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Two more articles

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:25:41 GMT

In Fight Over Piracy Bills, New Economy Rises Against Old

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7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site

( I know I'm a day late with that! )

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And a bunch of articles from the Times I've just collected over the past few days

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:09:46 GMT

They've gotta go now.

One on the decline of messageboards

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Answer for Invasive Species: Put It on a Plate and Eat It

( Kudzu is edible too, I'm told )

Hasidic Sleuth’s Beat: Mean Streets of Brooklyn

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And lastly, an old article on cousin marriages

The comments are mostly hilarious, and I'll post some after.

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Internetty articles

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:23:40 GMT

Taking Web Humor Seriously, Sort Of

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As Facebook Users Die, Ghosts Reach Out

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Your brain on computers

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:56:32 GMT

While this article purports to be about the breakdown of a wired society, it's really about one family with a serious problem, interspersed with quotes from various studies on attention and multi-tasking.

And you know, the thing about those studies is I always wonder - how do we know the cause? Sure, multi-taskers do worse on this test or that test, got it... but maybe the correlation goes the other way and they're more likely to multi-task BECAUSE they do badly on those tests.

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And yes, two more articles!

Sat, 15 May 2010 17:09:42 GMT

One on facebook - and by the way, if you haven't seen this before, go look at the comments :)

And one on how people are trying to be more private online

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I have a few (okay, several) articles to post

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:52:14 GMT

One about Snopes.com

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Israeli Rights Groups View Themselves as Under Siege

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The last three of those math blog posts which I forgot to link to

An interview about prisons in the US

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Two quick articles, and also, I have invite codes for DW

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:35:11 GMT

( Codes )

Scientists Strive to Map the Shape-Shifting Net

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Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force

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Quick article about Twitter

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:21:46 GMT

I must say, when it comes to Twitter I never quite saw the point - but then, I find texting awkward and unwieldy.

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