Avi Flax (New York, NY)'s review of The Feast of Love
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4 of 5 stars to The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
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7 hours ago
Steps can be taken to relieve or prevent night leg cramps - Chicago Tribune
16 hours ago
@fruitbabies according to the Mayo Clinic it might be a lack of potassium, calcium, or magnesium. Spinach has all 3.
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16 hours ago
Enlisting the Torah: My Encounter Trip Reflection
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Our bus returned to Jerusalem an hour before Shabbat candle-lighting time. I quickly biked home to shower and light the candles before heading out to my friend’s place for dinner. It was only…
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Welcome to the Real Space Age
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(Photo: Courtesy of Virgin Galactic) At dawn one morning last Novemberjust as the edge of Earth comprising Florida spun into the field of light bursting from roughly 93 million miles…
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Asynchronous workflows in Clojure
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Asynchronous workflows is a very powerful feature of F#, and recently I wanted to explore the state of the JVM and in particular Clojure when it comes to replicate the functionality. In this post…
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node-mac
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This README provides a pretty good overview of what node-mac has to offer, but better documentation is now available at the node-mac documentation portal. This is a standalone module, originally…
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Hurry
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Most interesting ideas come to me between 8am and 10am. This is sacred time. The day is young, I am rested, and the coffee is fresh. I spend most of this time in the car driving to work. The music is…
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3 days ago
Made by Hand
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No 5The Bike Maker Our fifth film turns to bike maker Ezra Caldwell (Fast Boy Cycles), who was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. When the cancer threatens to shatter his love of bikes, Ezra survives by…
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The Baby Whisperer
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At 95, pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton ranks as the éminence grise of infant and child development, with countless parenting books to his credit. A longtime professor at Harvard Medical School, he…
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3 days ago
How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley
6 days ago
The nineteen-forties Bing Crosby hit “White Christmas” is a key part of the national emotional regression that occurs every Christmas. Between Christmases, Crosby is most often…
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6 days ago
Lielle Maya on her first flight! | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
7 days ago
Lielle Maya was a total peach throughout her first flight!
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Lielle Maya on her first flight! | Flickr: Intercambio de fotos
7 days ago
Lielle Maya was a total peach throughout her first flight!
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7 days ago
Almond Flour Pancakes | Comfy Belly
8 days ago
I made these almond-flour pancakes for Elina yesterday and they were a hit. (I omitted the sweetener and vanilla.)
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8 days ago
The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from
8 days ago
Excerpted from "Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing" The 18th and 19th centuries’ embrace of linguistic delicacy and extreme avoidance of taboo bestowed great power on those words that broached…
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8 days ago
Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class
8 days ago
Jaron Lanier is a computer science pioneer who has grown gradually disenchanted with the online world since his early days popularizing the idea of virtual reality. “Lanier is often described as…
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8 days ago
Reintroducing: TBUZZ! | Arc90 Blog
8 days ago
I just got a bug report for TBUZZ from “Slartibartfarst”. I’m tickled but also a little annoyed by the misspelling.
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8 days ago
Twitter / avi4now: Happy Mother’s Day to all ...
8 days ago
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms!
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8 days ago
On Citizenship in Open-source software development — Products I Wish Existed
10 days ago
TL;DR: By giving an actual social status to the people contributing to a repository, GitHub would solve the problem of zombie-projects with a scattered community. By allowing these citizens to…
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10 days ago
We Are What We've Built
10 days ago
The Atlantic seems to be settling into its new site, despite a rocky relaunch. James Fallows is blogging again, and Andrew Sullivan and Jeffrey Goldberg are back to disagreeing over Israel and…
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10 days ago
Ultra-Orthodox teens clash with Women of the Wall at holy site | The Times of Israel
10 days ago
The haredi response to the Women of the Wall is just disgraceful.
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10 days ago
We Support "The Unlocking Technology Act of 2013" | FixtheDMCA
11 days ago
RT @mciarlo: A bill that pushes to make unlocking and jailbreaking cell phones, tablets, and game consoles completely legal:
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11 days ago
NYC Study Finds Protected Bicycle Lanes Boost Local Business
11 days ago
The road to recovery is in sight, and it has a bike lane. The typical city street is a busy place. People riding bikes, walking, driving cars, and operating buses all have somewhere to to go…
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11 days ago
To Reclaim Your Photos, Kill the Algorithm
11 days ago
Losing Touch It has become easier and easier to take pictures of everything, but technology to manage them has not progressed much. Photographs capture precious memories and emotions, yet a computer…
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11 days ago
An Open Letter to the Baltimore Jewish Community from Dov Lipman
11 days ago
By BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Dov Lipman Posted on 05/08/13 | Comments (79) Printer Friendly
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11 days ago
Twitter / juokaz: more than half of the world's ...
11 days ago
RT @juokaz: more than half of the world's population lives inside this circle (said circle is mostly water)
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11 days ago
Taking House Seat, Sanford Cements a Return to Politics
12 days ago
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — As political rehabilitations go, few can match what happened to Mark Sanford on Tuesday night. Mr. Sanford, the former South Carolina governor once so tarnished by a…
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12 days ago
Home Documents for HTTP APIs
12 days ago
[Docs] [txt|pdf|xml|html] [Tracker] [Email] [
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12 days ago
On Thingpunk
12 days ago
Today, @kellan and I coined a word for the opposite of the New Aesthetic: Thingpunk, the fetishizing of the stubbornly non-digital. — Greg Borenstein (@atduskgreg) July 24, 2012 The symbols of…
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12 days ago
J Street – Siding with Israel’s Enemies
12 days ago
Introduction J Street describes itself as Zionist, pro-Israel, pro-peace and supporting the “peace camp” in Israel. Yet J Street has consistently taken positions to the left of…
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12 days ago
(404) https://t.co/8HT23oj1
12 days ago
RT @jpotisch: TBUZZ is back! Tweet from any page & see what the twitterverse is saying about it. Really useful.
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12 days ago
TBUZZ - An Arc90 Project - Tweet and track the buzz on any Web page with Twitter
12 days ago
I just used TBUZZ to tweet about how awesome TBUZZ is. Tbuzzception!
Srsly, TBUZZ by @arc90 is awesome.
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Srsly, TBUZZ by @arc90 is awesome.
12 days ago
TBUZZ - An Arc90 Project - Tweet and track the buzz on any Web page with Twitter
12 days ago
RT @Alyssa_Milano: Check out TBUZZ. Very easy way to share links on Twitter. RT @ev: Wow, TBUZZ is pretty hot:
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12 days ago
Reintroducing: TBUZZ! | Arc90 Blog
12 days ago
I helped resurrect TBUZZ, an @arc90 lab experiment:
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12 days ago
Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
12 days ago
“Why Isn’t Gatsby in the Public Domain?”
Because Congress is corrupt, that’s why.
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Because Congress is corrupt, that’s why.
12 days ago
Rootstrikers
12 days ago
“Why Isn’t Gatsby in the Public Domain?”
Because Congress is corrupt, that’s why.
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Because Congress is corrupt, that’s why.
12 days ago
US gun homicide rate down 49% over last 20 years
12 days ago
The national rates of gun violence and homicide in the US have fallen significantly in past 20 years, but most people are unaware. From a recently released Pew Research report: Nearly all the decline…
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12 days ago
Server-side HTML vs. JS Widgets vs. Single-Page Web Apps
12 days ago
At the recent GOTO Chicago conference, I gave a talk on "Frontend Architectures: from the prehistoric to the Post-modern." In just my first 10 months at Coursera, I've experienced the joys and woes…
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12 days ago
Recent Issue - February 2013
12 days ago
The Tail at Scale Jeffrey Dean, Luiz André Barroso February 1, 2013 Systems that respond to user actions quickly (within 100ms) feel more fluid and natural to users than those that take longer.3…
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12 days ago
The people versus the bankers
12 days ago
MOST of what we call money is actually short-term debt created by banks when they make loans. This means that banks are the stewards of our savings and manage the payments system. As a…
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12 days ago
Our Internet Surveillance State
12 days ago
« Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Genetics | Main March 25, 2013 Our Internet Surveillance State I'm going to start with three data points. One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were…
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12 days ago
The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy Drives Mega-Projects around the World
12 days ago
Rob Wile uses a graph to point out the obvious, the dramatic fall in the cost of solar power generation. In many countries– Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal — and in parts of the US such…
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12 days ago
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
12 days ago
The over 120 historical maps in the Google Maps and Google Earth Rumsey Historical Maps sites have been selected by David Rumsey from his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps; in addition, there are a few maps from collections with which he collaborates. These maps can also be seen in the Gallery layer of Google Earth, Rumsey Historical Maps layer.
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12 days ago
Kindling on AWS Marketplace
12 days ago
@rhyolight check out Kindling: (I’m an investor)
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12 days ago
Arrow: better dates and times for Python — Arrow 0.2.0 documentation
12 days ago
Arrow looks like a breath of fresh air for working with dates and times in Python: /via @robmadole & @kennethreitz
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12 days ago
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | PragPub June 2012 | The Beauty of Concurrency in Go
13 days ago
It's good to learn a new language every so often, but you have to get beyond "hello World." It's good for you to learn a new programming language from time to time. This is true even if the language…
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13 days ago
They're more afraid of us than we are of them! | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
13 days ago
Reminder: Cicadas can actually be kinda cute:
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13 days ago
Class: ERB (Ruby 2.0)
13 days ago
Reviewing a Ruby on Rails app, and ugh, ERB is smelly. I hope I don’t see much more of it in the future.
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13 days ago
mezzoblue § 10 Years
13 days ago
RT @cameronmoll: "So for the tenth anniversary, the Zen Garden is open for business once more."
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13 days ago
Brian Lam
13 days ago
How do people deal with the torrent of information pouring down on us all? What sources can't they live without? We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the…
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13 days ago
The equivalence of debt and equity
13 days ago
Much is being made at the moment of the idea that banks should have more capital. Predictably, there is huge confusion about what this actually means, and the usual suspects are once again mixing up…
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13 days ago
New Cat Species Found on Google Street View | Google Street View World
13 days ago
RT @streetviewfunny: Google Street View cuts a cat in half
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13 days ago
Twitter / streetviewfunny: Google Street View cuts a cat ...
13 days ago
RT @streetviewfunny: Google Street View cuts a cat in half
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13 days ago
The Money Shot
14 days ago
The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom, it…
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14 days ago
Wizard: Point-and-click statistics app for Mac
14 days ago
This statistics app looks fascinating:
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14 days ago
Twitter / fruitbabies: For example: Eitan's head is ...
14 days ago
For example: Eitan's head is "in" a box.
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14 days ago
Why I Develop For The Mac
14 days ago
By Evan Miller May 4, 2013 I develop two desktop titles for Mac (1 and 2, if you're curious). When I show either of them to a web developer, the first question the developer usually asks is: Why…
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14 days ago
Kerning panic in Amsterdam | MetaFilter
14 days ago
“Fun fact: the city was originally named Arnsterdam.”
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14 days ago
Quick demo of functional programming in JavaScript with Underscore-Contrib | Hacker News
14 days ago
RT @d_run: Oh hay, I submitted an article to Hacker News on functional tricks in JavaScript with Underscore-contrib: #js #hn
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14 days ago
DRM-FREE – A YEAR ON « Tor Books
14 days ago
Tor books dropped DRM a year ago and it’s been a resounding success:
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14 days ago
Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson
17 days ago
Object Oriented Programming is Dead Rate This 22 Mar 2011 1:01 PM
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17 days ago
Daily Kos: Private enterprise shackled by Obamunism, aka Dow hits 15,000 for first time
17 days ago
RT @KagroX: Private enterprise shackled by Obamunism, aka Dow hits 15,000 for first time via @dailykos
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17 days ago
Untitled (https://www.rdio.com/artist/Jimmy_Dawkins/album/Fast_Fingers/)
18 days ago
Listening to "Fast Fingers" by Jimmy Dawkins on @Rdio:
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18 days ago
David Arenberg Reflects on Being Jewish in State Prison
18 days ago
David Arenberg had everything going for him. He was smart, the son of a research scientist and a teacher. He graduated in 1980 from the elite University of Chicago with a degree in psychology, and…
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18 days ago
back online after a year without the internet
18 days ago
I was wrong. One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was "corrupting my soul." It's a been a year now since I "surfed the…
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18 days ago
How much REST should your web API get?
18 days ago
How much REST should your web API get? May 2, 2013 Posted by Jerome Louvel in HTTP, REST, Restlet General, Semantic Web, Uncategorized. Tags:
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18 days ago
‘Time Crystals’ Could Upend Physicists’ Theory of Time
19 days ago
In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea. Impossible as it seemed, Wilczek had developed an…
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19 days ago
Austerity Leads To... Austerity!
19 days ago
Ever since this blog started about two years ago, I’ve been repeating over and over that what the economy needs is more deficit spending, not less. This is so because: * We have plenty of idle…
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19 days ago
Bret Victor - Global Game Jam 2013 Keynote
19 days ago
Video keynote to kick off the 2013 Global Game Jam. http://globalgamejam.org Filmed by Dave Cerf. Edited by Dave Cerf and Bret Victor. Music by Bret Victor. In…
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19 days ago
Stop Drawing Dead Fish
19 days ago
People are alive -- they behave and respond. Creations within the computer can also live, behave, and respond... if they are allowed to. The message of this talk…
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19 days ago
Jason Rohrer hid a board game in the Nevada desert. So we went looking for it.
19 days ago
About a month ago, on a foggy, rainy, windy day somewhere in the Nevada desert, Jason Rohrer, the bohemian game designer best-known for Passage, was hiking through sagebrush. “It’s a…
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19 days ago
Untitled (http://f.cl.ly/items/2C1s061E2b2L312O1U31/image.jpg)
19 days ago
Happy May Day. Here’s a 100 year old picture of workers striking for the rights you’re allowing to be thrown away.
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19 days ago
Trying new things for time management
20 days ago
Like everyone, I don’t feel like there are enough hours in the day. At any given moment, there are ten things I could be working on, and even more things I could be thinking about. Like most…
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20 days ago
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