Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for November 16th through November 18th:

• Get Ready For Graphics Transmitted Right Onto Your Contact Lenses – "A contact lens that harvests radio waves to power an LED is paving the way for a new kind of display" - graphics transmitted righ…
• Dictionary word of the year: ‘Unfriend’ – It's prone to cause drama in the online world.

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• The Eye of a Cyber Sapien – An earlier post on this blog already displayed the possible future of sight using augmented contact lenses. Researchers at MIT take this se…
• If We Get First-Run Films At Home, Is Hollywood Doomed? – "As DVD sales decline, Hollywood studios are looking for ways to get movies straight to consumers' living rooms. This has some industry insi…
• A show not to be missed right now: Bill Viola at James Cohan Gallery – If Bill Hunt had not told me about Bill Viola's show at James Cohan Gallery I would have missed it. The show consists of video pieces, for …

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for November 9th through November 16th:

• Time pilots us… – You step out of bed. Why? Because your alarm clock tells you it is time. A quick glance at the alarm clock tells you that you are still on …
• Switcheroo – Cable Co. Ready To Buy NBC – "Cable TV operator Comcast Corp. is expected to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal, perhaps as early as next week, bringing the networ…
• The Role of Intent – Yesterday, I found a quote over on Ed Winkleman's blog and . Today, Ed has an update, pulling things apart a bit.
  For the most part, I act…
• Americans More Addicted To TV Than Ever – "The average person watched four hours and 49 minutes of television a day in the 2008 to 2009 season, an all-time high The average hous…
• Artificial Scarcity – With the advent of digital cameras and associated mainstream online forums such as flickr and youtube, the modernist impulse to create art f…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for November 1st through November 8th:

• Appalling, Addictive, And/Or Academic Touchstone: Fight Club, Ten Years On – Rex Reed called it "a film without a single redeeming quality"; Chuck Palahniuk called it "the best date flick ever"; professors write about…
• First-Run Films In Your Living Room? Hollywood Says Yes. – In a move that "sets up an immediate conflict" with film exhibitors, "[t]he Motion Picture Assn. of America is seeking government approval o…
• Moscow won’t let it snow – Already in the early days of modern civilization, people claimed that they could control the weather. A known example from recent history a…
• Disney Returns To Hand-Drawn Animation – "Disney in 2003 announced that it was abandoning traditional animation in favor of computer-generated imagery, after a string of hand-drawn …
• When Culture Was On TV – "For years PBS has been trimming back its high-culture programming, partly because it doesn't do well in the ratings and partly, I suspect, …

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for October 20th through October 30th:

• Colleges: Do We Really Still Need Faculty? – "It seems that at some schools they have become quaint anachronisms who stand in the way of educational progress and financial efficiency. T…
• Understanding Despair (Or, Listening To Kierkegaard) – "If Kierkegaard were on Facebook or could post a You Tube video, he would certainly complain that we, who have listened to Prozac, have beco…
• Why Not Even Twitter Can Weaken The Power Of Narrative – "Narrative isn't merely a technique for communicating; it's how we make sense of the world. The storytellers know this. They know that the s…
• Might We Be Happier In Another Language? – "[D]o some languages contain an intrinsic bias towards pulling happy faces? In other words, do some languages predispose — in a subtle way …
• Do Our Brains Create The Illusion Of Time Passing? – You know how sometimes you watch a wheel spin and parts of it appear to rotate backwards? And how frightening events can seem to happen in s…
• "the grammar of photography" – "Thomas Ruff is explaining the enduring concerns that have animated the work that has made him one of the most innovative and distinguished …
• Hypocrisy: There Are Circuits In The Brain For It – "Since actions cannot be undone, the only option when they conflict with beliefs - which produces the phenomenon called cognitive disso…
• Plastic Birds – Bird spotting is not a typical activity for us next nature explorers, yet occasionally we bump into some birds worth mentioning (remember t…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for October 16th through October 20th:

• Why photography? – Via Tyler Green's blog I found this post, in which seven photographers explain why they work in photography.
  Selected highlights: Feng Bin:…
• ‘What, in 2009, is a photograph?’ – Martha Schwendener has some questions for photographers: "why, at this moment, when the world is awash in vernacular images and consumed by …
• Pandora Tries To Decode The Genomes Of Music – The Internet radio service "has hired a bunch of 'musicologists,' who sit at computers and listen to songs, one at a time, rating them eleme…
• Research: We Think Milliseconds Before We Speak – A new study has "found that it takes about half a second to transform something we think into something we say. And three very different kin…
• America’s Addiction To Optimism – Barbara Ehrenreich: "If there has been a decline in happiness in America, and we don't shape up well compared to other countries, including,…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for October 14th through October 15th:

• World watches balloon odyssey in real time – The whole world watched Thursday as a lighter-than-air craft set loose by a 6-year-old boy floated above eastern Colorado.

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• World watches balloon odyssey in real time – The whole world watched Thursday as a lighter-than-air craft set loose by a 6-year-old boy floated above eastern Colorado.

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• Fast Internet becomes a right in Finland – Finland has become the first country in the world to declare broadband Internet access a legal right.

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• Creativity And How The Brain Works – The new study says: "First, people without a strong or consistent hand preference tend to be more creative than those who are strongly right…
• Only The Information You Want. In Real Time – The emerging technology, called "Augmented Reality," enables users to see location-specific data superimposed over their surroundings. Long …

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for October 8th through October 13th:

• Is there a class divide in social networking? – Like a lot of people, Anna Owens began using MySpace more than four years ago to keep in touch with friends who weren't in college.

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• Video Takeover: Borna Sammak’s "Best Buy" – Borna Sammak's debut solo show "Best Buy" took place last night for an exclusive two hour stint in the Soho location of electronics mega-re…
• Why Americans Work Long Hours (It’s For A Sense Of Well-Being) – "Newly published research provides a possible answer. Americans, it turns out, are more likely to be paid by the hour than workers in most i…
• Some remarks about Bert Stabler’s ‘I Don’t Like Photography’ – Issue #5 of Proximity Magazine contains a piece by Bert Stabler entitled I Don't Like Photography. It's a remarkable piece that starts out a…
• Free HDTV! (It’s All In The Mind) – "Want to enjoy the benefits of a super-sharp high-definition screen without buying a new TV? Simply tell yourself that you are watching HD a…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for October 1st through October 7th:

• C3 and 1708 Host Stellar First Talk 20 – Richmond's first Talk 20 event — seven creatives with 20 slides and 20 seconds to talk about each slide, or scramble to catch up with their…
• Economy, as seen from Space – Reliable data on economic growth is hard to come by in many parts of the world, especially in developing countries. Yet according to scient…
• Yeah, but no in the White House – No, I'm not talking about President Obama. I'm talking about the art that is decorating the White House now, in particular Ed Ruscha's I thi…
• ’sue and be damned’ – Here is a classical case of ridiculous Photoshopping meeting the fashion industry meeting corporate bullying: "Last month, Xeni [a boing boi…
• Ecological Insecticide – Ecological insecticide allows you to extinguish-nature in a nature-friendly way.
  It nicely illustrates the “I love nature, but not in my ba…
• Office Rebellion – Back to the Tribe – These peculiar illustrations are part of a sixteen-page pamphlet produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that com…
• Virtual money – cows, coins, credit, airtime – Have you heard the buzz on virtual money in online games? Some years ago the first virtual millionaire was announced, yet there have also b…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for September 27th through September 29th:

• Why Writers Aren’t So Great At Speaking – "[S]peaking takes place in real time and depends in part on the person or persons we're speaking to. Wonderful writers might therefore turn …
• LHC – How physics becomes metaphysics – Little over a week after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) became operational it broke down. As the world’s largest particle accelerator isn…
• Director Polanski arrested in ’70s sex case – Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on an arrest warrant stemming from a decades-old sex charge, Swiss police said today. The Academy…

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Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for September 25th through September 27th:

• Director Roman Polanski arrested in ’70s sex case – Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on an arrest warrant stemming from a decades-old sex charge, Swiss police said today. The Academy…
• Director Roman Polanski arrested in ’70s sex case – Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on an arrest warrant stemming from a decades-old sex charge, Swiss police said today. The Academy…
• ‘The Werner Herzog School Of Guerrilla Film-Making’ – This is not a quip. For $1,450 and one weekend, "students of the Rogue Film School will experience 'the exhilaration of being shot at unsucc…

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