February 2012
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OS X Mountain Lion Sneak Peak →
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. This is exactly what I’ve been wanting OS X to become, and more: the integration of the iOS apps directly into the Mac. I’m literally salivating over this right now. Aaaannddd… You can download the Beta version of Messages. RIGHT. NOW. Which I am currently doing.
Rationally Speaking: The Mismeasure of... →
This article does a good job at (quickly and briefly) revealing the inadequacies of grand judgments based on neuroscience (also called neurobabble, or neurotrash by some). Neuroscience is fascinating stuff, but its claims are often so far-reaching as to give pause to anyone taking them seriously.
“The fact is, of course, that anything at all which we experience, whether it does or does not have...
McDonald's Will Phase Out Gestation Crates -... →
Regardless of how you feel about animal rights, this article shows just how much power companies like McDonald’s and WalMart have in setting industry standards. And not just for animal welfare: companies like this can effectively change de facto health and wage standards with the push of a button. Pretty fascinating. And a little scary.
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Islands - “Grey Funnel Line”, A Sleep...
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Spinoza and The First Amendment →
“In this work, Spinoza approaches the issue of individual liberty from several perspectives. To begin with, there is the question of belief, and especially the state’s tolerance of the beliefs of its citizens. Spinoza argues that all individuals are to be absolutely free and unimpeded in their beliefs, by right and in fact. ‘It is impossible for the mind to be completely under...
The Philosophy of Video Games - Reader's Feature |... →
A short article on a couple of video games with more than entertainment value. (Yes. Zelda is one of them.)
Thinking, Fast and Slow — By Daniel Kahneman —... →
I certainly don’t agree with all of this, but I’m recommending you read it anyway. If the book is accurate, this is really because the end of the review was more positive than negative, and my immediate remembrance of it colors my remembered experience strongly enough to suggest that you read it too. In fact, if the reviewer is right, you may not experience it much at all. You’ll...
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'Moby Dick in Pictures' - Every single page of the... →
Click the link above for a huge sampling from the book. And then go buy it on Amazon.
Grammar Nazis Unite! →
20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes | LitReactor
Tumbling on success: How Tumblr's David Karp built... →
A really interesting article on the history of Tumblr, social blogging, and where it’s going.
Who Was Charles Dickens? by Robert Gottlieb | The... →
Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Dickens!
Kevin Spacey’s ‘Richard III,’ Staged by Sam Mendes... →
I really wish I could see this. Spacey as Richard. Glorious.
January 2012
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Autoposting
Apparently GetGlue decided to go ahead and autopost a few of my checkins over there. Hence: an image of Katy Perry on my blog. Sorry. Not about Katy Perry. About the autoposting. Dumb.
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too...”
– Orson Welles
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“Perhaps one of the saddest things Charlie Brown has in common with his creator...”
– http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/74261#ixzz1eNwS7bUL
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“WHAT CAUSES LIGHTNING? As more and more water droplets collide inside a cloud,...”
– http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0109-global_warming_causes_severe_storms.htm
August 2011
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“For one moment she felt that if they both got up, here, now on the lawn, and...”
– In Lily Briscoe’s imagination, as she sits next to Augustus Carmichael, To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
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“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch...”
– Winnie the Pooh — A.A. Milne
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“There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast...”
– Bertrand Russell
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Gnomeo & Juliet
Juliet: He's a Blue!
Gnomeo: She's a Red!
Featherstone: And I'm Pink! Who cares!
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“Get a good idea, and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done,...”
– Walt Disney
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Potter Gets to a BILLION Dollars →
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Sharepocalypse Now: Why Social Media Overload... →
[I’ve been saying something similar for a while. We need social and media (including just about anything posted on the web) content curation.]
Nova Spivack has several ventures in production that focus on the real-time stream, including Bottlenose (for filtering the stream), StreamGlider (a new mobile stream delivery platform), Live Matrix (the schedule of the live web), and The Daily Dot...
July 2011
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“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of...”
– e. e. cummings
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“The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is you’re the only one.”
– Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh
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Tom Felton!
I JUST FOUND OUT TOM FELTON IS IN RISE OF PLANET OF THE APES. I AM DEFINITELY SEEING IT NOW.
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