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"When Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson testified before the Senate banking committee last month about Paulson's proposed bailout bill, a demonstrator in the audience held up an 8.5-by-11 piece of paper with one word scrawled on it in block letters: "FAIL."" all about how FAIL can haz WIN.
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I don't usually say jack-all about scoble, but since Eliz has been job-hunting & looking at admin asst jobs (and since that's what I did for several years), this entirely boggled me. and not in a good way. video = lawsuit waiting 2 happen. salary offered is entry level or below for seattle or sf. pay an editor to check your resume for entry level admin jobs?! penalized for using hotmail?! apply for the career, but don't be overqualified? oy.
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huge freaking "memo" on food & politics.
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"Can you understand it better if I show it to you like this?" Yes, yes I can. (Improved readability through lists!) Plus, (a) I think I read this story or something very like in Wired several years ago, and (b) damn right it helps to have someone taking care of you while you do creative stuff. (sigh)
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"Based on more than 600,000 questionnaires and published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, the study maps regional clusters of personality traits, then overlays state-by-state data on crime, health and economic development in search of correlations." fun with maps & personality testing! (I like the term "stress belt". May I also suggest "lonely corner" for the Pac NW?)
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as noted in 1973 (!!!!!!), Tricia Nixon & Grace Slick are in the same demographic group. not useful. demographic marketing FAIL.
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do want 3rd one down.
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super-duper basics. am very tempted to post to intranet.
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the long version is quite interesting.
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"The following case study shows that lotcat literacy is a situated social practice." 🙂
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"Bugs are probably not quite what you think. Imagine you've designed a car and built it, but someone designed the wrong size tires for it. If the car were software, maybe this would cause the car to not start, or you wouldn't be able to steer it, or maybe the car would explode. Or maybe everything would go fine until the driver tuned to NPR and then the gas tank would spring a leak." heh. a ramble on the nature of software creation.
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"Such questions could keep a librarian up at night, staring at the wall, petting his or her sleek gray cat Otlet" indeed. on some broader questions raised by the Zotero lawsuit in re: the semantic web. (he works for Harper's Magazine, which has 158 YEARS of articles online.)