May 2012
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April 2012
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Good. Fast. Cheap.
Pick two.
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March 2012
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Science literacy is the vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would...
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
I can’t wait for Dr. Tyson to join us this Friday for On The Verge.
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Going nowhere fast. →
Todd and Victoria Buchholz, in an opinion piece for The New York Times about a generation of Americans petrified of uncertainty and unequipped to mitigate ambiguity:
The stuck-at-home mentality hits college-educated Americans as well as those without high school degrees. According to the Pew Research Center, the proportion of young adults living at home nearly doubled between 1980 and 2008,...
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If Apple were to release a truly revolutionary new iPad, then that would...
– Andy Ihnatko
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The iPhone is a real camera.
Three photos that I recently shot here in New York using my iPhone 4.1
Click to enlarge. ↩
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No ice cream, no sandwich.
Imagine the iPad 3 was shipping next week….with iOS 3.2. That’s Android.— Fraser Speirs (@fraserspeirs) March 5, 2012
I’ve written about this before. My colleague at The Verge, Vlad Savov, just wrote a thoughtful editorial. Lately it seems that a week doesn’t go by without a high profile editorial or analytical piece examining (if not lambasting) the fragmented Android...
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February 2012
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A hurdy-gurdy and a memory →
Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic:
Many books are read but some books are lived, so that words and ideas lose their ethereality and become experiences, turning points in an insufficiently clarified existence, and thereby acquire the almost mystical (but also fallible) intimacy of memory.
In this sense one’s books are one’s biography. This subjective urgency bears no...
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I tried to watch Game of Thrones, and this is what... →
A perfect summation of the piracy issue.
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the...
– Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
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The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to...
– John Updike
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Brainstorming should be stormy. →
Jonah Lehrer, writing for the New Yorker:
One fanatical believer in the power of space to enhance the work of groups was Steve Jobs. Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of Jobs records that when Jobs was planning Pixar’s headquarters, in 1999, he had the building arranged around a central atrium, so that Pixar’s diverse staff of artists, writers, and computer scientists would run into each...
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Same content, different pipes. →
A few months ago, I wrote about the first decline in American television ownership since 1992. I noted that the decline, published in a report by Nielsen, was significant because it was coupled with a trend that signals a significant increase in the number of people who choose to “cut the cord” and increased value for those who do.
Nielsen claimed that poverty was one reason for the...