June 2010
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 19th
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“You rarely find the wealthy, CEOs or celebrities in 1st class anymore; they’ve...”
– David Brin (via azspot)
Jun 19th
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How to keep someone with you forever →
azspot: You create a sick system. A sick system has four basic rules: Rule 1: Keep them too busy to think. Thinking is dangerous. If people can stop and think about their situation logically, they might realize how crazy things are. Rule 2: Keep them tired. This is a corollary to keeping them too busy to think. Of course you can’t turn off anyone’s thought processes completely—but you can keep...
Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
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10 Business Myths of the Geeks →
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Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
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Mailorder Wombs: Outsourcing Birth to India →
azspot: So much of America’s economic activity takes place on faraway shores, from call centers in Mumbai to sweatshops in Shanghai. Still, you’d think that making a baby would be one job that’s hard to offshore. But today, for a fee, a woman in another country can serve as a “gestational surrogate,” carrying a fertilized egg to term and then delivering the baby straight to your door, halfway...
Jun 19th
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“Don’t be evil” is a glib corporate tagline for Google but it doesn’t get to the...”
– I, Cringely (via azspot)
Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
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“Mark used his site, TheFacebook.com, to look up members of the site who...”
– In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke Into A Facebook User’s Private Email Account by Nicholas Carlson
Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 13th
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“The paradox embedded in our future is that the fastest way to slow our...”
– Is Population a Problem? (via azspot)
Jun 13th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 13th
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“In the latest round of empty fist waving by Obama and apologetic posturing by...”
– Douglas Rushkoff (via azspot)
Jun 12th
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Jun 12th
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Jun 12th
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“Phoenix is America’s least educated, least literate major metro area. Arizona is...”
– Rogue Columnist (via azspot)
Jun 12th
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“What Adam Smith pointed out more than two hundred years ago is equally true...”
– Michael Lewitt (via azspot)
Jun 12th
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“Why then, are most libertarians instead the most intransigent and obnoxious of...”
– David Brin (via azspot)
Jun 12th
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“You may not notice the little extra cognitive load placed on your brain, but...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Experiments in delinkification (via scribkin) (via furryrabbits)
Jun 12th
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How Foxconn is fixing the global economy →
azspot: Wages are rising and the supply of surplus labor in China is vanishing.On these points, just about everyone agrees — although the lightning speed at which it is happening is a source of surprise. But why it is happening is a topic for great debate. In the case of Foxconn, China’s largest employer, a cluster of suicides sparked a media frenzy and international embarrassment. In the case...
Jun 10th
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Jun 10th
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“Peak oil doesn’t mean “we’re about to run out of oil.” Even defining it as...”
– Rogue Columnist (via azspot)
Jun 9th
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Jun 9th
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Jun 7th
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Jun 7th
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“Perhaps if readers were more confident that the majority of the money went to...”
– Confessions of a Book Pirate
Jun 7th
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Jun 7th
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Tall poppy syndrome →
readmorewikipedia: Tall Poppy Syndrome (TPS) is a pejorative term used in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada to describe a social phenomenon in which people of genuine merit are resented, attacked, cut down, or criticized because their talents or achievements elevate them above or distinguish them from their peers.
Jun 6th
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Jun 5th
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“The near future holds mind-bending promise for American business.”
– Brave new war: the next stage of terrorism and the end of globalization  By John Robb
Jun 5th
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“You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They...”
– ascribed to Banksy
Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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“The reality is that every society makes choices about their health system and...”
– Health Care Economics 101 (via azspot)
Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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“But most of America appears to have deeply internalized the belief that labor...”
– Why is Washington Dithering with Unemployment High?
Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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“It would be a brave author that told the good citizens of this world that they...”
– “The Permaculture Way” by Graham Bell
Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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“I asked the troop leader afterward for an explanation of this terrible word....”
– ‘Granny Made Me An Anarchist’ by Stuart Christie
Jun 4th