February 2010
42 posts
“Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or...”
– Nicholas Carr on Google, quoted in ArsTechnica: Sorry, English major, the engineers have triumphed
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“This is a scandalous story, involving one of the world’s largest banks, a...”
– The Story the New York Times Won’t Touch
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“Watching chickens is a very old human pastime, and the forerunner of psychology,...”
– Pecking order
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“This conflates consumption rates with standards of living: they are only loosely...”
– Jared Diamond: Will Big Business Save the Earth?
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“an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it.”
– All That : The New Yorker
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“I usually tend to answer honestly, unless there’s a really good reason not to....”
– The Smalltalk Question (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
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“A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.”
– Ninon de Lenclos
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“[Unlike the market for televisions,] anyone with a sense of basic...”
– A Free-Market Case for the Public Option
Semantic satiation →
dailymeh:
Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
This is officially a series.
“The baker in the medieval town square must holler “fresh rolls” if he hopes to...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman On Self-Promotion
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Bjork explains TV
“You’ve got me in this loop now, about whether I should be moral about...”
– Douglas Coupland: the man who sees into the future
“Perelman has a mind that is capable of taking in more information than any...”
– Masha Gessen on Grigory Perelman (via ayjay)
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“If it’s true that the world’s security depends on eradicating every pocket of...”
– The space race
“Dostoevsky is a dirty fighter.”
– The Baffler - Poetry Slam
What's Wrong with the Culture of Wall Street? →
one of the key reasons why the culture of Wall Street has not changed is precisely because we — as in most Americans — are so tied up in it. Our 401(k)s and our pension funds are tied up in Wall Street doing well, even if we don’t think this particular system of short-term bonuses and liquid culture is a good long-term strategy.
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“The generous attitude towards failure that big cities afford is...”
– David Byrne’s Perfect City
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“The things that make it inefficient are part of what makes it so valuable to...”
– HBS Cases: Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu — HBS Working Knowledge
Adrià says he doesn’t listen to customers, yet his customers are some of the most satisfied in the world.
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“Born in the 1950s, raised on comic book dreams of exploring deep space in a...”
– Modcult: Wrenching on the Moon
“taking the fear and discomfort and embarrassment out of art”
– Stephen Fry: The internet and Me