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Mar

LINK: Chart Of The Day

09

Mar

LINK: What does it mean if you make very accurate predictions of outcomes?:

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Feb

The Technium: The Game-ified Life

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Feb

LINK: Shiny Objects

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Feb

via Navneet Nair

11

Feb

Chrome starts fast (pointer)

09

Feb

LINK: India now has social networks related to caste:

readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list.

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Feb

The diamond invention .. is a mechanism for converting tiny crystals of carbon into universally recognized tokens of wealth, power, and romance. To achieve this goal, De Beers had to control demand as well as supply. Both women and men had to be made to perceive diamonds not as marketable precious stones but as an inseparable part of courtship and married life. To stabilize the market, De Beers had to endow these stones with a sentiment that would inhibit the public from ever reselling them. The illusion had to be created that diamonds were forever — “forever” in the sense that they should never be resold.
High Scalability: How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million Players a Month

06

Feb

ignore the code : Feature creep, web search built into Word

ignore the code : Feature creep, web search built into Word

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Feb

LINK: jboutelle: SlideShare offers branded channels for businesses: http://tcrn.ch/chLRjv

Naming Babies: Why Susie Sells Seashells by the Seashore

LINK: Connecting with... Sam Gosling: Facebook Psychologist