February 2012
5 posts
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Brain Matter(s) - Impossible Happens →
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The Faux-Vintage Photo: Full Essay (Parts I, II... →
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How Doctors Die « Zócalo Public Square →
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Let the Robot Drive [longform.org] →
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January 2012
11 posts
Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic | The Wirecutter →
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5.4 [longform.org] →
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The Trouble With "Free" →
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Germany Marks Frederick the Great’s 300th Birthday... →
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Torturer’s Apprentice - Magazine - The Atlantic →
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Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose... →
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Interview: Andreas Illiger, creator of Tiny Wings →
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Nobody Understands Debt →
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Let’s Start Paying College Athletes [longform.org] →
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How the Potato Changed the World | History &... →
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December 2011
15 posts
The Xinjiang Procedure [longform.org] →
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Outsourcing Jobs [longform.org] →
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The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing... →
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Driving has lost its cool for young Americans |... →
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Sick In The Head →
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Newt Gingrich and His 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'... →
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You Say You Want a Devolution? [longform.org] →
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The Civil Archipelago →
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The Rise of the NBA Nerd →
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Imagining a City Without its Public Transportation... →
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House Shoes
Although it’s very much a cultural... →
from Put This On
Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War? →
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Garlic Soup as a Cure for the Common Meal - City... →
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A teletype no more →
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November 2011
18 posts
Pedophile! →
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We are not good despite our imperfections; it is our connection with our...
– Jay Smooth at TEDxHampshire, on remembering that we can (and must) engage racism without forcing ourselves into a binary where racist word or action = bad person… which of course shuts down conversation completely and prevents us from correcting ourselves or others. Watch the video, seriously. (via...
How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the... →
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Keynes Trumps Hayek in Asia Society Debate Over... →
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Calepin →
I’m setting this up by the time you read this. So slick.
onethingwell:
A hosted platform that turns Markdown documents in a Dropbox directory into a weblog—in other words, Calepin has all the advantages of a static site generator like Jekyll, with none of the hassles.
Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman,... →
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Readability and Collection of Money for Others —... →
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Penn State, my final loss of faith - Guest Voices... →
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Argentina On Two Steaks A Day →
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Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Tollbooth” at 50 :... →
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West Seattle Friday: Spa Day; wine tastings; ‘The... →
from West Seattle Blog…
Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career... →
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Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst... →
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Google Kills Its Other Plus →
from Daring Fireball
Nick on FeedDemon minus sharing →
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I find it fairly humorous that Google just... →
from parislemon
App Review: CodeRunner →
from Brett Terpstra
Hey, so, anyone who cares, I think I might do my former Google Reader sharing on here now. Might be worth a try. We’ll see how this goes.