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There’s nothing worse than narcissism posing as humility.

Sam Harris (the atheist, not the original Star Search Winner) vs. Rick Warren, a Christian pastor.

Kind of disappointing only because they could have reinvented application state and chose to go classic.

Barry Schwartz at a Google Tech Talk discussing the “paradox of choice”:http://video.google.com/.videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200. There are “more techtalks available”:http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=techtalks if you are so inclined [via "webword":http://www.webword.com].

Keeping up with the latest ephemeral internet memes is not only tedious and senseless, it’s time consuming. Let wikipedia do the work by keeping current with their list of “internet memes”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_internet_phenomena, leaving you ample free time to follow more worthy tedious, senseless and time consuming pursuits. See you there.

Declare independence from the Man. Inspiring and corny. via [headrush].

“The 1% Rule”:http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html goes like this:
It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.
See also Nick Carr’s post about “Digg statistics”:http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/08/few_to_many.php which roughly illustrates [...]

Cf. the O’Reilly Web 2.0 kerfuffle.

“Up With Grups - The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood”:http://newyorkmetro.com/news/features/16529/
This is an obituary for the generation gap. It is a story about 40-year-old men and women who look, talk, act, and dress like people who are 22 years old. It’s not about a fad but about a phenomenon that looks to be [...]

South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection.

In the new “‘experience economy’”:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-2043534,00.html we pay to do things, not have things. No epiphany here. Many people buy physical things as a substitute for emotional and spiritual longing or emptiness. This is the key component in advertising: insinuating a desire or need for something where none actually exists.
Notice that most print and television [...]

The 1961 cover of Richard Scary’s Best Word Book Ever compared with the 1993 edition. Cautioned driver now a lighter colored fur?

“War in the shell”:http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ThinGuy?entry=the_war_on_terror_as: Too fscking cool/funny/true. If you don’t know unix command line, _whoosh over the head_. The comments are fun too.