November 2010
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Adam Carolla, World-Class Complainer
Mr. Carolla is a funny and eloquent griper […] he has done a segment called “What can’t Adam complain about?” You just name something and after a short pause, he dismantles it.Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com
RENTAL CARS There is always one dude in front of you who takes 45 minutes at the car-rental counter. I don’t know if this guy just pulled out trading stamps or his merchant marine I.D....
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Venice in Winter
Venice is beyond compare, Italy itself is breathtaking beyond compare.Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com
I HADN’T been back to Venice in years when I found myself there on assignment. It was November; the city’s scattered trees had begun to turn brown. The light, as always, was beyond compare and there was a watery chill in the air. I loved it immediately.
“In winter you wake up in...
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The Professor of Micropopularity
There have been a couple of film scholars who wrote scripts, but he [James Schamus] ’s the only person in the business I’ve ever seen who said, ‘I can’t go to Cannes because I’ve got to work on my doctorate.Amplify’d from www.nytimes.comEach participant who spoke called on the next speaker, and Schamus gave the group plenty of leeway to tussle with the text, but every once in a while he raised...
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The Power Of Failure
There is enormous power in failure, especially when one learns from it. Wall Street has been making a lot of mistakes lately. But will it bother to ever learn from them?Amplify’d from opinionator.blogs.nytimes.comThis year alone, while millions of others suffer from the Great Recession, bankers and traders are expected to be paid — incredibly — another estimated $144 billion in compensation and...
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“The number one competitor we have in our business is not Microsoft, Google, or...”
– via 37signals
I’m not the biggest fan of DHH, but I think he hit the nail on the head with this one.
While I’m sure there are way better solutions out there for most of the things that I do, stars and labels in gmail take me a long way.
(via daryn)
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WatchAutre video, du meme site. En Francais. On peut orienter l’angle de vue a la souris, assez bluffant.
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WatchVideos de ski. Dommage qu’il y ait ces publicites au debut.
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Finland solves wicked problems →
underpaidgenius:
The ‘Drink Finland’ document is strange reading. Maybe Finnish translation issues?
Finland’s lakes and islands have shallow shores that require no special skills.
“Finland is already the best country in the world”
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Loving Coffee Without Being a Drip
THE crimes that can be hung on the automatic drip coffee machine are many, not all of them petty misdemeanors. It hogs counter space. It sends a wash of water too indiscriminate over a hillock of grounds too large. And its oversize carafe often overheats its contents, turning your morning upper into an acrid downer.Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com
The Chemex glass coffee maker did. It’s a one-piece...
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Watchhow to tell a story and make a powerful presentation [using Prezi]
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-21) →
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A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for...
Tens of millions of people have moved to Google Docs because it’s 100% web: it provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade. Of course, we know that many more of you still use Microsoft Office, because until recently, there weren’t many tools to help you collaborate and share with others. Now there’s more choice.Amplify’d from...
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How Readers Chose to Fix the Deficit
These were among the choices made by readers who completed the online you-fix-the-deficit puzzle that accompanied a Week in Review article last Sunday. Since the puzzle went online, there have been more than one million page views, and more than 11,000 posted Twitter messages about the puzzle, most including their own solution. The Times analyzed those solutions, each of which cut at least $1.345...
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LE BREVET COMMUNAUTAIRE
en l’absence de brevet communautaire, le brevet européen pour produire ses effets doit être validé dans chaque pays où la protection est souhaitée, et pour les pays non partie à l’accord de Londres, être traduit dans la langue officielle concernée. Au regard des frais de traduction non négligeables, les déposants renonceront le plus souvent à protéger leurs inventions dans l’ensemble des Etats...
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WatchConversation d’avenir, l’ecole primaire:
Quel sera l’avenir de l’école primaire en France ? Pourquoi est-il si important ? Quels sont les enjeux liés à la formation des enseignants ? Faut-il retisser les liens entre l’école et les familles ? Entre l’école et la nation… ? Savons nous vraiment quels citoyens et quelle société nous...
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a Man Who Sings Like a Woman
“It’s true that there is something potentially ridiculous about this voice coming out of a man’s body”Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com
The countertenorial voice — a high girlish tone produced by using the outer edges of the vocal cords — is something of an acquired taste, continually teetering on the knife edge between creepy and sublime. Jaroussky himself is well aware of what he...
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James Geary, metaphorically speaking
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“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it...”
– Rober Frost
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Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches
A history of the humanities in the 20th century could be chronicled in “isms” — formalism, Freudianism, structuralism, postcolonialism — grand intellectual cathedrals from which assorted interpretations of literature, politics and culture spread.Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com
Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists argue it is time to stop looking for inspiration in the next...
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Phys Ed: The Workout Enigma
Recently, researchers in Finland made the discovery that some people’s bodies do not respond as expected to weight training, others don’t respond to endurance exercise and, in some lamentable cases, some don’t respond to either. In other words, there are those who just do not become fitter or stronger, no matter what exercise they undertake.Amplify’d from well.blogs.nytimes.comresearchers...
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Recipes for Pies and Tarts - Slide Show -... →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-14) →
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donate to help Wikipedia
I just did:
Thank you in advance for passing the word around, Tumblr-ing it, RTing, etc.
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Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich?
the picture reminds us of the chinese fellow standing, on Tienanmen square, alone in front of tanks [1989]. Very powerful image.Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com
On last Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” Obama was already wobbling toward another “compromise” in which he does most of the compromising. It’s a measure of how far he’s off his game now that a leader who once had the audacity to speak at length on...
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Silencing the Bells and Whistles
Finding interesting to make an article written one year ago resurface as what it says still holds true.Amplify’d from andrewmcafee.orgIn a recent post at the paidContent blog, Tom Weber praises Amazon’s Kindle because it lets him return to ‘unitasking’ – doing one thing at a time, in this case reading books, newspapers, and magazines. He writes that “Scrolling through an online newspaper or...
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unctional illiteracy
atistics compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics have found that the U.S. seems to be spending about the same amount of money per student as other developed countries, and that students are staying in school for as long on average.
But we (the US) ’re not measuring up.Amplify’d from ahmjustsayin.wordpress.com Statistics compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics...
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“If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who...”
– George Bernard Shaw
(via mohandasgandhi)
Presented this way the answer is, of course, no. Would we be given the possibility to choose is the right question.
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