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June 16, 2013
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The Measurement That Would Reveal The Universe As A Computer Simulation – Technology Review
One of modern physics’ most cherished ideas is quantum chromodynamics, the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, how it binds quarks and gluons into protons and neutrons, how these form nuclei that themselves interact. This is the universe at its most fundamental. So an interesting pursuit…
June 15, 2013
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A VC: Public Sharing vs Private Sharing
Alexis Madrigal has an interesting post up on The Atlantic about "dark social" vs "public social" . Alexis makes the point that private sharing via email, IM, and other means drives more traffic around the web than public social services like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. Alexis makes…
June 14, 2013
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Rands In Repose: The Elegant Email
For me, the amount of email that arrives is inversely proportionate to my amount of free time. This means the less time I have to read mail, the more mail that arrives. Greater minds than mine have attempted to tackle this unfortunate time management situation, so I’m going to keep it simple. You…
June 13, 2013
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Cataracts for Customers | Customer Commons
Let’s say you have an iPhone, and your carrier is AT&T.* That puts you deep inside what Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) calls a confusopoly (and illustrates here ). His text explanation : A confusopoly is a situation in which companies pretend to compete on price, service, and features but in fact…
June 12, 2013
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Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
Here’s a pocket history of the web, according to many people. In the early days, the web was just pages of information linked to each other. Then along came web crawlers that helped you find what you wanted among all that information. Some time around 2003 or maybe 2004, the social web really kicked…
June 11, 2013
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Gawker, Reddit, Free Speech and Such – Whatever
I’ve been watching with some interest the drama surrounding Gawker writer Adrian Chen revealing Reddit user/celeb/moderator/troll Violentacrez’s real life identity (Michael Brutsch), which among other things resulted in Brutsch losing his job , presumably because Brutsch’s employer was not 100%…
June 10, 2013
June 9, 2013
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Whatever Happened to Movies for Grownups? : The New Yorker
I still love going to a theatre with strangers—even a screening room with near-strangers—and submitting to an overwhelming experience in the dark. It’s a primal romantic-religious hope, and when the movie is good, the pleasure is enormous. Have you ever noticed the faces of people streaming out of a…
June 8, 2013
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The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World | Wired Design | Wired.com
MakerBot cofounder Bre Pettis says his new 3-D printer, the sleek Replicator 2 (shown at right), has a design that’s “Darth Vader driving KITT while being airlifted by a Nighthawk spy plane.” Photo: Joe Pugliese Take the subway to an otherwise undistinguished part of Third Avenue in Brooklyn. Knock…
June 7, 2013
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The bubble that wasn’t: what happened to ‘people discovery’ apps? | The Verge
The SXSW festival is known as a launchpad for new trends in mobile apps, and last year the prophets declared that GPS-enabled "people discovery" apps were the next big thing. Open your phone and up pops a list of potential new best friends. "You’re into 80s anime, soft corn tortillas and speed…
June 6, 2013
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We Can’t All Be in Google’s Kansas: A Plan for Winning the Bandwidth Race | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Photo: FindWaldo / Flickr Even though America is in a “global bandwidth race” and our “nation’s future economic security is tied to frictionless and speedy access to information,” according to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s latest speech – we don’t have a plan for winning that race. Susan…
June 5, 2013
June 4, 2013
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A Trans-Atlantic Trip Turns Kafkaesque – NYTimes.com
You, American Airlines, should no longer be flying across the Atlantic. You do not have the know-how. You do not have the equipment. And your employees have clearly lost interest in the endeavor. Like the country whose name graces the hulls of your flying ships, you are exhausted and shorn of…
June 3, 2013
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Exploring the Problem Space Through Prototyping
by Jared M. Spool on September 20, 2012 Here’s a suggestion: Let’s start using the terms ‘prototype’ and ‘mockup’ to mean different things. In my opinion, they talk about different ends of the problem. A mockup shows us a possible solution. It asks the question, “What do you think of this direction…
June 2, 2013
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Why Great Ideas Get Rejected :: Articles :: 99U
Idea Generation Idea Generation Everybody says they want more creativity, but do they really? An inherent bias against uncertainty may be at the core of our fear of new ideas. 0 Have you ever debuted an exciting new idea to the world only to receive a lukewarm or even highly critical response? Well,…
June 1, 2013
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The Story of Ziggy Stardust: How David Bowie Created the Character that Made Him Famous | Open Culture
The Story of Ziggy Stardust : How David Bowie Created the Character that Made Him Famous in | September 7th, 2012 4 Comments In 1973, legendary director D.A. Pennebaker decided to film the London leg of David Bowie’s tour of Britain in support of Aladdin Sane . Little did Pennebaker know that Bowie,…
May 31, 2013
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Creationists and dinosaurs: Answers in Genesis teams with dissident scientists to deny feathered dino fossil record – Slate Magazine
Sinocalliopteryx as a stealth hunter feeding on the dromaeosaur Sinornithosaurus , left, and the primitive bird Confuciusornis , right. Illustration by Cheung Chungtat The dinosaurs of our childhood aren’t around anymore. The sluggish, swamp-bound pea-brains that haunted museum halls and trundled…
May 30, 2013
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Is the GOP Still a National Party? | The American Conservative
There are reasons to think it isn’t: Republicans have failed to win a plurality of voters (or a majority of the two-party vote) in four of the last five presidential elections. The single win was 2004, when George W. Bush was re-elected by the lowest margin of any successful incumbent since 1828 .…
May 29, 2013
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Paradox of Hoaxes: How Errors Persist, Even When Corrected | Wired Science | Wired.com
Photo: Mycomicshop / Ebay It was an accidental hoax. A screenshot from Back to the Future got passed around this summer, showing that June 27, 2012 was the date when the DeLorean hurtled forward in time. After a certain period of excitement, posts, and retweets, people soon realized that the image…
May 28, 2013
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Is It About to Get Much Harder to Own a Domain Name?
Question: why has air travel become so painful? Because the threat posed by bad actors requires making everyone jump through hoops before letting them board a plane. To the point that, despite obvious requirements to ensure air safety, some are now openly questioning if the cure is not worse than…
May 27, 2013
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The Flat Design Era â LayerVault Blog
Completely agree, and love flat! "The flat design era" http://t.co/uEmKOxob HT @espiekermann & @standardistas
May 26, 2013
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The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula – Forbes
This is a guest post written by Bill Gurley , a general partner at Benchmark Capital in Menlo Park, Calif. He blogs at Above The Crowd . You can follow him on Twitter at @bgurley . Bill Gurley Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as…
May 25, 2013
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Romney and Obama on American Inventions : The New Yorker
The politically correct way to think about American inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs, it seems, is to imagine them as divorced entirely from the rest of us: they rise up from the loamy soil of capitalism already fully formed, Model T or iPod in hand. That, at least, is the impression that’s…
May 24, 2013
May 23, 2013
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Saving Android From a Second-Rate Future | Wired Business | Wired.com
Illustration: Martin O’Neill By the official count, more than 50 percent of all smartphones in the US are running Android, while 32 percent are running iOS. So Google’s mobile operating system wouldn’t seem in need of saving. But the official count is a lie. It’s not that the industry groups that…
May 22, 2013
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Cellphones Are Eating the Family Budget – WSJ.com
Families across America have cut back on food, clothes and entertainment to make room for ever-higher phone bills. Now, carriers are betting that they can push that bill even higher, as Anton Troianovski explains on The News Hub. Photo: Bloomberg. Heidi Steffen and her husband used to treat…
May 21, 2013
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Startup = Growth
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . September 2012 A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly foundeddoes not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessaryfor a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, orhave some sort of "exit." The only…
May 20, 2013
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Rethinking Sleep – NYTimes.com
SOMETIME in the dark stretch of the night it happens. Perhaps it’s the chime of an incoming text message. Or your iPhone screen lights up to alert you to a new e-mail. Or you find yourself staring at the ceiling, replaying the day in your head. Next thing you know, you’re out of bed and engaged with…
May 19, 2013
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Identity checks coming to Whois | DomainIncite – Domain Name News & Opinion
Identity checks coming to Whois Kevin Murphy ,September 25, 2012, 11:13:19 (UTC), Domain Registrars Pretty soon, if you want to register a domain name in a gTLD you’ll have to verify your email address and/or phone number or risk having your domain turned off. That’s the latest to come out of talks…
May 18, 2013
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Why Apple made the right decision with iOS 6 Maps
There is no shortage of problems with iOS 6 Maps. The Amazing iOS 6 Maps Tumblr Imagine you are Apple CEO Tim Cook. You control the single most profitable phone on the market, the iPhone. You have full control over your mobile OS — iOS — and the applications that run on it. Except that’s not…