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• Пост 143436565

  Later that night I would sit down at a 10 dollar table at the Bellagio next to a grumpy businessman from Guadalajara, put down 100 dollars, and proceed to lose all of my chips in approximately 25 minutes.

  Whoa. I don’t know blackjack.

  By memorizing the chart in the spirit of The Matrix learning paradigm, I had actually made things harder than they needed to be.

  Blackjack requires “know-that” or declarative knowledge — I know that I should always split Aces and 8s. In contrast, kung-fu requires “know-how” or procedural knowledge — Keanu Reeves knows how to do a triple-kick in the air.

  One of the key differences between the two is that while procedural knowledge needs to be wired in the brain, you can essentially “outsource” declarative knowledge to your computer, your hard drive, or a little blackjack card. This is a good thing, because it means that your brain can devote more energy to the important stuff (like finding the waitress and ordering another free drink).

  Nick’s blog: Blackjack, The Matrix, and the outboard brain 

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• Пост 143424096

  Слово дня: funemployment

  A happy time in one’s life when one is not employed and is not wanting to be employed

  Urban Dictionary: funemployment

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• → Meta Is Murder

  Generally speaking, I am not a fan of the meta. It’s seductive in a way that is subtly but deeply dangerous. It’s far easier to introspect and write about the process of, say .. blogging .. than it is to think up, research, and write about an interesting new topic on your blog. Meta-work becomes a reflex, a habit, an addiction, and ultimately a replacement for real productive work. It’s something I think everyone should watch out for, whatever walk of life or career you happen to have. In fact, I’ve come up with a zingy little catch phrase to help people remind themselves, and their coworkers, how toxic this stuff can be — meta is murder.

  (via dailymeh)

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• Пост 136254263

  Слово дня: “Op-Ed”

  An op-ed, abbreviated from opposite the editorial page (though often believed to be abbreviated from opinion-editorial), is a newspaper article that expresses the opinions of a named writer who is usually unaffiliated with the newspaper’s editorial board. These are different from editorials, which are usually unsigned and written by editorial board members. Op-eds are so named because they are generally printed on the page opposite the editorial.

  Although standard editorial pages have been printed by newspapers for many centuries, the first modern op-ed page was created in 1921 by Herbert Bayard Swope of The New York Evening World. When he took over as editor in 1920, he realized that the page opposite the editorials was “a catchall for book reviews, society boilerplate, and obituaries.” He is quoted as writing:

  “It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America… and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.”

  Op-ed — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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• Пост 134715464

  I don’t know about you, but I enjoy watching paint dry. I imagine that the wet paint is a big freshwater lake that is the only source of water for some tiny cities by the lake. As the lake gets drier, the population gets more desperate, and sometimes there are water riots. Once there was a big fire and everyone died.

  Неизвестный 13-летний автор из далёкого прошлого

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• Пост 130533477

  Поваренная книга анархиста-педофила: «В каждом маленьком ребёнке, и в мальчишке, и в девчонке, есть по триста грамм взрывчатки, или даже полкило».

  (Чего только в лифте не придумаешь.)

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• Пост 128029654

  Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others.

  Once you’ve told people of your intentions, it gives you a “premature sense of completeness.”

  You have “identity symbols” in your brain that make your self-image. Since both actions and talk create symbols in your brain, talking satisfies the brain enough that it “neglects the pursuit of further symbols.”

  Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. | Derek Sivers

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• Пост 126427855

  The zeldman.com redesign is up. You’re soaking in it. It’s old school. It’s brand heritage, baby. It’s retro 90s web. It’s so retro it’s nowtro. Because old is the new new.

  Redesigned – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

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• Пост 125773830

  Trendly is a product of Smallthought Systems, makers of Dabble DB. It used to be called Dshbrd, but nobody knew how to pronounce that.

  Trendly: Your Analytics Dashboard

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• Пост 125149801

  По сути, в «Викиномике» описано не что иное, как глобальная коллективизация — гораздо более изощренная и эффективная, чем сталинская. Ради общего подъема экономики приносятся в жертву индивидуальные хозяйства, и в этом даже трудно винить какого-то тирана-идиота. Отдельные люди ни при чем — по-видимому, включился некий заложенный в антропологии механизм, который позволит человечеству, достигшему невиданной численности, выжить за счет увеличения эффективности посредством склеивания, от которого невозможно увернуться. У авторов это «глобальное сотрудничество» вызывает энтузиазм, но, по сути, это очень плохая новость — вы больше не можете наслаждаться одиночеством; чтобы прокормить себя, вы непременно должны быть внутри большого ­коллектива — как минимум участвовать в его совместной работе в роли веб-два-ноль-пролетариата, а в идеале — еще и манипулировать им в своих целях.

  Викиномика — рецензия Льва Данилкина, Афиша

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