February 2011
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January 2011
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Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It’s old television sets and slow...
– Nick Miller: Travel (via lanipauli)
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There’s a debate in our culture about what really makes us happy, which is...
– What the science of human nature can teach us, The New Yorker (via somethingchanged)
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Americans are more afraid of having their online privacy violated in some way...
– We Fear for Our Online Privacy, But Do Little to Protect It (via courtenaybird)
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For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide...
– CQ (via kateoplis)
See also, How to save a friend from the brink.
(via jayparkinsonmd)
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Why can’t all “tech” journalism be like this? A single article on the topic,...
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Why is Schmidt stepping down at Google?
(via fred-wilson)
Precision.
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Single Spaced →
heyitsnoah:
Having had this argument a few times, it makes me very happy to read Slate’s takedown of double-spacing after sentences:
Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It’s one of the canonical rules of the profession, in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion designers know to put men’s shirt buttons on the right...
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The Sartorialist: On the Street...Black, White,... →
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Last night, we heard from two industry sources close to top Facebook execs that...
– $50 Billion? Hah! Insiders Say Facebook’s Goal Is To Be The First TRILLION Dollar Company
OMG.
(via courtenaybird)
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Put This On: How Many Subscribers Does Your... →
putthison:
I often find myself curious as to where various style blogs stack up in terms of readership. Of course, web traffic is tough to measure from the outside, so it can be difficult to tell. One thing that can be easily measured, though, is the number of people subscribing to a site’s RSS feed…
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The first step to get yourself out of a hole is to stop digging, but that’s a...
– Congrats, America, You’re $14 Trillion In The Hole - The Consumerist (via courtenaybird)
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Jack Cheng: Staggering Resolutions →
jackcheng:
At the beginning of 2010, I decided to do my New Years’ resolutions a little differently. Instead of making a plain list of things I wanted to accomplish, I tried to plan out the entire year, month by month, thinking it’d be easier to focus on a few things at a time. Shortly after, a friend…