June 2011
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Biennale Bloopers: ARTINFO's List of 7 Spectacular... →
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Malfunctioning sculpture, people falling everywhere, Zaha Hadid misses a deadline, and not a vaporetto to be found. Amazing!
May 2011
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April 2011
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Slavoj Žižek: Good Manners in the Age of Wikileaks →
“So far, the WikiLeaks story has been represented as a struggle between WikiLeaks and the US empire: is the publishing of confidential US state documents an act in support of the freedom of information, of the people’s right to know, or is it a terrorist act that poses a threat to stable international relations? But what if this isn’t the real issue? What if the crucial ideological and...
“[P]eople borrowing books from the library were more likely to return their books...”
– The Hormone That Calms and Connects - Dana Foundation
“We stayed together for the children — each was the other’s child. And we were...”
– Book Review - One Hundred Names For Love - By Diane Ackerman - NYTimes.com
Schmentoring -- Mentoring Gone Askew [MP3] →
Edward Tenner of Princeton University gave a talk titled “Schmentoring: Mentoring Gone Askew—with Even Better Results” on Friday, Sept. 28, 2007.
“The scaling up of penicillin has saved more lives than the first nuclear weapons...”
– TED 2011 Q&A: How Technology Bites Us | Epicenter | Wired.com
“We spend hours surfing the web, which turns out to be much less challenging and...”
– Pushing Paper - Lapham’s Quarterly
Facebook drops uprising page after Israel protest →
today:
Facebook removed a page calling on Palestinians to take up arms against Israel, following a high-profile Israeli appeal.
“Faced with endless religious warfare, Montaigne intuited that his best approach...”
– The First Liberal — Kwame Anthony Appiah, Slate.com (h/t Joshua Safran)
If We Built a Safer Nuclear Reactor, How Would We... →
If We Built a Safer Nuclear Reactor, How Would We Know?
Visualizing the "Arab Spring": An Interactive... →
“It’s the sort of Beltway dodge that’s as natural as breathing to the...”
– Tim Wu Tries to Save the Internet - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 2011
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http://xkcd.com/radiation/ →
It's Official: Most Americans Adults Are Using... →
“… occupancy rates at Ritz-Carlton Tokyo had plunged from 80 to 15 percent...”
– World’s highest hotel opens in Hong Kong
“While there are undoubtedly some kinds of stories a publication can only get by...”
– Shoe-Leather Reporting at the New York Times | Bottom-up
WatchLondon Hire Bikes animation (by Sociable Physics) This animation shows the real-time behaviour of hire bikes in London on October 4th 2010, the day of a major tube strike, and the busiest day for the scheme to date.
“Turns out, despite the great push for citizen journalism, citizens are not, on...”
– Jennifer 8. Lee on raw data, APIs, and the growth of “Little Brother” » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
“… why is sleep one of the first things we’re willing to sacrifice as...”
– Tony Schwartz: Why Sleep Is More Important Than Food
“A handful of dilapidated roads cross the zone, half-overgrown with weeds and...”
– Chernobyl Exclusion Zone | OutsideOnline.com
What Was a Disgraced Korean Cloning Scientist... →
Interactive graphic: visual evidence that our best... →
Chief Justice Roberts to AT&T: This Time, It Isn't... →
A recently released Supreme Court opinion holds that AT&T does not have “personal privacy” under the Freedom of Information Act.
How much "wear and tear" do library users impose...
HarperCollins has changed its agreement with the main distributor of e-books to libraries: e-books will now become inaccessible after 26 checkouts.
I understand publishers’ desire to limit ebook access so that selling one copy doesn’t serve the needs of the entire world. But think about what this particular DRM bomb does to libraries, one of the longest continuous institutions of civilization....
WatchAn animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world and this animation displays a white flash each time a way is entered or updated. Some edits are a result of a physical local survey by a contributor with a GPS unit and taking notes, other edits are done remotely using aerial photography or out-of-copyright maps, and some are...
“We often talk about the impact of policy uncertainty on firms, and one gets the...”
– The Marriage Gap and Class Stickiness in America - By Reihan Salam - The Agenda - National Review Online
