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"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
- Dr. Seuss
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rantnrave:// I admire those that can analyze, understand and hack systems. But I don’t like tricks. I like foundations, constitutions and vision in business. A seemingly endless supply of media companies popping up that are really no more than high frequency traders in publishing. A sad, cheap shame of a treadmill business... SHOWTIME presents YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. Explores the issues of climate change and intimate stories of human triumph and tragedy. Watch the first episode. Shout out to MATT BLANK and DAVID NEVINS... Psyched for ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME tonight. KISS AND HALL & OATES!... Subscribe to FashionREDEF, Our newest channel in beta. It's an interest mix of business, culture and technology changing fashion. Let us DJ for you...
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hittin' threes
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The 'Deadwood' Cast Chats for a 10th Anniversary Oral History of the HBO Drama
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David Milch's original vision was to create a TV drama about cops in Rome, during the time of Nero. "What had interested me was the idea of order without law," Milch said. "I wanted to focus on that idea of how order is generated in the absence of law." HBO already had "Rome" on the way, though, so when the network's executives asked if he could explore his idea in a different setting, "Deadwood" was born.
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Looking For Tom Lehrer, Comedy's Mysterious Genius
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Nearly 25 years ago, Jeff Morris, a high school senior in Jeffersonville, Ind., placed a phone call to his new idol. A skinny music nerd with an easy laugh, Morris was a devotee of the Dr. Demento Show, a long-running collection of brilliant musical oddities, from Frank Zappa to "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Rethinking the Transcript for a Digital Age
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"... we need to apply new technologies to the primary tool of traditional certification, the diploma. We need to take what now exists as a dumb, static document and turn it into a richer, updateable, more connected record of a person's skills, expertise, and experience."
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Jayson Blair, Judy Miller and the shrinking New York Times
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A straightforward documentary unpacks the Gray Lady's 2003 plagiarism scandal, but the real story is much bigger. No one could make much sense of the Jayson Blair scandal when it unfolded in 2003, and while it may look somewhat different from a decade's distance, it hasn't become a whole lot more edifying.
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Game of Thrones‘ Red Wedding Gets The Disney Treatment
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Sorry, Prince Charming! Game of Thrones' "Red Wedding" episode has gone down in the annals of cultural history as one of the most jaw-droppingly brutal hours of television ever. Roughly, 1,570 of the 1,579 total killing s in the HBO series took place during the episode. So naturally, it's prime for a Disney makeover.
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and jumps
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Mr. Irrelevant
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For these three men, being picked last in the NFL draft wasn't a joke -- it was inspiration.
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The Cost Of Permission Culture: Or Why Netflix Streaming Library Sucks Compared To Its DVD Library
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Why can't movie-streaming sites deliver the selection of movies that customers obviously want? This was the question posed by a recent New York Times column, comparing undersupplied services like Netflix with unauthorized platforms like Popcorn Time. The answer, the Times explains, is windowing-the industry practice of selling exclusivity periods to certain markets and platforms, with the result of staggered launches.
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The Internet’s Telltale Heartbleed
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The cryptography expert Bruce Schneier, who has been writing about computer security for more than fifteen years, is not given to panic or hyperbole. So when he writes, of the "catastrophic bug" known as Heartbleed, " On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11," it's safe to conclude that the Internet has a serious problem.
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Vox Media ventures into general news and news analysis with Vox.com
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On Monday, @Bankoff, 45, showed off what may be Vox's most highly anticipated new info-property: Its entry into general news and news analysis. The site, called Vox.com, went live late Sunday. It is the brainchild of former Washington Post writer Ezra Klein and several of his colleagues, who decamped from the paper to Vox Media's new-tech offices (foosball table, exposed concrete floors, freebie snack center) two months ago.
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Is There a Wonk Bubble?
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Call it the Wonk Bubble. If you’re in the market for serious, empirical, quantitative analysis of national policy-or of just about anything else in the news these days-the East Coast Media Elite has you covered like never before. The Washington Post has Wonkblog, and its Facebook-optimized cousin Know More, and will shortly unveil...
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State of the Art: Users’ Stark Reminder: As Web Grows, It Grows Less Secure
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It was the computer programming equivalent of misspelling Mississippi - an error at once careless, inevitable and hard for most human eyes to spot. The bug known as Heartbleed, a flaw widely replicated in the main system for encrypting consumers' online data, is a stark reminder that the Internet is still in its youth, and vulnerable to all sorts of unseen dangers, including simple human error.
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This startup says it can find the algorithm that defines your data
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A A Think about being a hospital that wants to improve survival rates for patients. You have lots of data about patients - their medical histories, EKG readings, room numbers, doctors, billing information and much more - and you certainly know whether they leave alive or dead.
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Pearl Jam's Dropbox hypocrisy
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Dropbox makes major announcement, and a little part of me just died. FORTUNE -- In 2006, Pearl Jam released a song called World Wide Suicide as the first single from its latest album. It was a personalized tale of rage over the Iraq War, and the U.S.
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Why I killed my standing desk
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I was in. I always wanted a standing desk. I heard the benefits. And read the studies. The American Cancer Society tracked 123,000 people for an 18-year period and found the death rate was higher in people that sat more than six hours per day.
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Why Yahoo Has Small Firms Yelping
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A recent deal by Yelp Inc. to provide business listings for Internet searches on Yahoo Inc. is getting bad reviews from some small-business owners, who say years of positive feedback from customers have vanished from Yahoo. Colonial Hardwood Flooring of Lexington, Mass., amassed six years of mostly positive feedback on its Yahoo Local listing, says owner Dan Tringale.
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Journalism needs the right skills to survive
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Despite the economic imperatives facing the media industry, professional journalists lag behind educators and others in rating the importance of multimedia and other digital storytelling skills. That finding is the result of new research from The Poynter Institute, which shows a wide divergence between professionals and educators in their thinking on the importance of core journalism skills, especially those skills that are essential for mastering new methods of gathering and delivering news and information.
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