January 2010
Jean Marie Dru: "Endless Pressure on Price Traps...
“Consider this. Online, an idea can actually become its own medium. When this is the case, when the idea is so powerful that it becomes a medium, is it not legitimate to remunerate not only the idea, but also its capacity to generate millions of contacts? Must we really give it away? When an advertising slogan becomes the motto of a company and influences corporate strategy or the brief for...
“As the saying goes, in politics, when you are explaining, you are losing. And...”
– BBC News - Why do people often vote against their own interests?
“Computer intelligence is getting more human every day. They solve problems like...”
– Rogue Computer Algorithms Threaten Stock Markets | Popular Science
“Paying Zero for Public Services: According to Anand, the idea was first...”
– Paying Zero for Public Services | Exploring the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere
“Tom McCarthy: Actually my new novel is going to be called Satin Island, like a...”
– Dossier Journal: Read » The Radical Ambiguity of Tom McCarthy*
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pheezy:
Just heard Adam Tendler play Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes (for prepared piano). He memorized the whole piece on a silent keyboard first.
“I want a list of companies that no one has heard of.”
– (via clientsfromhell)
“…intoxicated with the idea that everything is possible. The collapse of...”
– A cheap and easy shot, but irresistable. Quote from Albert Speer — well, Albert Speer’s son, Albert Speer Jr. — talking about Dubai.
SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
WatchEarlier today, Kati and I realized that neither one of us knew what the hell this referred to.
“HAMPTON, Va. — As the military rushes to place more spy drones over Afghanistan,...”
– Military Is Deluged in Intelligence From Drones - NYTimes.com
Changing Responsibilities →
This is well put. When I was clear about that latter role, I thought I might be ready to teach.
heyitsnoah:
In a post about the differences between being a graduate student and professor, one of the authors over at orgtheory.net makes a point that seems applicable almost everywhere:
In the early years, critique is about identifying holes and mistakes that make ideas less plausible. In the later...
“The sizes and timing of violent events within different insurgent conflicts...”
– Mm hmm. Because if we’ve learned anything about the way markets behave, it’s that they are rational and predictable.
FOXNews.com - Researchers Claim to Find Insurgency Patterns That Can Predict Future Attacks
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