LINKS FROM June 2005
By what you throw away, they shall know you. One woman’s quest to learn the afterlife of her own trash.
How to find and add media to your iTunes library with del.icio.us
"Now that iTunes 4.9 supports podcasting and video blogging, you can use the del.icio.us bookmarking service to auto-load music and video files others have bookmarked."
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It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur
Bnoopy: "There’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it’s never been cheaper to be one. "
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Put up stickers in support of Darwin and evolution
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Supreme Court's unsound decision
Monday's ruling against Grokster will do nothing to stop peer-to-peer file sharing -- but it may well stifle technology innovation.
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Web Content by and for the Masses
The next generation web will be read/write . . . wow New York Times, way to be on the ball.
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The Speech the President Should Give
John Kerry walks through the things the President should do about the military situation in Iraq
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Monopoly has turned London into a big boardgame using cabs and GPS
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Interview With Josh Rubin, Mr. Cool Hunter
IF decided to ask the Cool Hunter a few questions about the site and the consultancy he offers brands.
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Internet's new wave proves hard to catch
The press wants to get bloggers on its side, but a US experiment shows it may not be easy, writes Rafael Behr
Take That, Evil! In Queens Park, a Superhero Prevails
Bibleman hits queens
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"How to throw a no-hitter on acid, and other lessons from the career of baseball legend Dock Ellis"
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Waxy.org: "By collecting aggregate information about bookmarked sites, they'll be able to increase the relevancy of their search results and marginally combat the spam problem."
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For a fee, some blogs boost firms
"With a growing number of businesses using blogs to help promote their products, sometimes in ways that are not very transparent, it is increasingly difficult to discern who or what is behind a blogger's pitch . . ."
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Lies, All Lies, by Sarah Hepola
"In this installment, Elisabeth keeps a secret while trying to survive a weekend of everyone else’s parents. You decide what happens next."
The Roving Thoughts of a Liberal Insomniac
Larry David's stream of concsciousness includes Karl Rove and an all child molester army. Strange.
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"Known for the Air Jordan and Miller High Life ads, the agency's creative director Jelly Helm was recently featured in "Men's Health" magazine offering five rules of creativity."
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Why adsense for feeds is a bad idea (at least for now)
"don't clobber your biggest fans with pitches to ads and instead relegate ads to areas where it might help people find more information or related products."
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Ten things I learned about the future at the Wired NextFest
Arstechnica: "In the future, most robots will look pretty much like the robots of the future have looked since at least the 1970's."
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Google vs. Yahoo: Clash of cultures
On the walls of Yahoo's modest Silicon Valley offices there are posters with sketches of oddball inventions that have landed patents, such as a portable bird cage. The point: If a bird cage can get a patent, Yahoo's employees can come up with something bi
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Opting Out in the Debate on Evolution
Scientists are opting out of state debates on evolution because they feel it only strengthens the idea that there's actually something worth debating.
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Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data Thrives on Internet
NYTimes: "For despite years of security improvements and tougher, more coordinated law enforcement efforts, the information that criminals siphon - credit card and bank account numbers, and whole buckets of raw consumer information - is boldly hawked on t
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Speak Up!: "I imagine myself getting court marshaled for using the wrong typeface, or having to relinquish my ‘designer hours’ for 5am bugle calls."
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On Andy Milonakis, viral video turned MTV star
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File-Swap Services Can Be Sued
Wired: "Internet file-sharing services will be held responsible if they intend for their customers to use software primarily to swap songs and movies illegally, the Supreme Court ruled Monday"
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Web Services Built on Top of One Another
pc4media: "As soon as a new web service reaches a critical value, it can spawn 1000s more web services. "
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The worlds largest BitTorrent tracker
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Exclusive: interview with Mr. Sun about the OS X Weather Dashboard widget
Kottke interviews the sun????
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The DOJ has wisely made the world safer by forcing anyone even remotely connected with publishing erotic images online to keep elaborate files on the true identities of everyone in said images for seven years.
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Five simple steps to better typography
"So, in an attempt to spread the word here’s the first of five simple steps to better typography. To kick it off, part one is about the Measure."
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The Evolution of the Starbucks Logo
A look at the evolution of the Starbucks logo over the last 40 years or so
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Cityofsound on London's private public spaces
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In an attempt to consolidate into one place all the scripts that happened to come into existence over the last few months, I've finally managed to come up with this site. Hope you like it.
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how i learned to stop worrying and relinquish control
adaptive path: "Relinquishing control is becoming a requirement in all aspects of Internet businesses."
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Top Ten Signs You Spend Too Much Time Thinking About Web 2.0
Read/Write Web: "6. Your favorite pickup line: "You show me your API, I'll show you mine.""
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My sad, hungry climb to Internet stardom.
NeoOffice/J is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X.
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Our Widgets Preference Pane for Mac OS X allows you to truly take control of your Widgets
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"This post is about those symbols we use … or rather, those other people use … to indicate common themes, concepts or ideas. "
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The Man Who Keeps Nintendo Cool
Wired interview with Shigeru Miyamoto the man behind Mario and pretty much every other important Nintendo game.
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"Late-night infomercial clown Matthew Lesko has authored nearly 100 books on government grants. His formula? “I don’t write,� he says. “I plagiarize.�"
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"The line that has long separated human beings from the machines that assist them is blurring as complex technologies become a visible part of people who depend upon them."
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"This essay provides a primer on idea pitches, and although most of my experience is in the tech-sector, I pitch to you that the advice here will be relevant to pitching . . ."
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"DeVigal pointed to the website of Noah Brier as a place where he goes to keep an eye on trends in this developing field, so I’ll just pass on that reference before I run."
Profile Manager is a database driven, easy-to-install, fully-functional and Free membership system. When a user registers it automatically adds the information about the user into the database.
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"Tackboard is a design comp application. A program used by designers to upload screenshots of designs before they're built out into HTML for clients to review."
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Interview: Odeo founder Evan Williams
Playlist: "Williams’ newest venture is called Odeo, a one-stop shop to help people record, edit, publish, find, subscribe, categorize, and download podcasts."
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With Audioblogger you can post audio to your blog from any phone.
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Five reasons social networking doesn't work
Cnet on the five reasons social networking sites suck
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Fruity Juice Brand Attacks Union Square!
No one informed Snapple that even the largest popsicle ever melts in the sun
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Big Ben is back, badder than ever
"As racist as it really is, the fact that white people can walk around the Palace in fake black Afro wigs without black folks taking offense is a testament to the power of racial "go beyond" that he has single-handedly generated."
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Garrett Dimon: "We learn something new, a competitive advantage if you will, and we post about it as soon as we can to share it with the world."
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Ad Slogans That Would Be Perfect for Levitra, But, Unfortunately, They Have Already Been Used.
McSweeney's: "Like a rock."
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Things Not Overheard at a Conceptual-Art Gallery Opening.
McSweeney's: ""Does naming the work 'Chaos' belie the artist's reliance upon a sparse, monochromatic field, or am I just a pretentious douchebag?""
# Likenesses of cartoon characters, many made in garages and sold by small vendors, prompt legal action by entertainment giants.
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"With help from experts and product manufacturers, Real Simple has compiled a guide to expiration dates. These dates are offered as a rough guideline."
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The Art of Creating Passionate Consumers: Howard Schultz
The legendary leader of Starbucks sets down his recipe for building and leveraging a rich relationship with consumers
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Call Me Shithead, or, What's in a Name?
Design Observer: Naming things is a "design-related activity that virtually every person on earth feels fully qualified to undertake on their own, for free."
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Living On The Edge At American Apparel
Dov Charney's fast-growing clothing company is built on pro-labor policies, racy ads, and a sexually charged culture
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Contest gets the lowdown on what makes readers forward links
The Contagious Media Showdown sought who could create the most popular Web site in 22 days. While winners such as Forget-Me-Not Panties seem obvious now -- their winning strategies are not.
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"This is it...the notorious casino carpet gallery: six pages of casino carpeting and nothing but."
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Playing Dumb with Videogame Clerks
"We sent our spy, posing as a clueless girlfriend shopping for her gamer beau, on a quest for flimflam advice at four major game retailers."
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The Five Things I Learned In Business School
A VC: "I learned five things in business school. They are five important things, but there are only five that I can list."
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Huffington Post interview with Errol Morris where he gives a shoutout to Banksy
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Switch! - Cross-Disciplinary Learning
"Any student of creativity or innovation knows that changing disciplines seems to be a way of keeping 'fresh' and getting new ideas."
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The worst best friends in Hollywood.
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Is Robert Horry the NBA's best clutch shooter or its best con man?
Customer Relationships are Fundamental
Feedster CEO writes about turning on customers to your brand through blogs.
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"This action allows you to transfer any file from a designated folder to an other folder. It works to get or put some files to a FTP server. "
NYTimes: "To geek out on something means to immerse yourself in its details to an extent that is distinctly abnormal - and to have a good time doing it."
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"Get inspired by these web-smart color schemes, taken from a variety of sources and updated regularly."
Open source software companies undercutting other open source software companies. Sounds like war.
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A Manifesto for Taking Wikipedia into the Physical World
"One of the most exciting things that's going to happen in the next 10 years, in my view, is that the Wikipedia will move into the physical world."
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Your Central Nervous System: Your Biological Key to Productivity
Strategies to make your body work for you
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"A pop star salutes skillful shoppers, and the act of buying becomes a commodity itself."
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"The success of a web service is inversely proportional to the secrecy that surrounded its development. There are exceptions of course. But I also think this can be applied to other things. Segway, anyone?"
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In this decade, it has become remarkably easy to fall behind the times if you're not paying attention. And few things are more frustrating than trying to stay ahead of the latest buzzwords.
Pew on Online Sports Fantasy Leagues
Eight percent of adult American internet users say they participate in sports fantasy leagues online. That represents roughly 11 million people.
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On the battle (??) between OpenBSD and Linux
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Where’s your stuff? Find out at the touch of a button thanks to Dashboard and Monkey Business Labs’ Package Tracker widget.
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Are You Ready For The Catalytic Consumer?
iMedia: "The old marketing doesn’t work any more. The internet has created a new kind of consumer; one that is personally informed, market-savvy and demands two-way permission-based interactions -- in other words, the marketer’s equal."
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" war stories Military analysis. Let's Go to the Memo What's really in the Downing Street memos? By Fred Kaplan Updated Wednesday, June 15, 2005, at 3:00 PM PT Listen to this story on NPR's Day to Day Listen to this story on NPR's
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The Family Guy Salutes Shepard Fairey
Apparently Peter painted a big Obey Giant on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Five subtle editorial changes at PBS
5ives: "Sesame Street abruptly changes name to The Big Bird Factor"
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Schiavo Autopsy Renews Debate on G.O.P. Actions
Not even an autopsy declaring Schiavo braindead can deter republicans
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The journalist and the murderer
A disgraced New York Times reporter learns his identity has been stolen by an all-American hunk who killed his wife and three children. The result is the most unlikely "True Story" you'll ever read.
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An Open Letter to the Human Resources Department of the Superfriends.
Are the Superfriends looking for a geneticist to join their ranks?
Public Broadcasting Targeted By House
"A House subcommittee voted yesterday to sharply reduce the federal government's financial support for public broadcasting, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help underwrite such popular children's educational programs as "Sesame Street" . . ."
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WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA: Pac-Man turns 25
Technology Review: "From the early 1980s "Pac-Mania" to today's endless sequels and rip-offs, the original master of maze management remains a bright yellow circle on the cultural radar."
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Display made from curtain of mist lets users click in mid-air.
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"Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google's growing subsidiary menagerie?"
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The 30 albums that Pitchfork has given a perfect 10.0 to
Half-Assed Erotic Film Classics.
McSweeney's: "Debbie Does Amarillo"
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Things That, If Knowing Is Half the Battle, Might Be the Other Half.
McSweeney's: "25 percent drinking, 25 percent weeping"
What I've Learned: The Collected Wisdom
A collection of Esquire Magazine articles with famous people telling the world what they've learned
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Garrett Dimon: "On the web, precise control of how a design is experienced is a lot like squeezing a wet bar of soap. The more you tighten your grip, the more likely it is to fly out of your hands."
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Mistakes developers can make using AJAX
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Google's War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders
"Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out."
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The Mystery of the Duane Reade Drugstores
The aisles are an obstacle course, the staff moves at glacial speed, and the prices aren’t even that low. So how did it become the only place you’d ever think to go for your tube of Aquafresh?
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New Yorker: "The term “crisis management� may seem like little more than a euphemism for “snow job,� but there is an art to it. Spin alone won’t do the trick."
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All Consuming: An Interview with Rob Walker
Rob Walker examines consumer behavior in his weekly column, "CONSUMED," for The New York Times Magazine. While demurring at the label "design critic" . . .
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TINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 1: The 'Intel Inside' chimes
Ever wonder where things like the Intel, Microsoft and THX sound come from? Well, check out this series of articles.
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How Deep Throat Fooled the FBI
Nation: "His cunning worked. He fooled Pat Gray. Nixon never came after him. And this clever bureaucrat continued to do exactly what Nixon feared: telling Woodward and Bernstein secrets that would help destroy a presidency."
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Ted Koppel: "We cannot even begin to control the growing army of businesses and industries that monitor what we buy, what we watch on television, where we drive . . . "
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"The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected"
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Adrian Shaughnessy: Decoding Coldplay’s X&Y
Design Observer examines the cover art of Coldplay's new album X&Y
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"When viewing mail you can apply the "Act-On" action for a message by making simple keystrokes."
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Getting MySQL Running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"
Another tutorial, this one specifically on how to MySQL up and running
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phpMyAdmin on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"
Instructions for installing phpMyAdmin on Tiger
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With the Swedish furniture chain in expansion mode, design exec Lena Simonsson-Berge discusses how it views the U.S. market
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Old brews cool to young drinkers
"Just as young consumers might wear '70s-look sneakers, sip '50s cocktails or download '80s hair band tunes, many are bellying up to the bar for the beers Grandpa drank"
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Yoko Ono has long been defined by her status first as John Lennon's wife and then his widow. But now, at 72, she says she is brimming with a newfound love for life - kinda thing
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10 Commandments for The Era of Participatory Public Relations
Micro Persuasion: "Here are the 10 commandments for public relations professionals as I see them in the Golden Era of Participation…"
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The Dark Underbelly of Holy Shit
"An honest HOLY SHIT is one which completely penetrates the PR, the BUZZ, the marketing. It's the moment when you clearly see the value of a technology and how it will permanently alter your world."
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"Welcome to oldmencrying.com, a site dedicated to the lachrymal performances of the elderly. "
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"He's away from his desk" is something that's now true of New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell.
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Pickup Lines: The First Drafts.
McSweeney's: "Your father must have been a thief. I don't know, you just have the look of someone who was raised by criminals."
An Open Letter to the Totally Impractical Size Chart for Women's Clothing.
McSweeney's: "If only you were a sensible size chart, one using inches, or even centimeters, the world would be a better place"
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An Open Letter to the Eight-Hour Workday.
McSweeney's: "Shoot, when you think about it, an eight-hour day really comes down to a good four hours and 54 and a half minutes, give or take."
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Writing Tool #50: The Writing Process
"Sniff. Explore. Collect. Focus. Select. Order. Draft. Revise."
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World Beard and Moustache Championships
Now those are some serious beards
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Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business
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An Icon interview with architect Rem Koolhaas
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Transparency and sponsorship in the blogosphere
Marc Canter's explanation of his "pay bloggers to blog" strategy
Laptops are mobile devices, too
peterme.com: "Now that laptops outsell desktops, it's worth treating them as interesting and distinct entities that warrant special consideration as a mobile device. "
Chinese blogs face restrictions
The Chinese government has announced plans to police web forums, chat rooms and blogs alongside other websites.
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Stop your presentation before it kills again!
Creating Passionate Users: "Sometimes the best presentation is... no presentation. Ditch the slides completely."
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Creating Passionate Users: "So... how are you heping your users/customers/students/guests/visitors/clients/members/readers kick ass?"
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Post Sizes in RSS Feeds, A Counterpoint  Business Logs
Why full-length posts make sense in RSS feeds
Panasonic Promotes Plasma "Heaven"
ClickZ: "Panasonic and Renegade Marketing Group have conjured a quirky "spokesangel" for an online promotional campaign for the company's plasma TVs."
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My short, scary career as a sperm donor
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Message that was less than grossly offensive
A guy changes a customer service hold message and when sued, gets off because it was only "offensive" not "grossly offensive"
Seth Godin: "One of the implications of the Long Tail is that you don't know what's going to work. That it's easy to launch stuff, hard to figure out where it's going to land."
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Cats use fax as toilet, spark house fire
Two kittens picked the wrong place to relieve themselves when they urinated on a fax machine, sparking a fire that extensively damaged their Japanese owner's house.
Old Nantucket Warily Meets the New
The New York Times examines the class divide on Nantucket
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From the very first moment we suit up for gym, our physical abilities can influence who we become or reveal who we were meant to be: blooming star athlete or total band nerd.
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Jonah Peretti, Director of R&D at Eyebeam
"Hipster designers and viral marketing firms almost always fail when they try to recreate the magic of these serendipitous projects."
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Surviving a lightning strike.
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NYTimes: "Alienation is the only intelligent response to a political culture that insults our intelligence."
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Going commando? Chavtastic, says dictionary
The dictionary adds words such as "going commando" and "drunk dialing"
The Web is San Francisco circa 2001
"Visiting San Francisco for the first time in 2001, it all snapped into place. Here was a city cross-hatched by freeways that each felt just a little too dangerous to walk under."
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Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant
As the Religious Right tries to ban the teaching of evolution in Kansas, Richard Dawkins speaks up for scientific logic
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The Examined Life: Cultivating Self-Reflection and the Return of Socratic Thinking
"Self-reflective thinking is making a comeback in school curricula and the homeschooling movement, and it also seems to succeed on standardized tests of achievement and problem solving assessments."
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"Trends are not an accusation of some widespread lack of original thinking. Instead, they are a sign of design evolution in our ever-shrinking world."
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Khoi Vinh’s Web Site
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Police say granny, 80, ran prostitution ring
Police made a surprising discovery when they busted the alleged madam of a prostitution ring called "August Playmates": The woman running the show was an 80-year-old grandmother.
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Back to School
The Morning News: "In this installment, Elisabeth heads back to school with fresh eyes and provides a shoulder for Katâ€â€a friend in need, indeed."
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To-Done: "The underlying theme of my thoughts, the rails upon which this train rode, is my fundamental belief that technology should work for me, not the other way around."
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Routine airport security won't thwart jihadists, but it does inconvenience and endanger the rest of us.
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How Do the Paparazzi Sell Their Pics?
An introduction to the celebrity photo game.
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The rise and fall of Krispy Kreme is a cautionary tale of ambition, greed, and inexperience.
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The female orgasm as evolution's happy accident.
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"RSS"...no..."XML"...no...uh...both?
"But then I noticed something about the sites using the "XML" icon: nearly all of them add some text right next to the icon, clarifying that by XML, they really mean RSS."
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How to appear in a hipster photoblog
myblogispoop: "Don't look directly at the camera, look off to the side as if to indicate that something really cool is happening. But please, don't be excited that something cool is happening."
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What eBay Could Learn From Craigslist
NYTimes: "Unlike eBay, which is dedicated to removing geographic obstacles to trading and defines "community" along national boundaries, Craigslist thinks and acts locally"
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A great list of free music in New York City this summer
How technology has transformed the sound of music.
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The White Stripes Change Their Spots
NYTimes: "On June 7, the White Stripes return with a thrilling new album, "Get Behind Me Satan" (Third Man/V2/BMG), that goes a long way toward dismantling the band's goofy mythology."
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How to give and receive criticism
"Good criticism serves one purpose: to give the creator of the work more perspective and help them make their next set of choices."
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5 Movies I Wish People Would Stop Quoting
If this were about three years ago Fear and Loathing would easily make this list.
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"Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feed you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds."
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Digital photos can look great, but some labs won't print those that appear too professional
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Facts of Life, for Their Eyes Only
The history of fifth grade sex education videos.
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What happens when you fall in love with the dog and out of love with the woman?
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Two cultures of fauxonomies collide...
"So here is that hypothesis - that the shift from people using blogs to blog represents the increasing dominance of a Flickr-style paradigm of tagging."
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Little-Known Bands Get Lift Through Word-of-Blog
NYTimes: "Only a handful of music blogs, with names like Fluxblog, Stereogum and Largehearted Boy, have any influence, but even those still have a long way to go to fundamentally alter the landscape of the music industry."
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So you wanna be a hipster . . .
Six requirements (of which you must meet five) to be a hipster
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Another "beginners guide to RSS article," this time from the Washington Post
If You Can Make It in Silicon Valley, You Can Make It . . . in Silicon Valley Again
More talk about the internet "reboom"
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No house on Fire Island or even a fire escape where you can do the 'cue? At these bars, weekends can still be about grilling and chilling.
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As part of an economics experiment they taught monkeys to use money. In time the monkeys learned to steal and even pay for sex.
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"But the minute you think you know, the minute you go - oh, yeah, we've been here before, no sense reinventing the wheel - you stop learning, stop questioning, and start believing in your own wisdom, you're dead."
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Rails Day is a competition which gives teams of developers 24 hours to build the best web app that they can using Ruby on Rails.
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"ClockWork is a time management solution that allows you to easily track what you do during your day."
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Sasha Frere-Jones: "I will not write about any piece of music unless I have unlimited access to a portable version of it, renderered in either the CD, MP3 or vinyl format."
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The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour
"It was free. It didn't involve the museum's audio device, which resembles a cellphone crossed with a nightstick. And best of all, it was slightly subversive: an unofficial, homemade and thoroughly irreverent audio guide to MoMA, downloaded onto her own i
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Loosing Google's Lock on the Past
"But if misery loves company, then there is solace in knowing that many people bristle at the mere thought of being Googled because of the photographs, news clippings or blog entries that they feel do not reflect who they really are."
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Why smart people defend bad ideas
scottberkun.com: "The primary point is that no amount of intelligence can help an individual who is diligently working at the wrong level of the problem."
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How Mark Felt Became 'Deep Throat'
As a Friendship -- and the Watergate Story -- Developed, Source's Motives Remained a Mystery to Woodward
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"This is an extension to the way, WP handles categories, aimed at making the whole process more “taglike� and adding the ease of use and extensions we have come to expect in tags."
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A new book from industrial design expert Craig Vogel says companies must continually adapt their products if they are to compete.
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As head boy at a legendary choir school, Lawrence Lessig was repeatedly molested . . . part of a horrific pattern of child abuse there. Now, as one of America’s most famous lawyers, he’s put his own past on trial to make sure such things never happen
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Lawrence Lessig responds to the outpouring of support because the New York Magazine article on his abuse at the hands of teachers at Boychoir School.
A great visualization of albums that use samples and what they sample.
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Who knew perfect sideburns could be so easy?
This online tool generates an RSS 2.0 Feed from pretty well any web page
"Individually none of these signs should be deal breakers. However put a few of them together and it may be worth thinking twice about taking on that project."
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