local,links
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Queen City Discovery - An interesting blog about urban exploration in Cincinnati that some guys in Hive13 told me about
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Amidst a pile of other new-age and holistic bullshit in some free magazine, I miraculously discovered an ad for the “Uptown Farmer’s Market” at Garden Park - 3581 W. Galbraith Road, Fridays 12-7, Saturdays 10-2, 513-238-6616
- In trying to find a record that this existed, I came across the Central Ohio River Valley Local Foods Guide (which does indeed acknowledge that this market exists).
programming
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MapReduce - I don’t care what your opinion of MapReduce is or how much it might suck, I am just putting this here so I will encounter it later and remember that it exists.
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Epigrams on Programming from Alan Perlis - Written in 1982 but still pretty true.
software
- Vanish: Self-Destructing Digital Data - Pretty clever.
video,books
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Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? - A video of a talk from this guy, who’s also the author of the book Predictably Irrational (here? the official website looks gone)
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness ** Not sure why I wrote this down. I haven’t read it.
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the deliberate dumbing down of america by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt - I have not yet read this but it looks good. PDF is available here.
games
- Balance of Power - A geopolitics game by Chris Crawford (also with his interesting essay/article here).
lit,historical
- We the People Network - I was searching for an image of the Declaration of Independence here and discovered they have rather high-resolution scans (like, the Declaration is 63 megapixels) of that and many other historical documents too.