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Alexis Madrigal

Alexis Madrigal

Staff writer, Wired.com, energy and science
Attention. This is not a test. We have renamed our cat. Dubious. Dubious Martinez. http://twitter.com/alexism...
You know what's the worst? Clamshell packaging. 100% of humans agree: http://www.theatlantic.com/technol...
RT @WhatTheyKnow: IE 10 will come with Do Not Track "on" by default. Raises the stakes for those fighting to dilute what DNT means: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
Let's do the numbers on SpaceX's Dragon capsule: http://www.theatlantic.com/technol... The big one? The $1.6 billion NASA contract.
This really is nuts: Apple turns over its inventory once every 5 (!) days. http://www.theatlantic.com/technol... via @courtenaybird
RT @dannysullivan: Google Product Search To Become Google Shopping, Use Pay-To-Play Model http://searchengineland.com/google-... - this is a huge change
RT @paleofuture: A 1909 warning for people looking to invest in airships: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofu...
The difference between Los Angeles and New York. http://www.theatlantic.com/nationa...
This photo uses every single @Instagram filter. http://www.theatlantic.com/technol... And by the end, it kind of looks awesome.
The quantified senior: older people who wore pedometers exercised twice as much (as a control). http://www.theatlantic.com/health...
RT @DKThomp: If you work anywhere near print, this graph is pretty terrifying http://www.theatlantic.com/busines...
MT @jason_pontin: *excellence* scales. (It's the only thing in media that ever really does.)
What's on Google News for Sci/Tech: https://t.co/Yil7VYLF So many gadgets, so much commodity stuff. I thought GNews *didn't* want this stuff
The pleasant smells of 1948 San Francisco: Flowers, Chocolate, Coffee, Crabs… Oil. http://www.theatlantic.com/technol... via @footage
In praise of Wikipedia's category pages where "the structure of Wikipedia becomes its own sort of content." http://www.theatlantic.com/technol...
.@megangarber nailed the value of @Politwoops, which lets you see tweets politicians deleted. http://www.theatlantic.com/technol...
"There will always be follow the money; now there's follow the tweet." http://t.co/x8Qj72J5
RT @YAppelbaum: Prophets of the distance-learning education revolution ought to read and wrestle with this @paleofuture post its past: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofu...
How headphones changed the world: http://www.theatlantic.com/technol...
Please continue visiting @TheAtlantic on your laptop. RT @tomkrazit: Everyone has a mobile problem: not just Facebook http://gigaom.com/mobile...
Geez, my Facebook essay was 2800 words. Goal: tighten up. MT @longreads: @alexismadrigal on Facebook http://longreads.com/communi...
RT @BigMeanInternet: "Dear Mr. Z and Mr. West, I know the request to borrow your riot elephant may seem strange..."
This is such a product of the last 18 months: Kanye and Jay's new video. http://www.youtube.com/watch... via @zunguzungu
This is such a product of the last 18 months: Kanye and Jay's new video. http://t.co/zYbJPHro via @zunguzungu
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RT @dougmcgray: Launch issue of new SF-based lit magazine Radio Silence (@radio_silenzio) looks great. http://maintainradiosilence.com
Oh, hey, Motorola and RIM called. They want to go back to 2004 and try again. http://www.theatlantic.com/technol...
RT @pbump: At last -- a simple tool to add Clippy, Microsoft's popular paper clip assistant, to any web page. http://www.smore.com/clippy-js
Ugh. This is one of those Richtel stories where I'm like, "Dude, technology is just not the locus of these problems." http://www.nytimes.com/2012...
Why are men's ties so boring? I feel like they were better and more interesting in 1965.
Buy a ticket to the amazing @caradefabio's show, "She Was a Computer." Dance and gadgetry through generations of women. http://computerandpersian.eventbrite.com
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