February 2012
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75% of Americans will be overweight by 2020, the... →
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Thoughts on the impermanence of Chicago. Why so... →
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First, second, and third, you should read the thoughtful conversation between my friends Buzz and David about the cultural and ideological differences between New York City and San Francisco, both as towns and as professional communities. They do a good job breaking down the broad…
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January 2012
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...
– Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via carleeen)
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December 2011
17 posts
You and Mark Aren't Friends
thenewinquiry:
Facebook’s Timeline turns your old updates into an unexpurgated biography
by Giovanni Tiso
Timeline is the story of your life.
—Mark Zuckerberg
Nine beef consommés, one iced cucumber soup, one mussel soup
—Georges Perec, “Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Ninteen Hundred and Seventy-Four”
Four months...
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Since It's Such a Big Deal and Everything...(just...
I have just been cast in historical reenactment scenes for a 2-hour 100th Anniversary special on the sinking of the RMS Titanic for none other than THE HISTORY CHANNEL.
My seemingly never-ending job search took me to the arena of prestigious Craigslist today, where I happened upon this post, pasted below. I responded via email and the rest is self-explanatory.
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Maxistentialism: Facebook is making us miserable →
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Daniel Gulati:
Since our Facebook profiles are self-curated, users have a strong bias toward sharing positive milestones and avoid mentioning the more humdrum, negative parts of their lives. Accomplishments like, “Hey, I just got promoted!” or “Take a look at my new sports car,” trump sharing…
Thank you, Maxistentialist, for sharing this. I couldn’t...
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