July 2010
4 posts
TV's Crowning Moment of Awesome - Esquire →
“In thirty-eight years, The Price is Right never had a contestant guess the exact value of prizes in the Showcase showdown. Until Terry Kniess outsmarted everyone — and changed everything.” (via longform.org)
Jul 13th
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Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? - Nick... →
Jul 8th
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The Food Movement, Rising — by Michael Pollan, The... →
Jul 8th
Jul 8th
June 2010
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Errol Morris on the Dunning-Kruger Effect
“As Dunning read through the article, a thought washed over him, an epiphany. If Wheeler was too stupid to be a bank robber, perhaps he was also too stupid to know that he was too stupid to be a bank robber — that is, his stupidity protected him from an awareness of his own stupidity. DAVID DUNNING: When you’re incompetent, the skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the...
Jun 21st
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May 2010
3 posts
May 19th
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The Teachers' Unions' Last Stand, by Steven Brill... →
May 19th
May 13th
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April 2010
7 posts
Apr 30th
"Popular Highlights" coming to Kindle →
A software update to the Kindle next month will include “Popular Highlights: See what the Kindle community thinks are the most interesting passages in the books you’re reading.” Update: Popular Highlights
Apr 29th
“Would you mind if I listened to my book on tape? It’s a novelization of the...”
– Michael Scott, The Office (via bookmoviebook)
Apr 23rd
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Apr 13th
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Apr 11th
Credit card companies predicting divorce and other... →
Apr 7th
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A few notes from testing the iPad - The Daily... →
Apr 5th
March 2010
9 posts
Mar 19th
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Spotify's U.S. expansion - The Daily Beast →
Mar 17th
Is Twitter focusing too much on being awesome? -... →
Mar 16th
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Book Movie Book - Reviews of books based on movies... →
Mar 11th
Mar 11th
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Gary Lauder’s new traffic sign: Take Turns - TED
Mar 11th
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Mar 7th
Why are the signs at New York's Penn Station so... →
Mar 3rd
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Mar 3rd
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February 2010
6 posts
Feb 19th
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For the Love of Culture - The New Republic
I’m nearly a month late, but please consider Lawrence Lessig’s piece For the Love of Culture from The New Republic if you haven’t read it. It’s partly about the Google Books settlement, but it’s also a compelling reminder of how our treatment of libraries—an “accident of our cultural history”—has allowed American culture to flourish. And of how other parts...
Feb 19th
What Makes a Great Teacher? - The Atlantic →
Feb 14th
The Great E-book War - The Daily Beast →
Feb 7th
Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord -... →
Feb 6th
Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and... →
Feb 1st
January 2010
12 posts
Jan 30th
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Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing... →
(via LHMH)
Jan 27th
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Thoughts on being paperless - The Daily Beast →
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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From the NY Times Op-Ed Archives: Conan O'Brien... →
(via markn)
Jan 18th
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2010: Living in the Future →
(via Noah Brier)
Jan 16th
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Wes Anderson’s stop-motion acceptance speech at NBR awards
Jan 13th
Statement from Conan O’Brien →
Jan 12th
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Jan 3rd
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December 2009
16 posts
Dec 29th
“I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only...”
– Security expert Bruce Schneier (via nickdouglas)
Dec 28th
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A few chains named after their founders
Price Club Taco Bell Arby’s (R.B. is derived from “Raffel Brothers,” not “roast beef”)
Dec 24th
Dec 23rd
Using Menu Psychology to Entice Diners - The New... →
Dec 23rd
The Major Works of Counterintuitive Thought From... →
Dec 21st
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I'm a former Disneyland cast member. I was Alice... →
Dec 21st
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