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Diversions- The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model | MagazineChristian Muñoz-Donoso is going to make this job pay, he's got to move quickly. He has a list of 10 videos to shoot on this warm June morning, for(author unknown)
- THE DRUG DOES WORKAt Cambridge over the summer, many students were taking pills to help their concentration. Ed Cumming was among them ...From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Autumn 2009One evening this summer, in our final term at Cambridge, my roommate Katie threw a party. Our set was in a 17th-century attic, and its sloping ceilings framed a gorgeous view: a panorama taking in […]Ed Cumming
- Guerrilla Marketing | A Hostage Store in Stockholm - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.comCourtesy of Ann Sofie Back A still from the YouTube "hostage" video by the designer Ann Sofie Back. Throughout her career, the Swedish designer Ann Sofie Back has embraced bad taste. Her ripped, stitched, tattered and generally askew aesthetic has been inspired by everything from Wildensteinesque plastic surgery to Lindsay Lohan's lack of unde […](author unknown)
- Master in the makingTurner is hailed as a proto-modernist, a 'painterly' painter concerned more with surface and light than subject matter. But, as a new show reveals, his originality grew out of a fashionable imitation of the Grand StyleTurner is a complicated figure in relation to the big picture of truly great art through the ages. But it's exactly this contex […](author unknown)
- Phantom limbs can contort into impossible configurations : Neurophilosophy (author unknown)
- Professionalization in the academy | Harvard Magazine Nov-Dec 2009On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal(author unknown)
- Killer vaccines and the killers who kill with themWired has a long piece by Amy Wallace about the anti-science anti-vaccine crowd. Ah, risk. It is the idea that fuels the anti-vaccine movement -- that parents should be allowed to opt out, because it is their right to evaluate risk for their own children. It is also the idea that underlies the CDC's vaccination schedule -- that the risk to public health […]Jason Kottke
- Felicia Day collides galaxies!Regular readers know I have an marginally unhealthy crush on Felicia Day. ...(author unknown)
- Fake AP Stylebook (FakeAPStylebook) on TwitterShared by Peter This one's for all my newspaper colleagues. Updated daily with style tips for proper grammatical writing. We also answer your questions.(author unknown)
- More of the BestHaving previously put together a post with links to stories from the 2009 edition of Best of American Crime Reporting, I decided to go to earlier editions to gather together what is available on the web. Starting in 2007 with The Tainted Kidney: Charles Graeber, New York. A serial killer who chooses to donate his kidney has his motives questioned. Continuing […]dances_with_sneetches
- The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model | Magazine
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