February 2012
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Planning Of Municipal Bus Line 11A Three Weeks... →
Stop 8: The Acrid Smoke Engulfed Quadrant where the Sun No Longer Penetrates to The Center for Disease Control Headquarters (Defunct) – We shouldn’t be stopping here. One week after the CDC was “turned over to the states”, New Hampshire weaponized the mumps. I know. It doesn’t make any sense. But hey, “50 little laboratories”!
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“We know that we live in a “new normal” – a period of time in which we have to...”
– President Eli Capilouto of the University of Kentucky
What a crock…
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CJR: Why We Love The Political Gabfest →
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Though it is (broadly) a political analysis show, the Politcal Gabfest sometimes makes me laugh out loud. There was one evening last summer where I was that strange person on the subway, giggling maniacally, unable to stop as I listened to the show. The conversation had turned to dogs and mimes. You had to be there.
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets →
The desire to collect information on customers is not new for Target or any other large retailer, of course. For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person who regularly walks into one of its stores. Whenever possible, Target assigns each shopper a unique code — known internally as the Guest ID number — that keeps tabs on everything they buy. “If you use a credit card or...
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The Julian Assange Show →
Is now the time for a forty-year-old cyber activist to sell out?
To sell out, Assange would of course have to violate his ideals. Maybe he has, but it would be wrong to confuse the romantic view that he holds of the world with a rigid commitment to ideology or unwavering idealism. He is a charismatic figure precisely because of the way his contradictions—manifest in WikiLeaks from the...
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At Work in Syria, Times Correspondent Anthony... →
The death of Mr. Shadid, an American of Lebanese descent who had a wife and two children, abruptly ended one of the most storied careers in modern American journalism. Fluent in Arabic, with a gifted eye for detail and contextual writing, Mr. Shadid captured dimensions of life in the Middle East that many others failed to see. Those talents won him a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in...
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“We like to think Seamus spent his golden years in Canada, an outlaw, never...”
– Did the Romney Family Dog Flee to Canada?
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“Stop demanding to be spoon-fed like a baby. Figure out how to deal with art that...”
– D’Agata
Facts Are Stupid: An essayist and his fact-checker go to battle over the line between true and false.
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Larry Summers: What You (Really) Need to Know →
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Where Americans Most Depend on Government Benefits →
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Watch‘Saturday Night Live’ accurately skewers Verizon 4G advertising
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“Facebook exists to make the world more open”
– Mark Zuckerberg in the Facebook IPO filing.
What a joke.