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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Kurt Vonnegut [v:ia]
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Facebook Granted Patent on the News Feed Still no word on their poking patent.
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http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf Lost Landscapes of Detroit by Rick Prelinger for Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) on February 10, 2010. [via] (Source: http://www.archive.org/)
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‘Mad Libs’ Style Forms, like the one pictured above, increased conversion rates by 25-40% in A/B testing on Vast.com. Your initial reaction is “who would have thought?” but then you flash back to years of bland boxy forms and think “hmmm, maybe that isn’t such a bad idea.” (Thanks to Jeremy for the link.)
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Science Proves 3-D Movies Hurt Your Brain I told you so.
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In 2004 David “Deathifier” Storey became the Guinness World Record holder for “Most valuable object that is virtual” when he purchased an island in the virtual world Entropia for 265,000 Entropian dollars, or $26,500 at current exchange rates. Storey set up a virtual rare game preserve business on the island, which he says draws in…
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Barry GeorgeCrank
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By now I’m guessing you’ve heard about Epic Beard Man, aka Vietnam Tom, the 67-year old man caught on tape giving a younger Bay Area public transit rider a very public beatdown after a heated verbal exchange. But, if by some chance you haven’t seen the video or read up on the resulting meme, I…
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Who’s got Health Care Summit fever? Hopefully not you – most insurance companies are treating it as a pre-existing condition.
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Inevitable, ‘how it’d take them this long?’ movie news from NBC New York’s Popcorn Biz: Justin Theroux, who had a hand in writing both “Tropic Thunder” and “Iron Man 2,” is heading to Fashion Week in Paris to prepare to write the “Zoolander” sequel. Ben Stiller, star, director and co-writer of the original, is working…
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Ten Rules for Writing Fiction From people like Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Franzen, Roddy Doyle, Elmore Leonard and more who (should) know what’s up.
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It was “hold your nose and save Wall Street” or a return to the dark ages. As Joseph Stiglitz, Willem Buiter and Paul Krugman were at pains to point out back then, an alternative existed: we could have done a GM/Chrysler on the banks. Expropriate the equity holders, pay 15 cents on the dollar to…
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