Back to the future: What if the ‘mass media’ era was just an accident of history? — paidContent

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from paidContent http://paidcontent.org

Forget sex: how the idea behind Bang with Friends could revolutionize social interaction | The Verge

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World War II’s Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together

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Days after Hitler’s suicide a group of American soldiers, French prisoners, and, yes, German soldiers defended an Austrian castle against an SS division—the only time Germans and Allies fought together in World War II.

Details of surveys underpinning Michael Gove's assertion in Mail on Sunday re teenagers' lack of historical knowledge - a Freedom of Information request to Department for Education - WhatDoTheyKnow

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Good god above. What happened when someone made an FoI request for the research behind one of Michael Gove's claims:

How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley : The New Yorker

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How Bing Crosby and the Nazis helped create Silicon Valley, by @ftrain

This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community

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bounce rate

How to Win at Email

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Nathan Heller: Is College Moving Online? : The New Yorker

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The Science of Loneliness: How Isolation Can Kill You | New Republic

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Very interesting. RT @MaryKayMagistad: "We must love one another or die." Great read: The Lethality of Loneliness.

Lego Casino Royale on Devour.com

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from Daring Fireball “Yes. Considerably.” ★

Bookshelf.js - Javascript ORM with some Backbone

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RT @laravelphp: Bookshelf.js… Eloquent ported to Node.js by @tgriesser! Insane!

Evan's Awesome A/B Tools - sample size calculator, A/B test results, and more

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Read the full announcement: http://www.evanmiller.org/announcing-evans-awesome-ab-tools.html

LukeW | New Layouts for the Multi-Device Web

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Paul Irish on Chrome Moving to Blink ∙ An A List Apart Blog Post

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Nice — @wilto sits @paul_irish down for a Q&A about the new Blink engine for @alistapart:

a sing along wolf song

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stiles and derek both teach primary school, there is a fire drill

Britain's Brezhnev-style capitalism

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Eastern bloc socialism had to keep going through the 1970s and 80s, inspite of lagging growth and failed ideological hegemony, because nobody knew what else to do. This is the stage neoliberal policy-making has now reached. The difference is that there is still one area of our economy that is still moving and changing, namely the money economy, with corporate profits high and financial innovation ongoing. What seems to have changed, post-2008, is that the price paid for this monetary dynamism is that the rest of us all have to stand completely still. In order that 'they' in the banks can cling on to their modernity of liquidity and ultra-fast turnover, 'we' outside have to relinquish our modernity, of a future that is any different from the present. Finance is to our stagnant societies what the space race and the Cold War were to the Eastern Bloc countries of the 1970s and 80s - a huge cost that the state imposes on its public, with the result that cities and economies start to become tedious processions of the same.

true-color GIF example

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Space Oddity - YouTube

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With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here's Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.

Tail wagging - Matt Gemmell

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Complaining about skeuomorphism is missing the point. Tail wagging: http://t.co/tXyMdK5Hjq – Matt Gemmell (mattgemmell) http://twitter.com/mattgemmell/status/333615677493628928

Space Oddity

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A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. With thanks to Emm Gryner, Jo...