January 2012
6 posts
“Conservatives will never fully vanquish liberals and liberals will never fully...”
– Columnist Reihan Salam argues that rejecting political compromise will only hurt us all. (via thedailyfeed)
Massive teacher-impact study (unfortunately based... →
December 2011
6 posts
I'm with the druids. →
Michael Lebowitz: "Too big to care..." →
Man, I love my Kindle, but this just reminds me how nasty things get when one company controls the device, the content license and distribution platform.
lebowitz:
I FIRST heard of Amazon’s new “promotion” from my bookseller daughter, Emily, in an e-mail with the subject line “Can You Hear Me Screaming in Brooklyn?” According to a link Emily supplied, Amazon was encouraging customers to go...
“The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had...”
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Louis CK with a sales report for his Live at the Beacon Theater show that he produced, directed and began selling for $5 off of his site this past weekend. (via futurejournalismproject)
This is interesting, but before we start calling it the way of the future, it’s worth noting that Louis...
When an adult took standardized tests forced on... →
This was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author.
By Marion Brady
A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do. He took versions of his state’s high-stakes standardized math and reading tests for 10th graders, and said he’d make his scores...
WatchNothing like a little cable television brand humor …
November 2011
4 posts
I always knew @thevanessag was a killer... →
Here's a holiday feel-good story for you: Cooking... →
Above the poverty line? Not after transportation,... →
October 2011
8 posts
The Bowery House hotel "concept" is one of the... →
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Information doesn't want to be free
Not so obvious. This assumes that one values being a well-known academic over paying one’s mortgage.
Sometimes I wonder if the tech advocates proselytizing that “information wants to be free” would feel the same way if a group of writers, photographers and filmmakers decided to copy and paste all the code from the Huffington Posts, Flickrs and YouTubes of the world onto a server...
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September 2011
3 posts
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“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a...”
– Elizabeth Warren (via jacobjoaquin)
August 2011
14 posts
Don't mess with Magic the Gathering.
Alyssa Bereznak, a writer for Gizmodo, went on an OkCupid date and after finding out the guy was a Magic the Gathering champion named Jon Finkel (the dude’s likeness is featured in a card!), she wrote a story mocking him and warning others to “Google the shit out of your next online date.”
Despite writing for a tech site, Alyssa seemed to have forgotten that the internet is...
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“One of the things I learned at Pixar is that the technology industries and the...”
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Without Jobs as CEO, Who Speaks for the Arts at Apple? | Epicenter | Wired.com
Tim Carmody finds a great quote from Jobs
(via felixsalmon)
This is actually a pretty great feature of Tumblr’s workplace culture, too. (via markcoatney)
Such a true insight about content and tech.
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“Change flight.”
– The monotone request I’ve been hearing all morning from my coworker @gluckstadt as he tries to wrench his hurricane-threatened vacation from the jaws of an automated (and overloaded) airline reservation system.
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The Atlantic: What People Don't Understand About... →
I once worked at the World’s Largest Applebee’s, and let me tell you that this girl Christie hits it dead-on.
I am a server at a chain restaurant. There are many things most people don’t understand about my job. I make 3 dollars and some change an hour. My paychecks end up being around $20 for two weeks, after taxes are taken out. I am one year away from graduating with my...
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WatchAs I watch this College Humor video, I feel like my entire dorky life has prepared me to create online content for ‘Game of Thrones.’ Like it’s my destiny …
July 2011
4 posts
Still Not Going To Do This Every Day: What Netflix... →
This criticism of the studios “forcing” Netflix to raise their prices irks me. The success of Netflix has poised its streaming service to graduate from a tertiary market of little-watched leftover content to a secondary market competing directly with DVD and VOD sales. Do you really think the creators of that content are going to say, “Oh yeah sure, just take that product...
June 2011
8 posts
Soon, the most annoying spam will come from your... →
WatchAfter watching this, whether you follow boxing or not, you’re going to want to watch this fight go down over Fourth of July weekend.
“Is this holding us back at this point?”
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, asking whether overzealous regulation enacted in the wake of the financial crisis is slowing down U.S. growth. (via officialssay)
I question whether this is really “overzealous regulation.” The fact that banks are now required to have more cash on hand to pay off...
