November 2007
“For Ryan and Sackrey’s volume not only offers academics from working-class...”
– Reviewed Work(s): Strangers in Paradise: Academics from the Working Class by Jake Ryan; Charles Sackrey Sue Curry Jansen Theory and Society, Vol. 14, No. 6. (Nov., 1985), pp. 897-901.
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(Review) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster... →
SNIP: Proponents of the shock doctrine from Friedman’s Chicago School of Economics were sent around the world to spread these ideas to dictators and world leaders who could push these controversial economic mandates through during states of siege. During the 1980s the Chicago School infiltrated the World Bank and IMF, heralding the first of the structural adjustment programs. A new era of...
Vancouver considers dumpster-free zones →
“The Camino Project is pleased to announce that we’re now accepting donations.”
– Camino. Blog. 2007 Archives
Asus posts more Eee source code to comply with the... →
hField Wi-Fire review →
SNIP: The Wi-Fire his a long range USB Wi-Fi adapter with drivers for OS X and Windows (Peter talked about it in September but I thought it might be good to give it a second look — they also reduced the price). It is about as big as a USB card reader and packs flat for portability. First, let’s look at some of the numbers. Using a standard G wireless card, I saw about 9mbps in speed tests. Using...
Classmates IPO Tries to Cash In On Social... →
Vintage Bottle Talk: My Son has Promise.....at 2.5... →
WLTV spoof, awesome!
WatchDiggnation Episode 125 - Goth Kids and the Olive Garden
UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture →
SNIP:
The use of Tasers “causes acute pain, constituting a form of torture,” the UN’s Committee Against Torture said. “In certain cases, they can even cause death, as has been shown by reliable studies and recent real-life events.” Three men — all in their early 20s — died from after tasering in the United States this week, days after a Polish man died at...
Facebook Users Complain of New Ad Based Tracking →
The Revue Revisited →
Blog Archive Dark Clouds on Black Friday for... →
Hmm… I don’t think it works this way: “If consumer wealth crashes — and both Business Week and The Economist offer cover stories this week saying it will — what happens to the content powering Web 2.0? Will people still have time to blog if they need to take a second job (or a first one) to keep making payments on their rapidly adjusting ARM? Will people still videocast their...
“An anonymous reader writes “Russian police seized Garry Kasparov, the...”
– Slashdot | Russian Police Seize Kasparov
Facebook Is Almost 2/3 Women (and other stats) →
Has Rupert Murdoch Been Reading RWW? News Corp... →
The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos →
SNIP: Secret #1: Not all viral videos are what they seem There are tens of thousands of videos uploaded to YouTube each day (I’ve heard estimates between 10-65,000 videos per day). I don’t care how “viral” you think your video is; no one is going to find it and no one is going to watch it. The members of my startup are hired guns – our clients give us videos and we make them go viral. Our rule of...
First recorded experiment? Daniel 1: 1-16 →
SNIP: One of the earliest references to a controlled experiment is from Daniel 1: 1-16 in the Old Testament of the Bible. In this ‘experiment’ Daniel pits his nutrition regime of “pulse” to eat and water to drink versus the best cuts of meat and the most highly rated wine. Check out the experimental methods and results below:
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Search Engine mp3 →
Facebook Stealing Googlers At An Alarming Rate →
New Nokia N810 Internet Tablet hits store shelves →
Q&A With Bezos About the Kindle →
Exclusive: First hands on with EPOS’ digital pen,... →
“My pet theory about why people behave so rudely is that online commenting is...”
– New Scientist Technology Blog: Don’t flame me, bro’
Mini review of the Amazon Kindle →
No friggin PDFs. Boo. That’s a deal breaker.
Coolest cell phones you can't get in the U.S. →
“The would-be ‘positivist’ economist is unlikely to be cheered up by...”
– Vivian Walsh, Smith after Sen
New JSTOR: A Preview →
quarterlife →
This internet show had potential, but, after watching 3 minutes of it, turns out, it sucks.
Vonage loses appeal, now owes Verizon $117.5... →
NBC to broadcast Internet-based ‘Quarterlife’ on... →