December 2008
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At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item - NYTimes →
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The End of the Affair? The BND, CIA and Kosovo's... →
By Tom Burghardt (Antifascist Calling)
When three officers of Germany’s foreign intelligence service the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), were arrested in Pristina November 19, it exposed that country’s extensive covert operations in the heart of the Balkans.
On November 14, a bomb planted at the office of the European Union Special Representative was detonated in downtown Pristina....
Freedom’s Fairytale? Pt. 1 or Wrinkly Dialectics «... →
Cognitive dissonance, the psychological concept whereby subjects are seriously irked by contrary ideas rattling around in their skulls, recently received a blow at the hands of a discipline-wandering statistician. M. Keith Chen set out to disprove the application of cognitive dissonance to apes’ choice of candy, by way of applying the Monty Hall Paradox (arguing that psychologists were making a...
“Die Verjüngung in der “Titanic”-Redaktion macht es möglich, …unsere...”
– Neuer “Titanic”-Chefredakteur: “Wir sind Parasiten des Elends” - SPIEGEL ONLINE
The Real Price of Torture - vanityfair.com →
George W. Bush defended harsh interrogations by pointing to intelligence breakthroughs, but a surprising number of counterterrorist officials say that, apart from being wrong, torture just doesn’t work. Delving into two high-profile cases, the author exposes the tactical costs of prisoner abuse. …
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01. The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix Edit) 02. Zombie Nation - Forza 03. Tame Impala - Half Full Glass Of Wine 04. Tiga - Mind Dimension 2 (Ghent Version) 05. Mr Oizo - Pourriture 7 (Soulwax Edit) 06. Esser - Headlock 07. In Flagranti - Business Acumen 08. Flairs - Truckers Delight 09. MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix)...
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The line between porn and LOLporn is very thin,... →
Glenn Greenwald (Salon.com) talks to Bill Moyers |... →
Bill Moyers sits down with political commentator and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald who asks: Are we a nation ruled by men or by laws? A former constitutional and civil rights lawyer, Greenwald looks at the legacy of the Bush Administration, the prospects for President-elect Obama’s cabinet choices, as well as the possibilities for government accountability. [VIDEO]
A merger is the next step for Spiekermann -... →
A merger date has been set. Branding and design agencies SpiekermannPartners (Berlin, London, San Francisco) and Eden Design & Communication (Amsterdam) will merge on January 1, 2009. The joint agency will do business under the name EdenSpiekermann, with a focus on international design, branding and user experience. With a staff of more than 100 and sales of €10 million, EdenSpiekermann is...
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Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing... →
Society must respond to the growing demand for cognitive enhancement. That response must start by rejecting the idea that ‘enhancement’ is a dirty word, argue Henry Greely and colleagues.
Today, on university campuses around the world, students are striking deals to buy and sell prescription drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin — not to get high, but to get higher grades, to provide an...
How the Illuminati influenced Beethoven - Slate... →
In 1779, a composer, writer, teacher, and dreamer named Christian Neefe arrived in Bonn, Germany, to work for the Electoral Court. Neefe (pronounced nay-fuh) was the definition of what Germans call a Schwärmer, a person swarming with rapturous enthusiasms. In particular, he was inflamed with visions of endless human potentials that the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment promised to...
The Truth about Hypocrisy: Scientific American →
Charges of hypocrisy can be surprisingly irrelevant and often distract us from more important concerns …
Give Your Intellect a Boost – Just Say Yes to... →
Brains + drugs = fried eggs, right? Not always. Some pills can boost your cognitive output. But we at Wired aren’t doctors. Anyone who takes a bushel of drugs based on our say-so must be high.
Leaks: Yahoo's secret layoff doublespeak revealed!... →
Yahoo isn’t firing people en masse — it’s “getting fit.” That noisome euphemism for today’s layoffs of 1,500 people must have hissed forth from the brain of some overpaid management consultant. Likewise for pages upon pages of instructions on how to sack employees — which Valleywag has obtained.
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The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New... →
There is a commonly held belief that Helvetica is the signage typeface of the New York City subway system, a belief reinforced by Helvetica, Gary Hustwit’s popular 2007 documentary about the typeface. But it is not true—or rather, it is only somewhat true. Helvetica is the official typeface of the MTA today, but it was not the typeface specified by Unimark International when it created a new...
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Michael Shermer » Patternicity →
Why do people see faces in nature, interpret window stains as human figures, hear voices in random sounds generated by electronic devices or find conspiracies in the daily news? A proximate cause is the priming effect, in which our brain and senses are prepared to interpret stimuli according to an expected model. UFOlogists see a face on Mars. Religionists see the Virgin Mary on the side of a...
Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit:... →
Raymond, a high-powered attorney, habitually put off returning important business calls and penning legal briefs, behaviors that seriously threatened his career. Raymond (not his real name) sought help from clinical psychologist William Knaus, who practices in Longmeadow, Mass. As a first step, Knaus gave Raymond a two-page synopsis of procrastination and asked him to read it “and see if the...
“Client wants the best. Once you tell him what the best costs, he asks if you can...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : 20 signs you don’t want that web design project
