August 2012
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Should You Hire Staff Based on Their Klout Score? →
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Iceland’s recovery continues, declared... →
gabrieldunn: …Unlike the US and several countries in the eurozone, Iceland allowed its banking system to fail in the global economic downturn and put the burden on the industry’s creditors rather than taxpayers. Read more: http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2012/08/22/icelands-recovery-continues-declared-impressive/#ixzz24QwuAZae
Aug 24th
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“For people who live in isolated areas, the service means no longer having to...”
– The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money – News Watch (via slantback)
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“Many of our big ideas about development rest on the assumption that the West...”
– The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money – News Watch (via slantback)
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A Robot to throw first pitch at Detroit Tigers... →
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BBC: George Orwell is 'too Left-wing’ for a statue →
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“…what’s unique about what’s happening today in government, in the world, in...”
– Paul Ryan (via azspot)
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“Even as the once-mighty University of California system slashes programs and...”
– Glenn Reynolds, The Higher Education Bubble This would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic. (via sds) Orwellian
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“The deficit-hawks recoil in horror and assure us that we can reduce government...”
– David Korten, “America’s Deficit Attention Disorder.” (via utnereader)
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Overclocked
I recently read Cory Doctorow’s collection of short stories “Overclocked”(2005 Thunder’s Mouth Press). “I-Robot” a follow on to Asimov’s book, is an excellent visually rich short story that like DOIMK highlites Cory’s visionary power and post-asimov imagineer’s the future of robotics with the exploration of concepts like speed, AI, supiority to...
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WatchWatch
poptech: Flatline is an extended version of the short film HEART STOP BEATING (Sundance 2012). The film tells the story of two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute who successfully replaced a dying man’s heart with a rotor-driven device of their own design—proving that life is possible without a pulse or a heartbeat. (not for the squemish) 
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NYPD Debuts High-Tech Crime Fighting... →
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Wikisepeed - the first carmaker to accept bitcoin →
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World Economic Forum lists top 10 emerging... →
gizmag.com 1. Infor­mat­ics for adding value to infor­ma­tion The quan­ti­ty of infor­ma­tion now avail­able to indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions is unprece­dent­ed in human his­to­ry, and the rate of infor­ma­tion gen­er­a­tion con­tin­ues to gro…
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Newspeak and 10 other reasons why I'm terrified to...
the-lucky-alien: A short ramble Read More
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Wedding Party Collects Photos From Guests’ Phones... →
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