December 2011
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“With 2012 about to start, it seems Verizon has decided paying your bill online...”
– Verizon Adds $2 Charge For Paying Your Bill Online
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Politics isn’t about Policy →
High school students are easily engaged to elect class presidents, even though they have little idea what if any policies a class president might influence. Instead such elections are usually described as “popularity contests.” That is, theses elections are about which school social factions are to have higher social status. If a jock wins, jocks have higher status. If your girlfriend’s...
Stanford Free Classes – A review from a Stanford... →
awesomaticeric:
1.PLUG IN YOUR HEADPHONES
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Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us →
This assumption—that understanding a system’s constituent parts means we also understand the causes within the system—is not limited to the pharmaceutical industry or even to biology. It defines modern science. In general, we believe that the so-called problem of causation can be cured by more information, by our ceaseless accumulation of facts. Scientists refer to this process as reductionism....
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If You Like Links, You’ll Hate What Facebook Is... →
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chartier:
Case in point, this weekend I tried to share a link to a story in The Guardian I found interesting. You’ll note (as I highlighted in a red box) even my browser recognized this was a link to the publication’s website, not Facebook.
However, due to how The Guardian has configured their site’s Facebook integration, anyone clicking the link is not taken to the expected URL....
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“If you thought slow-mo videos of watermelons being exploded by bullets and...”
– MIT slows down light with trillion-frames-per-second video camera
The eleventh prime.
“I would love yo make more movies. That is a FUCKING HARD JOB though, dude. Just...”
– Hi I’m Louis C.K. and this is a thing
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I work for the Internet. →
Spread the word to let Congress know who they will impact.
Anil Dash: Questions for the Republican Candidates →
dwineman:
These are gold. My favorites:
Do you pledge not to pursue war crime prosecution against the Taliban when they waterboard our soldiers?
What Sharia laws do you support other than criminalizing homosexuality, shaming assault victims & legalizing theocracy?
When you slash funding for the NIH, how will you notify parents that their children’s cancer treatments are being ended?
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“We have forgotten how to use the real names of real things. Like doorknobs....”
– Dan Pallotta - I Don’t Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore
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“It might be argued that I’ve been out of school too long, that if I’d actually...”
– Man with multiple degrees fails standardized test for children
We need more of this.
Dan Harmon Poops: Crucial Update on my Bodily... →
danharmon:
I have, physically, had worse and better 2:30 AMs than this. I haven’t seen that recent Planet of the Apes movie but based on the descriptions I’ve heard, its third act is unfolding in my abdomen. I feel like I accidentally swallowed an entire very put-upon chimp with zero tolerance for captivity…
Great post.
