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Lessig Blog, v2: Dear Candidate for Congress …
Lessig Blog, v2: Dear Candidate for Congress … lessig: Thanks for your call, which I am sorry I was not able to accept. But after many too many contributions to candidates for Congress, I have adopted an absolute rule: I will not consider making a contribution to your campaign for Congress unless you commit absolutely…
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Secret panel can put Americans on kill list’ | Reuters
Secret panel can put Americans on kill list’ | Reuters wilwheaton: wilwheaton: American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. There is no public record of the operations or decisions of…
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Goldman Sachs, the global investment bank and financial services firm, announced Friday morning that it is running for president of the United States. The announcement was made at a farm near Waterloo, Iowa, by the musician Ted Nugent, who was hired to speak for the candidate. “We love oil and God and gasoline!” shouted Mr.…
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As a young girl, I was an opinionated, asocial, extroverted, impossible egregious brat whose primary friends were books! The early lessons I learned, generally the hard way, in standing up for myself and my egocentricities, being proud of being ‘different,’ doing my own thing, gave me the strength of purpose to continue doing so later…
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immerseyoursoulincode: stochastic-gamer: I just discovered how to use Xcode 4’s Storyboard editor to design user interface. I am in love with Xcode. It is THE most pleasant integrated development environment (IDE) I’ve ever used and I’m starting to get a hang of Objective-C and how the MVC system works. You do the usual Interface Builder stuff…
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Memory May Not Sustain
lareviewofbooks: DEAN RADER on Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s Blood Run Allison Adelle Hedge CokeBlood Run Salt Publishing, November 2007. 120 pp. Located in Eastern South Dakota and Western Iowa, Blood Run is a series 176 well-constructed ceremonial mounds built by the Oneonta. The site is over 8,000 years old, but archeologists believe it saw its…
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nevver: #OccupyXmas begins, “Buy Nothing Day”
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text(ure) of quiipuu
new-aesthetic: Books2Barcodes is an ongoing effort to convert all the world’s great books to QR codes (2D barcodes). Each work featured here is the entire text of a piece of classic literature translated into several thousand barcodes. With a mobile device equipped with a camera and a barcode-scanning app, you can experience the joy of…
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montesmith: Denver Colorado November 23, 2011. On the eve of Thanksgiving, Occupy Denver demonstrators and members of the free kitchen, The Thunderdome, gather outside the Denver Rescue Mission to feed the hungry and protest against Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper who were briefly on site as symbolic hosts of a holiday…
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Wallace doesn’t accept the silent social contract between students and professors: He takes apart and analyzes and makes explicit, in a way that is almost painful, all of the tiny conventional unspoken agreements usually made between professors and their students. “Even in a seminar class,” his syllabus states, “it seems a little silly to require…