Month: August 2014
August 30, 2014
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I’ll be voting for @DavidSoknacki in the #Toronto municipal election.
http://soknacki2014.com/
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People of Facebook: Do you follow more than just real-life friends & family? Yes/no.
If yes, how did you discover them?
August 29, 2014
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Why Today’s Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction
jonny2love/Flickr How will police use a gun that immobilizes its target but does not kill? What would people do with a device that could provide them with any mood they desire? What are the consequences of a massive, instant global communications network? Such questions are relevant to many…
August 28, 2014
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The Priest pic.twitter.com/OcaB73xqmN
August 26, 2014
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Did a hyper-black hole spawn the Universe? : Nature News & Comment
Nature | News Sharing Big Bang was mirage from collapsing higher-dimensional star, theorists propose. Article tools Rights & Permissions ARTIST’S IMPRESSION BY VICTOR DE SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The event horizon of a black hole — the point of no return for anything that falls in — is a…
August 25, 2014
August 23, 2014
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How to Use a Single Metric to Run Your Startup
Collecting data is easy. There are lots of tools out there and ways to gather data about everything that’s happening with your business, from lead generation through to customer satisfaction. But what are we supposed to do with all that data? How does it help us focus on the key challenges at hand,…
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I wish America was more willing to learn from other countries. A prime example:
http://montclairsoci.blogspot.ca/2014/08/cops-vs-man-with-knife.html
August 21, 2014
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It’s so easy to forget people on the internet are, you know, people. Please read.
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Just spent 10 minutes voting in Grantland’s SNL Brackets. Some of these pairings are really hard.
http://grantland.com/snl/
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Needs sound for true wonderfulness:
August 20, 2014
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Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong (or, the lies typographers tell about history) – Heraclitean River
The topic of spacing after a period (or “full stop” in some parts of the world) has received a lot of attention in recent years. The vitriol that the single-space camp has toward the double-spacers these days is quite amazing, and typographers have made up an entire fake history to justify their…
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Yubari, Japan: a city learns how to die:
http://pocket.co/sLTHW
August 18, 2014
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The cold, hard truth about the ice bucket challenge:
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♫ “Bye Bye Li’l White Squirrel
You’re 5000 candles in the wind” ♫http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/08/18/trinity_bellwoods_white_squirrel_found_dead.html
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Toronto’s famous White Squirrel dangles dead from a wire. It’s like Parks’n Rec’s Lil’ Sebastian guesting on Homeland.
August 17, 2014
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“Tip-of-the-Tongue Syndrome,” Transactive Memory, and How the Internet Is Making Us Smarter
“The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision,” Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary in 1946 , decades before the internet as we know it…
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I’m looking forward to the “Ice Bucket Challenge” v. “Office Does Harlem Shake” mash-ups.
August 16, 2014
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Do not shred toddlers. pic.twitter.com/lkOz7PYagl
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Guns are the problem America.
MT @mattsteinglass: US police killed 409 ppl w/ guns. UK police only FIRED 3 times.
http://econ.st/1qcGREX
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August 14, 2014
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Invent onion rings that don’t leave you with a nasty after taste and mild nausea and you’ll be rich beyond your dreams.
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We see you in Canada. Stay strong.
RT @mattdpearce: We see you, Ferguson. pic.twitter.com/dMYLaWgb5k
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Why Twitter Buying MoPub Is a Very Big Deal
Why Twitter Buying MoPub Is a Very Big Deal Full disclosure: I’m a former Facebook product manager and was creator and builder of Facebook Exchange (FBX), Facebook’s real-time bidding ad exchange. I also (in)famously(?) blew off Twitter in order to work at Facebook. Currently, I advise Nanigans , a…
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Just got an email from Domino’s with the subject line:
“Don’t wait until you’re hungry – Make a future order now!”
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I’m told Millennials prefer to be called YOLOpedians.
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Yes, but they don’t like being called that Adam.
RT @adamrides: ZOMG, are those MILLENNIALS?
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Just so you know, I’ve very popular with the 18-24 year-old demographic.
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For those getting caught up on #ferguson…
RT @MotherJones: A Few Horrifying Pictures From Ferguson Last Night
http://mojo.ly/1p9zYYb
August 13, 2014
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The sound cannons are painful over the lifestream forget about being there in person:
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930