2016 Nov 2, 4:31
Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual. How to Subvert Organizations with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)
http://bit.ly/2dbnooU
2015 Feb 6, 10:50
npr:
The jobs picture has changed profoundly since the 1970s. This map shows how that has played out across the country.
Map: The Most Common Job In Every State
Source: IPUMS-CPS/ University Of Minnesota
Credit: Quoctrung Bui/NPR
2015 Feb 6, 10:50
npr:
The jobs picture has changed profoundly since the 1970s. This map shows how that has played out across the country.
Map: The Most Common Job In Every State
Source: IPUMS-CPS/ University Of Minnesota
Credit: Quoctrung Bui/NPR
2012 Aug 11, 9:17
Winterton, a senior entomologist at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, has seen a lot of bugs. But he hadn’t
seen this species before.
There’s no off switch when you’re the senior entomologist. If you’re browsing the web you find your way to Flickr photos of insects or start correcting Wikipedia articles on insects.
flickr insect science photos 2012 Jun 11, 6:55
The second season of our pop-culture travel show kicks off at Wes Anderson’s alma mater.
film rushmore wes-anderson av-club 2010 Sep 24, 8:38"Comedian Stephen Colbert joined the panel of witnesses at a House hearing on immigrant farm workers. Mr. Colbert has partnered with United Farm Workers and their campaign calling on unemployed
Americans to take jobs in the agriculture sector. The organization's president, Arturo Rodriguez, also testified at the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security hearing chaired
by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA).
Washington, DC : 2 hr. 10 min."
humor video stephen-colbert politics immigration farm labor house 2010 Feb 1, 8:39"Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most
peaceful time in our species' existence." Working up towards Forever Peace?
video history violence culture ted steven-pinker game-theory 2010 Jan 21, 12:53"Of course the word "Amateur" comes from the French word "to love". Good enough reason for me to participate. And you?"
internet culture net-culture web social blog 2009 Nov 12, 8:37
sequelguy posted a photo:
Returning clothes at the mall and I get to observe this while I wait in line.
mall dancing accordian 2009 Jul 14, 8:26"...the zombie trumps all by personifying our deepest fear: death. Zombies are our destiny writ large. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes
in, unstoppable, intractable."
humor tv zombie horror film simon-pegg essay culture 2009 Jul 6, 2:06"Considering the similarity of its ingredients, canned dog food could be a suitable and inexpensive substitute for pate or processed blended meat products such as Spam or liverwurst... Although 72%
of subjects ranked the dog food as the worst of the five samples in terms of taste... subjects were not better than random at correctly identifying the dog food."
humor science statistics food culture research study paper 2009 May 31, 8:29"When on a hot summer's day you buy a carbonated beverage to quench your thirst, how do you order it? Do you ask for a soda, a pop or something else? That question lay at the basis of an article in
the Journal of English Linguistics (Soda or Pop?, #24, 1996) and of a map, showing the regional variation in American English of the names given to that type of drink."
map language visualization statistics english culture soda coke for:hellosarah 2009 May 31, 7:52"jeffgrako: HOLLA IF YOUR AT THE #FIRE"
humor video satire culture internet fire college phone 2009 May 13, 11:21Lots of interesting notes on the company culture of Zappos. "Yesterday I was lucky enough to visit Zappos and get a tour and talk with some of their executives, including Tony Hsieh, CEO."
twitter marketing business culture zappos shoes ecommerce 2009 Mar 25, 4:03"...we can look at the contemporary screen virus as a transitional phase - a growing pain, if you will, of the information age. Tiling our environment with screens is an extremely literal, and on top
of that rather unimaginative, way to introduce virtuality into the physical world: simply piling it on where seamless integration was what was wanted."
via:infosthetics visualization information architecture culture design art 2009 Mar 16, 4:23The underwhelming answer to the question of "What are the commonest five-word sequences on the Web?"
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