August 2010
18 posts
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Aug 22nd
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Aug 18th
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“Every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her...”
– Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google This has been quoted in RWW and Gawker—in a derisive way. One of the follow ups: “I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time… I mean we really have to think about these...
Aug 17th
ListenThe National - The Runaway via texturism
Aug 15th
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ListenAntony & the Johnsons - Here Comes the Sun
Aug 15th
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Aug 14th
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“The web is ruled by maniacs like Perez Hilton, Ron Paul zealots, Apple fan boys,...”
– Jonah Peretti, A Viral Meetup Talk
Aug 13th
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Aug 10th
Aug 10th
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“Dallas and Los Angeles represent two distinct models for successful American...”
– Virginia Postrel, A Tale of Two Townhouses
Aug 10th
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Aug 6th
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“Their job was to arrange the shuffled photos on the ground to show the correct...”
– Lera Boroditsky, Does Language Influence Culture
Aug 5th
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Aug 5th
12 notes
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“Good documentation is condescendingly terse, and Git’s documentation is...”
– Ted Dziuba via probenjamin
Aug 5th
5 notes
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Aug 2nd
5 notes
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Aug 2nd
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“The error could hardly have been more awkward. Governed by India but claimed by...”
– John Gravois, The Agnostic Cartographer “It is said that every map is a political statement. But Google, by trying to subvert that truth, may just be intensifying the politics even more.”
Aug 2nd
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Aug 1st