November 2009
20 posts
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Nov 30th
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ListenRatatat - Hot (w Missy Elliot)
Nov 23rd
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A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic... →
by Clay Shirky There are people horrified by this prospect, but the criticism that Wikipedia, say, is not an “authoritative source” is an attempt to end the debate by hiding the fact that authority is a social agreement, not a culturally independent fact. Authority is as an authority does.
Nov 23rd
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ListenT. Rex - Monolith
Nov 19th
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“On the other hand, when it comes to actual messaging, women shift their...”
– Your Looks and Your Inbox, OkCupid Blog OkCupid is a dating site run by a bunch of geeks who have been writing some really interesting blog posts about how people interact with each other from a statistical perspective. In the past, they’ve dealt with race and religion and now they’re...
Nov 19th
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Nov 18th
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Nov 18th
Nov 17th
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ListenAnya Marina - Whatever You Like (T.I. cover) via...
Nov 17th
Nov 16th
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Fixed Wing Sail for New America's Cup Boats →
The U.S. team for the America’s Cup is replacing its boat’s mast and cloth mainsail [Ed: it hasn’t been ‘cloth’ for a long time] with a hard, fixed wing that is 80 percent larger than a Boeing 747 wing.
Nov 16th
ListenDeer Tick - Beautiful Girls (Sean Kingston) via...
Nov 16th
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ListenDJ Zebra - Get It On My Mind (Pixies vs. Marvin...
Nov 16th
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Nov 14th
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Nov 11th
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ListenDeftones - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What...
Nov 10th
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“Men and women look for complementarity in consumption rather than in production.”
– Alex Tabarrok - Marginal Revolution from my brother
Nov 9th
Nov 9th
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Time lapse on a graffiti wall, with a few twists.
Nov 7th
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“When Ezra Pound allowed a stranded actress to spend the night in his room, the...”
– Ezra Pound, Wikipedia Untermeyer, Louis, Modern American Poetry, Modern British Poetry: Combined New and Enlarged Edition (Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962) p. 286
Nov 5th