November 2009
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Men and women look for complementarity in consumption rather than in production.
– Alex Tabarrok - Marginal Revolution
from my brother
Time lapse on a graffiti wall, with a few twists.
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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