Month: August 2013
August 25, 2013
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Better Than Human | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Imagine that 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow. What would they all do? It’s hard to believe you’d have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force. But that—in slow motion—is what the industrial revolution did to the workforce of the early 19th century.…
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Pro Tip: Hold down the shift button while raising and lowering the volume on your Mac to avoid the duck quacks.
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If you find something in the dirt and don’t know it is, it’s probably an alien head. That’s just common sense.
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Mayor_baffled_by_buried_alien_head
August 24, 2013
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American dialects mapped
http://j.mp/16DWy0U
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Pro Tip 3: Don’t blame it on good times.
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Pro Tip 2: Don’t blame it on moonlight.
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Pro Tip 1: Don’t blame it on the sunshine.
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Bill Murray Profile – GQ January 2013: Celebrities: GQ
Default This Guy Could Be President That is, if the president were a comedian, acclaimed actor, and beloved personality who’s become famous for crashing kickball games, prank-calling his friends’ wives, and busting into the karaoke rooms of gobsmacked (and delighted) constituents. And yet now here’s…
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Scrum-ban | Lean Software Engineering
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Authentic Design | Smashing Magazine
http://j.mp/16tDyin
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Measure twice, cut once
http://j.mp/14sldpD
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Exclusive Speaker Interview with Scott Allan, Director, Ting
http://j.mp/14shvwr
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Clay Johnson on creative technologists, designing with empathy and news as a community service | Knight Lab |…
http://j.mp/19E3We1
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The most important thing to do when training your team | Ben Lucier
http://j.mp/14sdub6
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has a monkey on his back.
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Note time-traveling @NPsteve at 1:04!
MT @ivortossell: “Windy” set the standard for literal music videos.
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Hipsters in 2014.
RT @VintageWTF: Bikes
https://twitter.com/VintageWTF/status/371181223437012993/photo/1
August 23, 2013
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Mike Kaplan: Beyond Category: 2001 and The Master
"Movies as interdimensional as Kubrick’s don’t happen upon us too much anymore." — David Thomson, Sight & Sound "What’s immense and perpetually restless, shifting to the eye and absorbing to the mind? The ocean. The human spirit…. The Master ." — Stuart Klawans, The Nation Forty five years ago…
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To make up for invoking Godwin’s Law, here is Tears For Fears covering Arcade Fire:
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Do you know who else would have cast Ben Affleck as Batman? Hitler.
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Actually, I’d pay to see that.
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News From The Future:
“Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen share title role in Harmony Korine’s upcoming Batman reboot.”
August 22, 2013
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An Evolutionary Whodunit: How Did Humans Develop Lactose Tolerance? : The Salt : NPR
Thousands of years ago, a mutation in the human genome allowed many adults to digest lactose and drink milk. iStockphoto.com Got milk? Ancient European farmers who made cheese thousands of years ago certainly had it. But at that time, they lacked a genetic mutation that would have allowed them to…
August 21, 2013
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I wonder if there are women under 25 who don’t use their bra for phone storage.
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Why Does Music Move Us So? – Phenomena: Only Human
“Only human.” It’s a downer of an idiom, used to convey the inevitable transgressions and inadequacies of our species. He cheated on his wife with a supermodel, but come on, he’s only human. No, she can’t write three blog posts a day and Tweet every hour and read historical biographies in her spare…
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August 20, 2013
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BBC Column: when you want what you don’t like | Mind Hacks
My BBC Future column from Tuesday. The original is here . It’s a Christmas theme folks, but hopefully I cover an interesting research area too: Berridge, Robinson and colleagues’ work on the wanting/liking distinction. As the holiday season approaches, Tom Stafford looks at festive overindulgence,…
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The Smiths + Peanuts = Genius
http://thischarmingcharlie.tumblr.com
August 19, 2013
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s ‘Antifragile’ dares us to expect the unexpected: Book review – latimes.com
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s ‘Antifragile’ dares us to expect the unexpected The author offers bold new ideas on how to benefit from strife, but his huge ego can get tiresome. (Random House ) Antifragile Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb Random House: 544 pp., $30 Nassim Nicholas…