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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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Hello world: meet ??? (Qalb) a programming language based on Arabic script

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Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel.

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Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)

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Michael Larson had a lot of time and TVs on his hands, and he used them to hack one of his favorite game shows.

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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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