MASSIVELY PARALLEL

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.
I’d like to add that I’ve recently found a highly cogent rationale/alabi for posting this raw, sloppy, first-draft-of-history note-taking in Clay Shirky’s notion of “first publish, then sort”.See? Its not just that I can’t be bothered to [...]

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Inspired by barack obama is your new bicycle as well as a few remixes of the same idea (e.g. McCain, Hillary, Steve Jobs) I felt like the meme was ignoring the elephant in the room. Hence, George W. Bush Wrecked Your New Bicycle
Note that (not unlike GWB’s presidency) the link doesn’t go anywhere. That [...]

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The Badness of Dave’s Paranoid Brain led him to sound the alarm: get off facebook now! Get yr email onto a small ISP! Keep your data away from big companies that hold profits or subpoena’s above their user’s interests!The concerns are valid, but the remedy doesn’t scale. Its hard enough to [...]

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Kiva is so overwhelmed with lenders that its limiting loans so everyone has a chance.  Microfinance FTW!

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Shorter David Brooks: There’re two kinds of music fans: snotty kids and virtuous baby boomers.

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Reasonableagreement.org are fighting the good fight against restrictive, coercive, and legally non-binding “agreements” that our overly litigious society has seen fit to encourage.
READ CAREFULLY. By [accepting this material|accepting this payment|accepting this business-card|viewing this t-shirt|reading this sticker] you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any [...]

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The vibe I got was more Deep Thoughts with Jack Handy than Velvet Underground, but this ad is unmistakably weird.
In Ocean, sappy and scenic footage of the sea at sunset plays on the screen while Mitt drones on with a tenuous analogy (borrowed from Peggy Noonan) comparing depraved modern secular culture to the ocean. [...]

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After receiving a manifesto from “the Splasher” (person(s) unknown who’s been defacing street art around NYC over the last few months), Gothamist checks in with a lengthy critique and analysis. The gut shot is below:
A) Why are anarchists always so verbose? These “criticisms” could have been boiled down to five bullet points– [...]

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There’s a saying that “Once is an exception, twice is coincidence, but three are a trend”. All we need is one more crazy desperate foundering candidate (no shortage of those; Edwards? McCain? Anyone in the back of the GOP pack? I’m looking at you). And this is a trend [...]

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