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November 2011
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“There’s something deeper than making money off stuff. Being a part of...”
– Ilya Zhitomirskiy
September 2011
2 posts
http://allthingsd.com/20110923/yahoos-dueling-inter... →
“When used at the beginning of a sentence, this word is a variety of the...”
– Urban Dictionary: essentially
August 2011
4 posts
Stocking Is the New Planking →
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/08/24/steve-jobss-... →
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July 2011
5 posts
Urban Dictionary: Sexting →
The unauthorized, non-maritime use of sextants in our schools.
“My friend Katy said we were going to drive up to Mile Rise, because some older boys wanted to determine its exact position relative to the moon. I didn’t want to tell my mom what we were doing, because she doesn’t approve of sexting, so I told her I was staying over at Katy’s house.”
A Hacker's Guide to Recent Hacks - On The Media →
June 2011
11 posts
NYT Article Asks Whether It's a Good Idea for... →
NPR.org » Stephen Colbert: In Good 'Company' On... →
“I have the body that I want,” Louie announces triumphantly in one episode....”
– TV’s best new taboo-busting comedy - Salon.com Mobile
What’s Your Start-up’s “Bus Count”? 7 Myths of... →
Does Mason want to get out of Groupon? - Fortune →
“Pat Robertson once said,
“It’s a long downward slide
That’ll...”
– Garfunkel and Oates - Sex With Ducks
Pandora's Coming IPO: Another Profit-less Wonder -... →
Don't Exaggerate Your Size | Inc. →
Technology Provides an Alternative to Love. -... →
'Incognito': What's Hiding In The Unconscious Mind... →
Eagleman explains how learning more about the unconscious portions of our brain can teach us more about time, reality, consciousness, religion and crime.
May 2011
9 posts
On The Media: The Personal Data Revolution →
On The Media: The 'Decline Effect' and Scientific... →
JAD ABUMRAD: I mean, the media is biased, and I mean not in the way that people think it is, but it’s certainly biased towards tension, it’s biased towards surprise. And so, there might be some kind of bias that leads us all towards a result that is counterintuitive and exciting.
“Basically, we are outsourcing our brains to the cloud. The upside is that this...”
– The Twitter Trap - NYTimes.com
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between...”
– George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
“The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness.”
– George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
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“I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine.”
– Steven Wright
April 2011
7 posts
Do Social Networks Make You Feel Left Out? -... →
How Social Media Can Induce Feelings of ‘Missing... →
Are You Following a Bot? - The Atlantic →
Call Me Fishmeal.: Success, and Farming vs. Mining →
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March 2011
10 posts
“[Concentration] means gathering yourself together into a single point rather...”
– Solitude and Leadership: an article by William Deresiewicz | The American Scholar
Urban Dictionary: Throwback iPad →
Man the new iPad 2 is releasing on March 11th. I gotta get rid of my old one because no one wants to rock a throwback iPad.
Urban Dictionary: Snail Chat →
Re: Re: Re: Pick up milk?
Urban Dictionary: brexting →
“Joey spit up all over my phone while I was brexting his baby daddy.”
Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You - NYTimes.com →
“I remember when I was growing up, the rule was, ‘Don’t call anyone after 10 p.m.,’ ” Mr. Adler said. “Now the rule is, ‘Don’t call anyone. Ever.’ ”
Urban Dictionary: Do you like hobbies? →
Something you say during an awkward pause in conversation in attempt to start conversation
Urban Dictionary: Words with friends with benefits →
Urban Dictionary: kindle whoring →
The practice of indiscriminatingly downloading free sample chapters to your Kindle with only a modicum of interest in seriously reading the book.