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Emma Watson | Maxim Presents Emma Watson & Emma Watson Pictures ...
Maxim gives you a reason to finally see Harry Potter: Emma Watson is stunning in our collection of Emma Watson pictures exclusive to Maxim, your spot for everything Emma Watson.
http://www.maxim.com/girls/todays-girl/82860/emma-watson.html
Tags: time, online, spend, people, culture,, culture, emma, society,, people,, read Saved by: admin at 18 Jun 2010

Issendai's Superhero Training Journal - How to keep someone with you forever
...Eventually you're so crazy that you can't interact with anyone who isn't equally crazy. Normal people have either fled, or told you once too often that you're being stupid and you need to leave. So... Read more
http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html
Tags: psychology, abuse, work, culture, management, stress, lifehacks, politics, control, business Saved by: admin at 17 Jun 2010

In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday - NYTimes.com
"The underlying premise of the Singularity responds to people’s insecurity about the speed of social and technological change in the computer era. Mr. Kurzweil posits that the computer and the Inter... Read more
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html
Tags: singularity, technology, future, culture, science, ai, via:packrati.us, google, society, good Saved by: admin at 14 Jun 2010

Web Services as Governments - Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
Once you start thinking about large web platforms as governments, the logical question is what kind of government are they. One thing is for sure - none of these platforms are democracies. They are ol... Read more
http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2010/06/web-services-as-governments.php
Tags: government, web, culture, internet, politics, apple, economics, technology, via:packrati.us, facebook Saved by: admin at 13 Jun 2010

'New York Times' Bans the Word 'Tweet' - The Awl
RT @romenesko NYT tells staff: "Tweet" has yet to achieve the status of standard English -- so don't use it. http://is.gd/cK7JX – Steve Rubel (steverubel) http://twitter.com/steverubel/statuses/1585... Read more
http://www.theawl.com/2010/06/new-york-times-bans-the-word-tweet
Tags: twitter, nytimes, via:packrati.us, language, tweet, culture, media, newspapers, english, style Saved by: admin at 11 Jun 2010

The End of Men - Magazine - The Atlantic
Recently Ericsson joked with the old boys at his elementary-school reunion that he was going to have a sex-change operation. “Women live longer than men. The same Columbia-Maryland study ranked Am... Read more
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/
Tags: gender, education, culture, politics, feminism, business, society, economy, toread, demographics Saved by: admin at 11 Jun 2010

Gallery: Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress - Boing Boing
The largest library in the world, it pioneers both preservation of the oldest artifacts and digitization of the most recent--so that all of it remains available to future generations. I recently took... Read more
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/09/gallery-digitizing-t.html
Tags: archive, books, culture, loc, library, digitization, history, article, government, geek Saved by: admin at 10 Jun 2010

Balkinization
The absence of any mention of copyright law in Glee illustrates a painful tension in American culture. While copyright holders assert that copyright violators are “stealing” their “property,” ... Read more
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/06/copyright-elephant-in-middle-of-glee.html
Tags: copyright, music, glee, tv, mashup, culture, television, riaa, law, fairuse Saved by: admin at 10 Jun 2010

Why I Sold Zappos
what distinguished us from our competitors was that we'd put our company culture above all else We'd bet that by being good to our employees -- for instance, by paying for 100 percent of health care ... Read more
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100601/why-i-sold-zappos.html
Tags: business, zappos, culture, amazon, happiness, startups, via:packrati.us, article, ecommerce, 2010 Saved by: admin at 08 Jun 2010

Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com
Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information. These pla... Read more
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html
Tags: technology, brain, internet, psychology, culture, attention, addiction, health, productivity, cognitive Saved by: admin at 08 Jun 2010