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Posted on: 2011 Jun 7
- Glee Cast (64)
- Hooray For Earth (31)
- Lady Gaga (12)
- The Lonely Island (11)
- Alison Krauss & Union Station (9)
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Posted on: 2011 May 23
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Posted on: 2011 May 20
But my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity.
The Twitter Trap - NYTimes.com
This could make for a good argument, if not for the fact that those “essentially human characteristics” are just things that have been bred into us (mostly) passively for the past 99,000 years. If there is anything characteristically human its that we are insanely adaptable.
The day we cease being “human” is the day we stop mercilessly adapting to our world, even those of our own design.
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Posted on: 2011 May 11
You are a machine: you eat food and breathe air and magically, you produce outputs that can be sold for much more money than the cost of the food and air. You produced actual value, and that value can be measured, and that measurement is called money. You made money. Out of nothing. *That* is capitalism.
Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists as the greatest threat to the American public.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former editor of the Wall Street Journal and former assistant secretary to the treasury under Ronald Reagan - New Statesman - No limits to the law in NoLa
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Posted on: 2011 Apr 25
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Posted on: 2011 Apr 19
When someone with the status of Kobe Bryant, arguably the best basketball player in a generation, hurls that antigay slur at a referee or anyone else — let’s call it the F-word — he is telling boys, men and anyone watching that when you are frustrated, when you are as angry as can be, the best way to demean and denigrate a person, even one in a position of power, is to make it clear that you think he is not a real man, but something less.
Posted on: 2011 Apr 15
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Posted on: 2011 Apr 12
Google’s Chrome browser dropped the “http://” prefix in their location bar about a year ago, and as it turns out, not just for aesthetic reasons: if you are using Chrome, and you are using Google web services today, chances are, you are not running over HTTP! Let that sink in for a minute. More likely, your browser is using SPDY - let’s dig in.
> thoughtful, well-written, and astonishingly, essentially correct
That’s generally what Ars Technica is known for.
Posted on: 2011 Apr 7
For all the Chicago tumblrs out there, a picture taken from the International Space Station. So cool!
