15 days ago
nelson : Sex and the Olympic city - Athlete hotties get it on at the Olympics
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17 days ago
deusx : thedetroiter.com - re: splash image - having seen this alignment of church and rencen on many morning commutes, I've always wondered if it was intentional.
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29 days ago
Linkorama : Trepidation 2.0 - Common questions based on old fears - What's different about all of this is that the 2.0 generation of technology is so much more social than collaborative, by which I mean software that can provide value to the organization without the first prerequisites of explicit group creation and
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1 month ago
deusx : Night Life Reprogrammed - NYTimes.com - "Others attend hoping to meet venture capitalists; some are just attracted to a night life that involves actually talking to creative people doing exciting things, rather than heading out to clubs and bars that beat you into silence with their thunde
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1 month ago
Andy Baio : Librarian responds to complaint about "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" - incredibly thoughtful and well-reasoned defense of a mildly controversial children's book [via]
philgyford : Myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding - Imagine if every complaint about anything received a reply this thoughtful. (via Kottke)
wearehugh : myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding - librarians can say "fuck you" better than anyone else
Eric Meyer : Uncle Bobby's Wedding - Now that is one fantastic response.
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nelson : Hidden Kitchens Texas - Just listened to this NPR program, very nostalgic for Texas now
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2 month ago
wearehugh : adamw’s very own blog » Blog Archive » Advertising… - "on the offchance that we happen to run into a bunch of naked amateur aeronauts"
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2 month ago
wearehugh : Too Weird for The Wire - Kevin Carey
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nelson : Albanian sworn virgin - Interesting old European custom of women becoming virtual men
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Wikibility of Innovation oriented Workplaces - This is the networked professional’s web 2.0, via Sebastien Sauteur I found Vincenzo Cammaratas master thesis, called “Wikibility of Innovation Oriented Workplaces - The CERN Case”
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Linkorama : Linda Stone: Phone in the Toilet? - We are better at rationalizing what we do than being rational about what we're doing.
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3 month ago
deusx : Moving On (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - "The other big problem is that San Francisco is fairly shallow. When I go to coffee shops or restaurants I can't avoid people talking about load balancers or databases. The conversations are boring and obsessed with technical trivia, or worse, busine
Jeremy Zawodny : Moving On - Moving On: "San Francisco is filled with distractions. There are always crews tearing up the street, trains that are delayed, buses that have broken down, homeless people begging, friends having parties, and so on."
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Linkorama : Thinking in Wikis - Wikipedia: The Missing Manual talks about the invisible Wikipedia—the social and technical structures that you only see when you want to contribute.
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Linkorama : Working in the open - As they say, transparency is the new black. Step one in moving to agile management is to stop being a scaredy cat and to start working in the open.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work - Stowe Boyd's Enterprise 2.0 preso
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dbow : 37signals Workplace Experiments - 37signals experiments with ideas to make the company an especially enjoyable place to work, including Fridays off and company credit cards for discretionary spending
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deusx : Warren Ellis » Everything Is Happening - "This is one reason why there wasn’t any bass in British pop music for years and years. It didn’t broadcast all that well. ... Mp3 preserves the top and the bottom, but the centre loses nuance in the compression. And now I’m hearing people reco
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wearehugh : Ed McMahon May Lose Beverly Hills Home - WSJ.com
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3 month ago
deusx : Notional Slurry » One more niggling, brief concern on “human scale” - "Watch yourself. Watch how you think of your neighbor, your boss, your political representative: the ones you didn’t like very much to begin with. What makes you so special? Not one damned thing."
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4 month ago
wearehugh : May Sweeps Sees Record Low Ratings - TVWeek - News - ha ha
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : The Whitburn Project: One-Hit Wonders and Pop Longevity - How has the record industry changed in the last 50 years? Using the Whitburn Project spreadsheet I talked about yesterday, I've been trying to dig into some of the underlying trends. Today, I'll be tackling the longevity and diversity of pop songs, and
wearehugh : The Whitburn Project: One-Hit Wonders and Pop Longevity - Waxy.org - nine kinds of awesome
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Ypulse: - Daily news & commentary about Generation Y for media and marketing professionals
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4 month ago
wearehugh : I have pubic lice in my mailbox « Bug Girl’s Blog - "There are regrettably few photos of crab lice nits available online." I am *so* doing the lice of flickr...
cobra libre : I have pubic lice in my mailbox [via] #
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky's speech at Web2expo
Andy Baio : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - transcript of Clay Shirky's excellent keynote from the Web 2.0 Expo; watch it instead [via]
philgyford : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - Clay on the answer to "where do they [gamers, Wikipedias, bloggers, etc.] find the time?" By watching less TV. Great stuff.
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