December 2011
“Finance has always been complex. More precisely it has always been opaque, and...”
– Steve Randy Waldman, ‘Why is finance so complex?’
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Facebook Is Making Us Miserable →
Articulates a lot of what I’ve been feeling lately. As he says, I don’t think Facebook is going to go away, but I do strongly believe that the next few years will be about more purposeful use of connectivity to get more out of life, not just gaming & shaming users into publicly sharing as much as possible.
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“Here’s what saddens me: We should have remembered December 8, 2011, as one...”
– Bill Simmons
I Hate Top Ten Lists →
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Mat Honan, talking about Siri on Gizmodo today:
The ads deceived me in other subtle ways, too. I love John Coltrane. I’ve got many of his songs in my music library, yet when I ask Siri to “play some Coltrane” (just like in the commercial!) it tells me it can’t find any “coal train.” Is that my fault, Siri? Or do you just not do homophones? Are you not...
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“The Internet isn’t really a technology, it’s a belief system - a philosophy.”
– Joi Ito, The Internet, innovation and learning
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Wherein Michele Bachmann is confronted by an...
cognitivedissonance:
And it’s just as fantastic as it sounds:
Watch the video:
The look of shock on her face is incredible. Elijah is brave little man, and I commend him.
To paraphrase the great Joe Strummer: “Phony Bachmania has bitten the dust.”
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Paterno and Second Mile chairman pursued $125M...
thedailyfeed:
Around the same time Jerry Sandusky was allegedly caught raping a boy in 2002, Joe Paterno was investing in a $125 million luxury retirement community with board members from the same charity Sandusky used to recruit his victims. And that’s not the only fishy link between Paterno, Penn State and Second Mile that The Daily’s Sarah Ryley exclusively found.
The plot thickens.
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Watch“Side Launch” - The Story of a Debut by MANNER
Directed and edited by Can Misirlioglu Additional filming by Emre Akay and Mert Aksuna Casey’s Rubber Stamp Shop photography by wanderlust.com.br All music by MANNER.
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Gowalla Says Goodbye
gowalla:
Three years ago Gowalla’s journey began when I took a photograph of Lake Tahoe on my iPhone. I had just finished a phone call with my dad, and I wanted nothing more than to share that photo and place with him. Not just in a text message or status update sort of way, but with a bit of weight that said “I wish you were here” and “this moment and place are meaningful to me.”
We created...
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