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AUTO-MEME

Stumbleupon Review of : http://meme.boxofjunk.ws/ MY BEARD IS FULL OF WINDMILLS.

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The New York Times & Log In

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/opinion/08brooks.html You must remember that there have been three epochs of intellectual affectation. The first, lasting from approximately 1400 to 1965, was the great age of snobbery. Cultural artifacts existed in a hierarchy, with opera and … Continue reading

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The moment when, after many

Stumbleupon Review of : The Moment The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, … Continue reading

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Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network

Stumbleupon Review of : http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/Messenger_graph_www.htm Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We examine characteristics and patterns … Continue reading

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Case 6-13 W

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.huizenga.nova.edu/5012/cases/WlGore.html W. L. Gore & Associates is a company without titles, hierarchy, or any of the conventional structures associated with enterprises of its size. The titles of president and secretary-treasurer are used only because they are … Continue reading

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The Tao of Linden | Linden Lab

Stumbleupon Review of : http://lindenlab.com/about/tao Your Choice is Your Responsibility There’s a dual meaning here. Most companies tell you what to do. Then they make you accountable to the person who told you what to do, not to yourself. We … Continue reading

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Engines of Democracy | Fast Company

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/28/ge.html Part of his education at GE/Durham has involved something that many teams stumble over: how to get around the truism that committees don’t make decisions, people do. At GE/Durham, virtually every decision is made by … Continue reading

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http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/explainingmagic.pdf

Stumbleupon Review of : http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/explainingmagic.pdf The clothes have no emperor. *EXPLAINING THE “MAGIC” OF CONSCIOUSNESS* DANIEL DENNETT Tufts University Is the view supported that consciousness is a mysterious phenomenon and cannot succumb, even with much effort, to the standard methods … Continue reading

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Etceteras profile – StumbleUpon

Stumbleupon Review of : http://etcetera.stumbleupon.com/review/23566243/ meme chain!

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Man needs to take a look at

Stumbleupon Review of : Man needs to take a look at himself and say: I am an instrument. Let us banish from our souls the familiar feeling of silent labour and give our admiration to the beauty of the world. … Continue reading

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