October 2012
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Oct 28th
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September 2012
1 post
Why Men Fail →
youmightfindyourself: By DAVID BROOKS NY Times Published: September 10, 2012 You’re probably aware of the basic trends. The financial rewards to education have increased over the past few decades, but men failed to get the memo. In elementary and high school, male academic performance is lagging. Boys earn three-quarters of the D’s and F’s. By college, men are clearly behind. Only 40 percent of...
Sep 25th
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April 2012
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Marco Arment on Time and Taste →
youmightfindyourself: This bad article, nicely rebutted by John Gruber, uses a common argument against Apple: that, inevitably, other hardware manufacturers will figure out why Apple products are so popular, create their own good-enough copies, sell them for much less money, and relegate Apple to the same level of market obscurity that they held with Macs in the 1990s. People also often apply...
Apr 23rd
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February 2012
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Feb 29th
November 2007
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Nov 22nd
another blog -like a hole in the head
The web needs another irrelevant little blog like a collective hole in its head, to take up space on some server-farm in some backwater quietly whirring away consuming unjustifiable amounts of non-renewable energy just so someone fortunate enough to have a computer can waste their time reading this post and for a split second share a neurons worth of empathy..  what am i trying to say?  That...
Nov 22nd