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The Definitive Post On Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas | Techdirt
from the let’s-walk-through-the-reasons dept There’s been plenty of talk (and a ton of posts here on Techdirt) discussing both SOPA (originally E-PARASITE) and PROTECT IP (aka PIPA), but it seemed like it would be useful to create a single, "definitive" post to highlight why both of these bills are…
April 27, 2012
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And So It Goes – Kurt Vonnegut – A Life – By Charles J. Shields – Book Review – NYTimes.com
Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007, but one gets the sense from Charles J. Shields’s sad, often heartbreaking biography, “And So It Goes,” that he would have been happy to depart this vale of tears sooner. Indeed, he did try to flag down Charon the Ferryman and hitch a ride across the River Styx in 1984…
April 26, 2012
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Placebo Buttons « You Are Not So Smart
The Misconception: All buttons placed around you do your bidding. The Truth: Many public buttons are only there to comfort you. You press the doorbell button, you hear the doorbell ring. You press the elevator button, it lights up. You press the button on the vending machine, a soft drink comes…
April 25, 2012
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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability
Contrary to what you may read, peppering your form with nice buttons, color and typography and plenty of jQuery plugins will not make it usable. Indeed, in doing so, you would be addressing (in an unstructured way) only one third of what constitutes form usability. In this article, we’ll provide…
April 24, 2012
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The Perils of Pauline by Renata Adler | The New York Review of Books
When the Lights Go Down by Pauline Kael Pauline Kael; drawing by David Levine The job of the regular daily, weekly, or even monthly critic resembles the work of the serious intermittent critic, who writes only when he is asked to or genuinely moved to, in limited ways and for only a limited period…
April 23, 2012
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Warren Ellis » Tomorrow’s World: The Near Future Of Pop
This is the ten-minute talk I stuck together at the last minute for BERG ’s “Tomorrow’s World” event in London last night. Thanks to BERG and the audience for putting up with me, sorry it’s not very good: When Jones talked me into doing this, he stuck me with the title “the near future of pop.”…
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Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize | Top Stories | DISCOVER Magazine
FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2011 ISSUE Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the processes and skills of the subconscious mind, which our conscious selves rarely consider. By David Eagleman | Thursday, October 27, 2011 RELATED TAGS: MEMORY, EMOTIONS, & DECISIONS…
April 19, 2012
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The Importance of Mind-Wandering | Wired Science | Wired.com
It’s easy to underestimate boredom. The mental condition, after all, is defined by its lack of stimulation; it’s the mind at its most apathetic. This is why the poet Joseph Brodsky described boredom as a “psychological Sahara,” a cognitive desert “that starts right in your bedroom and spurns the…
April 17, 2012
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Daring Fireball: The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos
As you might expect, Jon [ sic ] “Daring Fireball” Gruber,who’s often been called Apple’s freelance PR guy, viewed itwith a jaundiced eye . This video encapsulates everything wrong with Microsoft. Theircoolest products are imaginary futuristic bullshit. Guess what,we’ve all seen Minority Report…
April 16, 2012
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‘You Are Not So Smart’: Why We Can’t Tell Good Wine From Bad – Life – The Atlantic
The Misconception : Wine is a complicated elixir, full of subtle flavors only an expert can truly distinguish, and experienced tasters are impervious to deception. The Truth : Wine experts and consumers can be fooled by altering their expectations. You scan the aisles in the liquor store looking for…
April 14, 2012
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Cancer Screening May Be More Popular Than Useful – NYTimes.com
After decades in which cancer screening was promoted as an unmitigated good, as the best — perhaps only — way for people to protect themselves from the ravages of a frightening disease, a pronounced shift is under way. Now expert groups are proposing less screening for prostate, breast and cervical…
April 13, 2012
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Trust Issues – Lapham’s Quarterly
Subscribe My Account Lapham’s Quarterly About Magazine Current Issue All Issues Preamble Essays Voices in Time Contributors Charts & Graphs Conversations Miscellany Maps Quotes Blogs Roundtable Insight and analysis from renowned writers and thinkers. Déjà Vu Is history repeating itself? the Déja Vu…
April 11, 2012
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Book Review: 1Q84 – WSJ.com
Haruki Murakami is that seemingly oxymoronic thing, a mainstream experimentalist. His career, like his novels, is a continual paradox. The novels, with convoluted structures and indeterminate endings, are a postmodernist mélange of fantasy worlds, dystopias, alternate realities and genre pastiches,…
April 10, 2012
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Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence – NYTimes.com
It afflicts us all. Because confidence in our own judgments is part of being human. Tim Enthoven Many decades ago I spent what seemed like a great deal of time under a scorching sun, watching groups of sweaty soldiers as they solved a problem. I was doing my national service in the Israeli Army at…
April 9, 2012
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Lead Bullets // ben’s blog
Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. As a matter of fact, it’s safe to say that they would rather switch than fight. —Public Enemy (sampled from Thomas Todd), Fight the Power Early in my tenure as product manager for the web servers at Netscape,…
April 8, 2012
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My Precious…De-Coupling Myself from My Startup | horsepigcow
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April 7, 2012
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Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong: Scientific American
Credit: ToonariPost When it comes to assigning blame for the current economic doldrums, the quants who build the complicated mathematic financial risk models, and the traders who rely on them, deserve their share of the blame. [See “A Formula For Economic Calamity” in the November 2011 issue ]. But…
April 6, 2012
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Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights | John Battelle’s Search Blog
As part of the work I’m doing for my book, I’ve been working with my research manager, LeeAnn Prescott, staring at various charts and graphs related to how we’ve funded our “Commons” over the past half century or so. I’ve got a working hypothesis that we are in the process of transitioning very…
April 5, 2012
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The Second Second Date Story — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
So the way my father used to tell it, my parents’ second date went something like this: My father was positively smitten after his blind date with my mother, and wanting to spend as much time with her as possible made sure that the activity for date number two was an all-day event. This being Salt…
April 4, 2012
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Why Read Moby-Dick? — By Nathaniel Philbrick — Book Review – NYTimes.com
It’s a hard sell Nathaniel Philbrick has undertaken in “Why Read Moby-Dick?” The novel’s plot has been recycled for decades, inspiring films, radio dramas, cartoons, comic books, a television mini-series, a couple of heavy metal albums, a music video and a rap rendition. How many potential readers…
April 3, 2012
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Rin Tin Tin — By Susan Orlean — Book Review – NYTimes.com
Lee Duncan rescued the puppy who would become Rin Tin Tin from the ruins of a German encampment in World War I. Rin Tin Tin/Lee Duncan Collection of the Riverside Metropolitan Museum Do dogs deserve biographies? In “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend,” Susan Orlean answers that question…
April 2, 2012
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The Great Tech War Of 2012 | Fast Company
Collections The Most Innovative Companies The top 50 companies in entertainment, media, sports, technology, and more. Most Creative People Meet this year’s inspiring leaders. Innovation By Design A showcase for ingenious design solutions. World Changing Ideas New workplaces, new food sources, new…
April 1, 2012
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Bill Gross Q&A: Can Chime solve the web’s relevance problem? — Tech News and Analysis
UberMedia CEO Bill Gross — who is launching his new content-based social network, Chime.in , today at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco — wants to make it perfectly clear that he isn’t out to kill Twitter or Facebook or Google+ (s goog), as some people (including us) have suggested . The…