October 2011
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You’re blowing it with Fox News. The axis today is not liberal and conservative,...
– STEVE JOBS, to News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch, as quoted by biographer Walter Isaacson.
If Steve Jobs can’t convince Rupert of that, then no one can.
(via Mediabistro)
My Big, Gigantic Drum Kit: Roland Emmerich and the... →
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davebloom:
A few weeks ago, Tony, Raina, and I saw Moneyball, which was a fine film. But what really got my gears turning was something that Tony excitedly said during the trailer for Roland Emmerich’s new Shakespeare-was-a-fraud drama, Anonymous: “He’s moving from cultural landmarks to cultural institutions!”
Tony, you see, is the unheralded key theorist in an emergent...
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Justice vs. Power - Noam Chomsky vs. Michel... →
(part 2 here)
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This is the way public libraries end: shilling for the company that’s going to...
– Amazon Suckers Libraries « Annoyed Librarian (via infoneer-pulse)
Did you know that Hootie & the Blowfish’s Cracked Rear View has sold more albums than Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A.? Or Abbey Road?
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imaginaryimageblog:
A cameraphone picture of Eddie Vedder checking out at Best Buy with a handful of Creed CD’s, trying to be as discreet as possible
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Blackboards in Porn, #7
From Blackboards in Porn, best blog ever.
This sets out to be a good illustration of the function more commonly expressed as y=x2. (Why the teacher has chosen A and S is unclear; these are sometimes used in lower case form as acceleration and distance respectively, but the relationship between them would not then be physically correct.) The important points (S=0, S=1, two points where...
You cannot un-watch this.
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I’ve just now noticed the striking similarity in the names Khan Noonien Singh and Noonian Soong.
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So with all due respect to Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, and President Obama: Science,...
– Why Education Without Creativity Isn’t Enough | Fast Company (via infoneer-pulse)
Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from...
– Google engineer Steve Yegge’s amazingly well-written and awe-inspiring rant about Where Google Goes Wrong — which went public after he clicked the wrong settings on G+ (via cnnmoneytech)
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Ada Lovelace Day →
Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire. This international day of celebration helps people learn about the achievements of women in STEM, inspiring others and creating new role models for young and old alike. The inspiration for Ada Lovelace Day came from...