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Colbert: ‘Sarah Palin is a f**king retard’ | Raw Story

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:15:42 -0500

Colbert: ‘Sarah Palin is a f**king retard’ | Raw Story

"Top 15 Manipulated Photographs"

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:40:04 -0500

“Top 15 Manipulated Photographs”

- Top 15 Manipulated Photographs - Listverse

"Kim Stanley Robinson I thought you might be interested in this video from a recent Kim Stanley..."

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:07:11 -0500

“Kim Stanley Robinson I thought you might be interested in this video from a recent Kim Stanley Robinson talk in which he describes life in the present as a science fiction novel we all collaborate on. This is an excerpt from a pair of talks he gave at the Duke in January; the entirety of the other talk is available here. Here’s a transcript of the first part of the video:””

- Kim Stanley Robinson

RT @Astro_Nicholas: Disappointed by the scrub, but got a really good night’s sleep....

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:13:10 -0500

RT @Astro_Nicholas: Disappointed by the scrub, but got a really good night’s sleep. We’re go for tanking, and - pending weather - anoth …

"Strange Days” does three things that will make it a cult film. It creates a convincing future..."

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:08:37 -0500

““Strange Days” does three things that will make it a cult film. It creates a convincing future landscape; it populates it with a hero who comes out of the noir tradition and is flawed and complex rather than simply heroic, and it provides a vocabulary. Look for “tapehead,” “jacking in” and the movie’s spin on “playback” to appear in the vernacular. At the same time, depending more on mood and character than logic, the movie backs into an ending that is completely implausible. The police commissioner’s sudden appearance on the scene is miraculous. And Bigelow begins a riot and then forgets about it, segueing into a New Year’s Eve celebration as if you can turn off anarchy like water from a tap. What stays from the movie are not the transient plot problems, however, but the overall impact. This is the first movie about virtual reality to deal in a challenging way with the implications of the technology. It’s fascinating the way Bigelow is able to suggest so much of VR’s impact (and dangers) within a movie - a form of VR that’s a century old. As the character Faith observes: “One of the ways movies are still better than playback - the music comes up, and you know it’s over.””

- Strange Days :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews

How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl Ad Came Together - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:37:07 -0500

How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl Ad Came Together - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com

"What I love about Kasparov’s algorithm — “Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a..."

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:39:08 -0500

“What I love about Kasparov’s algorithm — “Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and … superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process” — is that it suggests serious rewards accrue to those who figure out the best way to use thought-enhancing software. (Or rather, those who figure out a way that’s best for them; people always use tools in slightly different, idiosyncratic ways.) The process matters as much as the software itself. How often do you check it? When do you trust the help it’s offering, and when do you ignore it?”

- collision detection: Garry Kasparov, cyborg

"Did I holler with joy across cyberspace, back when Adm. Mike Mullen became Chairman of the Joint..."

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:21:01 -0500

“Did I holler with joy across cyberspace, back when Adm. Mike Mullen became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? People said, “Calm down David, it’s not the Second Coming!” But I felt it was damn close to a kind of salvation.”

- Contrary Brin: The Admiral as Hero

"Santa Fe Institute economist: one in four Americans is employed to guard the wealth of the rich By..."

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:17:36 -0500

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Santa Fe Institute economist: one in four Americans is employed to guard the wealth of the rich

By Cory Doctorow at 10:45 PM February 5, 2010

Here’s a fascinating profile on radical Santa Fe Institute economist Samuel Bowles, an empiricist who says his research doesn’t support the Chicago School efficient marketplace hypothesis. Instead, Bowles argues that the wealth inequality created by strict market economics creates inefficiencies because society has to devote so much effort to stopping the poor from expropriating the rich. He calls this “guard labor” and says that one in four Americans is employed to in the sector — labor that could otherwise be used to increase the nation’s wealth and progress.

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- Santa Fe Institute economist: one in four Americans is employed to guard the wealth of the rich Boing Boing

"I’ve talked before about how some of the best stuff happens once the cameras stop rolling and..."

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:03:40 -0500

“I’ve talked before about how some of the best stuff happens once the cameras stop rolling and I’d have to say that once we were done shooting the meal scene with Bill Murray for Monday’s Hudson Valley show, what happened next was one of those times: He had to be in New York pretty quickly. I was headed home. Producer Tom Vitale had a rented SUV parked outside for just that situation and the three of us piled into the car, Tom at the wheel, me riding shotgun, Bill in the back.”

- Tony’s Travel Journal

"Thoughts on Eating at Walt Disney World We recently returned from a few well deserved days at Disney..."

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:53:29 -0500

“Thoughts on Eating at Walt Disney World
We recently returned from a few well deserved days at Disney World and this morning I was pondering the food selection available to Disney guests. My conclusion is that the food at Disney World is great.*”

- Alton Brown and Good Eats: Thoughts on Eating at Walt Disney World

"Asked and answered by the wonderful Frank Chimero: Anonymous asked: ‘How do you maintain focus (on..."

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:46:52 -0500

“Asked and answered by the wonderful Frank Chimero: Anonymous asked: ‘How do you maintain focus (on work, dreams, goals, life)?’ You do one thing at a time.”

- First, care. | 43 Folders

Alton Brown Picks Cookbooks - WSJ.com

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:34:50 -0500

Alton Brown Picks Cookbooks - WSJ.com

"Jon Stewart, who already had a reputation for lobbing word grenades at media personalities and..."

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:13:32 -0500

“Jon Stewart, who already had a reputation for lobbing word grenades at media personalities and outlets that displease him, this week delivered one of the most sustained criticisms of Fox News ever heard on Fox News.”

- Jon Stewart Visits Bill O’Reilly and Faults Fox News - NYTimes.com

"How ‘cognitive fluency’ shapes what we believe, how we invest, and who will become a supermodel."

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:05:56 -0500

“How ‘cognitive fluency’ shapes what we believe, how we invest, and who will become a supermodel.”

- Easy = True - The Boston Globe

"Everyone Eats … But that doesn’t make you a restaurant critic"

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:25:07 -0500

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Everyone Eats …

But that doesn’t make you a restaurant critic

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- Everyone Eats … : CJR

"Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive … That tension will not..."

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:25:43 -0500

“Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive … That tension will not go away”

- Information, Freedom, Flame-bait - Charlie’s Diary

"Reagan had Alzheimer’s, and is not to blame for his hazy memory. What is the excuse of the..."

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:38:51 -0500

“Reagan had Alzheimer’s, and is not to blame for his hazy memory. What is the excuse of the Republicans today, tea party or old party, who so completely misimagine the Reagan presidency?”

- No Room for Reagan - The Atlantic (February 2010 Unbound)

"Maybe this, then, is the ultimate upshot of our endless, self-wrought swirl of sour disappointment,..."

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:56:40 -0500

“Maybe this, then, is the ultimate upshot of our endless, self-wrought swirl of sour disappointment, of never having our impossible needs fully met, of constantly being thwarted in our desire to have the world revolve around our exact set of specifications and desires. Our disappointment begins to curdle, to turn back on itself, poison the heart, turn us nasty and low. It shifts from merely being a national mood or general temperament, into a way of being. A wiring, deep and harmful and permanent. It’s all very disappointing, really.”

- Why are you so terribly disappointing?

"Faster And Faster And Faster As people get older, “they just have this sense, this feeling..."

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:54:59 -0500

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Faster And Faster And Faster

As people get older, “they just have this sense, this feeling that time is going faster than they are,” says Warren Meck, a psychology professor at Duke University.

This seems to be true across cultures, across time, all over the world.

No one is sure where this feeling comes from.

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- Why Does Time Fly By As You Get Older? : NPR