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25 Oct 09

Errol Morris: The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock

[Part 4] Curtis is revealing a basic truism about all documentary photography, perhaps all photography. Does it document what it claims to document? Dorothea Lange took multiple images of the “migrant mother.” She may have asked her to stand in a particul

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04 Oct 09

The Case for God: What Religion Means, by Karen Armstrong

6th-century Babylonian Talmud instructed the Jews how to regard their sacred books: “What is Torah? It is the interpretation of Torah.” The fixing of texts first came about with the advent of printing, which elevated what was on the page above the spoken,

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Morgan Meis: The Problem with Polanski | The Smart Set

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-luck/ /////
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2009/09/polanski-some-cognitive-biases.html

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01 Oct 09

George A. Akerlof & Paul M. Romer - Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit (pdf)

an economic underground can come to life if firms have an incentive to go broke for profit at society's expense (to loot) instead of to go for broke (to gamble on success). Bankruptcy for profit will occur if poor accounting, lax regulation, or low penalt

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Should Facebook Remove Subject Lines from... - Paul Buchheit - FriendFeed

I tried to remove the subject in Gmail, but people revolted. I really like that FriendFeed (and Twitter) don't have a subject -- it's just a message. (...) ultimately we may need to abandon email. It's broken in many ways, but difficult to change. - Paul

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