June 2011
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The Collapse Of The Complex: Why Facebook Will... →
Clay Shirky offers up a precis of Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse Of Complex Societies, as the staging for an argument about media disruption: The Collapse of Complex Business Models
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Cyprus and the Cayman Islands face a potent rival:... →
Wyoming Corporate Services will help clients create a company, and more: set up a bank account for it; add a lawyer as a corporate director to invoke attorney-client privilege; even appoint stand-in directors and officers as high as CEO. Among its offerings is a variety of shell known as a “shelf” company, which comes with years of regulatory filings behind it, lending a greater...
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The Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought... →
I just got my Google+ invite! Hopefully this won’t end up like Google Wave - a product I loved, but one that never gained mass acceptance.
“My mother, in the ’60s could buy a tomato in the supermarket that had 30 to 40...”
– Barry Estabrook, on the human, nutritional, and environmental tolls of modern tomato farming. (via nprfreshair)
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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure...”
– William Gibson via almostaslug
Eric Cantor owns shares in an EFT that will soar... →
Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring noted that U.S. Treasury bonds make up a large portion of the congressman’s pension, and said investment in ProShares ETF serves to balance that investment and to diversify his portfolio. Disclosure forms indicate that Cantor has considerable personal assets, including real estate in Virginia worth up to $1 million, and a number of six- and seven-figure loans to...
“Every year the U.S. sends more than 100,000 tons of fortified corn-soy bean...”
– Dr. Susan Shepherd, MSF child nutrition adviser, in an op-ed in the Kansas City Star today in light of the 2011 International Food Aid & Development Conference happening this week in Kansas City.
You can join the call to reform food aid for malnourished children here: http://bit.ly/195strvd...
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Air conditioning for troops costs more than NASA →
If you think your electricity bill is a joke, get a load of this. The United States spends more than $20 billion per year on air conditioning for troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. As NPR reports, that’s more than the entire operating budget for NASA. via rtamerica
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Afghanistan's Amazing DIY Internet →
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
– Clay Shirky
“Let us speak plainly: Historically, the errors committed by a truly...”
– Rosa Luxemburg, Organizational Questions of Russian Social Democracy (aka Leninism or Marxism?), 1904 (via easternblocparty)
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“Sixty-five percent of responders to an annual survey by the Instructional...”
– Hybrid courses gaining steam (via world-shaker)
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“One study suggests that in China, for instance, every 10% increase in broadband...”
– Newsroom • Press Release (via interestingsnippets)
“The reality is that under capitalist conditions - meaning maximization of...”
– Noam Chomsky (via narwhalzz)
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that...”
– Nikola Tesla, in “Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World” in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
How to Land Your Kid in Therapy →
My first several patients were what you might call textbook. As they shared their histories, I had no trouble making connections between their grievances and their upbringings. But soon I met a patient I’ll call Lizzie. Imagine a bright, attractive 20-something woman with strong friendships, a close family, and a deep sense of emptiness. She had come in, she told me, because she was “just not...
“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind...”
– Henry Ford via jonathanmoore
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climateadaptation asked: Dude. Don't be a dick:
Planet Of The Year: What Is Wrong With Us?
By Albert Gore Monday, Jan. 02, 1989
@Time Magazine
Planet Of The Year: What Is Wrong With Us?
By Albert Gore Monday, Jan. 02, 1989
@Time Magazine
Former VP Al Gore Faults Obama on Global Warming... →
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Seriously? I didn’t read his essay - just like I didn’t watch his Nobel winning slide show - but I certainly hope he took some responsibility for his own inaction in the ’90s.
“I’m a big fan of Woody Allen. How would I feel if I found out that he was...”
– New Japanese Pop Idol Shocks Fans With News–She’s Not Real (video) | Singularity Hub (via rafer)
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“It is not unrealistic to regard freedom as analogous to a commodity under...”
– Noam Chomsky Quotes: Buying freedom via jonathan-cunningham
“You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”
– Pontoon by Garrison Keillor (via lostinthesounds)
Mob rule: Iceland crowdsources its next... →
“I believe this is the first time a constitution is being drafted basically on the internet,” said Thorvaldur Gylfason, member of Iceland’s constitutional council. “The public sees the constitution come into being before their eyes … This is very different from old times where constitution makers sometimes found it better to find themselves a remote spot out of sight, out of touch.”
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“The bankrupt corporate power elite, who continue to serve the dead ideas of...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
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Anarchy is every time you share a stick of gum....
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WatchDataBot Mouse (Jan Barth and Roman Grasy) - a mouse that let’s you feel the weight of folders (based on size), the importance of files (where importance is based on the different weights that you set), or the activity of different files (by “breathing”?).
via today and tomorrow
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“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do...”
– Picasso (via caraobrien)
“If you are thinking 1 year ahead, plant seeds
If you are thinking 10 years...”
– Chinese Emperor Kuan Tsu, 5th century BCE (via robcayman)
Saudi Women Defy Ban On Car Driving
A number of Saudi women drove cars on Friday in response to calls for nationwide action to break a traditional ban, unique to the ultra-conservative kingdom, according to reports on social networks.
From: http://ping.fm/Bmf1q via indiatvnews
“When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us. A waitress said...”
– Louis C.K, in an interview with Slate. Read the interview. (via joshsternberg notnadia)
