February 2012
17 posts
Culture Desk: M.I.A. Shouldn’t Have Apologized :... →
The most important artist of the aughts played the Super Bowl last night. Maybe you saw it. In the middle of Madonna’s set, Maya Arulpragasam—professionally known as M.I.A.—performed her part in the new Madonna song, “Give Me All You Luvin’.” In the original video, she ends her kind of meh verse by saying “I’ma say this once—yeah, I don’t give a shit.” Also in the video, she makes the “finger...
Straight Talk: We Don’t Know Anything About... →
“Heterosexuality, Blank concludes, is “a mouse that roared, a modern term of art posing as an eternal verity dressed in Classical-language garb, and an assimilative juggernaut.” The concept is messy, but it is not any messier than we are. “We are the ones whose imaginations created the heterosexual/homosexual scheme,” Blank writes, “and we are also the ones whose multitudes that...
“I will gain the most knowledge from those people I intensely love and intensely...”
– Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets (via human-voices)
January 2012
61 posts
4 tags
Why another search engine? →
by Matt Luongo
Chatted with a friend and fellow developer after a workout. He asked what I was working on, and so I gave him a tired half-answer.
How did you decide on that? Aren’t there a ton of academic search engines?
The question caught me unaware. I stumbled through it. It was pretty bad. Of course, on the drive home I was angry with myself for not immediately shouting the answer.
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Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure →
kateoplis:
Glenn Greenwald for Salon:
[M]any SOPA opponents were confused and even shocked when they learned that the very power they feared the most in that bill — the power of the U.S. Government to seize and shut down websites based solely on accusations, with no trial — is a power the U.S. Government already possesses and, obviously, is willing and able to exercise even against the world’s...
Watchsidkan:
Steak n’ Shake shuffle
steak n’ shuffle?
Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups →
1. Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love.
2. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.
3. Hire people who you think will love working there.
4. Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.
5. Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them. Pay up for people in your core...
