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October 30 2011
Innovation Starvation | World Policy Institute
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one of the redeeming features of having worked in Seattle is understanding the corporate context that this was written in for ideas getting axed re: google/powerpoint at the bottom.
Innovation Starvation
SAGE for your tablet or mobile
By Neal StephensonMy lifespan encompasses the era when the United States of...
October 28 2011
Janet Nguyen - AsiaXPAT Profiles
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The expat existence in Asia comes in many different forms. Some are Asians who have lived and studied abroad and recently returned while many have ancestral roots and are residing here for the first time. And then there are those who have no cultural bonds to the region but are united in seeking to forge opportunities in what is fast becoming the most vibrant locale in...
September 30 2011
Wall Street Mocks Protesters By Drinking Champagne | jwz
Wall Street Mocks Protesters By Drinking Champagne
Apparently this was happening at "Ciprani Residences", an expensive private club with condos. You keep it classy, plutocrats.
Improving open source hardware: Visual diffs
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Shared by w0zAs the open source hardware movement matures, it's worth taking a moment to consider the issue of version control.
Collaborative software projects make heavy use of version control-- tools like Subversion and Git, and project hosting sites like SourceForge, GitHub, and Google Code --to organize and manage the contributions of many...
September 29 2011
GENERATION OF GREATNESS
The following lecture by Edwin Land, given at MIT in 1957, is oneof the most inspiring comments ever made on the role of a technicaluniversity. At MIT, it is cited as a prime motivator for thedevelopment of UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program),although UROP addressed only a fraction of Land's vision and therewas a 12-year gap between the lecture and the launch of the...
THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the
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Bringing fine arts to the google readers for fun. This is the forest primeval.
THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Loud from its rocky caverns, the d...
Not Always On: Tina Seelig - What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
Tina Seelig - What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
Tina Seelig, Executive Directory for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Here is the link to the video of Tina's presentation, starts about 5 minutes into the presentation.
Tina Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and one of the most truly brilliant and creative people I have ever met. In addition...
Harvard-supported Harvard Grad Mitt Romney Criticizes Obama for being a Harvard-supported Harvard Grad > Harvard, mitt romney | IvyGate
Good ol’ scrappy Republican “man of the people” Mitt Romney has been using Barack Obama’s elitist, Ivy-League pedigree as a punchline in recent campaign speeches, deriding the president’s foreign policy as no more than a ill-advised surrender scheme cooked up by effete snobs in the “Harvard faculty lounge,” out of touch with “what they know on the battlefield”.
Ignoring the laughable notion...
Improving open source hardware: Visual diffs
Improving open source hardware: Visual diffs @ Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.
As the open source hardware movement matures, it’s worth taking a moment to consider the issue of version control.Collaborative software projects make heavy use of version control– tools like Subversion and Git, and project hosting sites like SourceForge, GitHub, and Google Code –to organize and manage the...
Jonathan Stray » Learn to program, then and now
Learn to program, then and now
Published by Jonathan Stray at 4:42 pm. Tags: computational journalism, learning, systems, technology
Learning to program a computer is hard. While you can learn to make useful things in a few months, mastery may take a decade. It’s not like learning to bake a cake or shoot a video. It’s more like learning to...
Identified: NYPD Officer Who Maced Peaceful Protesters | Common Dreams
Identified: NYPD Officer Who Maced Peaceful Protesters
A photographer has identified the cruel and cowardly NYPD supervisor who point blank maced a penned in group of young women and then slinked away Saturday at the Occupy Wall Street protests:
Deputy Inspector Anthony V. Bologna of the NYPD Patrol Borough Manhattan South.
TAKE ACTION
If you think Deputy...
September 28 2011
25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time
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We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). We want to hear about, learn from and even replicate what they’ve done. However, this survivorship bias is problematic. Jason Cohen of Smart Bear Software does a nice job articulating this...
Welcome to the Future [Week of Sept 24, 2011] | Dustin Boyer
Shared by Star+ Dancing is getting more totally fucking awesome. Haven’t seen something this bomb since the likes of David Elsewhere:
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You can find the mp3 here >>>>>>
The Dehogaflier: Skywalker with FLIR thermal camera. - RC Groups
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Guy builds nightvision drone to hunt feral pigs (via Tim V)
It isn't that good, but it is pretty awesome. ...
Video: NYPD Uses Pepper Spray, Force On Wall Street Occupiers: Gothamist
Video: NYPD Uses Pepper Spray, Force On Wall Street Occupiers
Approximately 80 protestors were...
NYPD Reportedly Targeting Photographers At Occupation Of Wall Street: Gothamist
NYPD Reportedly Targeting Photographers At Occupation Of Wall Street
Photographs and especially videos of the NYPD's actions during the occupation of Wall Street have sparked outrage and media attention regarding the protests, which have now spanned ten days. Accordingly, witnesses, including our own photographer, tell us that the NYPD has been...
Quote For The Day - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
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Quote For The Day
"In prison, every time we complained about our conditions, the guards would immediately remind us of comparable conditions at Guantanamo Bay," - Shane Bauer, one of the two American hikers released last week after 781 days of detention in Iranian prison.
There Will Be No More Warrantless Cell Phone Searches in California [Privacy]
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Californians can finally breathe easy for having regained their privacy rights. A new law passed by the state Assembly bans the warrantless search of not just cell phones, but all portables that could conceivably send a message. Count your iPads safe, too.
California residents have run the risk of having the electronics searched without a warrant
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Atul Gawande Thinks You’re Not As Good As You Think You Are
In Search of Excellence
By any reasonable measure, Atul Gawande is an expert surgeon. He trained at some of the country’s most elite medical institutions and has performed over two thousand operations.
But he could be better.
As Gawande notes in his latest New Yorker feature, he recently brought a coach into his operating room to find places where he could improve. The coach turned up no shortage ...
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