November 2011
21 posts
Wild, Wild East | Foreign Policy →
Chinese families no longer have to cross oceans to get their fix of Americana. As the demand for vacation homes in China booms, a quirky market has emerged. Jackson Hole, a cowboy-inspired resort town in the northern province of Hebei, named after the Wyoming vacation mecca, offers around 900 cabins furnished with fireplaces and Western charm. This idyllic town offers a weekend escape from the...
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Nov 29th
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The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin | Magazine →
patrickrhone: Fascinating account of the world of virtual currency. Unsurprisingly, it to is subject to the same control that all trading from the dawn of time has been – trust. And, since all currency is simply a construct for the exchange of trust, guess what happens to the currency when the faith is shaken?
Nov 29th
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Forecasting the Best Deals →
bigweek: The best deals don’t happen on Black Friday: “The bottom line is, Black Friday is for the retailers to go from the red into the black,” he said. “It’s not really for people to get great deals on the most popular products.” Shocking.
Nov 26th
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Nov 26th
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unfinished work: I Believe In The Internet - The... →
bradburnham: I have always believed that the entertainment industry’s effort to stop piracy by asking search engines and ISPs to make it more difficult for their users to find pirate sites was the wrong way to solve the problem, but it could never put my finger on why I felt so strongly about it. After all,…
Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
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Dangerous Bill Would Threaten Legitimate Websites... →
Nov 17th
American Censorship Day November 16 - Join the... →
Go sign it.
Nov 17th
Nov 16th
Protect The Internet →
minimalmac: Congress is considering two well-intentioned but deeply flawed bills, the PROTECT-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). As written, they would betray more than a decade of US policy and advocacy of Internet freedom by establishing a censorship system using the same domain blacklisting technologies pioneered by China and Iran. Not what we believe in. Call your...
Nov 16th
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Life Below 600px | Paddy Donnelly →
Nov 16th
What Really Happened Between J. Edgar Hoover and... →
Nov 13th
Please Write it Down: Design and Research in the... →
Nov 11th
Lucasfilm registers 'Star Wars: Identities'... →
Nov 11th
Remember the "borderless" Internet? It's... →
Nov 11th
Nov 10th
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Tony Grafton on the higher education crisis, and... →
Nov 10th
Melissa Terras' Blog: What happens when you tweet... →
Nov 10th
Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps;... →
Remember when people said iOS was dead because it wasn’t supporting Flash? Yeah.
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