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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:33:18 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7):

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The Love Police: How to Escape a TERROR STOP (1 of 2) (via...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:16:49 +0000

The Love Police: How to Escape a TERROR STOP (1 of 2) (via cveitch)

"Dancing mania (or choreomania,[1] from the Greek: χορεία (khoreia = ‘dance’) + μανία..."

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:51:36 +0000

“Dancing mania (or choreomania,[1] from the Greek: χορεία (khoreia = ‘dance’) + μανία (mania = ‘madness’) was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 18th centuries; it involved groups of people, sometimes thousands at a time, who danced uncontrollably and bizarrely. Men, women, and children would dance through the streets of towns or cities, sometimes foaming at the mouth until they collapsed from fatigue.”

- Dancing mania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The government will not exempt universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi..."

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:49:34 +0000

“The government will not exempt universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, according to official advice released earlier this week. This would leave many organisations open to the same penalties for copyright infringement as individual subscribers, potentially including disconnection from the internet, leading legal experts to say it will become impossible for small businesses and the like to offer Wi-Fi access.”

- Open Wi-Fi ‘outlawed’ by Digital Economy Bill - ZDNet.co.uk

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28)

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:20:47 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21)

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:45:29 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21):

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"The NHS should stop funding homeopathy, MPs say. The House of Commons Science and Technology..."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:15:37 +0000

“The NHS should stop funding homeopathy, MPs say.
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee said using public money on the highly-diluted remedies could not be justified.
The cross-party group said there was no evidence beyond a placebo effect, when a patient gets better because of their belief that the treatment works.”

- BBC News - NHS money ‘wasted’ on homeopathy

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Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:47:54 +0000

"Three out of four experts said our use of the Internet enhances and augments human intelligence, and..."

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:26:40 +0000

“Three out of four experts said our use of the Internet enhances and augments human intelligence, and two-thirds said use of the Internet has improved reading, writing and rendering of knowledge,” said Janna Anderson, study co-author and director of the Imagining the Internet Center. “There are still many people, however, who are critics of the impact of Google, Wikipedia and other online tools.”

- The Future of the Internet IV | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

"It’s like… Like if you asked a friend if there was a Starbucks in his neighborhood and he said, yeah..."

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:00:17 +0000

“It’s like… Like if you asked a friend if there was a Starbucks in his neighborhood and he said, yeah I think there’s one half a mile down, maybe. And you drive half a mile and see a big carwash place, and you park and walk in and ask to speak to the manager. And you tell the carwash manager how unhappy you are with this terrible new Starbucks redesign.”

- Dan Grover » Toward a Grand Unified Theory of n00bs

john-james: luxembourg: allegra: lydiadeetz:twigthewonderkid:s...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:37:48 +0000

john-james:

luxembourg:

allegra:

lydiadeetz:twigthewonderkid:spiderlashes

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Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:12:06 +0000

"Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow? Or wake up ready to write down..."

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:58:20 +0000

“Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow? Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen? During the day, computer screens look good—they’re designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn’t be looking at the sun. f.lux F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. It’s even possible that you’re staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.”

- F.lux: software to make your life better

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14)

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:44:28 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14):

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Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:05:13 +0000

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com

Sky on Vimeo (via Vimeo )

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:47:01 +0000

Sky on Vimeo (via Vimeo

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theladylikes: notpants: Apparently, American Apparel is aware...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:20:16 +0000

theladylikes:

notpants:

Apparently, American Apparel is aware of the issue because they’ve started printing this little message inside their leggings. You know it’s serious when your dealer tells you you have a problem.

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"After about two years of using Firefox one of my friends told me that pressing CTRL+SHIFT+T can..."

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:15:57 +0000

“After about two years of using Firefox one of my friends told me that pressing CTRL+SHIFT+T can bring back a recently closed tab.”

- What your best “mind=blown” moment? : AskReddit

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:13:09 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7):

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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:22:09 +0000