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Interesting thesis, the way disaffected youth power can and was channelled.

While I'm suspect of critics' columns, I think he's right that The Steve sees the new HQ as part of his legacy.

I like the use of the office phone tones.

I've been meaning to read Last Call, and I'm definitely curious about Burns, new documentary.

Impressive (albeit time-compressed).

I wonder why they dontjust send slughtly upgraded Spirit/Oppy rovers. they worked amazingly.

Sounds like abizarre mashup of our careers.

In being lean and design-obsessed, Apple got better as a business too.

"Unlike the starving subsistence farmer, the women and children in the sneaker factory are working at slave wages for our benefit—and this makes us feel unclean." Krugman makes a good point why we're bothered more by Third World factory workers, even though they're demonstrably better off.

The show (Geordi on TNG in particular) inspired me to become an engineer.

Once again special interest lobbyists take the teeth out of meaningful reform.

Deschanel is typecast.

Cool "found sound" music video using only dry cleaning equipment.

We've wasted a lot of money fighting a weak but lucky enemy.

Creepy beyond all reason.

Cool stylized music video showing the history of humanity and an eventual future escape to Mars from an Earthbound comet.

Amazing effort to recover the original Cray-1 OS off of a now-ancient disk.

Pretty cool use of adjacency to come up with a meaningful layout for the 9/11 Memorial in NYC. I didn't realize the Pentagon victims and United 93 were included as well.

Tragic, but astounding that it still worked after the plane hit the water.

It's astounding, but Drum is right - the problem is the media's desire for binary narratives, no matter how strongly the facts support one side. It would be "unfair" to let the facts dominate.

I worry that starting these studies makes climate change as a concept more vulnerable to the specious argument that colder weather means climate change isn't real.

"What we lack is not employment, but a way of fairly distributing the bounty we have generated through our technologies, and a way of creating meaning in a world that has already produced far too much stuff." Time to get past the idea that being a healthy human requires "earning" your lot in life?

I agree that humans need to get off the planet eventually, but he puts too much emphasis on resource exploitation. I prefer Sagan's stance.

I think he makes some good anecdotal points, especially that children have always been exposed to violence, but fails to consider that it's very different kid to kid.

I think I'll stick to my bouncy ball.

A seemingly ancient Slate article from a younger Paul Krugman on Dole's embrace of supply-side economics. It turns out he was quite right about this infectious meme.

Amusing commentary on the HP debacle, and the usual anti-Apple crazies out there.

Hard to criticize Obama on his facts. huntsman is impressive too, in avoiding the crazy lies.

Booing an out gay soldier. Classy.