November 2011
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“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on...”
– Guy de Maupassant
Nov 29th
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Nov 28th
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Nov 27th
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Nov 26th
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“It’s easy to write one’s memoirs when one has a terrible memory.”
– Arthur Schnitzler
Nov 25th
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Google’s Search Algorithm is relatively autonomous →
Skynet jokes aside, this thing is basically autonomous and will likely become relatively self aware due to data exhaust. The quote at the bottom is hard to comprehend for me. Discuss the…
Nov 25th
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“Nulla dies sine linea “No day without a line””
– Plinius
Nov 24th
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“Who am I? I am a poet. What do I do? I write. And how do I live? I live.”
– Boheme
Nov 23rd
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“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. ...”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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3D printing, obsolete workers, & the approaching... →
3D printing will blow your mind. It will destroy the worldwide shipping industry. It’s fine… just another paradigm damaged by tech… but you got to wonder how many collective jobs have been…
Nov 17th
Another random bit (again) – David Foster Wallace →
Nov 16th
Hecklers and Heckling →
Mitch Hedburg Jim GAffigan Richard Pryor Zach G. Louis CK Russell Brand Eddie Izzard Billy Connolly Arj Barker Bill Hicks is…
Nov 13th
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““World history is the progress in the consciousness of freedom - a...”
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, as read in Hitchens Hitch-22
Nov 12th
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“Nihil humanum a me alienum puto. Nothing human is alien to me.”
– Roman Poet Terence, as read in Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens.
Nov 11th
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A manifesto for change with specific points of... →
It’s sorta surreal – the tax disaster that will hit most of us shortly. But that’s 2013, and we can get non-partisan chaps up in the congress. Real change will have to be policy, and policy needs…
Nov 11th
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Nov 10th
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Nov 9th
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Nov 8th
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Nov 7th
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Nov 6th
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an intelligent person does not need the promise of...
Humanism incarnate.
Nov 5th
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Nov 4th
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Nov 3rd
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What’s your utopic dystopia? Favorite dystopia... →
http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/ What a great list. I realize that no one has made a competent adaptation of Brave New World, unless you include…
Nov 3rd
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Penn Jillette's 10 Commandments for atheists →
theperplexedobserver: I know this has been done before and done better but Penn doesn’t do too bad here. His new book is hilarious BTW although I don’t agree with some of the views he expresses in it. I really loved his story about filming on the “vomit comet” and the one about the naked Elvis party:-) 1. The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above...
Nov 2nd
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Nov 2nd
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