seregine | Shared With: Everyone - yesterday | people, science
Pyrotechnician human interest story.
Quoted: Then there are those who prefer to celebrate their country by blowing up a small part of it.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - 13 days ago | people, business, culture, education
I wonder if this essay isn't a decade late. Seems obvious, no?
Quoted: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - May 07 2008 | people, society, business, history, work, carreer, jobs
How industrialists created the consumer culture to keep people occupied. Baa.
It's encouraging to know that there's plenty of room for improvement. Our world is a product of dirty historical conditions, from apes through tyrants to masterminds. We can clean them up to make a better world possible.
Quoted: The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - May 06 2008 | education, people, society, politics
Schools are evil, here's why.
Quoted: Teaching means many different things, but six lessons are common to schoolteaching from Harlem to Hollywood. You pay for these lessons in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what they are
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 28 2008 | people, media, culture, internet, society
An interesting perspective on recent history: industrialization created free time (unused mental capacity or "cognitive surplus"), TV filled it at first but now we are finding more constructive ways to apply it.
Quoted: I started telling [a TV producer] about the Wikipedia article on Pluto...She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 25 2008 | people, culture, guns, new mexico
Was looking for CSS metalanguage, stumbled on this.
Quoted: The closest you'll get to the Old West short of a time machine!
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 22 2008 | people, software, psychology, philosophy, brain
Quoted: Computers, in Wozniak's scheme, will increase our intellectual capacity and enhance our rational self-control. Wozniak is a kind of algorithmic man. He's exploring what it's like to live in strict obedience to reason. On first encounter, he appears to be one of the happiest people I've ever met.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 18 2008 | mechturk, poll, people, culture, social
My photo got evaluated by MechTurk workers. The results are crushing. Apparently I'm ugly, untrustworthy, and old.
Post your results if you try it...
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 15 2008 | people, religion, world, politics
It occurs to me that I like the idea of the Dalai Lama, but don't know the historical context. This article describes some harsh criticism of Tibetan Buddhism and recent Dalai Lamas.
Quoted: The authors’ most provocative contention is that the global spread of Tibetan Buddhism may be laying the seeds for a new, highly aggressive, and virulently anti-Islamic form of fundamentalism.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 08 2008 | web, shopping, people, cvmention, clayvalet
The Spokesman Review compares ClayValet and Mpire.
ClayValet ftw.
Quoted: Does human-aided search find the best deals? .
...Here’s what we found, pitting Mpire.com, which calls itself the Kelley Blue Book of online shopping, vs. ClayValet.com, a new site that says it is an online personal shopping service.
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From Crimeth.Inc:
Our favorite radio show, This American Life, recently did a hour show examining the current mortgage crisis— the straw that broke the camel’s back and triggered a global financial crisis, the end of which is nowhere in sight. As the U.S. stumbles forward deeper and deeper into a recession, it would behoove those of us who don’t understand what has happened to take a minute to learn about the economic process—which was truly not a major aberration from business as usual—behind the credit collapse that has many economists warning of a new economic depression.
As usual, TAL makes the dry subject matter absolutely fascinating and entertaining, interviewing victims and perpetrators at every level of the travesty, and as they say:
We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall Street? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? It all comes back to the Giant Pool of Money.
Listen to the show here, for free, by clicking on the ‘Full Episode’ link. For those looking for more details, another radio favorite of ours, Fresh Air, has some more perspectives here, and here. And of course, Wikipedia comes through with 12,000 words on the subject.
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