March 2009
88 posts
“Because the atomic fountain allows extremely precise measurements of the energy...”
– Laser Trapping
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A series of oil paintings in which the artist depicts herself having sex with each president. The one with Lincoln is amazing. (cultrvultr)
“Celebrity is the fuel [that runs] the media machine … the system is...”
– jg ballardian (1996)
“Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.”
– Descarte’s epitaph from Ovid’s Tristia, 3:4:25.
“When we shift our attention from ’save newspapers’ to ’save society’, the...”
– clay shirky in his excellent analysis of the digital revolution to print news/journalism. this same sentiment could/should be directed at the established banking sector.
“Wall Street is the dog that chewed off Main Street’s face, but instead of...”
– another choice quote from this post, which concerns the choice of the “Flimflam Twins” = Larry “goddamn” Summers and Tim “Wall-Street-Stoolie” Geithner to Obama’s economic team (old news, yes…). I didn’t know who Geithner was, but I was really...
“To think that once upon a time people wanted to hand over our Social Security...”
– i read this post last night at around 1am, and found it pretty enjoyable & infuriating.
“President Obama may be smarter than most of us, but he’s still attempting to...”
– LET IT DIE: Rushkoff on the economy (via azspot)
“RT amazing advice from @ceonyc / @quixotic “If you are not embarrassed by...”
– dens
“To enlist public opinion behind this utopian transformation, a pathological state of youth, heretofore unrecognized by history, was designed by G. Stanley Hall of Johns Hopkins University. He called it adolescence and debuted the condition in a huge two-volume study of that name, published in 1904. Trained in Prussia as behavioral psychologist Wilhelm Wundt’s first assistant, Hall (immensely...
That Something There Is Should Be
Things have; we have no history: we are men. You are a woman, but even so. No, even so. It sounds like a kind of joke, but that’s what I mean: we are human. Human is not to be something we know, but to be as the Jews say God must be, without an image. What happens takes no care for how we look, what part we take, or whether we can. Something there is will be. Caress me, be kind. We have no...
“Who started this rumour that all information should be free and why didn’t we...”
– Ann Moore, CEO of Time Inc (via azspot)
Dying words.
They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street →
They are known as “quants” because they do quantitative finance. Seduced by a vision of mathematical elegance underlying some of the messiest of human activities, they apply skills they once hoped to use to untangle string theory or the nervous system to making money. (via givemesomethingtoread)
I’ve heard this explanation a lot. It’s just too easy. The “science” of...
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“All of this is pointing toward a new social contract. Over the course of modern...”
– Yochai Benkler (via azspot)
How to stop the drug wars →
Prohibition has failed; legalisation is the least bad solution. (via givemesomethingtoread)
“Idea of “triple bottom line”: Social, environmental, economic...”
– sciam
“As a result of these market failures the state-of-the-art in credit-rating...”
– project announcement from toby segaran & jesper andersen at etech. discussion on oreilly radar. i was just thinking about this a few days ago, i hope it catches on.
“For example, the average government investment in science in the Western world...”
– Brian Cox
