February 2012
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WatchThis film is ultra creeeeeepy! It reminds me of what I learned in my Cults and New Religious Movements class backin 2003 in college. Watch the first 12 minutes of Sound Of My Voice
January 2012
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If you tell people the truth, they will hate you, but when you lie, with open arms they will embrace you. One is not two, and three is not four. No one will argue these intangible abstract objects. But the value of human life at the altar of inconvenience, we will ponder, and yet cry evil when a plane is deliberately flown into a building. Such frightening incoherency!
All murder and...
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WatchThis is deeply thought-provoking and should be taken seriously.
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Guess what I am?
Guess:
I am in all places and at all times. I have always existed. I am the basis for the determination and differentiation of all things. Even the very act of idle dismissal of my existence confirms my infinite essence and existence. And without me, nothing can be known. What am I? (Hint: foundation of reality; ontology; being)
“Facebook may be the Google of the future, but Google is the Google of the...”
– Eric Eldon makes an interesting case for Google’s Search+ fiasco actually being about baiting the government into looking at Facebook more closely.
But he ultimately concludes that even with such motives, Google’s move probably isn’t a smart one due to the quote above. (via parislemon)
Who said...
Why the movie industry can't innovate, and the... →
1920’s – the record business complained about radio. The argument was because radio is free, you can’t compete with free. No one was ever going to buy music again.
1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. “It’s all over,” complained the studios. In fact, the number of screens went from 17,000 in 1948 to 38,000...
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American Economy: What grand solution?
I am a little perplexed by the general message I think am hearing correctly from the presidential campaign candidates. The message I am hearing is, a change of leadership will bring about a solution to our economic woes. Well, we were told that before in the face of a looming financial monster just before Obama took office. Since then Congress has been asked to raise the U.S. debt ceiling four...
December 2011
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Learning Author Writing Styles
Have you ever considered copying a book word-for-word in order to learn or get the feel of an author’s writing style? I am thinking of giving it a try. :)
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“Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of...”
– Isaac Asimov on science, creativity, and education in a rare Bill Moyers interview circa 1988 (via taylorlorenz)
<3 asimov
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Agreed.
November 2011
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Interesting perspective on pepper spray
This is a comment posted on this article “About Pepper Spray” by Deborah Blum from Speakeasy Science by a “MS Laura”. By the way the article is a very enlightening read, as is Blum’s response to Megyn Kelly’s “it’s a food product, essentially” remark on Fox News with Bill O’Reilly: Fox News Food Products. Anywhoha, moving right...
grantluckey:
You’re going to love TuneUp - it totally fixed my iTunes by removing duplicate songs, adding cover art http://t.co/1qOLP5Xg
iPhone 4S Becomes Second Most Popular Cameraphone... →
parislemon:
It took just 5 weeks. The only one ahead of it? The iPhone 4.
By the way, numbers three and four? The iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS.
One Android phone did manage to beat the original iPhone though — the HTC EVO 4G, places a distant fifth. Let’s remember that the original iPhone is over 4 years old.
Wait, actually, looking at the data, Flickr isn’t even counting the original iPhone...
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“We’re all born wanting the freedom to imagine a better and more beautiful...”
– - Matt Taibbi, spotted via joshuanguyen
Preach it.
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This is how I feel regarding the upcoming elections after 12 years of disappointment. Just exhausted.
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America: Saved by a new renewed state of heart?
“The Federal Reserve seeks to get as high a level of material well-being as we can by setting a platform of stability. We cannot pick and choose amongst various areas of the population because we just have no means of doing that. If fiscal policy is lax or savings are exceptionally low, there is nothing any monetary policy or any central bank can do about that. We cannot live in the...
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Watchoccupyonline:
US wealth gap between young and old is widest ever
The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them with housing and college debt.
The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater...
getting all facebook-furious →
occupyonline:
hobbitesque:
There’s a vicious debate over the #occupy movement going on right now, and essentially, a whole chunk of people (including some of my good friends) are saying that the protestors are just lazy, and that they’d be employed if they were willing to get off their asses and work hard, and that being a part of the 99% is purely a choice, etcetera.
And just—I’ve been...
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How to get America back on track?
John Bogle, found of the world’s largest mutual fund, told CBS evening news anchor Scott Pelley that “We the United States of America are losing out ability to govern ourselves. And if we lose that ability, I don’t know where we go as a nation. But it’s not good.”
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