February 2012
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“Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story...”
– Stephen King, ‘On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft’
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BBC News - Struggling Greeks losing belief in the... →
Wow. Just wow.
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“The wise have always been the least patient, for as knowledge incrases, so does...”
– Balthasar Gracian
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Hands on with Apple's new OS X: Mountain Lion |... →
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Major Bitcoin exchange shuts down, blaming... →
Another example of the crackdown on internet freedoms. :-(
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“When we have to be afraid is when paper rules the day. We have too much of this....”
– Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Education needs paper and pavement people
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“Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we...”
– 9 things that will disappear in our lifetime - Home - Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Blog
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“If you’re tired of email sucking the life out of your day, I ask you to place...”
– The Single Sentence Email Project - Deliberatism
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Tweetdoc: Document your twitter event →
Potentially useful for lots of stuff!
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“As Louis Pasteur wrote, “In the field of observation, chance favours only...”
– Intelligent Life magazine, Jan/Feb 2012 (p.40)
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“Why did the Cold War end? Why did the Persians lose the battle of Salamis? Why...”
– Taleb, N.N. The Black Swan, p.120
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Clive Thompson on Analog Designs in the Digital... →
Skeumorphs don’t help in the long run.
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“Yet, according to the research, our past actions can’t predict future...”
– Aleks Krotoski: Your Klout score is meaningless (Wired UK)
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Video Editing By Magisto | An Automatic Online... →
Magisto automatically turns plain videos to beautifully edited and produced Movies, perfect for sharing.
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dy/dan » Blog Archive » Adventures In Plagiarism... →
How to stay classy under pressure. Delicious.
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Beelinereader →
“BeeLine Reader is an exciting new technology that helps people read faster on computers, smartphones, and tablets. BeeLine Reader applies a color gradient to text that helps reduce “line transition errors” (accidentally skipping a line or re-reading the same line twice). The color gradient...
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swissmiss | Readmill →
Readmill is a community for readers, allowing you to easily share and highlight the books you love. Read with the Readmill for App, and sync highlights from Amazon Kindle with the Readmill Bookmarklet.
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In Defense of Video Games: More Than Just an... →
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“Most of us have trouble sitting alone, quietly, doing nothing. We have the need...”
– » Learning to Sit Alone, in a Quiet Empty Room :zenhabits
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An attempt by Kelly Sutton to get rid of... →
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“The move will mean that social networks such as Facebook or Twitter will have to...”
– Digital ‘right to be forgotten’ will be made EU law - Telegraph
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MIT Receives $3 Million From Gates Foundation to... →
Exciting!
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“16. Most people think every old book is worth a lot of money. The same is true...”
– 25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore - jlsathre - Open Salon
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“If the baboons succeed in constraining speech and information flow on the...”
– Jailbreaking the Internet: For freedom’s sake | Data Center - InfoWorld
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Full Interview: Cory Doctorow on the War on... →
You. Must. Listen. To. This
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“There’s another name for what happens when people start to make money out...”
– The self-epublishing bubble | Ewan Morrison | Books | guardian.co.uk
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