January 2012
How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the... →
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Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman of Freakonomics discuss the claims that piracy leads to $250 billion a year in loses and 750,000 American jobs lost:
The good news is that the numbers are wrong — as this post by the Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez explains. In 2010, the Government Accountability Office released a report noting that these figures “cannot be substantiated or traced...
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“nos dos yabanci Yes, konu komsi
There are no strangers amongst us; we are all...”
– Turkish saying aligned with kuzguncuk. Large Jewish hood in Istanbul
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Today I am thankful for the chief isolator
Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner who’s genius is allowing someone close to me a few moments of peace
Editorial: RIM's new CEO isn't the shakeup it... →
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★ On the Behavior of the iPhone Mute Switch →
John Gruber, daringfireball.net
Daniel J. Wakin, reporting for the NYT: The unmistakably jarring sound of an iPhone marimba ring interrupted the soft and spiritual final measures of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 at the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday night. The…
★ Regarding the Scope of Apple’s Education... →
John Gruber, daringfireball.net
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in a piece headlined “Apple’s Education Event Is Getting Seriously Over-Hyped”: We interviewed MacInnis over the weekend, and as near as we can tell, Foresman — and the 18 other reporters who followed his lead — g…
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Muhammad Ali at 70: How the 'Louisville Lip'... →
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“Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.”
– Truman Capote (via quote-book)
“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels....”
– Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (via nevver)