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Wired 14.08: Pinch My Ride on cracking arphid key systems.

WSJ.com - Friendster Patent on Linking Web Friends Could Hurt Rivals

Global Guerrillas: THE SECRETS OF HEZBOLLAH'S SUCCESS

Lebanon, Israel And The Role Design Thinking Can Have In Solving Social Problems., unfortunately it's just a question, but it's a good question..

Back to Iraq 3.0, Chris Albritton is unstoppable, now he's in Lebanon...

The Brand Underground - New York Times A Rob Walker longform, nice. Or medium-form really looks like the book is coming...

"But this primary is not about Mr. Lieberman’s legislative record. Instead it has become a referendum on his warped version of bipartisanship, in which the never-ending war on terror becomes an excuse for silence and inaction. We endorse Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary for Senate in Connecticut."

The Big Picture: The Wall Street core-inflation index

Neoformix - Discovering and Illustrating Patterns in Data

History of the Fugs

STREET/FRUiTS/TUNE

Open the Future: Nature as an Information Economy

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Benkler on Calacanis's wallet

alex dragulescu - spamplants

Tagging Sucks | Paragon Network (guy from Elevator Up & 7dots)

The Scale-Free, Underground Blogosphere - Unit Structures :: Fred Stutzman

Prisoners to the generals - Haaretz - Israel News

about making things (28 July 2006, Interconnected)

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Lee Gomes responds to Chris Anderson on the myth of the long tail.

Air Power Won't Do It

High-ranking officer: Halutz ordered retaliation policy | Jerusalem Post, 10 buildings in Beruit for every missile...

Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

Pheeder

Yay Hooray | yh collab: redesign famous logos in web 2.0 format!

MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Should Community-Edited News Sites Pay Top Editors? | PBS

digg labs

Bicycle Tsar Quits, Saying Goal To Increase Safety, Lanes Is Stymied - July 24, 2006 - The New York Sun If this is true, and there is no reason to believe it is not, then Iris Weinshall, Senator Schumer's wife and current NY Department of Transportation commissioner, is one evil person.

James Wolcott: Misunderestimated, Mideast-style

"I make $1.45 a week and I love it" Salon on Amazon's Mechanical Turk

collision detection: The half-life of an online posting? 36 hours

The Big Picture: Strong Opinions, Weakly Held

Robert Fisk: Elegy for Beirut

A-bike, and ultra lightweight folding bike, even more ugly than most folders, but I'm willing to be believe there is indeed a threshold of weight and compactness that would really open up the bike market in cities. But maybe you need to add style to the mix...

Beat the Press: Housing Appraisals: The Accounting Scandal of the Housing Bubble (if anyone has a digital copy of the linked WSJ article in this piece, please send a copy I'd really like to read it in it's entirety).

Bloggers Offer Unusual Take On Raging Conflict: Silence

SEOmoz Blog | Top 100 Digg Users Control 56% of Digg's HomePage Content

if:book: physical books and networks 2

adaptive path » A Conversation with Steven Johnson, Part 1

Information Design Watch

The Military Industrial Light and Magic Complex: Avoiding Ender's Folly

Good Investing by Design: The Trend Desk - Yahoo! Finance Interesting Daniel Pink column on a design index, and also on what design actually is. Hopefully I'll have time to comment soon.

Adbusters : How Nike Conquered Skateboard Culture

“Innovation is the latest management mantra for a growing list of CEOs, especially at big, established companies who for years have fixated on reducing budgets,”

Technology Rewrites the Book - New York Times

Paying the top DIGG/REDDIT/Flickr/Newsvine users (or "$1,000 a month for doing what you're already doing.") - The Jason Calacanis Weblog

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Calacanis's wallet and the Web 2.0 dream

Open the Future: Radical Religion

Inhabitat » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Paul Kephart of Rana Creek

Are writers and the like getting priced out of SF & NY?

YouTube - Chinese Gold Farmers Preview

Situational Relevance and Facebook's Summer Traffic - Unit Structures :: Fred Stutzman

Situational Relevance and Facebook's Summer Traffic - Unit Structures :: Fred Stutzman

Hezbollah in South America (and in the New Yorker) via Pretty Goes with Pretty

Foreign Policy: Think Again: Al Jazeera

Flickr Photo Download: Flickr User Model, v0.3

russell davies: 7 things I learned at wieden and kennedy (portland edition)

Wired 14.07: His Space

9/11 corporate profiteering

BBC NEWS | Africa | DR Congo backs 'guns for bikes'

The Graying of the Record Store - New York Times

Lunch over IP: Cloning Skype

"In that sense, Hezbollah may have found the sweet spot in Fourth Generation War: It isn't a state and doesn't carry the political or defensive burdens of one, but it controls enough territory, commands enough popular loyalty and has enough allies to mount some fairly sophisticated military operations, using both conventional and nonconventional weapons. It's powerful enough to be successful -- and be seen as successful -- but not so powerful that state actors like Israel can fight it on equal terms. We may be looking at the New Model Army of the 21st century."

bopuc/weblog: Trust, a blog post tracking Yahoo and Google hires, interesting.

culiblog » Wasteware, it’s everything but the squeal in food recycling

reveries magazine » Intelligentsia Coffee, beyond fair trade.

richardsona // Adam Richardson's Blog - Blog - Palm got it Right Ten Years Ago. So Why are we Still Suffering?

Quirky serifs aside, Georgia fonts win on Web - Style - International Herald Tribune

Communist Jokes

Carnivore -- new Version 2.2 now available

The Network Effect Multiplier, or, Metcalfe's Flaw - Unit Structures :: Fred Stutzman

BuildingGreen.com - EBN 15:3 - Bamboo in Construction: Is the Grass Always Greener?

Wired 14.07: What Kind of Genius Are You?

PingMag » 10 Questions with a Joystick Master

McKinsey sees demand for online advertising outstripping supply.

Hans Rosling on TED Talks

"And he states another goal: changing the Google mantra from "Don't be evil" (the most-quoted line of Google's IPO prospectus) to 'Do something really, really, really good'."

Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: Ten Questions with David Sifry

Spyware developers net huge profits, outrage - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com

The Immigration Equation - New York Times

Damn Interesting » Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom

Identity Thief Finds Easy Money Hard to Resist - New York Times

Treehugger: William McDonough on Nuclear Power

IT Conversations: Audio Podcasts on Information Technology and Business

Capitalist Roaders Car Culture in China

danger opportunity != crisis

Ronald Reagan getting punched in the face (video/quicktime Object)

"David Kramer, a Wilson Sonsini attorney also representing Google, said the search giant's PageRank system is subjective, using a combination of reviews into whether a Web site is adhering to its guidelines and is worth a user's time to view.

'Google is constantly evaluating Web sites for standards and quality, which is entirely subjective,' Kramer said."

Data Mining: Search and Intentional Ambiguity

Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century

Informational Cascades and Rational Herding, BHW

"The best way to prove that a niche product is a niche product is to toss it into the mainstream and let it sink." - Nicholas Carr on the new collaborative filtering Netscape portal.

collision detection: Why the "loudness wars" are killing today's music, Clive Thompson once again shows why he is one of the best journalists around today by simply expertly condensing the article linked right below this one.

Imperfect Sound Forever - Article - Stylus Magazine, an awesome article on the problems of over compressed music. Starts slow though, it's worth slogging through the tedious introduction.

Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Cultures of Repair, Innovation

NYT on Google's DIY (on a massive scale) servers

Foreign Policy: Minority Report.com Bruno Giussani on blog journalism from the suburban ghettos of France.

Doors of Perception weblog: How to be good

aNYthing glob » Blog Archive » The Art of Bootlegging

cityofsound: Starflyer (and service), Schipol (and soccer), Stansted (and signage)

HOPE Number Six Conference NY, July 21-23.

Moving Pictures – Advertising, Traffic and Cityscape

Data Mining: Mapping The Blogosphere

YouTube - An Eames directed and animated computer glossary

Magical Urbanism