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Letterman Apologizes — Again — to Governor Palin and Her Family - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com on 2009-06-16
- ith Gov. Palin that week, with Bristol, who is 18 and an unwed mother, had to do with the
- Last week Mr. Letterman somewhat defiantly said that there was a misperception going on and he would never make a sexually charged joke about a 14-year old. But
Medieval Sourcebook: Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal on 2009-03-29
- As I saw that they were very friendly to us, and
  
  perceived that they could be much more easily converted to our
  
  holy faith by gentle means than by force
- It
  
  appears to me, that the people are ingenious, and would be good
  
  servants and I am of opinion that they would very readily become
  
  Christians, as they appear to have no religion. They very
  
  quickly learn such words as are spoken to them.
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- - strove to learn if they had any gold
  - they
    
    interrogated us if we had come from heaven.
  - I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men, and govern them
    
    as I pleased.
  - the inhabitants living at war with one another,
    
    although a simple race, and with delicate bodies.
  - one of the San
    
    Salvador natives leaped overboard and swam to her; (another had
    
    made his escape the night before,)
  - with a single man, who came to barter some cotton; some of the
    
    sailors finding him unwilling to go on board the vessel, jumped
    
    into the sea and took him
  - I was upon the quarter deck of my
    
    ship, and seeing the whole, sent for him, and gave him a red cap,
    
    put some glass beads upon his arms, and two hawk's bells upon his
    
    ears. I then ordered his canoe to be returned to him, and
    
    despatched him back to land.
  - the man who had escaped from us had done us some injury
  - there is a mine of gold
  - more
    
    civilized
  - They have no religion, and I believe that
    
    they would very readily become Christians
  - the house was
    
    completely furnished
Facebook | Home on 2009-03-05
Beowulf on 2009-02-12
- Be guardian, thou, to this group of my thanes,
  
  my warrior-friends
- than of men in arms
  
  when, hammer-forged, the falchion hard,
  
  sword gore-stained, through swine of the helm,
  
  crested, with keen blade carves amain.
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008) on 2009-02-07
- Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages
- I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print,
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- - The Net’s influence doesn’t end at the edges of a computer screen, either. As people’s minds become attuned to the crazy quilt of Internet media, traditional media have to adapt to the audience’s new expectations
Wired 12.10: The Long Tail on 2009-02-07
- And what's true for music is doubly true for movies and games, where the quality of pirated products can be even more dismal, viruses are a risk, and downloads take so much longer.
- Perhaps the best way to do that is to stop charging for individual tracks at all
Wired 12.10: The Long Tail on 2009-02-07
- In effect, online music has seen a return to the singles-driven business of the 1950s
- If it clearly costs less for a record label to deliver a song online, with no packaging, manufacturing, distribution, or shelf space overheads, why shouldn't the price be less, too?
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- - By this calculation, hit music is overpriced by 25 percent online
Wired 12.10: The Long Tail on 2009-02-07
- The average Barnes & Noble carries 130,000 titles. Yet more than half of Amazon's book sales come from outside its top 130,000 titles.
- The average Blockbuster carries fewer than 3,000 DVDs. Yet a fifth of Netflix rentals are outside its top 3,000 titles.
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- - It has, in short, broken the tyranny of physical space
Facebook: 25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You - TIME on 2009-02-07
Wired 12.10: The Long Tail on 2009-02-07
- This is the world of scarcity. Now, with online distribution and retail, we are entering a world of abundance
- Pareto's principle
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- - thousands of people put in their dollars for songs that no traditional jukebox anywhere has ever carried.
  - "misses" usually make money, too. And because there are so many more of them, that money can add up quickly to a huge new market.
  - As fast as Rhapsody adds tracks to its library, those songs find an audience, even if it's just a few people a month, somewhere in the country.