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Apple Execs on Facebook (2011)

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On Jul 11, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Steve Jobs wrote: I agree - if we eliminate Fecebooks third proposal it sounds reasonable.

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Understanding Understanding Media (2011)

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David Bobbitt, Wesleyan College Enculturation: [link] (Published: December 30, 2011) “After three thousand years of explosion, by means of fragmentary and mechanical technologies, the Western world is imploding” (McLuhan 3).1 1 With these words on the first page of Understanding Media published in 1964, Marshall McLuhan burst onto the

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A Surprising Advantage of Vinyl (2011)

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I am emphatically not an audiophile. My home contains neither $500 ethernet cables nor "acoustic isolation platforms." " I am absolutely not here to convince you that vinyl recordings sound inherently.

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Finding Little Albert (2011)

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Beck, with Gary Irons, reports on a seven-year search for psychology’s lost boy.

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The Eunuch Admiral (2011)

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A Ming cup leads to a Berkeley scholar and the marvelous tale of China’s greatest seafarer. I first heard the Admiral’s name spoken by a corrupt police inspector in 1982. He was a local potentate in Sumatra, the Indonesian island that cuts like a scimitar through the eastern Indian Ocean, separating it from the Strait of […]

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How Big Tech and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex

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The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

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Coding Guidelines for Prolog (2011)

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Coding standards and good practices are fundamental to a disciplined approach to software projects, whatever programming languages they employ. Prolog programming can benefit from such an approach, perhaps more than programming in other languages. Despite this, no widely accepted standards and practices seem to have emerged up to now.

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