Month: July 2013
July 9, 2013
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Prop 37 Loses, Scientists Cheer | Science Sushi, Scientific American Blog Network
It comes as no surprise to anyone who reads my blog regularly, follows my Twitter or Facebook feeds, or has talked with me in person lately that I’m pleased to see that Proposition 37 has failed to pass in California. I firmly believe that passing this legislation—as it was proposed—would have been…
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Fantastic service from @asana just now. First time we’ve had to contact them and everything was resolved in an hour.
July 8, 2013
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What’s the Conservative Equivalent of ‘Moving to Canada’? – Brian Fung – The Atlantic
Defeated Republicans may be thinking about packing their bags. But where would they go? Eric Thayer/Reuters When Democrats lose elections, a small but audible ratio of them invariably announce their intention to move to Canada, that liberal paradise where healthcare magically costs nothing,…
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Exercising my anti-verbosity muscles this morning.
July 7, 2013
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Kickstarter for Sufjan Stevens to do the other 48 state albums.
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Why David Petraeus’s Gmail account is a national security issue
CIA Director David Petraeus speaks during a high-level meeting in the White House Situation Room. (Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images) The beginning of the end came for CIA Director David Petraeus when Paula Broadwell, a younger married woman with whom he was having an affair , "or someone…
July 6, 2013
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Brian Eno: ‘It’s simply not my temperament to look back’ – Features – Music – The Independent
1/2 Eno says: ‘People dismiss ambient music as easy listening, as if it should be hard to listen to. That’s a very 20th-century, art-world idea, that art has to be somehow disruptive’ Immo Klink 2/2 Baroque and roll Eno’s ‘Lux’ will play in the corridor connecting two palaces in Turin, Italy Getty…
July 5, 2013
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David Simon | Inevitabilities. And Barack Obama.
"Barack Obama and the Death of Normal", by David Simon http://t.co/l8oWeEJ7 highly recommended
July 4, 2013
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Why Math is Like the Honey Badger: Nate Silver Ascendant | Cocktail Party Physics, Scientific American Blog Network
Why Math is Like the Honey Badger: Nate Silver Ascendant | Cocktail Party Physics http://t.co/4ZelYX8f via @sciam
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Lou Reed’s review of Kanye West’s Yeezus made me give it a second listen. I was wrong. This album is brilliant.
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Happy Independence Day America!
Happy 4th of July everybody else!
July 3, 2013
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A Capitalistâs Dilemma, Whoever Wins the Election – NYTimes.com
@jerrymichalski @changeist Consider empowering vs sustaining & efficiency innovations in @claychristensen piece http://t.co/Ns4RIFwo
July 2, 2013
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Man I really hope that Pacific Rim is as awesome as it looks. Trailer 3 is out now:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/pacificrim/
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Baxter’s Chicken and Vegetable soup is very good.
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“We don’t analyze the behavioural traits of people who carry weapons. We’re looking for terrorists,” he said.
http://fw.to/EqQlPsa
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You’re nothing more than a mass of habits | Will Jennings
What made you brush your teeth this morning? Guess what? It wasn’t that you wanted them clean. Something I’ve been trying to master recently is habits. Both making new habits and changing existing ones. If you want to start doing something on a regular basis, you need to make it habitual. Charles…
July 1, 2013
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Shareable: The Commons as a Transformative Vision
A truly brilliant essay – The Commons as a Transformative Vision: http://t.co/UuniVk51 @timoreilly @mollysturner @nickgrossman @instigating
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Leveraging the Kano Model for Optimal Results | UX Magazine
http://j.mp/15YbKD2
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