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Winner Takes All, Long Tails And The Fractilization Of Culture
"What's much more interesting to me is what happens beyond the hits. And, as you start to dig down into subsectors or subcultures, you begin to notice an interesting ...
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History of Economic Thought
Does what it say on the tin (complete with 1998-style webdesign!)
Tagged with: philosophy • history • economics • theory • resource •
Bigger not necessarily better, when it ...
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The Looming Collapse of FedEx – Dematerialization 2
"Once the Authenticated Document portion of FedEx’s business fades away, they’ll have to retreat into the molecule moving business. Here’s a need that, ...
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Cormac McCarthy on The Road
"I don't think there's any rich period or fallow period. That's just a perception you get from what's published. Your busiest day might be watching some ants carrying bread crumbs. Someone asked ...
Books
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Everything you need to know about WordPress 2.9’s post image feature
Hmmm, interesting.
Tagged with: webdev • wordpress • post • images • functionality •
‘Female Viagra’ boosts sexual ...
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Blasphemy
"If the discussion around AGW (or evolution, or vaccinations) was solely scientific — with the use of relatively objective evidence, open analysis, and a willingness to learn from mistakes — the disbelievers ...
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Philip Rosedale: The web needs to be more lifelike
"Formalised virtual courts will emerge as a result of common law and collective behaviour. I think big groups will band together and set up their own courts to decide whether to ...
TV
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Interview with Umberto Eco: ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’
"I have a hallway for literature that's 70 meters long. I walk through it several times a day, and I feel good when I do. Culture isn't ...
Film
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Reputation is everything in IT security | Bruce Schneier
"In IT, customers learn about company reputation from many sources: magazine articles, analyst reviews, recommendations from colleagues, awards, certifications, and so on. ...
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Doomed Dome: The Future That Never Was
"Enthusiasts organized an International Dome Symposium, held in March 1980. Buckminster Fuller, then busy assisting in Brasilia, the planned capital city in Brazil that had been hacked out ...
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The Future Of Money: Conclusions
"I had entered into this project thinking that I would find some magic wand, a spell that could revitalize local communities, increase social capital, and make communities more resilient. The ...
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How your brain sees virtual you
"When Caudle's looked for brain areas that were more active when volunteers thought about themselves and their avatars compared with real and virtual others, two regions stood out: the medial ...
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Bruce Sterling
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Chinese Agencies Fight For Control Of Web Game
"The bureau that licenses publishers said this week [WoW]'s Chinese operator failed to obtain required import approval and should stop signing up customers. Its rival, the Ministry ...
Books
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Contraptor
"Contraptor is a DIY open source construction set for experimental personal fabrication, desktop manufacturing, prototyping and bootstrapping." Sweet.
Tagged with: hardware • prototype • fabbing • ...
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Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics
"By building thin, flexible silicon electronics on silk substrates, researchers have made electronics that almost completely dissolve inside the body. So far the research group has ...
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The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English
"As we assess our linguistic future as a species, a basic question remains. Would it be inherently evil if there were not 6,000 spoken languages but one? We must consider the ...
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Brain scanners can tell what you’re thinking about
"Last week at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago, Jack Gallant, a leading "neural decoder" at the University of California, Berkeley, presented one ...
Books
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Detroit: Where Private Security Is Booming
"Members of the Historic Indian Village Association, a local residents' group, share the cost of private security — about $30 per household each month. Association president Doug ...
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Darwin’s Robots
"A more recent 2009 study, again at Lausanne, suggests that swarms of bots don't just evolve cooperative strategies to find food (or avoid poison), they can also evolve the ability to deceive. Bots equipped ...
Books
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The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor
"It is truly amazing that more than a dozen natural reactors spontaneously sprang into existence and that they managed to maintain a modest power output for perhaps a few hundred ...
