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Tick Tock 
(unknown author) via Essays by Danielle Fong on Sat, 15 Nov. 2008
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I'll be following LightSail's development with great interest!
The clock stuck twelve. It’s October 30th. In a heartbeat I emerged an adult in the eyes of American law. In an alternate universe, I danced the night into a hazy sunrise. But I left celebration to
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My Playlist.com
Barry Ritholtz via essays & effluvia on Sat, 20 Sep. 2008
Cool site:
Projectplaylist.com is an information location tool similar to Google® and Yahoo!® but devoted entirely to the world of music. Our purpose is to help you find and enjoy mu
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The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can't Have
Barry Ritholtz via essays & effluvia on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
If ever there was a car made for the times, this would seem to be it: a sporty subcompact that seats five, of
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DAVE STEWART: An Anthem For Change
Barry Ritholtz via essays & effluvia on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
My pal Gene, who represents Dave Stewart, sent along this letter from Stewart about his new single:
Earlier this year when I was recording "American Prayer," a song I originally co-wrote with Bono, the phrase, "When you get to the top of the mountain, remember me" seemed to take on a whole new resonance, given the inspirational candidacy of Bar
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Heisenthought.
Danielle Fong via Essays by Danielle Fong on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
heisenthought,
\ˈhī-zən-thȯt
noun.
1. A thought subject to mental collapse triggered by interruption.
2. A mental event or sequence characterized by coexistence of loosely related, sometimes contradictory, sets of knowledge or tasks. Highly dispersed in knowledge space, though it may support
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Living Things
Danielle Fong via Essays by Danielle Fong on Thu, 14 Aug. 2008
analogies, once preserved as mere notes, find harmony as poetry
organizations
relationships
communities
as living entities
as where no one cell holds the soul of a person
no one person, incarnat
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Top Music Websites
Barry Ritholtz via essays & effluvia on Fri, 27 Jun. 2008
Very cool collection of music related links:
PandoraFall in love
again, with the possibility of stumbling across a brand new artist, group or
band that have been captured through Music Genome Project and overseen by Pandora, so that the flow of new musical talents
don't go unnoticed. If you enjoy sampling the sound
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The Choice of Work
Danielle Fong via Essays by Danielle Fong on Thu, 26 Jun. 2008
During the back and forth of exchange with a technical recruiter, he finally asked me what I was looking for. And so the floodgates opened.
This may sound weird, but I pretty much choose employment based on the promise of quality work. Other factors fade into irrelevance.
When I say quality of work, I mean more than the work environment, more than the magnitude o
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Advice to the Bright and Young
Danielle Fong via Essays by Danielle Fong on Thu, 15 May. 2008
An article on one bright young man, Moshe, recently appeared on Hacker News. For a long time I’ve been meaning to write about the subject, an
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