Technology has spoiled us to the point where we feel nostalgic when we lose data that didn't really matter in the first place.

Cincinnati had originally been scheduled to play all its games early, but a conflict involving a New York Jets game and the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur led to the Bengals-Pittsburgh game two weeks ago being moved to 4:15.

Contemporary data, being instant and always accessible, is also instantly forgettable

At 83, he has lived through one third of the lifespan of the United States

rising and resurgent powers wait patiently in the wings, free-riding on the public good we offer. This is exactly how an empire declines, by allowing others to take advantage of its own

Normally in an ecosystem that’s been around for a while, native species have a leg up...or six, as it were.

It is not ‘your’ Facebook profile. It is Facebook’s profile about you.

Scientists who collaborate via email, Google, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook are leaving fewer paper trails, while the information technologies that do document their accomplishments can be incomprehensible to other researchers and historians trying to read them. Computer-intensive experiments and the software used to analyze their output generate millions of gigabytes of data that are stored or retrieved by electronic systems that quickly become obsolete.

http://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125139942345664387.html?

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When Northside was threatened with being cut in half by a freeway connector between Hamilton Avenue and I-74, activists rallied and fought for forty years until the project was finally cancelled.

At night I dreamt in ontologies.

That's rather how I feel when people talk about the latest fashion among investment banks and hedge funds: high-frequency algorithmic trading. On top of an already dangerously influential and morally suspect financial minefield is now being added the unthinking power of the machine.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/opinion/29wilmott.xml

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It's also possible to induce a state of "psychological distance" simply by changing the way we think about a particular problem

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/07/designing_for_creativity.php

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I think this is exactly the kind of story you can't get from bloggers in their jammies.

The rules are different for drivers and immigrants, who are required to provide identification upon request.

Airports used to be called "fields"—as in La Guardia Field and O'Hare Field. All you needed was a grassy landing strip and a windsock, and perhaps a shack for the passengers, who simply walked over to the planes.

We were talking past each other I suppose.

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=are_depressions_necessary

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Globalization opened up opportunities to find new people to exploit their ignorance.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/207390?from=rss

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=7C96B8F42CF75C94FD30CD5C94F3035C.w5?a=402861&f=28&sub=Columnist

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After all, these guys have never needed to speak inspirational words to others like them, as Sotomayor has done. They've had codes, handshakes and clubs to do that.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=7B27802F6C25FC5C0B451287C8B08B2C.w5?a=402789&f=28&sub=Columnist

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Try to reason it out in your head, step back and analyze all the angles for your partner's reasoning.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_best_way_to_confront_a_cheating_wife_when_you_have_undeniable_proof

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A new report compiled by the Institute for Advanced Studies stated Monday that, aw, you probably wouldn't be interested and who really cares to begin with.

http://mobile.theonion.com/siteserver/site?t=J9lUeTuRV1mH0o9AZYuhuA&sid=onion

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"I have always understood, absolutely to prescribe," Edmund Burke observed in parliamentary debate in 1774,‪ "whenever we are involved in difficulties from the measures we have pursued, that we should take a strict review of those measures, in order to correct our errors if they should be corrigible; or at least to avoid a dull uniformity in mischief, and the unpitied calamity of being repeatedly caught in the same snare."

http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=21640

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Though he once complained he could "never seem to get the clarity and concision" he wanted, this failure held the key to his fiction's uncanny impersonation of the educated American mind—a mind choked with manipulative jargon and self-conscious prattle.

http://www.thepointmag.com/death1.html

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Childhood is a branch of cartography.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22891

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"Out, America, out!" a group of sweat-drenched young men chanted Monday at a Baghdad park as the sun was setting. They jumped up and down to the deafening beat of drums and the wail of horns.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063000838.html

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Quakes of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale happen 10 times as often as quakes of magnitude 6.0, and 100 times as often as quakes of magnitude 7.0.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227141.200-disorderly-genius-how-chaos-drives-the-brain.html?full=true

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HAVE you ever experienced that eerie feeling of a thought popping into your head as if from nowhere, with no clue as to why you had that particular idea at that particular time? You may think that such fleeting thoughts, however random they seem, must be the product of predictable and rational processes. After all, the brain cannot be random, can it? Surely it processes information using ordered, logical operations, like a powerful computer?

Actually, no. In reality, your brain operates on the edge of chaos.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227141.200-disorderly-genius-how-chaos-drives-the-brain.html?full=true

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At other times, when I am fully lucid and engaged (i.e., between the hours of Last Latte of the Day to First Beer of the Evening), I try to submerge myself in the text.

http://infinitesummer.org/

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an annual yak polo festival has been cancelled

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/25/osama-bin-laden-capture

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if you're always learning, imagining, and finding out, you need a kind of freedom that you don't have if you're actually making things happen in the world. And when you're making things happen, it helps if those actions are based on all of the things you have learned and imagined.

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/to_be_a_baby/

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there is a tradeoff between the ability to learn and imagine — which is our great evolutionary advantage as a species — and our ability to apply what we've learned and put it to use.

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/to_be_a_baby/

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I don't know that we should be THAT hard on the researchers who invented the idea. After all, it was a good idea at the time, and the good news is that everyone is willing to accept better evidence and move on.

http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia/2009/06/the_music_of_the_brain.php

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If biology is an inherent property of matter, why have chemists so far been unable to reconstruct life, or anything close to it, in the laboratory?

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/science/16orig.xml

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The research is clear: Adolescents tend to fare better -- academically and behaviorally -- when they live with both biological parents. But when their parents frequently argue, young adults are significantly more likely to binge drink than other teenagers. They also tend to smoke, and their poor school grades are similar to those of their peers who don't have both biological parents at home.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090529212600.htm

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It seems so wonderfully simple to be looking for a specific act, rather than a perfect actor.

http://www.nplusonemag.com/scattershot-desperate-and-sleazy

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The way to express yourself is to deviate, just slightly, from the norm.

http://www.nplusonemag.com/scattershot-desperate-and-sleazy

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Reagan's first budget marked a sharp turn in the nation's economic direction: "wealth would be redistributed toward the wealthy, while the government would be starved of funds to meet non-military needs."

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/not-ready-for-mt-rushmore/
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But it was Reagan who in his first year as president halved the budget for public housing. Over the course of his first term, more than half a million people were thrown off the disability rolls. "Until then," says Tim Brown, director of Sacramento County's Ending Chronic Homelessness Initiative, "basically there was no homelessness." Since then, neither the disability nor the housing budget has come close to recovering.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090622/ehrenreich/2
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Unix, which was developed with no encouragement from management, was first viewed at AT&T as something between a curiosity and a legal headache.

Most of the obstacles children face today are linked to the belief among adults that the prime duty of the individual is to make the most of their own life, rather than contribute to the good of others.

http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=15472
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people who embrace 21st-century public life, whether it is lived on Twitter or TLC, aren't allowed to complain about the downside

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=2A5DA520A8B7999EB953669784ECA338.w6?a=369958&single=1&f=28&sub=Columnist
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As you step up to the ball, breathe through your nose, then exhale and whistle as you start the club back.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/books/29kind.xml

The price of oil has leapt to nearly $62 a barrel. Another spike may be on the way

http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13721051
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The reason, they suggest, is that the reactive oxygen compounds, inevitable byproducts of exercise, are a natural trigger for both of these responses. The vitamins, by efficiently destroying the reactive oxygen, short-circuit the body's natural response to exercise.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/health/research/12exer.xml
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In other words, young people enroll in graduate programs, work hard for subsistence pay and assume huge debt burdens, all because of the illusory promise of faculty appointments. But their economical presence, coupled with the intransigence of tenure, ensures that there will always be too many candidates for too few openings.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.xml
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The process was "a perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm," a former C.I.A. official said.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=84C5C52731077179428498C2F4A2BDEC.w5?a=357304&single=1&f=21
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the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So it tortured people to make them confess to the nonexistent link

http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://popurls.com/go/nytimes.com/lfb45da533d5ae7cf7cc7fb5cc3f02d0a
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There is just now a great pressure in the mercantile world, in the consequence of the breaking of so many of these scheming stock company bubbles.

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/95385/The_Panic_of_1825
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The two wings of theology, one making God immanent, something to be understood as analogous to ourselves, and one making Him transcendent, beyond spatio-temporal physical understanding, cannot be reconciled. The believer has to oscillate incoherently from one to the other.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=405647
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