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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The backlash against Obama's blackness

Dan Kennedy: "You literally cannot understand the current moment without watching the political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert."

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Monday, August 30, 2010

The Full-On Assault On Cable Is Underway

TechCrunch: "And in that regard, the cable companies have positioned themselves fairly well because many of them are among the largest ISPs in the country now. But it’s their core business, cable television, that is facing this assault."

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Friday, August 27, 2010

How habitable is the Earth?

Charlie Stross: "There are elaborate and fascinating competing theories to explain why it took so long for oxygenation to take off: even the Moon gets blamed (the huge 50 metre tides that churned the anoxic early oceans and would have sucked premature photoautotrophs to their doom deep below: oxygenation had to wait for the moon to migrate out far enough for the tides to die down, permitting photosynthetic organisms to thrive near the surface)."

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Because you made a phone call

Lee Maguire: "Presumably he implies that you’ll also need to recuse yourself from your existing social groupings in order for this to work, like entering a witness protection programme."

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

A letter to my students

Michael O'Hare: "The budget deficit that’s paralyzing Sacramento is about $500 per person; add another $500 to get back to a public sector we don’t have to be ashamed of, and our average income is almost forty times that.  Of course we can afford a government that actually works: the fact is that your parents have simply chosen not to have it."

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