2012-02-03
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A selection of the strings available as Dashboard highlights (only $1 each!) in Tumblr.
2012-02-02
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Fifty years ago, the four most valuable U.S. companies employed an average of 430,000 people with an average market cap of $180 billion. This year, the four largest U.S. companies employ an average 120,000 people with an average market cap of $334 billion. The titans of 2011 have twice the the value of their 1964 counterparts with a quarter of the employees.
(via The Atlantic)
I’m not sure why people think the tech industry is a panacea for job creation. Wealth creation? Perhaps. Jobs? Not so much.
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Neil Freeman: All of the active three-letter airport codes in alphabetical order:
Part of A series of Flight Postcards, a set of postcards curated by Leah Beeferman and published by Projectile Press.
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From a prepared Kodak DC215 1 megapixel digital camera.
’56. What makes good glitch art good is that, amidst a seemingly endless flood of images, it maintains a sense of the wilderness within the computer.’ — Hugh S. Manon and Daniel Temkin, Notes on Glitch (via)
2012-02-01
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This will tell you something about my day job. I now recognize “ums” in waveform. I don’t need to hear it, I only need to see this shape. This is the shape of an “um” or an “uh”.
I want to remove it from every ones speech patterns, including mine.
(via notational)
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Benjamin Nugent: I Had Asperger Syndrome, Briefly, from the New York Times.
This is one of a series of posts at the NY Times about the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the fifth (DSM-5 for short), which narrows the definition of autism (and Asperger syndrome) significantly. This particular post is well worth a read. (Thanks, Molly.)
