August 2010
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Aug 31st
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“Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.”
– William S. Burroughs
Aug 30th
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Aug 29th
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Aug 29th
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Aug 29th
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“For much of its history, Google has responded to most criticism with two words:...”
– What Does The Google-Verizon Proposal Mean? (via azspot)
Aug 29th
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Aug 29th
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Aug 29th
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“They’ll pay whoever they think can help them… That has been the CIA attitude...”
– An anonymous U.S. official, on the CIA’s secret payments to members of the Karzai administration. (Submitted by nickturse) (via officialssay)
Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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Zuckerberg's minions attack pre-launch teaching... →
azspot: Mark Zuckerberg’s privacy-melting, information harvesting network of evil, Facebook, has decided that it owns all the books in the world. It has decided to file an infringement lawsuit against a pre-launch website called Teachbook.com because it has “book” in its name. And it’s a community for teachers.
Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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Aug 27th
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Aug 27th
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Technology Leads More Park Visitors Into Trouble →
azspot: The national parks’ history is full of examples of misguided visitors feeding bears, putting children on buffalos for photos and dipping into geysers despite signs warning of scalding temperatures. But today, as an ever more wired and interconnected public visits the parks in rising numbers — July was a record month for visitors at Yellowstone — rangers say that technology often...
Aug 27th
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Aug 27th
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Aug 26th
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Aug 26th
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Aug 25th
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Aug 24th
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Aug 24th
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Aug 23rd
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Aug 23rd
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Aug 23rd
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Aug 23rd
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Aug 21st
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Aug 21st
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Aug 21st
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Aug 20th
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“I’m a doctor! I’m a doctor and I want my sausages!”
– from Fawlty Towers
Aug 20th
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Aug 19th
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“This is why I have been opposed to “guest worker” programs every time they are...”
– Your Country Is Addicted To Cheap Labor (via azspot)
Aug 19th
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Aug 19th
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Aug 19th
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Aug 19th
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Aug 19th
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Aug 18th
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Aug 17th
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Aug 16th
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Net Neutrality: This is serious →
azspot: Net neutrality is this: If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level. That’s all. Its up to the ISPs to make sure they interoperate so that that happens. Net Neutrality is NOT asking for the internet for free. Net Neutrality is NOT saying that one shouldn’t pay...
Aug 16th
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Aug 15th
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“When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt...”
– Paul Graham оn What Happened to Yahoo
Aug 15th
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Aug 14th
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Aug 13th
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Aug 13th
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“The quality of a job is sparked by higher quality demand; or, valuing more than...”
– A Deeper Kind of Joblessness by Umair Hague
Aug 13th