February 2012
1 post
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January 2012
4 posts
The End of the Echo Chamber →
nostrich:
Today, Facebook is publishing a study that disproves some hoary conventional wisdom about the Web. According to this new research, the online echo chamber doesn’t exist.
Facebook did a non-peer-reviewed study on its own network, that hinged heavily on its secret EdgeRank algorithm and — surprise — got results that are very good PR for Facebook. This is awfully familiar! Slate’s...
December 2011
33 posts
“The only useful airport security measures since 9/11,” he says, “were locking...”
– Bruce Schneier, Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair
Ostrovsky on Azerbaijan →
WatchHalf Life Full Life Consquences: Free Man (by Kévan)
“There is no bar exam, in other words, no test to pass. Instead, the comic is...”
– Standup Comity - The Morning News
Into a Bar →
nostrich:
Fritinancy with a meme from alt.usage.english: “bar jokes that hinge on fine points of grammar, punctuation, and linguistics.” Some of my faves:
A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, planning to drink.
The bar was walked into by the passive voice.
A spoonerism balks into a war.
A snowclone walks into the mother of all bars.
A superlative goes into a bar none.
Watch(via Prostitutes of God | The VICE Guide to Travel | VICE)
Fascinating and sad. Confused how the narrator concludes that capitalism is responsible. Haven’t these crazy religious traditions always masked a commercial (and evidently, painfully necessary) interest? Isn’t the caste system, far predating capitalism, complicit?
Tragic.
Hashtag this something like… vile classism,...
Watch(via Martha Stewart Pepper Sprays A Turkey)
Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge →
“Switzerland may be famous for its neutrality; however, it’s anything but...”
– Rick Steves’ Europe: Switzerland: Your Barn Door’s Open
November 2011
36 posts
“Kafka imagines a man who has a hole in the back of his head. The sun shines into...”
– Leonard Michaels, from “Journal”, Shuffle (1990)
JP link
Here is the new link to the JP Auclair Urban Segment (from All.I.Can.) : http://vimeo.com/32863936 thanks!!
Awesome street skiing (via @bryce), submitted by the creators. Beautiful work. I should note, though, that it’s clear why the original version I posted cut the first two pleasant, but film-school draggy, minutes out. I get that you had nice footage and music rights and that...
“While northern people kept the money they made, Wenzhou people immediately lent...”
– China’s Black Market City - Reason Magazine
._.: #01 →
fjhqjv:
“When you get right down to it, most security is based on the honor system.”
Here’s a scene straight from television. Two characters are at a computer terminal when suddenly intrusion warnings flare up.
“No way—I’m getting hacked! They’ve already burned through the NCIS public firewall.”
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The Richest, Fattest Nation on Earth →
Freakin 1%.
