Month: May 2014
May 19, 2014
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That Zero Hedge Article On Unsold Cars Is Bullshit
http://jalopnik.com/that-zero-hedge-article-on-unsold-cars-is-bullshit-1578124255/+matthardigree
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Found this picture of my sister in an old album. Apparently she’d been left outside the gates of hell. pic.twitter.com/qbXNo3jHGW
May 18, 2014
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Jay Z & Beyoncé create all-star movie trailer for nonexistent film. Most movies should just be trailers.
May 17, 2014
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I have few idols, but Brian Eno is one of them.
May 16, 2014
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That escalated quickly.
RT @FacesPics: Surveillance camera takes it up a notch. pic.twitter.com/yaMDoqlqFz
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Buyer Beware, Rhetor Beware
My mobile phone service provider Ting tweeted about an endorsement they received on reddit recently. Commericial rhetoric often serves as classroom fodder for analysis of manipulative persuasive techniques, but the reddit discussion demonstrates some different problems that arise in a context where…
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“Cat Saves Son” video currently at 10 million views. Cat to throw out first pitch at ballgame next week.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2014/05/16/tara-the-hero-cat-will-throw-out-first-pitch-at-bakersfield-minor-league-game/
May 15, 2014
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What a jerk.
RT @DalaiLama: The more we are concerned for the well-being of others, the closer we will feel to each other.
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Silly humans can’t cope with No Hold Support from @tingFTW:
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they lied to us
this was supposed to be
the future
where is my jetpack,
where is my robotic companion,
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LOL
RT @KSpeicher: @kenschafer No one likes the crying boy in the corner of the elevator.
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In other news, I was trapped in an elevator with 6 other people for half an hour this morning.
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We slowed down our sites today in protest of the @fcc plan for Internet slowlanes.
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“No one likes the crying girl in the corner of the elevator”
Things @lucyschafer says that should be alt-rock lyrics.
May 13, 2014
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Bitchin’
RT @pourmecoffee: Oxford Dictionaries delivers with these 18 ways to say “awesome”
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/05/18-awesome-ways-say-awesome/
pic.twitter.com/t1xRPQClKs
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Girls be all like art rock n shit these days:
St. Vincent
Sylvan Esso
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The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational
The human brain is capable of 10 16 processes per second , which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn’t mean our brains don’t have major limitations. The lowly calculator can do math thousands of times better than we can, and our memories are often less…
May 10, 2014
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The wealthier a society, the less it believes religious gobbledygook.
Except the USA of course. pic.twitter.com/70qpyRFskn
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Predicting the future: Strata 2014 hot topics – O’Reilly Radar
Conferences like Strata are planned a year in advance. The logistics and coordination required for an event of this magnitude takes a lot of planning, but it also takes a decent amount of prediction: Strata needs to skate to where the puck is going . While Strata New York + Hadoop World 2013 is…
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Worth Reading: “At Chernobyl, Hints of Nature’s Adaptation”
http://ift.tt/SM1aQC
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Worth Reading: “A connoisseur of the bizarre, Crad Kilodney railed against hypocrisy of the world”
http://ift.tt/1g7kAdf
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Worth Reading: “People Who Like Céline Dion Are People, Too”
http://ift.tt/1g7kCSr
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May 8, 2014
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Rob Ford may be the least self-aware person on Earth.
Although I must concede that technically it could be me.
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This article on “privilege checking” digs deeper into the nuances than most I’ve seen.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/check-your-check-your-privilege/361898/
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Darwin being a “cup half full” guy.
RT @cdarwin: The delay has afforded me some good lessons in being patient & in speaking Spanish
May 7, 2014
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Vital Elements of the Product Design Process – (Ryan Singer)
Vital Elements of the Product Design Process by Ryan Singer (@rjs) This article was originally posted to Feltpresence.com in August 2013. Product design can look like magic. When I started doing it ten years ago, the small team I worked on made decisions intuitively. There was no system and it…