Month: April 2012
April 13, 2012
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When I see “Bo Xilai” I can’t help thinking it’s a bad Chinese version knock-off of Beaujolais.
April 12, 2012
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“NME‘s 100 Best Tracks Of The ’70s” – a fantastic list:
http://j.mp/HPO7Am
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Sigur Rós play Toronto on August 1st!
http://j.mp/IB0TH9
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Trust Issues – Lapham’s Quarterly
Subscribe My Account Lapham’s Quarterly About Magazine Current Issue All Issues Preamble Essays Voices in Time Contributors Charts & Graphs Conversations Miscellany Maps Quotes Blogs Roundtable Insight and analysis from renowned writers and thinkers. Déjà Vu Is history repeating itself? the Déja Vu…
April 11, 2012
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Never bet against the Internet.
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Book Review: 1Q84 – WSJ.com
Haruki Murakami is that seemingly oxymoronic thing, a mainstream experimentalist. His career, like his novels, is a continual paradox. The novels, with convoluted structures and indeterminate endings, are a postmodernist mélange of fantasy worlds, dystopias, alternate realities and genre pastiches,…
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I just discovered that I would save money with @tingFTW
https://ting.com/calculator
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When Losers Write History – Reason Magazine
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April 10, 2012
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Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence – NYTimes.com
It afflicts us all. Because confidence in our own judgments is part of being human. Tim Enthoven Many decades ago I spent what seemed like a great deal of time under a scorching sun, watching groups of sweaty soldiers as they solved a problem. I was doing my national service in the Israeli Army at…
April 9, 2012
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We used him as a double for the action shots. RT @zoeschafer I look like a little asian boy in all my home videos.
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Lead Bullets // ben’s blog
Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. As a matter of fact, it’s safe to say that they would rather switch than fight. —Public Enemy (sampled from Thomas Todd), Fight the Power Early in my tenure as product manager for the web servers at Netscape,…
April 8, 2012
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My Precious…De-Coupling Myself from My Startup | horsepigcow
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Working on my #1D hairstyle.
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Working on my #1D hairstyle.
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My favorite member of #1D is the one with the messy hair.
April 7, 2012
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Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong: Scientific American
Credit: ToonariPost When it comes to assigning blame for the current economic doldrums, the quants who build the complicated mathematic financial risk models, and the traders who rely on them, deserve their share of the blame. [See “A Formula For Economic Calamity” in the November 2011 issue ]. But…
April 6, 2012
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Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights | John Battelle’s Search Blog
As part of the work I’m doing for my book, I’ve been working with my research manager, LeeAnn Prescott, staring at various charts and graphs related to how we’ve funded our “Commons” over the past half century or so. I’ve got a working hypothesis that we are in the process of transitioning very…
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New Scientist magazine reports that increased autism rates crush the vaccine “hypothesis” –
http://bit.ly/HYgiB3
April 5, 2012
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The Second Second Date Story — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
So the way my father used to tell it, my parents’ second date went something like this: My father was positively smitten after his blind date with my mother, and wanting to spend as much time with her as possible made sure that the activity for date number two was an all-day event. This being Salt…
April 4, 2012
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I see what you did there. MT @jlax Air Canada flight SFO->YYZ. Flight will be bumpy and we can’t use the restroom for 4 hours. Wheeeee.
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Why Read Moby-Dick? — By Nathaniel Philbrick — Book Review – NYTimes.com
It’s a hard sell Nathaniel Philbrick has undertaken in “Why Read Moby-Dick?” The novel’s plot has been recycled for decades, inspiring films, radio dramas, cartoons, comic books, a television mini-series, a couple of heavy metal albums, a music video and a rap rendition. How many potential readers…
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TIL how to turn on spell check in Skype on my Mac.
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The fox complains the grapes are sour. The monkey cherishes the ripened grapes a week later.