February 2010
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“That NBC is withholding the footage from Hulu is what the Internet should...”
– Somebody Tell Me Why the Olympics Highlights Aren’t on Hulu | The Big Money (via evangotlib) (via rafimama) (via mikehudack)
Haha, whatever it is they have, it sure as shit ain’t a strategy.
gregb:
Gorillaz ft. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul...
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Eight obstructionist GOP Senators voted against... →
ericmortensen:
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
George LeMieux (R-FL)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
Watch“Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games” via fox @ fury.
Love the gleeful depiction of a (what to me sounds horrible) surveillance/paternalistic/PR society. These are all games!
WatchPhilip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system (TED 2010)
Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant →
theoriginaljoefisher:
Kaboom.
Röyksopp - What Else Is There
“Waiting for the day of realization that Internet knowledge-richness actively...”
– Bruce Sterling
This is how you make a aquaponic system. →
colinkloecker:
Spring project?
Really want to do this myself…
“A spate of internet attacks that hit Google and other companies have been traced...”
– Google attacks ‘traced to Chinese schools’ - guardian.co.uk
“Google and Facebook’s entire business model is based on the notion of...”
– Lyons, on Buzz, etc. (via newsweek) (via mikehudack)
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“The malapportioned state legislatures of the United States, elected by votes...”
– Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, 1969.
Elusive dish of cities →
bobulate:
Jessa Crispin with thoughts on some of the obstacles to creating a vibrant city, starting with thoughts on Richard Florida’s theory:
It comes off a little like a home baker trying to recreate a magical dish from the restaurant the night before …. [T]here’s always something you can’t quite place, or something you would never have thought of, like a little turmeric in the sauce or...
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Jay Dee - 3 Beat Tapes, 1, Track 18
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StreetTalks from the LivableStreets Alliance: No... →
No Zoning: Why Houston May Be Our Future… … and why that may not be such a bad thing. Deep in “Red Territory,” America’s fourth largest city is seldom used as an example of good planning ideas. Instead, it is thought of as an example of what not to do. Yet, as the only major American city without zoning, Houston is a prime example of how transportation planning shapes our cities, for both...
"Algae to solve the Pentagon's jet fuel problem"... →
The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same cost as its fossil-fuel equivalent.
The claim, which comes from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) that helped to develop the internet and satellite navigation systems, has taken industry insiders by surprise. A cheap, low-carbon fuel would not only help the US...
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Jarvis - Further Complications
Don’t write...
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“I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother.
There’s a...”
– Fuck you, Google « Fugitivus (via jhnbrssndn)
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THE COMMENTS! AHAHAHAHA THE COMMENTS! →
fleetfootedfox:
zoya:
laughing through my tears:
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the first result. We recommend...
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“Honestly, Google, is there anyone in charge over there? Is there anyone who...”
– Fake Steve said it before, but it’s worth saying again. (via jhnbrssndn)
This Buzz is Killing Me →
emptyage:
I woke up this morning to discover that Google Buzz really wanted my attention. As always happens early with The New Hottness, everybody’s hammering it, trying to figure out what (or if) they’ll use…
