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Besides that cutting edge sense of fashion of course? Both are mainstream artists who have chosen to release their latest works online. Moore's new movie, “Slacker Uprising” will be available for download on September 23. It sounds more like a home movie/travelogue than one of his more full-formed commercial works but this is still pretty […]
“Privacy is dead – get over it [part 2] is a talk by private investigator Steve Rambam. It's a talk he has been giving for a number of years where he shows how privacy is being taken away, not by sinister plots but because people are giving it away. With people putting up everything and […]
Holy shit. This is pretty exciting, the more I read about it (and a headline like “Meet Chrome, Google's Windows Killer” doesn't hurt either!)Although I have to admit that my first reaction was, “Why would I ever switch from Firefox? I love Firefox.” Time will tell. I used to love Mozilla. And I used to […]
29 Web Apps For Students and White Collar Workers – lots of cool sites here, many of which I'd never seen before.In other news, I had a surreal moment today: I was at a branch near my house today and got talking to a clerk. When I mentioned my new position with RPL, she said […]
Last night, various Reddit users posted links to stories from ABC and other news outlets reporting that the Secret Service had been dispatched to the home of Senator Joe Biden. That wasn't a 100% slam dunk but a pretty good indication of the pending announcement, which Obama's campaign had otherwise managed to keep in great […]
In undergrad, I went to a speed reading seminar put on by the Psych Students Association. Basically, the instructor said that if you just kept training yourself to read more and more “parts” at a time – words then phrases then sentences then paragraphs then pages, you'd be able to speed read books and other […]
I'm getting so many tabs open in Firefox that it's time for a patented Jason Hammond Link Dump. (That sounds awful. I should come up with a better name for it!)Er, here's the accumulated shit…“The Road” tops EW's list of 25 New Book ClassicsSkip the MBA program and get your personal MBA by reading these […]
AskMetaFilter recently featured an interesting question about how many books in a typical University library rarely or never get used.It was timely for me because, although I'm in a public library setting, I'm in the midst of a major weeding project so I've had occasion to look at the usage statistics for over a thousand […]
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