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October 2011
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"It Knows" — Daniel Soar reviews ‘The Googlisation... →
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Since Google still makes more than 95 per cent of its money through selling advertising – that’s $30 billion a year, or about twice the annual global revenue of the entire recorded music industry – the fear is that all the information about us it has hoovered up is used to create scarily exact user profiles which it then offers to advertisers, as the most complete picture of billions of...
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September 2011
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Do Ideas Matter? →
A solid piece by Paul Berman of The New Republic on philosophy from 9/11 to the Arab Spring and what it means for all of us
rainy day reads →
how nice of a read, dubliners - a perfect slim volume for a rainy day
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One evening I went into the back drawing-room in which the priest had died. It was a dark rainy evening and there was no sound in the house. Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth, the fine incessant needles of water playing in the sodden beds. Some distant lamp or…
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The New Republic: "Let's Be Honest: We're in a... →
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“What can be done now? Probably nothing. Anything that involves spending, such as a new stimulus program, would come too late to be effective… At a 7 percent annual growth rate, our public debt in 2012, estimated at $12.4 trillion, will grow by 40 percent in five years if none of the reforms…
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August 2011
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