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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2009 | people, technology, education
    Of Luddites, Learning, and Life

    Quoted: ...the information-giving function of the schools was rendered obsolete a long time ago...one of the principal functions of school is to teach children how to behave in groups...We have ample evidence that it takes many years of teaching these values in school before they have been accepted and internalized. Some would say that this function of schooling is the most difficult task educators must achieve. If it is not, then the function of providing the young with narratives that help them to find purpose and meaning in learning and life surely is.

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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 09 2009 | technology, society, culture, philosophy, psychology, people
    Inevitable Minds

    Kevin Kelly argues that all living things have minds, that human-like minds have evolved independently several times, and that perhaps minds evolve inevitably wherever there's life. Then he points out that technology is already creating billions of tiny "minds", and they're constantly getting smarter and more human-like.

    Picture shows how we'd look, had we evolved from dinosaurs.

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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 05 2009 | people, business, culture, news, finance, travel, Iceland
    Wall Street on the Tundra

    Incredible story; great mix of personal insight and historical perspective. Read this and you'll want to tell people about it too.

    Quoted: Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance—resulted from a stunning collective madness.

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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 19 2009 | technology, people, politics, history
    The Technium: The Unabomber Was Right

    An interesting perspective.

    Quoted: Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of individual artifacts and gadgets for sale. Rather, Kaczynski, speaking as the Unabomber, argued that technology is a dynamic holistic system. It is not mere hardware; rather it is more akin to an organism.

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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 23 2009 | people, photos, culture, bike
    Amsterdam Bicycles

    Quoted: 82 pictures of bicycles taken during 73 minutes on 9/12/06 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 09 2009 | design, art, people
    Design Medicine - For what ails you

    My officemate's excellent portfolio.

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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 09 2009 | people, society
    5 Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferriss

    Apparently, Penelope Trunk can write. And she shares some of my opinions. A worthy addition to my echo chamber.

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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2008 | people, business, philosophy
    Elementary Worldly Wisdom

    Brilliant business writing.
    Brendan, thanks for the link.

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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 30 2008 | russia, people, events, Georgia, politics, news
    CNN interview with Putin

    Putin comes across as competent and credible. His viewpoint naturally advances Russia's interests, but he backs it up well.

    Quoted: CNN's Matthew Chance interviewed Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday.

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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 15 2008 | people, education, afghanistan, politics
    Building Schools in Afghanistan

    This is exactly the right thing to do.

    Quoted: Greg Mortenson has spent less than one-ten-thousandth as much as the Bush administration to help fight terrorism in Pakistan. Instead of blowing things up, he builds schools.

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