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As soon as two speakers exchange utterances, there’s an objective relationship between their competences, not only their linguistic competence (their more or less complete command of the legitimate language) but also their whole social competence, their right to speak, which depends objectively on their sex, their age, their religion, their economic and social status, all…
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Stay small or go big?
jkottke: Emeril Lagasse made an appearance on Treme on Sunday. I watched a clip of his scene a few days ago and have been thinking about it on and off ever since. In the scene written by Anthony Bourdain, Emeril takes a fellow chef to the building that used to house Uglesich’s, a small-but-beloved New…
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Micro — Independent Publishing Festival
border-studies: Wish I could have been at this.. Looks great. zwei-zehn: Read More
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The People’s Bailout
howtosharpenpencils: This is a long post but it’s about something pretty interesting so I hope you’ll indulge … Like many folks, Occupy Wall Street has been some doing good work in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, helping people on the ground. Now OWS is launching the ROLLING JUBILEE, a program that has been in development…
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ubuwaits: “… The B2 Bomber, despite the essential ugliness of a machine dedicated to mass-destruction at enormous cost, addresses the constraints of its task (of combining extreme speed with invisibility to enemy radar) with such ruthlessness that, like a viking long ship or a renaissance suit of armour, it has a purity of form that…
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Ambiguity tolerance is the ability to perceive ambiguity in information and behavior in a neutral and open way. Ambiguity tolerance is an important issue in personality development and education. In psychology and in management, levels of tolerance of ambiguity are correlated with creativity,[1] risk aversion, psychological resilience, lifestyle,[2] orientation towards diversity (cross-cultural communication, intercultural competence),…
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Mode Four – Generative Leadership. These leaders use ambiguity to find opportunity. They tend to be inveterate learners and innovators. Modes of leadership – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via notational)
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smarterplanet: New DARPA RFP Calls for All-In-One HUD that Sees Through Smoke, In The Dark and In Broad Daylight DARPA wants a multi-band head-up display, which could be mounted to a helmet or a weapon scope, that combines several wavelengths of light into one image. Sunny? No problem—the camera can see in visible light. Smoke…
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The facial detection technology the company uses now detects whether a person is male or female and his or her approximate age. It also keeps a running tally of the number of people in the bar, providing this info to the bar owner and to anyone with the app on their phone. The patent application,…
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Aeron chair history: Herman Miller’s office staple was originally designed for the elderly. – Slate Magazine
Aeron chair history: Herman Miller’s office staple was originally designed for the elderly. – Slate Magazine