December 2008
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Documentary →
slantback:
This group is an attempt to gather a collection great documentaries, posted by documentary lovers for documentary lovers.
November 2008
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How To: Mull Your Beer →
do this. it tastes good.
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Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit:... →
jackcheng:
Long article, but here’s an interesting bit: “The “arousal procrastinator” swears that he works best under pressure, loving—perhaps needing—the rush of a last-minute deadline to get started. Such a person believes procrastinating affords a “peak” or “flow” experience, defined by psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi of the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University...
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“Stimulus doesn’t have to be just economic.”
– Suketu Mehta (via fred-wilson)
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“One reason is that dumping more than 100 billion pounds of food has a financial...”
– An Abundance of Food, Wasted
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WatchThanksgiving parade gets a live ‘Rickroll’
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Turkey TMI →
there is a reason thanksgiving is a holiday where people interact with other people. it doesn’t translate very well when live-blogged. you already sorta know what is going to happen.
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“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your...”
– Winston Churchill (via jackcheng)
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WatchThe Chipkin! Disclosure: ideablob is an MWW client.
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The best thing about doing something new?
You don’t know how long it will take.
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“Go Cowboys!!”
– Twitter / Mr. Carter
hova is a ‘boys fan. that is all.
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Divers fix deep pipe under NYC
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For this, the city has enlisted six deep-sea divers who are living for more than a month in a sealed 24-foot tubular pressurized tank complete with showers, a television and a Nerf basketball hoop, breathing air that is 97.5 percent helium and 2.5 percent oxygen, so their high-pitched squeals are all but unintelligible. They leave the tank only to transfer to a diving bell that is lowered 70...
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PROTIP 2008
Start your New Year’s resolutions today.
Don’t lie, you know them already. Odds are they’re the same ones you had last year.
Starting now will help you get it in gear by Jan. 1 ‘09.
Trust me, try it.
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What if your blog had a Christmas card?
Let’s get real for a minute.
Yes, we live in a digital world and hardly engage in interpersonal communication unless we absolutely have to. Instead, we push pixels at each other. With that said, how interesting would it be to visualize every single person behind making this digital transmission possible? It still takes people, right?
I’d need Marco and David in it, everyone else...
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“Mathematically speaking, “Napoleon Dynamite” is a very significant problem for...”
– The Screens Issue - If You Liked This, Sure to Love That - Winning the Netflix Prize
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“I don’t even have a TV.”
– Benjamin Palmer
mind you, mr. palmer is CEO of the Barbarian Group.
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Brands in 2009 →
looking ahead, i talk a bit about the role of the brand and how it can change the current engagement breakdown of the web.
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Perspectives →
jstn:
“While interviews traditionally present what people say, in Perspectives the interviewees don’t actually say anything. With the spoken portion of the footage edited out, Perspectives leaves only body language, pauses for thought, and interjections to do the communicating.”
Nice use of Vimeo, too. (via brendan)
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“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men...”
– Bertrand Russell (via affremblequotes)
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I'M FREAKING OUT...MAN.
i don’t use my answering machine anymore. no, seriously, i don’t. it just sits there with no phone line connected to it, relegated to relic status.
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NYT Mag Interview, 11/14/08
Deborah Solomon: What kind of funny stamps?
Karl Rove: Stamps.
...
Deborah Solomon: Did I say that?
Karl Rove: Yes, you did. I’ve got it on tape. I’m going to transcribe this and send it to you.
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First Casualty of the Obama Administration
urg:
Last night while on Facebook, I noticed that I was unable to access the account of a close friend. A friend in whose wedding I served as a bridesmaid. Thinking it was a Facebook glitch, I e-mailed her this morning to check in.
She wrote back saying that due to things that were said during the election, she thought it best to remove me as a friend.
I’ll be the first to say that my passions...
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“WHEREAS By the authority vested in us by us, all employees in the U.S.A. are...”
– A Proclamation - Coudal Partners (via df)
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Civics Lesson 101: Who really elects the President
ratcliffe-lee:
It is the Electoral College, not the popular vote, that elects the next president of the United States. Here are some facts about the Electoral College:
* There are 538 members of the Electoral College, allotted to the 50 states and District of Columbia based on their representation in the U.S. Congress. The smallest states have three members, while the most populous state,...
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“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our...”
– John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 175
Words: Going Beyond The Purely Political… at The Digital Edge Blog (via fred-wilson)
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The emerging moral psychology →
dailymeh:
Hume thought that morality was rooted in sentiment, not reason, and modern science appears to be giving him a resounding endorsement on that point. Of course, neither Hume nor moral psychologists believe there is no such thing as moral reasoning — merely that ultimately, this reasoning is based on feelings, and most of the time, we start with a feeling and work our way from the...
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The Economy and the Economics of Everyday Life -... →
this will go into google reader and not on the list of 1k+ articles i have sitting on instapaper. ugh.
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“Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes...”
– ‘The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching’ - Knowledge@Wharton (via fred-wilson)
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