November 2011
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October 2011
1 post
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August 2011
4 posts
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“New York earthquakes are better because of our thinner crust.”
– Joel Johnson (via david)
“Unfortunately, they use our wealth and laws not only to benefit their outdated,...”
– The Cost of Corporate Communism | Dylan Ratigan
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July 2011
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June 2011
3 posts
“I apologize if this sounds like faint praise, but let me provide some...”
– ‘Transformers - Dark of the Moon’ - Movie Review - NYTimes.com - A. O. Scott
The Fine Print of Goldman’s Subprime Bet
“This isn’t meant to say that part of the firm didn’t go short — it did and the firm has repeatedly said so. But the suggestion that the short was a huge directional bet by the firm to profit off a real estate collapse may not completely stand up.”
-Andrew Ross Sorkin
May 2011
4 posts
April 2011
13 posts
“Shannon was hardly a household name — he never did become famous to the...”
– James Gleick - The Information
Why Developers Should Run for Congress - A Healthy... →
noneck:
Third, great developers are systems fixers and systems hackers. There is no system more ripe for elegant process hacks than the United States House of Representatives. Put a developer in Congress, and they’ll start exposing data on their own. They’ll build systems to make it so they can hear from their constituents better. Just as Ted Kennedy had his staff make the first Congressional...
“The worlds of electricity and logic seemed incongruous. Yet, as Shannon...”
– James Gleick - The Information
Inequality and politics: Stiglitz and the... →
“The nexus of politics and big money is a profound problem, but inequality is at best a manifestation of the problem, not the problem. Inequality is a red herring that draws our attention away from the real, hard task that faces truly public-spirited reformers: how to fix the corrupt and corrupting interface between America’s economic and political institutions.”
March 2011
5 posts
“There is now a better way. Petabytes allow us to say: “Correlation is enough.”...”
– The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
“Transparency was the fuel; connectivity was the engine; a sense of oneself as a...”
– WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency - Micah Sifry
“I feel like Mark has to defend himself against these attacks that he stole...”
– This is Aaron Sorkin. Seriously, you guys: It’s so weird that I haven’t read anything about how The Social Network, and the Zuckerberg Saga, resembles Sorkin’s own life. What I wrote for the Atlantic had to be cut down substantially before I turned it in, because I went down a rabbit hole with...
February 2011
3 posts
“In my 20s, I used to want to run for Congress. Now that I’ve been exposed to...”
– You Can’t Have a Receipt for your Taxes - Clay Johnson - InfoVegan.com
NYCEDC: Careers at NYCEDC →
noneck:
nycedc is hiring a few good nurds. OpenNY take note.
Looking for employment? Check us out. We’re hiring for more than 30 positions at the moment. Learn more about the benefits of working at NYCEDC, search our jobs, and apply through our online system. Here’s a sampling of the openings we are accepting applications for:
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“Real change in these societies is not going to happen because of terrorism. It’s...”
– - Barack Obama
Iranian Lawmakers Call for Death of Opposition Leaders - NYTimes.com
July 2010
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May 2010
1 post
WatchBill Gates is lending his influence and wallet to emerging energy technologies that are environmentally responsible and economically advantageous. I’m familiar with lots of arguments against fossil fuels, but I love Gates’s approach because he’s nonjudgmental and a realist: he doesn’t expect the world’s population (especially the poverty-stricken) to dramatically...
April 2010
1 post
Watchtopherchris:
Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash, in Flash. Big improvement.
(Better: Adobe Flash CS4 crashed twice while I threw this together.)
November 2009
1 post
“I kind of miss #odwick”
September 2009
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August 2009
4 posts
The Beatles - All Together Now
June 2009
1 post
Come Together - MJ
May 2009
4 posts
Is there anybody out there?
Does my Tumblarity change from "0" if I post this?
April 2009
3 posts
