Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Halloween Greetings form College Humor

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"The Internet Goes Trick-or-Treating"
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

We can't finish October without playing this at least once

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The Danse Macabre (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on ...
Monday, October 29, 2018

I think it's important to define subsidized journalism more broadly than just native advertising.

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[This started out as a reply to Andrew Gelman's post " The Axios Turing test and the heat death of the journalistic universe ,...
Friday, October 26, 2018

More spooky stuff (In no way chosen as filler because I had a busy week)

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Who better than Goldsmith and Hermann to send us off.
Thursday, October 25, 2018

A Mercury Theatre Halloween

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[repost] The debut production of the Mercury Theatre of the Air, Dracula. And, of course, the Mercury production of War of the World...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

We'll largely skip over the author's fixation on casual nudity.

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When trying to understand attitudes toward and expectations for technology in previous eras, one needs to be especially cautious a...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Cult of the CEO

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This is Joseph This is a revealing symptom of the cult of the CEO: If you have a CEO this dead to rights on securities fraud, why let h...
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Monday, October 22, 2018

It is always useful to go back and read the contemporary accounts.

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One of the nails I've pounded flush to the board recently (apologies to long-suffering regular readers) is that much of the standa...
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Friday, October 19, 2018

In case the aerospace allusions are getting a bit obscure, here's a week in video recommendation.

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The Mouse on the Moon is an easy film to overlook. Between Peter Sellers' spectacular turn in the Mouse that Roared and the general...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

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Continuing the visionary aerospace thread, there's almost a "mouse on the moon" quality to India's avatar. No disrespec...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

It also suggests that I chose the wrong major in college.

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This long but well worth your time article approaches some familiar problems from a new and disturbing direction. We've talked a great d...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

There's a lot of bold, visionary thinking coming out of aerospace, just not from the people who are supposed to be the bold visionaries.

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Recently, we've been making the point that most of the "futuristic" and "revolutionary" proposals coming from t...
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Monday, October 15, 2018

The technology does not exist. The viability of the market is questionable. Obviously it's the regulators' fault.

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I haven't decided if I'm going to discuss this Wired magazine article ( Inside the Secret Conference Plotting to Launch Flying Cars ...
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Friday, October 12, 2018

Brainwashing and subliminal manipulation – – another entry in our failed postwar technology series and an excuse to play a great movie clip.

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[now with links] We've had a thread going for a while now on technologies and lines of research that looked promising (if "promis...
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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Sometimes I'm tempted just to rerun all of our 2016 posts

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From TPM : Brian Kemp Is Blocking 53K Applicants From Registering To Vote, Most Of Them Black By Cameron Joseph Georgia Secretary of Sta...