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An interesting hypothesis. Also, there's a picture of a baby kissing a pig. - Miles

Check out the links about the Diverging Diamond - Miles

Kicking myself for not thinking of this before my big San Francisco-to-DC move. - Miles

What if regulated the postal system to be like the internet with some companies providing national "trunk" connections and others providing local "last mile" service? There would be industry standards for parcel sizes, return/delivery address placement, and parcel tracking (similar to TCP/IP). - Miles

For more than three decades, Robert A. Caro has been one of the leading biographers of our time. He chronicled the political trail that defined Robert Moses as one of New York’s most influential and controversial figures in The Power Broker, and traced Lyndon Johnson’s rise from poverty to power in the three-volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson, garnering two Pulitzer Prizes and three National Book Critics’ Circle awards. In this Leon Levy Biography Lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center, Caro — who lived in the Texas Hill Country of Johnson’s youth as he researched his biography — discusses the critical role physical setting plays in nonfiction. “For a book to endure, the sense of place must be present,” Caro said, “letting the reader see clearly enough, (so) the scene becomes more vivid and more real to him." - Miles

Kind of awesome. Kind of insane. - Miles

This looks like a really interesting article, but the NY Times flash-based article reader is atrocious. - Miles

This looks like a really interesting article, but the NY Times flash-based article reader is atrocious. - Miles

Why would you lie like this? What do you think we're all going to do at PAX? - Miles

Pretty interesting article (though a little long). You can watch a 5-minute video of the steps he went through here: http://bit.ly/jfe4F - Miles

While this post is disappointingly alarmist, the original air force article is really interesting. - Miles

An interesting article, to be sure. But my favorite part was the phrase "Indexed Turbo FAT." - Miles

I'm intrigued by the music and the logo, but the video doesn't really show anything besides "sometimes you jump and sometimes you talk to people." - Miles

Shared mostly for 18 and 25 - Miles

Shared for the "Reality of a Times bestseller" link. - Miles

The first 30 seconds are kinda slow but the rest of the video is totally worth it. - Miles

Hideo Kojima's thoughts on overcoming obstacles during game design/development. - Miles

This footage is incredible for so many reasons. - Miles

WHAT?! - Miles

Surprised-but-not-really that the rest of the country is only now finding out about Settlers. - Miles

Their conclusion: probably a virus imported from Australia after an ~80-year ban on Australian bees was lifted. - Miles

The post can be simplified to this quote from the academic paper cited by the author: "Recommenders can push each person to new products, but they often push similar users toward the same products." The author's models are very simple, but I think that the general concept is worth thinking about. - Miles

Well done overall, but a little too long. - Miles

My favorite line from the article: "Have you ever arrived at a destination and found it to be lacking in cars?" - Miles

Words fail me. - Miles

This reminds me of the mushroom pipes that populate the sidewalks of San Francisco http://bit.ly/12cgvP - Miles

The recording labels' plans seem to neglect the probability that their role in the industry will become obsolete. - Miles

What are we exporting to the Netherlands that's consistently worth so much? - Miles

MilesEvenson gave Really?!?: Michael Phelps (Saturday Night Live) 5 stars - Miles

MilesEvenson watched Really?!?: Michael Phelps (Saturday Night Live) - Miles

This trend would be way cooler if it were "Ultramodernism" instead of "Altermodernism." - Miles