESPN The Magazine , in its annual ranking of sports franchises, identified Toronto as the worst city for sports in North America . Inevitably, the assessment provoked a fury of denial. Brian Burke, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ president and general manager (and probably the best…
March 8, 2012
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A Nov 2011 Foreign Affairs magazine article about Joseph Kony:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136673/mareike-schomerus-tim-allen-and-koen-vlassenroot/obama-takes-on-the-lra?page=show
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Today the Internet let me hear the voice of Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke. Born 1800.
http://www.nps.gov/edis/photosmultimedia/audio-wangemann-1889-1890-european-recordings.htm
March 7, 2012
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While we’re hating on Rush Limbaugh, remember he SUPPORTS Joseph Kony and the LRA.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/10/14/obama_invades_uganda_targets_christians
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You think cramming ends with high school? MT @zoeschafer ru thinking, “my followers will get a kick out of reminiscing on high school”?
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Atlas Sound doing a 1 hour version of “My Sharona” sounds like an AWESOME concert to me.
http://www.pitchfork.com/news/45675-bradford-cox-talks-shocking-minneapolis-performance/
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Innovation Starvation | World Policy Institute
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I’m going into radio silence from now until I get to watch the TimNote tonight. See you on the other side.