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“If we amplify everything, we hear nothing…”
– Jon Stewart at the Rally for Sanity (via neonmarg)
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Marco.org: More ideas than time: Last week's news →
Most news outlets, including TV news shows and networks, newspapers, news websites, and blogs are targeted at news junkies: they never want to miss a story, and they want to be the first to report it to you. If you look back on these stories even one week later, the majority of them seem… This is exactly why I watch Frontline on PBS - its the best!. 
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Generation Me by Jean Twenge (Read Via Physical Book) I picked this up after seeing a reference that Marco made to it. Boy was it a good read. The book dives into the sociology of ‘Generation Me’ Err people who were born from the 80’s to about the 2000’s or so. The key concept presented was the notion of ‘Self’ & ‘Self-esteem.’ Twenge takes a...
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December 2009
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Boss: Why does this building have so many libraries??
Me: There was a time BC..
Boss: Eh?
Me: Before Computers.
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“The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor tends to approach the level...”
– John Gruber - Via Macworld Pulse - Youtube
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Ads, Software, and Conversion
The story is that I wanted to try out the Crossover Games product to see how it preformed. So as expected I hoarded out my email address to try it legally. To my surprise it actually ran Steam remarkably well (notably TF2). Much better than running it in VMware Fusion. My only few sour points of the product were the minor sound issues (I run digital out of my mac) and some mouse tracking issues....
Dec 17th
Money in Culture
It is not often that something is done just for love anymore. You can call it a product of this society, where being happy is just not enough. In fact, it’s expected to boast about status about how many toys you have. So that your inner self-image feels better than your fellow peer down the street.Yes, this way of living today does work, and works very well which arguably makes people happy if not...
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Science!
mrgan: Kottke writes: The results of a survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences reveals that Americans don’t know a whole lot about science. - Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun. - Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time. - Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent...
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