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“To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as “the system” is to speak correctly. … They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose. People arrive at a factory and perform a … Continue reading

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Interesting SR-71 Facts

From 2011 April issue of AOPA Pilot magazine: What was the code name for the secret program that evolved into the SR-71 Blackbird? The project known as “Arch Angel” created the A-1 through A-12 aircraft that preceded the Blackbird. Why … Continue reading

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Think About the Puppets

Watch: Puppet Suicide It’s not funny. It’s an epidemic. …congrats to Peter Gilroy at Chapman University for winning the 2011 National College Comedy Funny Film Competition.

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Weekly Random: #37

Heavier Looney Tunes: Jones and Now Reform the PhD System or Close it Down 50% of the Relationship, Good and/or Bad If Supermarkets were like Public Schools My favorite comment on the article: “Interesting and amusing concept, but… If people … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #36

Interesting Cell Scale Universe Scale John Butler – Ocean Serious The Economics and Genetics of Parenting Windows Shopping with China’s Central Bank Stages of a Photographer Funny and/or Sad A Mother’s Prayer for her Child by Tina Fey Swedish vs … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #35

Random Quote “I sold [MicroSolutions] after 7 years and made enough money to take time off and have a whole lot of fun. Back then I can remember vividly people telling me how lucky I was to sell my business … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #34

Visual Fractals in 3D The Seasons Welcome to Louisiana Serious Dark Ads Space Station Assembly Randomly Random The Effectiveness of Science Videos – Interesting video. Common Misconceptions about the Khan Academy Common Science Misconception Videos Radiation Dose Chart Before and … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #33

Very Cool Discovery Launch Viewed from Commercial Flight Visualizing WiFi Networks Saturn Fly-By from High-Res Photos Be water, my friend Runaway Reality Downsizing Federal Government – Cato Institute Misc Gary Player in His Own Words Land/Sea Top to Bottom Graphic … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #32

Interesting Shadow Art Art from ~30,000  Years Ago – (source) Worth Reading Why We Exaggerate the Joys of Parenthood – Accurately inaccurate. “‘the economically worthless but emotionally priceless child” A Main Librarian’s Pointed Budget Message Misc Who Knew Have to … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #31

Cool Satirical Illustrations by Pawel Kuczynski Book Artistry by Brian Dettmer Artist’s Website Seline HD Music Instrument App for iPad Demonstration Boring, but Interesting Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance Analysis of Autodesk Annual Report (per Ton Roosendaal) Why are … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #30

Interesting A Study in Contrasts The Varieties of Beer Facebook Fact We have to go Deeper AMA: I Own a Ferrari F430 Technical Differences between IBM Watson and Wolfram|Alpha View in to the Internals of Qt Team

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Goodbye to an Old Friend

I took kt004 to the electronics recycling plant over the weekend.  This was a high-end laptop bought while working at IconMedialab in St. Louis. It built the Wear-Dated RFID kiosk, held Prada docs, weathered a few electric shorts due to … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #29

Visuals Then & Now in Photos High-Res Panorama of Sistine Chapel World’s Fastest Game of Hide-And-Seek Visualization of HIV Not Required Reading How to Become Batman Tech Guy commits genome to Github and Forks Inside story of HBGary Hack

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Design Idea #206

Jill thought it wasn’t serious enough.

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Weekly Random: #28

Econ US Manufacturing – Blame Productivity Okay Superb Blender3D Demo Reel – Hope he gets the job Genius – A Screw Top Bag Ouch Technical Taking on Anonymous – Fascinating. IRC logs were hilarious. Consultant Company Accounting

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Nokia and Microsoft

http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/nokia-developer-news/2011/02/11/letter-to-developers wow. What a storm this has kicked up in the developer community. I’m kind-of frustrated as well and I don’t even have any skin in the game.  On the mobile side, this play makes a lot of sense for … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #27

Excellent The Google Art Project Selections from National Geographic’s Visions of Earth Maybe Interesting 30 Days without Facebook Optimal Employment 2 Paths to Success for Children (?) (Counter point to Amy Chua’s Chinese Style Parenting) (Amy Chua’s Daughter’s Followup) Politics, … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #26

Interesting Why 3D Films Don’t Work Was Hitler really that bad of a Guy? (1st answer) An Awkward Tasting “A very good read on something that has absolutely no bearing to my life.” Only if you have the Time State … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #25

Fascinating Startups and Socialism (and Taxes) in Norway Technical Joys of Localization Evolution of a Python Programmer Interesting. Maybe. Color …or Contrast? Pick Two Entanglement left, right, Z, and ENTER 182 on the second game

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Regarding Facebook

Pondering Companies worth less than Facebook Assange vs. Zuckerberg Technical How Facebook Ships Code Building Facebook Apps for Clients Advertising Facebook is a like Ponzi Scheme 3rd Biggest Advertiser is (Allegedly) Bing Affiliate Scam – (more)

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