March 2012
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February 2012
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Short URL; 30pm Short; Alexander Arguelles; Andrew Greene; Time
Machine; High-res Notes
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Katerina Ivanovna; Pyotr Petrovitch; Pulcheria Alexandrovna; Avdotya
Romanovna; Marfa Petrovna; Rodion Romanovitch; Sofya Semyonovna; old
woman; Project Gutenberg-tm; Porfiry Petrovitch; Amalia Ivanovna;
great deal; Project Gutenberg; Andrey Semyonovitch; Nikodim Fomitch;
young man; Dmitri Prokofitch; n’t know; Ilya Petrovitch; Good heavens
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“Why would someone learn 20 or 50 languages?
“Hyperpolyglot, Alexander...”
– Alexander Arguelles, American scholar of foreign languages, polyglot, Adventures with an Extreme Polyglot: Excerpt from ‘Babel No More’, cited in Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners, Free Press, 2012. (via amiquote)
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NYPD’s Lax Crash Investigations May Violate State... →
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Since department protocol limits the use of the AIS to cases where the victim is killed or is deemed likely to die, and local patrol officers are not trained to perform in-depth crash investigations, cases that involve injuries that are not considered life-threatening receive only cursory attention. When asked by Vallone how it could be that a cyclist or pedestrian could have both legs...
“Contemporary culture is a two-tiered system, like the Morlocks and the Eloi in...”
– Neal Stephenson (via azspot)
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Watchguardian:
This is shocking —>A bus driver who used his bus like a ‘weapon’ to knock a cyclist to the ground has been jailed for 17 months, a court official said. Gavin Hill was shown on CCTV in an exchange with cyclist Phillip Mead before he lurched the bus sharply into the cyclist’s path, throwing him from his bike
How do you explain this kind of aggression?
Would the NYPD have...
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“That is nearly my thesis about 9/11. l have been involved in U.S. intelligence...”
– A Crazy Person.
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Inside the World of the 'Ndrangheta →
The shadowy Calabrian mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta, has become one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the Western world through its dominance of the European cocaine trade. For the first time, local syndicate bosses described their business model to SPIEGEL. It’s a mixture of entrepreneurial talent, skillful management and deadly ruthlessness.
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Do you think butchers especially enjoy cutting, or is it a means to an end?
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We Are The Works In Progress is available...
wearetheworksinprogress:
Get the vinyl here!
Get the digital here!
iTunes (US)
Amazon
iTunes (UK)
iTunes (JP)
iTunes (SE)
iTunes (DE)
Listen to the album on Spotify here!
This is good music.
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Simply Statistics: Interview With Joe Blitzstein →
simplystatistics:
Joe Blitzstein
Joe Blitzstein is Professor of the Practice in Statistics at Harvard University and co-director of the graduate program. He moved to Harvard after obtaining his Ph.D. with Persi Diaconis at Stanford University. Since joining the faculty at Harvard, he has been…
Interesting interview about statistics and data science.
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YADASHTS: THIS WILL BE AMAZING: SHAHRNUSH PARSIPUR... →
fesenjoon:
THE MAGIC OF SOLIDARITY: SHAHRNUSH PARSIPUR & SUHEIR HAMMAD
REDCAT L.A. | February, 12, 2012 | 7pm | Moderated by Persis Karim
From REDCAT:
Two courageous authors have fiercely insisted on voicing consciousness and social criticism: novelist Shahrnush Parsipur and poet…
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Performa Interview: Mike Kelley and Lee Ranaldo
performamagazine:
Interview: Mike Kelley and Lee Ranaldo
Moderated by Mark Beasley
2009
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“Whatever the virtues of bus lanes, and there are many, this one is a trap — a...”
– 1) Any sentence starting with “Whatever the…” is a stupid, cowardly sentence.
2) Fines and tickets are not traps. They are used to discourage bad behavior.
3) Half of the point is to back up CAR traffic to 14th street. That way people will change their behavior and take the...
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Zoë Keating: My $treaming Data →
zoekeating:
After the Spotify hubbub a few months ago, I decided to add a portion of my catalog to it for a short period so that I could see for myself what an independent artist earns. Because Spotify doesn’t deal directly with artists, I had to go through CDBaby, who currently distributes my back…
