March 2013
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“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane, static life, the long anguish of living or dying. After so many years running from fear, fleeing crazily, uselessly, she was finally coming to a halt. At the same time she seemed to be recovering her roots, and the sap rose anew in her body, which was no longer trembling. Pressing her whole belly against the parapet,...
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“Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be...”
– Franz Kafka
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An Autopsy of a Dead Social Network: Following the... →
“Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook. Consequently, it is often thought of as the grand-daddy of social networks. At its peak, the network had well over 100 million users, many in south east Asia.
In July 2009, following some technical problems and a redesign, the site experienced a catastrophic decline in traffic as...
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Older people blighted by pessimism and fear for... →
A study [by the American Psychological Association], into 40,000 adults across ten years, has found those with low expectations for a “satisfying future” actually led healthier lives.
In contrast, people who were “overly optimistic” about the days ahead had a greater risk of disability or death within ten years.
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“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
– Mark Twain
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The real problem with the sequester is that it... →
Selective math obscures the fact that upcoming cuts will hurt millions of Americans, possibly for years to come
“Skeptics have downplayed the likely impact of “sequestration” – the $85bn cut in federal funding that’s slated to begin Friday – noting that it equals just 2.4% of total federal spending this year and that spending will continue to grow despite the cut. But this...
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“Don’t smoke pot. Don’t bitch. Don’t give up. Go on stage ANYWHERE. Try, fail,...”
– Louis CK
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Open is an active state, not a passive one... →
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“While data shows that overall happiness in your relationship fell 8 more points,...”
– Nate Silver offers up a statistical analysis of your failing relationship | McSweeney
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William Gibson: The Net Is a Waste of Time →
“I COINED THE WORD “CYBERSPACE” IN 1981 IN ONE OF MY first science fiction stories and subsequently used it to describe something that people insist on seeing as a sort of literary forerunner of the Internet. This being so, some think it remarkable that I do not use E-mail. In all truth, I have avoided it because I am lazy and enjoy staring blankly into space (which is also the...
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“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to...”
– Kerouac
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