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bridawson

  1. Fairness obstructs effective problem solving when the two goals are considered concurrently economist.com/blogs/democrac… about 8 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
  2. It'd be neat of Readability did some semantic analysis and gave stats and themes on the articles you've read about 8 hours ago via web
  3. Exposing the moral compass & calculator of the Obama Administration's approach on war nytimes.com/2012/05/29/wor… 7:46 AM May 29th via web
  4. "The museum now sits forlornly in an empty development, a symbol of architectural achievement...the folly of ambition." nytimes.com/2012/03/18/mag… 8:20 PM May 28th via web
  5. Questions of "How to be" shouldn't be conflated with, or converted to, questions of "what to do" nytimes.com/2012/05/25/opi… 8:20 AM May 25th via web
  6. Visually stunning trailer for a documentary about 70 state parks that are planned to close in CA :( thefirst70.com 3:48 PM May 24th via web
  7. Wiio's law: communication usually fails, except by accident. 3:15 PM May 15th via web
  8. "Without theory, we're at sea without a map...If we can't see beyond what's close by, we're relying on chance" bit.ly/JdB4zR 1:52 PM May 14th via web
  9. An area of 10^7 meters would encompass the whole Earth, 10^-7 double helixes inside a cell's nuclei. youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhv… #magnitude 6:48 AM May 14th via web
  10. Boulderin' Central Park instagr.am/p/KlS33wyHbQ/ 2:58 PM May 13th via Instagram
  11. A young, free-wheeling hacker kicked off an avalanche to pry once-controlled information open newyorker.com/reporting/2012… 10:18 AM May 7th via web
  12. Cell phones seem to become, increasingly, adult pacifiers 8:28 PM May 6th via web
  13. Fascinating touch interactions enabled by the recognition of electrical patterns. e.g., a person's own body as UI youtube.com/watch?feature=… 7:49 PM May 6th via web
  14. We've reductively redefined literacy as reading and writing and dropped the much more important: thinking with language ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/03/red… 7:41 PM May 6th via web
  15. @zlwise Right on. Identity design can be surprisingly nontrivial 7:03 PM May 6th via web in reply to zlwise
  16. @zlwise Feels like more of the character of the brand could get unpacked to help visually explain it's essence 6:56 PM May 6th via web in reply to zlwise
  17. Interesting how the (perceived) significance of humans ebbs and flows as we learn more about the cosmos. youtube.com/watch?feature=… 6:53 PM May 6th via web
  18. Neat linguistic examples of etymological amalgamation ideasillustrated.com/blog/2012/04/0… 10:45 AM May 4th via web
  19. Slick interaction design proposal for how text editing on the iPad could be idownloadblog.com/2012/05/03/tex… 7:24 PM May 3rd via web
  20. Unacceptably, we are "the second-most incarcerated country in history, just barely edged out by Stalin’s Soviet Union" nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crim… 8:13 PM May 2nd via web