January 2011
24 posts
Why are Americans such wusses? Threaten the Greeks with job losses and benefit...
– Barbara Ehrenreich (via azspot)
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The government fails the people of New Orleans when they are hit by a hurricane,...
– Thomas Frank (via southpol)
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Dinosaur comics on "the singularity" →
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Mexican Drug Wars →
someone was trying to tell me that things were improving in mx…
futurejournalismproject:
Via the Guardian:
The Mexican government has released a database it says covers all murders presumed to have a link to the country’s drug wars in which at least seven different cartels are fighting each other and federal forces deployed in a massive offensive against them launched in December 2006.
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The Interview was all but complete when I met [Steve] Jobs at a celebrity-filled...
– A huge Playboy interview with Steve Jobs, aged 29. (via somethingchanged)
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We Have No Bananas [NYer] →
bananapocalypse
Companies that have philosophies are resilient—they’re able to...
– great article on goog/fb
Umair Haque / Bubblegeneration
Catherine Winder on Vision at Rainmaker... →
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22 Books I Read in 2010
Lists! This is all the pleasure reading I had time for this year. The list doesn’t include books read for class (another 10-15) or the ridiculous amount of journal articles I pored through. My top 5 are in bold.
Eating Animals Jonathan Foer
Create Your Own Economy Tyler Cowen
Rigged Ben Mezrich
Whole...