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For managers, a Korean paradise - International Herald Tribune, or in other words North Korea has a new exploiter...
Taking Spying to Higher Level, Agencies Look for More Ways to Mine Data - New York Times
From the Silk Road to the Superhighway, All Coin Leads to China - New York Times
Cool Stuff Being Made: Bicycles (from Industry on Parade)
TechCrunch » Flyspy Brings The New Web To Airline Ticketing
InformationWeek | Patents | U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications | February 22, 2006 - lets hope nothing comes out of this...
TitleZ: Book trends for publishers, or anyone interested in comparing book sales, quite interesting for tracking cultural trends and the comparative effectiveness of communicating ideas.
Greatest Twentieth-Century Economists Poll, Post-Autistic Economics Review, issue 36, in which PAER reveals itself as being a bunch of Kenysians, so much for it being new...
this is certainly not the first time I've cited this, but it's a quote well worth revisiting:
"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'"
YouTube is not a real business - The Jason Calacanis Weblog
Must Be Something in the Water - New York Times on the bottled water backlash
Purse Lip Square Jaw: Thingers rather than thinkers II, following up on what Latour has started.
aperture, a lot like Danny Rozin, but you can see into spaces...
It's Like Lending to a Friend, Except You'll Get Interest - New York Times
Yahoo open up their UI libraries... (plasticbag.org)
Lessig Testimony from Senate hearing on "Network Neutrality" (application/pdf Object)
Life With Alacrity: Collective Choice: Competitive Ranking Systems
native_to_a_web_of_data.pdf (large pdf Object) - Tom Coates on Web 2.0, its a large pdf of a presentation, but it has the best listing of various "web 2.0" sites I've seen.
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Design by Committee (On design the UN HQ)
YouTube - Cutty Ranks getting nasty over the Sleng Teng, 1986
Average Joe - Dunkin' Donuts is Brewing a Coffee Class War with Starbucks
Think Secret - Manhattan Apple store to be first 24/7 location - Don't have time to dig up the link, but combine this article with previous legal fights about who owns that glass cube in front of the new store and I think you get a good picture of just how Apple just might stumble and fall over its iPod dollars fuelled hubris...
3D visualizations of server logs as a city (to bad it's a commercial service...)
the worst part of it though is that Kermit, who used to ride a nice fixed gear, is now on a mountain bike, and from looks of it about to switch to a freakin SUV. Selling out is pretty much taken for granted nowadays, but man that's a long fall...
Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth
Core77 - Reinventing the Wheel: Pushing the limits in high performance bike design
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