Month: August 2012
August 14, 2012
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Orange Beef FTW! (@ Salad King w/ 4 others)
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Genius Bar for Zoë. 🙁 (@ Apple Store w/ 3 others)
http://4sq.com/O6HD3k
August 13, 2012
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Seduced by Food: Obesity and the Human Brain – Boing Boing
/ Stephan J. Guyenet / 5:00 am Fri Mar 9, 2012 From the Boing Boing Shop Popular Posts Follow Us Photo: grahamc99 , CC BY 2.0. In 1960-1962, the US government collected height and weight measurements from thousands of US citizens. Using these numbers, they estimated that the prevalence of obesity…
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PEEEGZI
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Most popular (British) baby names in 2011 are Harry and Amelia:
http://bbc.in/MrbxE0
August 12, 2012
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I like the badger on Brian May’s uniform.
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Haters be hatin’ but our closing ceremonies had Michael Buble and Nickelback so not so fast.
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Nonhuman Personhood Rights (and Wrongs) | The Primate Diaries, Scientific American Blog Network
Should dolphins be granted personhood? A more nuanced question than you think. http://t.co/ldTvydc9
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HEARD ON THE STREET: Bruised Mobile Carriers Fight Back at Apple –
http://WSJ.com
http://j.mp/OhdS5D
(via Instapaper)
August 11, 2012
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I’m in. You?
MT @appnetfund Total raised: $443,950 from 6,423 backers, with 52 hours left!
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Here’s what Apple Mail shows when you have lots of attachments to a message: pic.twitter.com/cA1DuFp0
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Most crazy ideas aren’t breakthroughs though.
RT @zappos “The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.” -Peter Diamandis
August 10, 2012
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People keep comparing
http://app.net
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You can see the people joining
http://app.net
like crazy. I keep hitting refresh.https://join.app.net
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The unibody iPhone | The Tech Block
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Make your app icons boring – @lookatpete
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Why Is That Nice Girl From ‘Friday Night Lights’ Fighting a Bunch of Ninjas? – NYTimes.com
Tom Gauld A little while back, I went to the movies. There was a trailer for “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” in which I saw Tyra Collette, the headstrong high schooler from “Friday Night Lights,” learning ninja moves. That was followed by a trailer for “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,” during which I…
August 9, 2012
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In the
http://App.net
alpha? Follow me!https://alpha.app.net/kenschafer/
Please consider joining:
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Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life
One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too, but apparently they were not. And so now I have what is…
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BPS Research Digest: Made it! How an uncanny proportion of psychology findings just manage to reach statistical…
http://j.mp/OXSv5G
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What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory? – Boing Boing
http://j.mp/NbAl2a
(via Instapaper)
August 8, 2012
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Rory Sutherland’s “Perspective is Everything” TEDx talk is fantastic:
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This 45 min lecture by Sam Harris on “Death and The Present Moment” is highly thought-provoking:
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Clouds of Loving Grace: the other war on general-purpose computing:
via @youtube
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Just lost power at Eglinton and DVP.
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A if you’re me. B if you’re a lobster.
MT @KnighterByter Your last day on earth will involve A) white water rafting or B) lobster bisque
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BBC News – Earworms: Why songs get stuck in our heads
Music has a tendency to get stuck in our heads. You know the experience – a tune intrudes on your thoughts and plays, and replays, in a never-ending loop. It happened recently to me. So, as a science reporter, I thought I’d try to find out why. Several weeks ago, I was at home on a Sunday morning…