• Anarchy and Explosives and General Mayhem
  The term Anarchy got bandied about a lot in the early 80's, perhaps having some amount of political or social meaning attached at the outset, but by the first couple of years, it simply became a synonym for "blow shit up". Writers outdid themselves trying to imagine ways to create chaos and panic out of whatever household items they had available.
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• Artist Amber Hawk Swanson's complicated relationship with her look-alike sex doll
  AMBER HAWK SWANSON met Amber Doll on January 25 and the two were married the next day in matching rented gowns at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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• Duguit (2006). Limits of self–organization: Peer production and "laws of quality"
  People often implicitly ascribe the quality of peer–production projects such as Project Gutenberg or Wikipedia to what I call “laws” of quality. These are drawn from Open Source software development and it is not clear how applicable they are outside the realm of software. I look at examples from peer production projects to ask whether faith in these laws does not so much guarantee quality as hide the need for improvement.
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• Duty Calls
  "Are you coming to bed?" "I can't this is important." "What?" "Someone is _wrong_ on the internet."
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• Edgar Whitley: In cyberspace all they see is your words
  Examines the claims that cyberspace allows individuals to create sustainable new identities. It examines these claims in relation to the ongoing argument about embodiment and information systems. Accepts that computer mediated communication changes the nature of the interaction by removing bodily cues from the process, but argues that creating new identities is not simply a case of using new words. Argues that the choice of words is the result of socialized learning into a particular role, a process that cannot be taught explicitly. Analyses an existing case study and highlights the limitations of playing with an identity into which one has not been socialized. Ends with a discussion of the implications of the ideas presented.
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• Edge: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE By Steven Pinker
  "But, now that social scientists have started to count bodies in different historical periods, they have discovered that the romantic theory gets it backward: Far from causing us to become more violent, something in modernity and its cultural institutions has made us nobler."
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• How Can We Kill Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
  What's the best way for the state to execute a prisoner who has been condemned to death? --- We seem to be all out of options here. Well, there is another possibility, one so obvious that I almost hesitate to suggest it. Maybe the United States should rejoin civilization and just abolish capital punishment altogether.
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• In Praise of Idleness By Bertrand Russell
  First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so.
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• ivan krstić · code culture » Astounded in Arahuay
  With the laptops, the kids had to turn to each other to learn how to use them. Then they realized it was easy to send each other pictures and things they’ve written — and it became commonplace. The sharing, asserts Mrs. Cornejo, extended into the physical world, where once jealously-guarded personal items increasingly started being passed around between the kids, if somewhat nervously.
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• Men, Women, and Ghosts in Science
  Science would be better served if we gave more opportunity and power to the gentle, the reflective, and the creative individuals of both sexes. And if we did, more women would be selected, more would choose to stay in science, and more would get to the top.
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• Mike Godwin: Meme, Counter-meme
  I seeded Godwin's Law in any newsgroup or topic where I saw a gratuitous Nazi reference. Soon, to my surprise, other people were citing it - the counter-meme was reproducing on its own! And it mutated like a meme, generating corollaries
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• Neurophilosophy : The rise & fall of the prefrontal lobotomy
  As well as being used to treat the criminally insane, lobotomies were also used to "cure" political dissidents. It was alleged that the procedure was used routinely on prisoners against their will, and the use of lobotomies was strongly criticised on the grounds that it infringed the civil liberties of the patients.
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• Og så alligevel… » Thesis
  After 6 months of fieldwork from April to November 2006, I sat down to write my Master’s Thesis on the social dynamics of the Ubuntu Linux developers’ on-line community. I turned in the thesis on the 23rd of June 2007, and defended it successfully on Monday the 27th of August 2007. After some tweaking and polishing, the thesis now available for a wider audience.
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• Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com
  Joshua Bell is one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played it for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington, would anyone notice? An Experiment by the Washington Post.
  Joshua Bell is one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played it for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington, would anyone notice?
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• Schneier on Security: The War on the Unexpected
  We've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested -- even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats.
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• The atheist delusion | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books
  An atmosphere of moral panic surrounds religion. Viewed not so long ago as a relic of superstition whose role in society was steadily declining, it is now demonised as the cause of many of the world's worst evils
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• the Godwin's Law FAQ
  Take a topic - any topic - and see how quickly you can relate it to Nazis using legitimate topic drift methods.
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• The Science Creative Quarterly » THE SOCIAL NORM OF LEAVING THE TOILET SEAT DOWN: A GAME THEORETIC ANALYSIS
  In this paper, we internalize the cost of yelling and model the conflict as a non-cooperative game between two species, males and females.We find that the social norm of leaving the toilet seat down is inefficient.
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• Time changes everything. | oomsa
  "Why you should always be nice to others even when you are in a position of power over them." - Pictures of a dog with two puppies of another breed. The puppies grow up over time to be three times as big as the grownup in the first picture.
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• Undoing Bush: how to repair eight years of sabotage, bungling, and neglect - Harper's Magazine
  The Constitution by David Cole - The courts by Dahlia Lithwick - Civil service by Ken Silverstein - The environment by Bill McKibben - Science by Chris (Chris C.) Mooney - The economy by Dean Baker - The marketplace of ideas by Jack Hitt - Intelligence by James Bamford - The military by Edward Luttwak - Diplomacy by Anne-Marie Slaughter - The national character by Earl Shorris
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