Month: March 2014
March 17, 2014
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Nice company you’re keeping these days America:
http://12mars.rsf.org/2014-en/
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Understanding Apple’s Organizational Structure | asymco
Apple has hired a new VP who will report directly to Tim Cook. Paul Deneve is cited as having responsibility for “special projects” and will report directly to Tim Cook. The previous roles as a manager in luxury brand companies has led to a great deal of speculation about what new projects Apple…
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More like Charles Doge Win amirite?
RT @cdarwin: Very stormy, with much hail and snow
March 16, 2014
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Worth Reading: “This Old Man”
http://ift.tt/1e1lrEr
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Worth Reading: “Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It | Wired Opinion”
http://ift.tt/PjN8nF
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Fascinating analysis of the importance of repetition in music:
http://aeon.co/magazine/altered-states/why-we-love-repetition-in-music/
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‘True Detective’ creator Nic Pizzolatto looks back on season 1
http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/true-detective-creator-nic-pizzolatto-looks-back-on-season-1/
March 15, 2014
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Worth Reading: “8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today”
http://ift.tt/OgFYzr
March 14, 2014
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A nerdy but important step towards a more Open Internet happened today:
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The #jennyasks hashtag is nasty but needed.
Vaccinate your kids people.
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The #jennyasks hashtag is nasty but needed.
Vaccinate your kids people.
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Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers. You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC.
http://thebea.st/1m0FY4V
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Reflections of a Newsosaur: How TV could suffer the fate of newspapers
How TV could suffer the fate of newspapers Second of two parts. The first part is here . In pivoting aggressively from print to local TV, Gannett Inc. and Tribune Co. are embracing a legacy media model that could be headed for the same audience fragmentation and economic dislocation as the newspaper…
March 13, 2014
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Wonderful.
RT @iA: Great Industrial Design From the 60’s and 70’s
https://www.drawar.com/posts/great-industrial-design-from-the-60s-and-70s
March 11, 2014
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When the UI Is Too Fast
Given that 99% of all usability problems related to response times are caused by user interfaces being too slow , it might be dangerous for me to write about those few cases where the computer is too fast . After all, computers are usually too slow , and snappy response times enhance usability.…
March 9, 2014
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Thank you @nicpizzolatto. That was some incredible television.
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End of #truedetective was way more than I hoped for. So damn good.
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“In the movie’s final moments, big tears stream down my face. I am weeping over a 90-minute infomercial.”
http://rdd.me/k6yneybk
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Worth Reading: “The Very, Very Thin Wedge of Denial”
http://ift.tt/1aZrOaD
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Worth Reading: “Is Jimmy Fallon Really Comedy’s New Cutting Edge?”
http://ift.tt/1fIayrK
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I’ve been watching loads of foreign TV lately: Borgen, Bron/Broen, The Fall, Top of The Lake, Broadchurch
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I watched Les Revenants (The Returned) recently and quite liked it.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2014/03/resurrection_reviewed_abc_s_new_drama_doesn_t_compare_to_its_french_cousin.html
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US TV gets “Resurrection”, from a book “The Returned”. French TV gets “The Returned” for movie “The Returned”.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/03/07/resurrection_the_returned_and_they_came_back_what_s_the_difference_video.html
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Creaky Voice: Yet Another Example of Young Women’s Linguistic Ingenuity:
http://theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/creaky-voice-yet-another-example-of-young-womens-linguistic-ingenuity/267046/
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Why Middle School Girls Sometimes Talk Like Babies:
http://theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/02/why-middle-school-girls-sometimes-talk-like-babies/283894/
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Worth Reading: “The Mammoth Cometh”
http://ift.tt/My06Mh
March 8, 2014
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LITERALLY
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Take an hour to watch @HansRosling’s
“Don’t Panic”. It will LITERALLY change your world view.http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-population/
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Bitchin’ “Cormac McCarthy for Young Readers” covers by @yahhello1.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiKS8x9CUAAAgLZ.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiAt9diIQAAl1xt.jpg
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Making Ћ English language better: a (long) history of failed attempts – Telegraph Blogs
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