June 2012
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Jun 1st
The Economist | 1948 and all that: On the cheap
1948 and all that On the cheap Echoes and lessons of London’s previous Olympic games THE Olympic will wobbled shortly before the games. Was hosting them really a good idea, “at a time,” a minister asked, “when we should not have recovered from our economic difficulties”? The Evening Standard denounced “grandiose and luxurious schemes for an international weightlifting and basketball jamboree”...
Jun 1st
May 2012
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An App to Help You Lose Yourself in the City →
via Latest Posts | The Atlantic Cities
May 31st
“In Silicon Valley failure has a way of previewing the future.”
– Messing With Fate - The Atlantic
May 31st
Japan’s hidden tropical island: Aogashima →
via Boing Boing
May 31st
“Mitt Romney misspelled America on his new app, which is no big deal until he...”
– Photos, Tweets: Romney’s ‘Amercia’ Goes Viral
May 31st
May 26th
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May 26th
The Fear & Greed Index →
via Ezra Klein
May 25th
Facebook: The List of Incompetents →
via Felix Salmon
May 25th
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“It’s impossible to feel any sympathy for these people — especially institutions...”
– Facebook: The List of Incompetents | Felix Salmon
May 25th
Calvin and Hobbes for May 25, 2012 →
via Calvin and Hobbes (Unofficial)
May 25th
Alan Rickman drinks tea dramatically →
via kottke.org
May 25th
May 24th
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“Only if Europeans share a sense of common purpose will a grand deal to save the...”
– The future of the European Union: The choice | The Economist
May 24th
Movie references from The Simpsons →
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May 24th
Drawings of the LHC in the style of Leonardo da... →
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The Pinhole Camera of the Mind →
via Technology : The Atlantic
May 22nd
“At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of...”
– The Facebook Fallacy - Technology Review
May 22nd
“The historical irony is that an environment of crisis is forcing Europeans to...”
– Jean Pisani-Ferry on the Bruegel blog
May 22nd
May 22nd
Is polarization making Congress dumber? →
via Ezra Klein
May 21st
Aerial photo tour of the Alberta oil sands →
via kottke.org
May 21st
May 21st
“Facebook may indeed some day become another high-tech Titan, another Google, or...”
– Facebook IPO - WSJ.com
May 21st
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May 21st
“Roman just looked puzzled now. “You like the park. All your friends are...”
– Armistead Maupin, Mary Ann in the Autumn
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“More than a disco queen, Summer was a deity we could call our own, a Boston...”
– Chris Molanphy pays tribute to the great Donna Summer, who passed away yesterday.  (via sotc-nyc)
May 18th
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May 18th
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Straight White Male, the game of life's lowest... →
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May 17th
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“The transcripts of Mr Papoulias’s final three meetings, made public at the...”
– Greece’s political crisis: Fiddling while Athens burns | The Economist
May 17th
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May 17th
Texas executed an innocent man →
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May 16th
How to blog anonymously →
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May 16th
Fantastic time lapse map of Europe, 1000 - 2005... →
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May 16th
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May 16th
How Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 →
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May 15th
Kodak's secret nuclear reactor →
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May 15th
The Apple-Intel-Samsung Ménage à Trois →
via Monday Note
May 14th