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Forget the “official” unemployment rate of 9.5%. Alternative measures? Try this: Just 61% of the adult population, age 20 or over, has any kind of job right now. That’s the lowest since the early 1980s–when many women stayed at home through choice, driving the numbers down. Among men today, it’s 66.9%. Back in the ‘50s,…
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Predicting the iPhone in 1910 Tyler at Marginal Revolution shares an amazing gem from Robert Sloss’s 1910 essay “The Wireless Century”, where he shares his prediction of a world in 2010 where everyone carries a ‘wireless telegraph’ which: 1. Serves as a telephone, the whole world over. 2. Either rings or vibrates in your pocket.…
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Vote For My SXSW 2011 Panel I promise you it will be the only panel at SXSWi ‘11 that answers the question “is robosexuality a sin?” (VOTE NOW)
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Here’s your stinkin’ calculator, missy. [via]
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The Shell House [via]
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How long before we finally kill the boring old resumes, in favor of video reels and infographics? [via]
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Duccio di Buoninsegna The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain (1308–11) [via]
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It’s about freakin’ time, Criterion: The Darjeeling Limited, available October 10 on DVD and Blu-Ray. [via]
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“A monumental bash on the head” was how Dahl once described this accident in the Western Desert, claiming that it directly led to his becoming a writer. This was not just because his first published piece of writing was a semi-fictionalised account of the crash, but also because he suspected that the brain injuries which…
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Thomas Chambers Staten Island and the Narrows (1835–55) [via]
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DAS*EFX is back – on Craigslist! (Thanks to Rameen for the link.)
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