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Soundcloud
So much music, and such a usable and appealing design: Super 8 by Mighty_DC*
Toxic People In The Workplace
A Toxic Paradox My favorite part of this brilliant essay is that he goes someplace positive and surprising. Twist! (Via Rands In Repose.)
Iran Election Crisis: 10 Incredible YouTube Videos
Iran Election Crisis: 10 Incredible YouTube Videos Videos #8 and #9, just break your heart. Via Mashable
Iranian Riot Policeman Captured by Protestors – Youtube
From the anonymous server hosted by the folks at Pirate Bay. Turns out as best as you can hope: Riot cop stops beating people and is given a bottle of water. Via iran.whyweprotest.net
Watershed for Twitter
An excellent analysis of Twitter’s “coming of age”. A great example is this footage of a massive Iranian protest tweeted by @davidwiner and a zillion other people.
Burnout: The adult kind
Burnout Web professionals are often expected to be ‘always on’—always working, absorbing information, and honing new skills. Unless our work and personal lives are carefully balanced, however, the physical and mental effects of an ‘always on’ life can be debilitating. (Via A List Apart.)
James Joyce’s Voice
Reading a short work.
Internet Identity
One of the first Internet related cartoons I saw back in the day was in the New Yorker. One dog sitting at a keyboard explains to another dog: “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog. Apropos of that comic is the logo for the Internet Identity Workshop. The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on [...]
Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein
Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein: ” The key to how any protein works is its three-dimensional shape, determined by all the ways its atoms interact. Trying to push two atoms closer when they want to repel is like holding magnets together when they’re oriented the wrong way. You can force them, but nature [...]
The Decline of The Conservative Intellectual
The Decline of The Conservative Intellectual: “Richard Posner has a fascinating read: My theme is the intellectual decline of conservatism, and it is notable that the policies of the new conservatism are powered largely by emotion and religion and have for the most part weak intellectual groundings. That the policies are weak in conception, have [...]
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