June 2012
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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”...
May 2012
91 posts
An App to Help You Lose Yourself in the City →
via Latest Posts | The Atlantic Cities
In Silicon Valley failure has a way of previewing the future.
– Messing With Fate - The Atlantic
Japan’s hidden tropical island: Aogashima →
via Boing Boing
Mitt Romney misspelled America on his new app, which is no big deal until he...
– Photos, Tweets: Romney’s ‘Amercia’ Goes Viral
The Fear & Greed Index →
via Ezra Klein
Facebook: The List of Incompetents →
via Felix Salmon
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It’s impossible to feel any sympathy for these people — especially institutions...
– Facebook: The List of Incompetents | Felix Salmon
Calvin and Hobbes for May 25, 2012 →
via Calvin and Hobbes (Unofficial)
Alan Rickman drinks tea dramatically →
via kottke.org
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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
Movie references from The Simpsons →
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Drawings of the LHC in the style of Leonardo da... →
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The Pinhole Camera of the Mind →
via Technology : The Atlantic
At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of...
– The Facebook Fallacy - Technology Review
The historical irony is that an environment of crisis is forcing Europeans to...
– Jean Pisani-Ferry on the Bruegel blog
Is polarization making Congress dumber? →
via Ezra Klein
Aerial photo tour of the Alberta oil sands →
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Facebook may indeed some day become another high-tech Titan, another Google, or...
– Facebook IPO - WSJ.com
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Roman just looked puzzled now. “You like the park. All your friends are...
– Armistead Maupin, Mary Ann in the Autumn
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)
Straight White Male, the game of life's lowest... →
via kottke.org
The transcripts of Mr Papoulias’s final three meetings, made public at the...
– Greece’s political crisis: Fiddling while Athens burns | The Economist
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Texas executed an innocent man →
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How to blog anonymously →
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Fantastic time lapse map of Europe, 1000 - 2005... →
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How Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 →
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Kodak's secret nuclear reactor →
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The Apple-Intel-Samsung Ménage à Trois →
via Monday Note