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Doc Searls

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The Jeremy Lin story

Last night I listened to sports radio from ESPN, WFAN in New York, KNBR in San Francisco, and WEEI in Boston, as well as to KOVO here in Provo, Utah (where I'm hanging this week). One of the talkers put it best, saying something like this: "Let's face it. There is no other story right [...]

For personal data, use value beats sale value

Should you manage your personal data just so you can sell it to marketers? (And just because somebody's already buying it anyway, why not?) Those are the barely-challenged assumptions in Start-Ups Seek to Help Users Put a Price on Their Personal Data, by Joshua Brustein in The New York Times. He writes, People have been willing to give [...]

Live blogging Politics of the Internet

So I'm at Micah Sifry's Politics of the Internet class at the Kennedy School, and risk live-blogging it (taxing my multitasking abilities…) Some questions in the midst of dialog between Micah (@Mlsif) and the class (#pol-int)… Was there a $trillion "internet dividend" over the old phone system, and was it a cost to the old [...]

MAKE Blog Module

Index ⇑Summary:Show posts from MAKE blog, a cool blog for do-it-yourself enthusiasts.Options:How many posts?
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Martin Klimas Captures Paint Pushed by Sound

Martin Klimas places paint upon a translucent material, underneath which is a speaker. When music is...

Giant Pink Printable Gear Heart

It's Thing #16909 from faberdasher, directly enlarged from Thing #12208 by emmett (who is also a cen...

Air-Powered Origami Robot

This "multi-gait soft robot" may be moved by sequentially inflating its various air pockets. Kinda c...

Lego “Broken Heart” Pendant Set

OK, yeah, that's cute. Incidentally, Lego element #3176, Plate, Modified 3 x 2 with Hole is also ava...

A Bookshelf for Bookworms

Redditor rariya posted this series of photos documenting the construction of a curvy bookshelf calle...

PoliticsCentral.com News

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Salon Magazine Module

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Scientific American Module

Index ⇑Summary:Latest articles from Scientific American.Options:How many posts?
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The Coming Entanglement: Bill Joy and Danny Hillis

Digital innovators Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Danny Hillis, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, talk with Scientific American executive editor Fred Guterl about the technological Entanglement and the attempts to build the other, hardier internet. [More]

Did Life's First Cells Evolve in Geothermal Pools?

Earth started as a violent place, its surface churned by continuous volcanic eruptions and cloaked in an atmosphere that would have been poisonous to today's life-forms. Furthermore, the thin primeval atmosphere may have provided only scant protection from the young sun's harsh ultraviolet glare. Given these inhospitable conditions, scientists have long wondered: How did the first cells come to be nearly four billion years ago? [More]

Cool Aid: Drug That Lets Body Temperature Drop Could Save Stroke Victims

During the last decade, a series of studies in The New England Journal of Medicine chronicled the potential benefits of rescuing patients from stroke, heart attack and other conditions by lowering body temperature to reduce demand for oxygen. Depressed body temperature may also have manifold effects beyond the ones described--anything from prolonging life span to inducing a lower metabolic state suitable for long-distance spaceflight. [More]

Drafty Home Retrofits Spread from Neighbor to Neighbor

Beth Domingo watched in wonder as contractors uncovered the flaws in her four-bedroom suburban Maryland home. After living there for 18 years, she thought she knew it inside and out, but she was wrong. [More]

Seths Blog Module

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Time doesn't scale

Meeting vs. making

Spout and scout

Washington Post Module

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Japan begins grim relief mission with towns flooded, thousands reported missing

Rescue teams searched through matchstick rubble Saturday for thousands of people missing in flooded areas of northeastern Japan, beginning one of the most complex relief efforts in history.

Japanese nuclear plants' operator scrambles to avert meltdowns

Japanese authorities said Sunday that efforts to restart the cooling system at one of the reactors damaged by Friday's earthquake had failed, a major setback in the struggle to contain what has become the most serious nuclear power crisis in a quarter century.

For autistic kids' parents, trial hits home

Subterranean jail a sign of Gaddafi's grip

Who will reach the Final Four?

Wonkette

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Wonkette Art Contest: Win Bill Maher Tickets With Your Terrible Computer Picture

Do you have "Microsoft Paint" on your iPhone? Then you can be a prize-winning published artist! (Maybe.) Wonkette and 9:30 Club/IMP Promotions invite you to take part in our exciting "Make an image of Bill Maher wrestling the Pope" ticket giveaway. One lucky winner will get two (2) tickets to see teevee's Bill Maher at [...]

You Must Read The Occupiers' 325-Page Comment To The SEC

The Occupy people have done a wonderful thing. On Monday, just as the comment period on the new regulation was closing, a subgroup of seven known as Occupy the SEC submitted a 325-page comment to all relevant federal agencies demanding a stricter "Volcker Rule" — the part of Dodd-Frank that aims to limit the amount [...]

For Old Time's Sake, Here's Rick Santorum's 2006 Gay Wrestling Ad

Let's see, gay wrestlers all humping on each other? Check. Pudgy Rick Santorum smiling and winking? Yep. Praise for Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer? Oh hell yeah. This is Rick Santorum's victory video for his 2006 Senate re-election campaign, which he lost by an astonishing 18 points. [BuzzFeed]

Word of the Day

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vilipend: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

vilipend: to regard or treat as of little value or account.