December 2010
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Big Brotheresque App Kills Your Automotive... →
Like the intent of the app, but abuse issues from flaggers and murky relationship to insurance companies could get thorny.
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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is...”
– e.e. cummings (via psychotherapy)
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“Cognitive Dissonance: The belief that when horrific and illegal acts take place,...”
– (via spytap)
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pieratt:
Not until my third viewing did I notice that Luc Besson had drained the Hudson and East River for NYC’s appearance in The Fifth Element.
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“Coveting possessions is unhealthy. Here’s how I look at it:
All of the...”
– This is the rallying cry for Svpply.
Collect ‘em all! (via Code for Something, jackcheng, john) (via joshmohrer)
(via pieratt)
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The 'Radiolab' Effect →
Melissa Stanley went to school for music—or rather, Music Industry. The 26-year-old recalls “taking maybe one physics class in college, and that was it” for her formal science education. After graduation, she became a director of A&R and booking at Jezebel Music, a concert-promotion outfit for unsigned acts in Williamsburg. Then, at the office sometime in 2007, things changed. “One day,”...
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Deadly Medicine →
Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn’t reach, and “mistakes” can end up in pauper’s graves? The authors investigate the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, and...
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The Fall of Niagara Falls →
Niagara Falls’ descent into blight—in spite of its proximity to an attraction that draws at least 8 million tourists each year—is a tale that Hudson’s little newspaper has been telling for years. It encompasses just about every mistake a city could make, including the one Frankie G. cited: a 1960s mayor’s decision to bulldoze his quaint downtown and replace it with a bunch of modernist follies....
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Watchspytap:
Oh Senator McCain…
You’re a shadow of your former self.
I’m not…mad. Not really.
I’m just disappointed.
Senator McCain was someone I could of voted for the office of President and respected had he won, but increasingly his opinions and views are of someone that is close minded to say the least.
