2009.07.21

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local,links

• Queen City Discovery – An interesting blog about urban exploration in Cincinnati that some guys in Hive13 told me about
• 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).

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programming

• 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.
• Epigrams on Programming from Alan Perlis – Written in 1982 but still pretty true.

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software

• Vanish: Self-Destructing Digital Data – Pretty clever.

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video,books

• 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 www.predictablyirrational.com[offical website] looks gone)
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness ** Not sure why I wrote this down. I haven’t read it.
• the deliberate dumbing down of america by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt – I have not yet read this but it looks good. PDF is available here.

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games

• Balance of Power – A geopolitics game by Chris Crawford (also with his interesting essay/article here).

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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and discovered they have rather high-resolution scans (like, the Declaration is 63 megapixels) of that and many other historical documents too.