29 days ago
deusx : Op-Ed Columnist - The Republican Rump - NYTimes.com - "But the G.O.P.’s long transformation into the party of the unreasonable right, a haven for racists and reactionaries, seems likely to accelerate as a result of the impending defeat. This will pose a dilemma for moderate conservatives. Many of the
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deusx : Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | Amanda Scott's Blog: Barack in Jacksonville, FL: "Tomorrow" - "Tomorrow, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election; that tries to pit region against region, city against town, Republican against Democrat; that asks us to fear at a time when we need hope. ... Tomorrow
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4 month 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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14 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : 9/11 Is Over - “Our government has been exporting fear, not hope: ‘Give me your tired, your poor and your fingerprints.’” ∞
deusx : 9/11 is Over - "We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy."
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deusx : Bed-wetter Nation | Campaign for America's Future - "But look now what we have lost. Now when a bad guy crosses our threshhold, America becomes a pants-piddling mess."
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Math, Fear and Computer Programming - Howard got some training in programming, wasn't much good at it (his opinion) but it has helped in the newsroom where there is any increasing need for people with computer skills.
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22 month ago
deusx : The Seattle Times: Nation & World: TV network's gimmick sparks Boston arrests; in Seattle, it's no big deal - ""Public Works found it and took it down and didn't even bother to call us" because the device didn't appear to be threatening, he said."
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22 month ago
deusx : Turner Broadcasting "regrets" Boston security scare - Yahoo! News - "Turner Broadcasting apologized on Wednesday for a marketing campaign that sparked Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11, 2001, attacks -- closing bridges, shutting major roads and putting hundreds of police on alert. "
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22 month ago
deusx : MAKE: Blog: UPDATED: Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED art shuts down Boston - "Even if it was just something random, it sort of shows the folly of our security-obsessed world when a fictional martian can set a major city on high alert."
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23 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC has an article about people who think all this technology stuff is just moving a bit too fast, really. It cites the iPhone as an example. It is a dumb article. - There are lots of people confused by new technologies. In the UK, a large number of them end up with Sky+ and love it. Most have mobile phones. There will always be confusing technology and there will always be people—like Apple—who work to
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25 month ago
jimray : Ghosts in the Machines - Neil Gaiman on the things that haunt. "Fear is a wonderful thing, in small doses."
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28 month ago
deusx : Kung Fu Monkey: "Wait, Aren't You Scared?" - "Quick, do whatever we tell you, and believe whatever we tell you, or YOU WILL BE KILLED BY BROWN PEOPLE!! PUT DOWN THAT SIPPY CUP!!"
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Points of Failure - Fear Not - leave it up to the people (i.e. The communities) to decide what they would want to question or not. I bet that in most cases they would be making the right choice.
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41 month ago
Linkorama : Paranoid vs. Panacea - "bloggers need not apply": maintaining status quo in academia
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42 month ago
jkottke : Transcripts and mp3s of cockpit voice recorders
Aquarion : Last words - The last transmitted words of failing aircraft. May disturb
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