February 2012
11 posts
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“BlackBerry Season The easy explanation for what happened to R.I.M. is that, like...”
– The New Yorker  
Feb 10th
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“They tell us that only a “managed economy” for intellectual “property” will...”
– Reginald Braithwaite
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“Sugar should be controlled like alcohol: reportSugar is so toxic it should be...”
– National Post 
Feb 3rd
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January 2012
23 posts
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“This year will be the year of Big Data. The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI)...”
– Fast Company  
Jan 30th
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Andrei Trostel: Spell Chceker is Agiasnt Me! →
andreitrostel: As a dyslexic person, I spell atrociously, so without spell check on programs, I would probably be unintelligible to the world. However, I have recently realized that over time spell check is slowly working against me, even mocking me! When I type on a word processor or even chat in Gmail I find…
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
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WatchWatch
washingtonpoststyle: Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak. This is the greatest interview in the history of “The Colbert Report.” (Go to our actual tumblog if you have trouble watching on the dashboard.) riot!
Jan 26th
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The Atlantic: The Zynga Abyss →
90wpm: The Atlantic published an excerpt from my essay for Distance today. It’s a little over 1500 words, and covers some of the main points in the essay. It also includes a fantastic photoshopped stock photo of a lab rat playing FarmVille in a Skinner box. Here’s a small snip: In the 1890s, while studying natural sciences at the University of Saint Petersburg, a Russian mathematician named...
Jan 26th
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Jan 22nd
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Our Unimaginative Internet Economy →
Yes, Google and Facebook make their billions by selling millions of beautifully-targeted ads. How innovative, how ingenious, how high-tech. Oh wait, no it’s not. It’s the most unimaginative way to make money in the media business. It’s really no different than a TV network making money from commercials. As with TV, on the Internet you buy the hardware (a computer/tablet/TV set). You pay...
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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“Streaming Dreams; YouTube turns pro But there is one category in which YouTube...”
– The New Yorker  
Jan 16th
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Jan 14th
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“In 1984, when his research institute fell under new management, he took a look...”
– What the Bagel Man Saw  An Accidental Glimpse at Human Nature (NY Times Magazine)
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December 2011
17 posts
soumitra: @ideacellular help! i'm getting charged... →
soumitra: @ideacellular help! i’m getting charged for SMSes despite a text plan. btw, can’t believe you charge 50p/3mins to talk to cust service reps.
Dec 31st
soumitra: if there's any place worse than being in... →
soumitra: if there’s any place worse than being in a bus with kids who’ve just visited a sugar factory, I don’t want to be there.
Dec 27th
Dec 26th
soumitra: dear @ideacellular, I'm not getting... →
soumitra: dear @ideacellular, I’m not getting service for the last hour or so. any idea? #punintended http://t.co/fDGvgo2v
Dec 23rd
soumitra: @maheshjag :) hope they have too, but... →
soumitra: @maheshjag :) hope they have too, but guess that’s too much to ask.
Dec 20th
Dec 20th
soumitra: ordered a thin crust pizza at... →
soumitra: ordered a thin crust pizza at @PizzaHut_India the other day and got a cheese crust pizza instead. the server said both are the same thing.
Dec 18th
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“The Australian Reserve Bank decided to convert the entire money supply to...”
Dec 15th
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soumitra: 1 hacker way? really? come on FB, you... →
soumitra: 1 hacker way? really? come on FB, you guys could have done better than that. at least 1337 hacker way.
Dec 7th
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soumitra: OH: right now, i'm feeling as apathetic... →
soumitra: OH: right now, i’m feeling as apathetic as the rest of the organization.
Dec 5th
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“That’s where I get so much satisfaction, because behind every one, there’s a...”
– He asks them to pass along the joy by performing one random act of kindness on their own, too. Anonymous Secret Santa: Businessman Hands Out $100 Bills In America’s Poorest City (via huffingtonpost)
Dec 4th
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