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Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications... - ...ifindkarma...
Thought-provoking. Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications So maybe they should be themselves
google  social_media  culture  comment 
july 2010 by amy
What to Do - The New York Review of Books [Krugman]
anything that has to be rescued during a financial crisis, because it plays an essential role in the financial mechanism, should be regulated when there isn't a crisis so that it doesn't take excessive risks...Some people say that our economic problems are structural, with no quick cure available; but I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.
economics  comment  finance  politics  world 
december 2008 by amy
Technology Review: "I Just Called to Say I Love You"
Cell phones, sentimentality, and the decline of public space. By Jonathan Franzen [!]
technology  comment  writers 
august 2008 by amy
Visible Man - New York Times
It’s all hokum, and I should know. For it is I, The Guy Who’s Where He Is Only Because He’s Black.
race  politics  comment  usa 
april 2008 by amy
A Mock Columnist, Amok - New York Times
I Am an Op-Ed Columnist (And So Can You!)
satire  comment 
october 2007 by amy
Jena, O. J. and the Jailing of Black America - New York Times
How, after decades of undeniable racial progress, did we end up with this virtual gulag of racial incarceration?
usa  society  comment  race  law 
september 2007 by amy
No Exit, No Strategy - New York Times
This was the week in which Americans hoped they would get straight talk and clear thinking on Iraq. What they got was two exhausting days of Congressional testimony by the American military commander, hours of news conferences and interviews, clouds of cu
usa  politics  war  iraq  comment 
september 2007 by amy
A force for evil?
...For kindness needs no ideology; ideologies (including religions, the prime examples of such) are required for unkindness, division, mayhem and murder...
religion  comment 
july 2007 by amy
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