December 2010
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“Exploratory drilling off Israel’s northern coast this week has confirmed the...”
– Israel Confirms Major Natural Gas Discovery - NYTimes
Mostly unimportant tech things I'd like to see in...
A great Flickr replacement
Something like Lala (and nothing like Ping)
Less unwanted/unexpected web audio, especially video autoplays when the content I’m looking for is text
Less cross-posting by default (Twitter to Tumblr, Tumblr to Twitter, Foursquare to Twitter, Instagram to Tumblr/Twitter, etc.); the occasional post, sure, but not every post
More Verizon, less AT&T
More...
“I am, frankly, a mixture of disappointed and sad that after Yahoo! shut down...”
– Jason Scott (via adereth)
The Clbuttic Mistake: When obscenity filters go... →
President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution.
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: talked to barack obama,... →
okay so did you ever read that really long New York Times Magazine piece called like “All The Obama Twentysomethings” about all the really young White House staffers, kids in their twenties who went to like Harvard and Yale and now work as liasons or advisers or coordinators in the Obama…
Out of all the “these are the best things I’ve read this year” posts so far, this...
“Assange didn’t liberate the dreadful secrets of North Korea, not because the...”
– Bruce Sterling: The Blast Shack
This is one of those pieces that’s almost unquotable because you want to quote the whole thing. It’s long, but if you’re interested in Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, geopolitics, the NSA, and/or hacker culture you’ll love it.
Signal:Noise and Consumption from RSS, Twitter &...
Nate told me a while ago that he wanted to cut back on or stop reading really well known people and get back into things like Andrew Parker’s blog (which has been excellent). Even though I see the appeal of that, I think that concentrating on that would lead to more noise than signal. Distribution is too easy now to stick with the local. Nassim Taleb tells this story well: before record...
In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm →
Dev Patnaik of Jump has his own answer to the why-now question. He contends that advances in technology over the past three decades have gradually forced management to reconceive its role in the corporation, shifting its focus from processing data to something more esoteric. “My dad was a midlevel manager for I.B.M.,” Patnaik explains, “and I remember him in the ’70s, sitting there with plastic 3M...
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Old Jews Telling Jokes: Filming in Boca Raton on...
spiegelman:
Old Jews Telling Jokes is coming to Florida, or as Sam calls it, “the motherlode.” Some of you must have family there. Some of them must be Jewish. All of them must be old. Do they tell jokes? Let me know! We’re going to do two sessions on February 3rd. Please email me if you have someone to recommend. ericspiegelman at gmail
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“It is not the responsibility of the Federal Reserve - nor would it be...”
– Ben Bernanke, October 31, 2007 (via David Rosenberg)
“A paper by Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson in the Journal of Transportation...”
– Backscatter X-Ray Machines Easily Fooled
Having ‘political objective’ disqualifies Assange... →
Via @felixsalmon.
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Tumblr is the home of deja vu in reverse
peterfeld:
… when you see something and you instantly know you’re going to see it again and again.
And again.
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“Occasionally [our regular bus driver] would disappear for a few months and...”
– The Oatmeal: Why I didn’t like riding the bus as a kid
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“[T]his discovery does indeed change everything we know about biology.”
– NASA Finds New Life
So this happened.