Mar. 4th, 2011

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One man's quest to earn the Most Human Human award at the Turing Test.


The author calls it an essay, but i believe that it's more apposite to label his article a manifesto regarding the ownership of data.


Why has this man been donating well-made art forgeries to museums for the past three decades?


"Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and the former Alaska governor Sarah Palin have something in common: they are both cowgirl politicians.  In this, they are symptomatic of the too-narrow ways in which the United States is willing to accept women as leaders."


There is a 14-year-old girl who lives in poverty in Uganda who said to her chess coach, "Coach, I will be a grandmaster someday."


A woman who has no amygdala and no fear.


If i told you that 80% of the antibiotics sold in the US were sold for farm animals, you might be skeptical of my claim; but would you believe the FDA?


The Best Magazine Articles Ever


If Ken Thompson calls himself a programmer, not a developer, or an engineer, then anyone who shares that profession should follow suit.  I don't care that this article is over 20 years old, damn it.  Now get off my lawn.


Scientists from Tübingen, Germany, show that people really walk in circles when lost.


You might remember that i quite enjoyed I ♥ Huckabees; this long essay about the movie is what i would have written if i were in any way qualified to write about philosophy.

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