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The dark side of the internet | Technology | The Guardian

The darkweb; the deep web; beneath the surface web–the metaphors alone make the internet feel suddenly more unfathomable and mysterious. Other terms: "darknet", "invisible web", "dark address space", "murky address space", "dirty address space". While a "darknet" is an online network such as Freenet that is concealed from non-users, with all the potential for transgressive behaviour that implies, much of "the deep web" consists of unremarkable consumer and research data that is beyond the reach of search engines. "Dark address space" often refers to internet addresses that, for purely technical reasons, have simply stopped working. #The deep web is currently 400 to 550 times larger than the commonly defined world wide web". "The deep web is the fastest growing category of new info on the internet. The value of deep web content is immeasurable. internet searches are searching only 0.03%. of the [total web] pages available. It's not actually feasible to index the whole deep web

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laura marquez on 2009-11-27

Excellent article about internet. Really interesting to open eyes about what´s happening

50 most annoying things about the internet - Telegraph

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There’s No Place Like Home | Print Article | Newsweek.com

"Fewer Americans are relocating than at any time since 1962. That's good news for families, communities ... and even the environment. Several factors are driving this process, including an aging population, suburbanization, the Internet, and an increased focus on family life. And even as the recession has begun to yield to recovery, our commitment to our local roots is only going to grow more profound. Evident before the recession, the new localism will shape how we live and work in the coming decades, and may even influence the course of our future politics. Perhaps nothing will be as surprising about 21st-century America as its settledness. #Americans actually are becoming less nomadic. As recently as the 1970s as many as one in five people moved annually; by 2006, long before the current recession took hold, that number was 14 percent, the lowest rate since the census starting following movement in 1940. #

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Reconstructivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Reconstructivism is a philosophical theory holding that societies should continually reform themselves in order to establish more perfect governments or social networks.[1] This ideology involves recombining or recontextualizing the ideas arrived at by the philosophy of deconstruction, in which an existing system or medium is broken into its smallest meaningful elements and in which these elements are used to build a new system or medium free from the strictures of the original."

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ViVu Inc. - Better than being there

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Appswell - Appswell

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Mind - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com

"Researchers have long known that people cling to their personal biases more tightly when feeling threatened. After thinking about their own inevitable death, they become more patriotic, more religious and less tolerant of outsiders, studies find. When insulted, they profess more loyalty to friends — and when told they’ve done poorly on a trivia test, they even identify more strongly with their school’s winning teams. #implicit learning: k. gained without awareness #rain-imaging studies of people evaluating anomalies, or working out unsettling dilemmas, show that activity in an area called the anterior cingulate cortex spikes significantly. The more activation is recorded, the greater the motivation or ability to seek and correct errors in the real world #disorientation begets creative thinking. "

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