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Coca-Cola United States: The Happiness factory

[From Coca-Cola United States] — this is just surreal…

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Do not get a Ph.D.!

Do not get a Ph.D.! — this is someone else’s crusade, not mine. my position is pretty much the same, there is only one reason to get a ph.d. and it has nothing to do with future employment. a ph.d. is closer to a possession, and not even a qualification, unless you want to be […]

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lazy sunday meme

stolen from new kid on the hallway Things I’ve done are in bold. Things I am indifferent towards or actively would like to avoid are crossed out. Things in normal type face are things I’d like to do (or at least, that I’d rather do than not). Comments in parentheses are my additions. Start my […]

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Scientists extract images directly from brain ::: Pink Tentacle

Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while […]

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Dance Your Way to a Ph.D. – The Daily Beast

You can’t fully understand how hemoglobin molecules interact until you’ve seen them depicted through a classical pas de deux. [From Dance Your Way to a Ph.D. – The Daily Beast ] —- pretty funny:) dance your ph.d.

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Mobile Phone Survey

http://websurvey.sfu.ca/survey/28872637 Please do this for my colleague Richard

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Ian Bogost – Write-Only Publication

Here’s another way to frame publishers like IGI: they are vampire presses. They appear to be alive (disseminating ideas), but really they are dead (concealing ideas). They capture and feed on fragile individuals in order to advance their kind as a whole. They move in the shadows, sealing deals with institutional buyers under cover of […]

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Center for Digital Discourse and Culture | @ Virginia Tech

I’ve been working on our annual report. Here are some interesting stats: The CDDC has been referenced in over 250 books, over 500 scholarly publications total. We’ve appeared in numerous textbooks, academic papers, etc. Last year we had over 2 million unique addresses visiting our servers and we transferred over 4terabytes of information. We have […]

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XMind – Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping

Open Source, Open Storm! Want to share ideas? The world’s coolest brainstorming and mind mapping software has now joined the open source community. [From XMind – Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping] —- they just made xmind free. i don’t use it, but it looks useful. I used novamind for a while.

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