May 2013
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May 21st
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 19th
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cigurettes: tumblr is like egypt nobody understands us and we worship cats
May 19th
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May 10th
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Teens aren’t abandoning “social.” They’re just... →
Very insightful stuff by Cliff Watson on Medium (via @jakelodwick) Also, respect for correct usage of ‘Tumblog’.
May 10th
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May 10th
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Travel in Egypt: Go fuck yourself →
This amazing article describes an Australian’s experience of a month tour of Egypt.  It’s a terrible tale of what it can be like to experience sexual harassment and your more standard tourist scams as a foreigner here. He makes no effort to spare the feelings of Egyptians and comes in for a lot of flak in the comments, with bitterness and questionable reasoning coming from all sides,...
May 8th
Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? →
The very act of making decisions depletes our ability to make them well. So how do we navigate a world of endless choice? A lot of the same material is covered in Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, one of the most fascinating books I read last year.
May 8th
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May 6th
“If I get a cup of tea, it’s a cup of tea — there isn’t a chance that it’s...”
–  YC’s Paul Buchheit explaining why the public doesn’t understand startup economics.  (via parislemon) A fascinating read about Y Combinator process.  I never want to go through it.
May 4th
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May 1st
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April 2013
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The Brilliant Caitlin Moran on Thatcher →
Apr 22nd
YouTube and the God of Job →
Job is a play about the meaning of suffering and justice, beginning with a series of unsatisfying monologues suggesting possible explanations, each of which gets refuted and rejected in turn. And then “God” shows up. God is a character in this play — a deus ex machina without the machine and/or the tidy ending. We expect this God character to give us the right and final explanation, but after...
Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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WatchWatch
Francis Urquart at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, 1995 Spoiler-warning, kindof, if you’ve only watched the US version of House of Cards.
Apr 17th
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WatchWatch
Francis Urquart on Margaret Thatcher
Apr 17th
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look
igowen: look around you
igowen: just look around you
igowen: have you worked out what we're looking for?
igowen: correct! the answer is: bitcoin
Apr 12th
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So yeah, I picked up a camera again
I’d really quite like to  a) Take photos here in Cairo without too much likelihood of dying b) Make some money out of it Does anyone have some advice for me?
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March 2013
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February 2013
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December 2012
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“When you see interesting data mash-ups today, they are often still using Flickr...”
– The Web We Lost - Anil Dash (via nickdouglas)
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October 2012
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