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Survivorship bias: why 90% of the advice about writing is bullshit right now | Tobias Buckell Online
“the self assured expertise of anecdotes drives me nuts”
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2013 Internet Trends — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
“The latest edition of the annual Internet Trends report finds continued robust online growth.”
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Five Undercover Police Cars Sent To Arrest Single Alleged Movie Pirate | TorrentFreak
“What remains remarkable about FACT operations is how they are able to persuade the police to invest significant resources towards detaining individuals for non-violent crimes.”
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“A deep topically relevant exploration of this cyber drama comes to light as The Acme Corporation presents If You Can Get To Buffalo: An Exploration of a Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell, a new work by Trish Harnetiaux.”
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svg.js – A lightweight JavaScript library for manipulating and animating svg
“A lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG.”
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Jackson Pollock’s ‘One – Number 31, 1950’ Restored by MoMA – NYTimes.com
“That meant they were added after 1962,” Mr. Coddington said. “And since Pollock died in 1956, those photographs confirmed they were put there after his death.”
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Me and Sad Keanu: A 3D-Printing Story – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
“a meme materialized”
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TRUSTAFARIANS OF THE BELLE ÉPOQUE | CAREER SUICIDE
“here’s just a few of the famous artists who conducted art as a full time hobby” with added photoshops.
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Facebook agrees to block sexual assault ‘humor’ – NBC News.com
“Facebook is changing its policy on “humorous” posts and images that make light of rape and violence against women, following pressure from activists and advertisers.”
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BSA Study Demonstrates Open Source’s Economic Advantage – Open Enterprise
“the fundamental premise of the latest BSA study – that licensed proprietary software is better in many ways than pirated copies – actually applies to open source software even more strongly”
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Google defends its use of proprietary tech in Hangouts | TechHive
“Google is feeling the heat over its decision to build its new Hangouts IM and audio/video chat product with proprietary technology”
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“Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs Women in Video Games Is Back With More On That Oh-So-Irritating Damsel Trope”
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“a few of the GIFs Google has created showing some of the most startling pockets of change”
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Beneath the Fold: The Twisted Tale of Origami v. Sarah Morris | GalleristNY
“Ms. Morris did say that a friend pointed out to her that a group of origami zealots suing an artist was just about “the ‘least zen’ thing he’d ever heard.””
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Where Looks Don’t Matter and Only the Best Writers Get Laid | The Cluster Mag
“How the feminist internet utopia failed, and we ended up with speculative realism”