6 month ago
adamrg : Being alone and dead as an acceptable lifestyle choice - I sometimes worry that this will be my fate.
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20 month ago
jimray : Smithsonian interview with Steve Jobs from 1995
jkottke : Lengthy interview with Steve Jobs from 1995 - Lengthy interview with Steve Jobs from 1995. "I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
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21 month ago
philgyford : MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling Software - Downloads - Really nice Mac application for organising photos from your past around people and places. (via Haddock)
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25 month ago
plasticbag : The biography of Atia on WIkipedia differs rather dramatically from her character in HBO's Rome, which I've recently started watching on DVD - Awesome series - loads of blood and violence and sex and war and stuff. Highly entertaining. Not necessarily enormously accurate, "Atia was a religious and caring matron. Tacitus considered her as an ideal Roman Matron"
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler. - I do not accept the spin that Wikipedia "allows anyone to write anything" just because we do not metaphysically prevent it by putting authors in cages
Rod Begbie : Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler - Great post by danah boyd about what Wikipedia is and isn't good for -- Make sure and read Jimmy Wales's steak-knife metaphor. My equation: Full correct information > incomplete information > incorrect information > no information. Wikipedia is nowhere [via] #
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34 month ago
jimray : A false Wikipedia 'biography' - Old guy gets cranky about something false somebody wrote on the internets. Film at 11. Repeat after me -- if you're using the Wikipedia as an aboslute, definitive source, you're using it incorrectly.
deusx : USATODAY.com - A false Wikipedia 'biography' - What a whiny moron. He took the trouble to call an ISP and report abuse, but the ass couldn't find the "edit" button and D.I.Y.?
kayodeok : USATODAY.com - A false Wikipedia 'biography' - This is a highly personal story about Internet character assassination. It could be your story ... And so we live in a universe of new media with phenomenal opportunities for worldwide communications and research — but populated by volunteer vandal
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42 month ago
plasticbag : Reader, I shagged him - on the mischaracterisation of Charlotte Bronte - "Gaskell took Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, the dirtiest, darkest, most depraved fantasy of all time, and, like an angel murdering a succubus, trod on her."
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42 month ago
jimray : 33 things you should know about Ray Charles - Just saw Ray last night... [via Merlin Mann]
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plasticbag : Wikipedia entry on Edward Lear, nonsense poet - My favourite Lear limerick: "There was an old person of Fife, Who was greatly disgusted with life; They sang him a ballad, And fed him on salad, Which cured that old person of Fife." Dude - I'm right there with you...
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