October 2011
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The Psychic Paramount - “Intro/SP”...
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Vocabulary: Unfeeling Entitlement Edition
heliograph: a device with shutters and mirrors used for sending Morse code via sunbeams auscultation: listening to internal organs for medical purposes (e.g. with a stethoscope) erethism: physiologically or psychologically, abnormally sensitive or irritable appanage: something one is entitled to by rank or position, real or figurative arras: a tapestry or hanging, or a gift given by the husband at...
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Ghosts and Vodka - “Futuristic...
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microlawns →
“Grand Piano keystone type, about 7 feet in length. Asexual in disposition, it serves as a pleasant-enough nap area for two toddlers curled in fetal position.”
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“Literature, like virtue, is its own reward, and the enthusiasm some experience...”
– D’Israeli, Curiosities of Literature
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Voltron Opening Theme (no narration)
A break...
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posts from this week →
With Shooting Caught On Officer’s “Chest-Cam,” Tech Precedent To Be Set Turning The iPhone Into A 350x Medical Microscope For Under $50 Italian Wikipedia Shuts Down In Protest Of Proposed Law Design Competition Yields Bikes Of The Future The iPhone 4S Camera Upgrade Explained
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Creation Myth: Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth... →
So was what Jobs took from Xerox the idea of the mouse? Not quite, because Xerox never owned the idea of the mouse. The PARC researchers got it from the computer scientist Douglas Engelbart, at Stanford Research Institute, fifteen minutes away on the other side of the university campus. Engelbart dreamed up the idea of moving the cursor around the screen with a stand-alone mechanical “animal” back...
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Whitenessmovesdownward - “Decay /...
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Drafting My Fantasy Picks & Tackling Nobel Trends →
“On Monday, me and some dudes are gonna tailgate outside the Kellogg School of Management before the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is announced. You should totally come. It’s gonna be ill. My pick to click this year is N. Gregory Mankiw. They’re gonna say it’s for his work on menu costs and price stickiness, but that’s bunk....
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