April 2011
1 post
IAmA former Olive Garden employee who was sent to... →
January 2011
2 posts
“You can hire a family. The Tokyo agency Hagemashi-tai, meaning ‘We Want to...”
– The Borrowers: Why buy when you can rent? - The New Yorker
The forbidden railway: Vienna–Pyongyang - 36 hours... →
December 2010
4 posts
“Obviously the story is bizarre, that’s why I made a film about it, but I’m still...”
– Banksy on Exit Through the Gift Shop
How Real Does It Feel? - The New York Times →
“In a year of true hoaxes and fake documentaries, accuracy was in the eye of the beholder.”
The Glory of the Rails by Tony Judt - The New York... →
October 2010
2 posts
“Conan listened to Gaspin, still with a faraway look in his eye. Finally he did...”
– The Unsocial Network - Vanity Fair
September 2010
6 posts
Brothers Nev and Rel Schulman on Their New... →
“And for those with overdue library books in New York City, I spoke with a...”
– It’s Amnesty Week - Book Bench - The New Yorker
Shaq Accused of Computer Hacking - The Daily Beast →
1. Is this called “haqing”? “Shaqing”?
2. Is the Hack-a-Shaq defense admissible in court? (via @sampjacobs)
Teaching materials from the David Foster Wallace... →
(via @zseward)
August 2010
4 posts
The Atlantic on electronic monitoring
“The truly revolutionary BI devices are the new generation of GPS trackers, which monitor criminals’ real-time locations down to a few meters, enabling BI to control their movements almost as if they were marionettes. If you were a paroled drunk driver, for instance, your parole officer could mandate that you stay home every day from dusk until dawn, be at your workplace from nine to...
A conversation with Jeff Bezos - Charlie Rose →
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)
Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? - Nick... →
The Food Movement, Rising — by Michael Pollan, The... →
June 2010
1 post
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...
May 2010
3 posts
The Teachers' Unions' Last Stand, by Steven Brill... →
April 2010
7 posts
"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
“Would you mind if I listened to my book on tape? It’s a novelization of the...”
– Michael Scott, The Office (via bookmoviebook)
Credit card companies predicting divorce and other... →
A few notes from testing the iPad - The Daily... →
March 2010
9 posts
Spotify's U.S. expansion - The Daily Beast →
Is Twitter focusing too much on being awesome? -... →
Book Movie Book - Reviews of books based on movies... →
WatchGary Lauder’s new traffic sign: Take Turns - TED
Why are the signs at New York's Penn Station so... →
February 2010
6 posts
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...
What Makes a Great Teacher? - The Atlantic →
The Great E-book War - The Daily Beast →
Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord -... →
Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and... →
January 2010
12 posts
