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  • Page: Into the Wild - Chronicle.com

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    At Augustana we take seriously Emerson's idea that colleges, at their best, "set the hearts of their youth on flame."
    A familiar place that Emerson shows up in reference to education: quotable, inpirational. The problem, as ever, he remains a quotation. But how does this college, in its hiring, in its curriculum, in its English department, take Emerson seriously? What would that, serious taking, entail--given Emerson's concern, say, for the problem of books?
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    SRMeehan (31) January 6, 2009 02:26am GMT

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  • Page: Op-Ed Columnist - If This Isn’t Slavery, What Is? - NYTimes.com

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    Barack Obama’s presidency marks a triumph over the legacy of slavery, so it would be particularly meaningful if he led a new abolitionist movement against 21st-century slavery — like the trafficking of girls into brothels.
    It's good to see that Kristof continues to bring attention to the issue of trafficking girls into brothels. He is reframing the conversation with
    the language of "abolitionism," and bringing the term to the mainstream public.
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    Marcia G. Yerman (4) January 6, 2009 05:05am GMT

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  • Page: Make Money Speech | Ways to Make Money Online

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    When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed.
    doooooooomed
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    anonymous (43) January 6, 2009 10:14am GMT

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  • Page: Victims Of Government Violence

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    Of course, officials quickly labeled the shooting "accidental." Just as the drunk driver feels it is just an accident when his car happens to go up a curb and crush the life from a child, teams of men armed with loaded weapons who break into children's homes feel it is just an accident when a shotgun happens to go off and rip a child's body to shreds.
    Let his death not be in vain.
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    anonymous (43) January 6, 2009 10:58am GMT

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  • Page: FT.com / UK - Cash drought for IT start-ups

    Just one of many such recent reports. The mid-90s were insane; back to . . . hard work, patience, slogging it out.
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    carolrea (2) January 6, 2009 10:00pm GMT

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  • Page: Google Cost Cuts Take The Company Away From Its Engineers (GOOG)

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    "We have to behave as though we don't know" what's going to happen, says Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt. The company will curtail the "dark matter," he says, projects that "haven't really caught on" and "aren't really that exciting." He says the company is "not going to give" an engineer 20 people to work with on certain experimental projects anymore. "When the cycle comes back," he says, "we will be able to fund his brilliant vision."
    Wow, the myth of Google as a company pushing the envelope of innovation through 20 percent time just died today. Its sad, because it was a great idea. I hope other variants of the idea will spread throughout industry.
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    bobby (471) January 2, 2009 03:11pm GMT

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  • Page: Digital Domain - What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting - NYTimes.com

    While I loathe the idea of the government mucking around in markets, particularly for non-essential services, it does drive me crazy that texting costs so much. I suspect it's largely because the text portion of the plan is still minor compared to the voice portion, so there is no (or little) pricing pressure. Kind of like how Home Depot lures you in with a deal on a new gas grill, but rapes you ...
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    DavidRea (6) December 31, 2008 08:21pm GMT

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  • Page: Google Health

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    Google Health puts you in charge of your health information. It's safe, secure, and free.
    Yeah, I did a sample of it, and I think it might be very useful, but I would be careful. But then again, I thought it might be useful for those people that are taking care of senior citizens such as people with other parents that live with.
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    JuBe (28) December 30, 2008 11:01pm GMT

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  • Page: Google Health

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    Organize your health information all in one place
    I completely agree. I was aware of this since Google announced it but I didn't want anything to do with it. Having seen your comment here, I'm looking at it for the first time and thinking I might like to use it.
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    David Kovsky (146) December 29, 2008 05:36pm GMT

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    Google Health puts you in charge of your health information. It's safe, secure, and free.
    This is kind of scary... I mean, it's useful, but scary.
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    JuBe (28) December 29, 2008 02:21am GMT

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  • Page: Firefox web browser | Faster, more secure, & customizable

    Is anybody else having issues using reframe it on a mac with firefox? For some reason the command-tilde shortcut to switch between open windows doesn't work anymore
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    hecomestonight (1) December 24, 2008 08:51pm GMT

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  • Page: Let me google that for you

    this is really funny, and well done too! It's also not quite as offensive as f*ckinggoogleit.com
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    Ben Taitelbaum (132) December 23, 2008 10:57pm GMT

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  • Page: Let me google that for you

    An Oh-so-useful and cuttingly snide web-tool. If you've ever thought it was ridiculous to be asked to find an answer to something easily googleable, this is for you.
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    anonymous (43) December 22, 2008 07:50pm GMT

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  • Page: has_many :through - Agile git and the story branch pattern

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    Agile git and the story branch pattern
    Good article describing an effective git workflow.
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    David Kovsky (146) December 21, 2008 06:14pm GMT

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  • Page: emerson: works and days « Learning Metonymy | lessons from emerson’s school

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    Many facts concur to show that we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photo-graphs, balloons or astronomy.’ These tools have some questionable properties. They are reagents. Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous. A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life : he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.2 A man has a reputation, and is no longer free, but must respect that. A man makes a picture or a book, and, if it succeeds, ‘t is often the worse for him. I saw a brave man the other day, hitherto as free as the hawk or the fox of the wilderness, constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals and mounted birds.
    problem of machinery, tools: becoing tools of tools, or beholden.
    notice how this revisits the metonymy problem of AS: the power of the tool/extension (metonymy; nearness) becomes reversed.
    even reference to natural history cabinet: danger of becoming only extension, only 'links'
    Notice echo with Douglass--the way he talks about the potential to be owned by the book, the photography (in...
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    SRMeehan (31) December 19, 2008 04:56pm GMT

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