July 2012
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“it strikes me as at least compellingly problematic that this Ariel-Aurora...”
– ‘why, really, should world-class athletes have to put on makeup to win a medal?’ - by @runofplay
Brian Phillips on Olympic rhythmic gymnastics - Grantland
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“I run a web service that uses a Javascript bookmarklet that people manage to...”
– In which @marco describes my life.
Marco.org
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“what happens if journalism frees itself from (only) giving people stories about...”
– Who should see what when? Three principles for personalized news » Nieman Journalism Lab
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“In terms of knowledge workers, a programmer produces more good code and fewer...”
– ‘for most ppl, 8hrs/day, 5 days/week, is the best sustainable long-term balance point between output and exhaustion’
Why Crunch Modes Doesn’t Work: Six Lessons | IGDA
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“The idea that just because you pay for an application you’re ensuring its...”
– Sparrow’s acquisition highlights the dangers of closed source
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“People also want all the features they can handle. If you’re competing with a...”
– Simplicity is hard to sell — The Endeavour
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“I worry that mass-production [of education] will have the same effect that it...”
– On Leaving Academia « Ars Experientia
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“Long emails are, more frequently than not, the worst. When you send someone an...”
– ”The efficient emailer often has to conform to the old style to assuage hurt feelings.’
BUS YOUR OWN TRAY — On the Virtue of Brevity in Email
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion review roundup
chartier:
OS X Mountain Lion and its 200+ new features is now among us. It’s only $20 if you have Snow Leopard or Lion installed, and if you buy it through my affiliate link, you would indeed be a smashing individual.
All the usual and even not-so-usual suspects have published their reviews, but if you’re not sure where to start reading, this list should help:
Ars Technica - John Siracusa...
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“a surprising amount of everyday life can be explained by signaling. For example,...”
– What Is Signaling, Really? - Less Wrong
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“Why is it that Jeff Jarvis is setting the public conversation on publicity,...”
– Where is the Marshall McLuhan of social media?
The Rise of the Internet (Anti)-Intellectual? » Cyborgology
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“This is the core of the disappointment that many of us feel with the Sparrow...”
– The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition
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“Morphologically, we’ve built a jellyfish. Functionally, we’ve built a jellyfish....”
– AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Artificial jellyfish built from rat cells : Nature News & Comment
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“[Oprah] looked at the food and then made her best statement of the entire...”
– ‘Myopic, unaware, ignorant and gauche’: @firstpostin on Oprah’s magical mystery tour of India
You still eat with your hands? Oprah’s magical mystery tour of India | Firstpost
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“(tw: rape, sexual assault, racism)
By now surely everyone knows the case of the...”
– This is how racism takes root | Joseph Harker | Comment is free | The Guardian (via biyuti)
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“Shoppers, they found, much prefer getting something extra free to getting...”
– The psychology of discounting: Something doesn’t add up | The Economist
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“Many women have no choice but to quickly return to work because they need the...”
– For Executive Women, Is Maternity Leave Necessary? - NYTimes.com
This.
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“As the fish in the Silurian rivers began to develop swim bladders in order to...”
– How top executives live (Fortune, 1955) - Fortune Features
Amazing.
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“Good rule of thumb: If you see a course on the menu that’s highlighted,...”
– The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic
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“Last year, a Silicon Valley investor said: “A pregnant founder/CEO is going to...”
– I really wish this story had included links; it mentions “a chorus of women in the blogosphere and on social media”…and links to not a single one of those women. Come on, FT.
Marissa Mayer and the motherhood penalty - FT.com
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“The truth is made worse by the reality that no one—really no one—anywhere on the...”
– ‘“Gun Crazy” is the title of one the best films about the American romance with violence. And gun-crazy we remain.’
The Aurora Movie Theatre Shooting and American Gun Culture : The New Yorker
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shannonpareil:
“In the broader business world, studies show that women encounter the worst discrimination around motherhood. One Stanford study gave participants two CVs for a management consultant. Both were for women and both were identical, except one listed membership in a Parent Teacher Association. Rated by participants, the woman with the child was 79 per cent less likely to be...
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“the best emails had some element of editorial (there’s a reason Groupon employs...”
– ‘Editorial is easy to overlook for a technology company because it isn’t particularly scalable…but it’s important’
Eric Stromberg — Increasing User Engagement in Emails 