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A Filthy History: When New Yorkers Lived Knee-Deep in Trashcollectorsweekly.com
It's tempting to think of sacred tombs and ancient monuments as our best window into other cultures. But archaeologists have long known that... - unhangout.media.mit.edu
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Why Magic Realism 'Gets' Usthecontinentalsuper.wordpress.com
I've just finished reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami and can say that it's one of the best books I've ever read. I can also say that Murakami is indeed a genius of a writer, jus... -
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Haiti - Bringing clean water to those that need it most!indiegogo.com
Join Us on our mission to bring clean water to Haiti and not just change lives but save them. Haiti has no future without clean water! #CleanWaterAroundtheWorld -
Mark Zuckerberg Called Obama to Lecture Him About Privacy. It Did Not Go Well.slate.com
The U.S. government risks undermining people's trust in the Internet if it keeps invading their privacy, warns Mark Zuckerberg, who ought to know. In a status update Thursday, the Facebooker-in-chief reports that he called up President Obama himself to... -
Complaints as Amazon Raises Cost of Primenytimes.com
The annual fee for Amazon Prime, the two-day shipping service, will jump 25 percent, to $99. -
Apple's Buttonless Mouse Came From Steve Jobs' Misunderstanding, Says Former Design Execminyanville.com
Abraham Farag, former Senior Mechanical Engineer of Product Design, relates the birth of Apple's button-free mouse and how Steve Jobs angrily mandated its construction. -
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Russia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Siteseff.org
Russia's government has escalated its use of its Internet censorship law to target news sites, bloggers, and politicians under the slimmest excuse of preventing unauthorized protests and enforcing house arrest regulations. Today, the country's ISPs hav... -
Google Fiber expansion moves fast, San Antonio approves constructionarstechnica.com
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My Brain Has No Space For Your User Interfacejoshtimonen.com
My iPhone’s alarm went off at 5:30 this morning, and I walked to the kitchen to start my fancy coffee maker, with its LCD display and navigation. Then at my desk I booted up a Mac and a PC. I... - pastebin.ca
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Murder Machines: Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Yearcollectorsweekly.com
"At some point, we decided that somebody on a bike or on foot is not traffic, but an obstruction to traffic."“If you look at newspapers fr... -
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Would You Eat a Salad Grown in a Bomb Shelter?smithsonianmag.com
In London's old, abandoned bomb shelters, a local food movement is taking root - boards.greenhouse.io