January 2011
Gmail’s spam filtering is failing for the first time… well almost ever.
The role of the federal government →
What’s the role of the federal government? Here’s one answer, courtesy of Matt Yglesias: One of the main things the federal government does is transfer resources from high-productivity urban…
If you’re going to thump the bass at least put on an mp3 or cd. Carpet cleaning commercials from fm radio kill the mood.
Submitted by di.brost. →
Submitted by di.brost.
jpf/domain-profiler - GitHub →
Jesse The Don't Scan My Body Ventura sues TSA to... →
“Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura objects to having the U.S. government get a close look at his body while going through airport security. In a lawsuit filed this week against the DHS and TSA, the former…
How to rob a bank →
This was one of those questions on Quora that caused me so sit back and ponder. But it didn’t take long before the best and easiest method of robbery popped into my mind (assuming staying out of…
How to rob a bank →
This was one of those questions on Quora that caused me so sit back and ponder. But it didn’t take long before the best and easiest method of robbery popped into my mind (assuming staying out of…
Douglas Rushkoff » Life Inc. Resources →
Walking home for lunch @ BookRenter http://instagr.am/p/BMIHV/
How Does Homeopathy Work? →
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RT @JennyJohnsonHi5: Children are too low to the ground to ever be clean.
Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Alone Together... →
Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy… . Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other.
Screen-Based Entertainment Time, All-Cause... →
Recreational sitting, as reflected by television/screen viewing time, is related to raised mortality and CVD risk regardless of physical activity participation.
Solid-state quantum memory unveiled →
Solitude and Leadership →
It means gathering yourself together into a single point rather than letting yourself be dispersed everywhere into a cloud of electronic and social input.
“AIR apps exist in an uncanny valley between a web application and a desktop...”
– Alex Payne — Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms
“It took one of the best ideas of the last 500 years — peer review —...”
– Clay Shirky on Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary - Clay Shirky - Technology - The Atlantic
“Question: hadn’t we more or less come to understand that no piece of...”
– All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary - The Editors - Technology - The Atlantic
NounProject →
BBC News - Antimatter caught streaming from... →
But what absolutely intrigues us is the discovery that TGFs produce not just gamma rays but also produce positron
RT @JPBarlow: RT @thirdlanguage So you think the Internet is free? http://yuxiyou.net/open/
Medieval England twice as well off as today’s... →
New research led by economists at the University of Warwick reveals that medieval England was not only far more prosperous than previously believed, it also actually boasted an average income that would be more than double the average per capita income of the world’s poorest nations today.
(via Instapaper)
Half-formed thought on Wikileaks & Global Action «... →
This is why the difference between the Times, as an international actor, and Wikileaks, as a global one, matters so much. Wikileaks does not have to play an iterated game of Prisoner’s Dilemma with the US.
(via Instapaper)
peg.gd: Don’t Think of an Elephant →
The strict father model begins with a set of assumptions:
The world is a dangerous place, and it always will be, because there is evil out there in the world. The world is also difficult because it is competitive. There will always be winners and losers. There is an absolute right and an absolute wrong. Children are born bad, in the sense that they just want to do what feels good, not what is...
“To even casual technology observers, it’s always been obvious that Blu-Ray is a...”
– Subtraction.com: Blu-Ray Blues (via Instapaper)
Or Not: Distorting the News in Cafes Around the... →
Looks like it was all a hoax. Bastards.
Zdzislaw Kotla as reported by Lisa Miller:
They’re essentially manipulating public perception of world events and facts, as reported by dedicated…
Current status: pillow for a farting baby.
RT @jkottke: My problem with web gamification: it’s casino gaming more than playground games in that it creates addicts for the benefit …
