Nick Baumann |
I cover national politics and civil liberties issues for the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones. I have also written for The Economist, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic, and Commonweal. Email me at nbaumann [at] motherjones [dot] com. |
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Eugene Polley, Inventor of the TV Wireless Remote, Dies at 96
A true American hero. And I mean that—people whose inventions make everyday life a little bit easier and more comfortable are not celebrated enough. RIP.
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Um, wow.
Project Glass: One day… (by Google)
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"This is an excellent idea and would be a good idea even if the money were simply heaped up in a big pile and lit on fire."
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Notes"Would it be a better world if for twenty years someone had held a patent on a Using Mirrors To Allow Drivers To See Behind Them Without Turning Their Head? I say, no." -
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Notes"Regardless, anything is an upgrade from Condé Nast’s previous system, which required the tech team to be heavily involved in almost any Web publishing. The CQ5 system will let editors publish independently of that team, a function the staff at most other digital publications have had for a decade."Today in “it could always be worse.” Also, this same article mentions that BusinessWeek spent TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS on a back-end/”social network.” Ugh. Fail.
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Notes SocialFlow Company Blog: Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweetThis is an awesome analysis of the famed bin Laden tweet from @keithurbahn
A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden’s death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address. Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanche of reactions, Retweets and conversations that would beat mainstream media as well as the White…
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LOL. via Reddit.
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How My Smart Phone Got Me Out Of A Speeding Ticket In Traffic Court
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Oh good lord. (via The Awl)
