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deusx : wayneandwax.com » Songs as Shared Things - "Songs have always been shareable and shared. People, young and old, share songs with each other – by singing or playing them - in a variety of ways and settings, through a variety of technologies and media or other manner of accompaniment (as well
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deusx : Study concludes Wikipedians are a bunch of grumpy introverts - Ars Technica - "A study making the rounds suggests that Wikipedians may feel at home online, in part because they're grumpy introverts. But the results need to be interpreted very cautiously, as they were based on only 69 contributors from a single nation, a t
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wearehugh : BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman - "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape."
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Andy Baio : Jim Rossignol on the Fermi paradox and why the aliens stayed home - our grandkids might find space exploration boring compared to next-gen virtual worlds and networks [via]
deusx : Videogames And The Impossibility Of Escape From Planet Earth | > jim rossignol - "if space flight is really going to take thousands of years, hundreds of generations, and immense resources that could be better spent on having a good time, why should millions of sentient beings be expected to sink their lives into making it happen
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WillPate : The End of Our Love Affair with Cars - P.J. O’Rourke in the WSJ
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WillPate : Cross-Cultural Business Behavior - Very helpful guide to cultural understanding in international business
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deusx : Sony Pictures CEO: The Internet Is Still Bad | Techdirt - "A week and a half ago, Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton made some news for saying that nothing good had come from the internet, period. Plenty of online sites (including ours) took him to task for that, wondering how one gets to be the CEO of a majo
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philgyford : Raph's Website " The perfect geek age? - "Was being born in 1971 the perfect time to be born a geek?" Well duh, of course! It's a well known FACT. (via Boing Boing)
deusx : Raph’s Website » The perfect geek age? - "Looking back on it, it makes me feel a bit sorry for those born ten years later. And I can’t judge ten years earlier, but so much of that seemed to hit at the right age. Looking back at history, it seems like the last big waves of popular inventio
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WillPate : End the University as We Know It - NY Times
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deusx : 10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is "Wrong" - "1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning."
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deusx : I smoke pot, and I like it - THE WEEK - "This is a profoundly necessary idea. If we’re to begin to roll back our stupid and deadly drug war, the stigma of responsible drug use has got to end, and marijuana is the best place to start. The super-savvy Barack Obama managed to turn a buck by
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Linkorama : Google's "designer drain"- Adam Howell - Test driven design certainly has a huge place on the web — but it has to coexist with opinionated design. Otherwise you’re just giving the user what they think they need — and never creating something new and inspired that they couldn’t have other
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nelson : Warcraft vs. China - Warcraft expansion faces Chinese regulation problems because of depictions of death
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Andy Baio : The Economist on Dunbar's number in Facebook - featuring data extracted from Dr. Cameron Marlow
Rod Begbie : The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist - Good Economist article about how "the Dunbar number" relates to online social networks, with some interesting stats about friend groups on Facebook. [via] #
WillPate : The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist
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Linkorama : Andreessen in realtime - Steve Gilmor: I rarely see or talk with friends from high school or earlier, but what’s to prevent these virtual friendships from continuing to flourish for a lifetime? What are the consequences of the lowering of the barriers of space and time? We’re
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WillPate : Iran: the friendliest people in the world - Times Online
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Linkorama : Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I : CJR - CJR’s Russ Juskalian recently spoke with Shirky about knowledge, the Internet, and why we shouldn’t worry about information overload. The second part of the interview can be found here.
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nelson : HIV Denial in the Internet Era - Review of how the Internet creates a community of nutjobs who argue HIV doesn't cause AIDS
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deusx : Hunter S. Thompson Motivational Posters | Sloshspot Blog - "A man who graciously documented the uncharted depths of the binge unlike any other in history, HST provided us with nuggets of wisdom and encouragement all along the way. So instead of merely sharing a list of my favorite quotes from the author, I h
Linkorama : Hunter S. Thompson Motivational Posters
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nelson : Infosec pissing contests - Al3x reflects on why the computer security business is so stupid
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Jeremy Zawodny : Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control - Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control: I got distracted and read this article. Fuck!
Linkorama : Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control - Hard work is dead. Are you paying attention?
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deusx : Reasons Behind Yahoo!'s Four-Year Slump | Investing News | Print Financial & Investing Articles | TheStreet.com - This, in my short experience there, exactly: "But there are four other reasons to account for Yahoo!'s decline in the past four years: (1) A lack of product leadership; (2) self-isolated leadership; (3) a culture tolerating non-performance; and
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Linkorama : Free Information in the Organization Amalgamated Suckup dot com - The illusion of a healthy business comes from sales, progress on projects, and the ability to get funding. However, no one has put a dollar value on the increased turnover, loss of motivation, and loss to tacit knowledge the organization has suffered due
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