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she objected to her CEO not only hanging this picture in their offices, but treating it practically as an object of worship, which he made his employees sign and hung in a central location.
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The writer is speaking at the Women in Secularism conference, which starts on Friday in D.C. (There’s still time to register: http://action.centerforinquiry.net/site/Calendar?id=103061&view=Detail) Delete the scoop?
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Tor Books' reflections on going DRM-free, one year later
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“We’ve seen no discernible increase in piracy on any of our titles, despite them being DRM-free for nearly a year,” UK editorial director Julie Crisp wrote on Tor’s website. Delete the scoop?
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Ghost in the Shell Arise Anime's 1st Full Trailer Streamed
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This fan video of Nicki Minaj's "Starships" — packed with clips of your favorite spaceships and their crews — will fill you with love for the great, big universe.
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Is is a tribute to my nerdiness that I knew every one of the scenes in this? It is really good ... have a watch! Delete the scoop?
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Joe Berkowitz: "Filmmakers like Michael Bay are usually interested only in going bigger--trying to top themselves with set pieces and spectacles that succeed through excess. In the technology space, however, there is a constant race to make things smaller." Via The Digital Rocking Chair
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Gesture controlled user interfaces are without a doubt the next generation of communication channel between humans and machines.
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The video is really amazing. This is way more interactive than the usualy scanner! Delete the scoop?
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The power of EVE Online doesn’t come from scripted missions or a predetermined storyline, but the interactions between the players in the massive sandbox that CCP has created. Player-controlled corporations control huge swaths of space, and clash against others when they try to expand or defend their territory. It’s a system that creates drama, and the stories that emerge are organic and compelling. CCP wants to bring the EVE universe to a wider audience, and they need stories to do so. Instead of hiring writers, they’ve decided to crowd-source story development, asking the players for the most dramatic moments of their time in the game. These will form the basis of an upcoming comic book, television show, and other projects that have yet to be announced.
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They've set up a site where users can share their tales and vote on those of others. CCP has partnered with Dark Horse Comics to make a comic book out of the stories, and with a production company to make a live-action TV show. [Thanks, SlashDot!] Delete the scoop?
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HootSuite CEO describes social media's ongoing civil war.
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Largely gone is the harmonious and open social ecosystem of yore. In its place: a balkanized social media landscape of splintered, siloed networks who just can’t seem to get along. For ordinary users and businesses, the prognosis isn’t good. Delete the scoop?
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Off Book, a Web video series from PBS, explorers the future of wearable technology — from devices that help you figure out why you can't sleep to "smart" fabrics.
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This is a quick watch, more an overview than a deep analysis. The DIYers who are creating their own LED tech was my fav. Delete the scoop?
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A lot of us around here have blogs and a lot of us use FeedBurner to "host" our RSS feeds. I thought it was worth talking about what might happen if we los Via Robin Good
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I moved all my RSS to Feedly when Google nerfed their reader last year, a sacrafice to the Google+ initiative. Feedly is, in many ways, superiour to the old reader if you are only using it for solo-reading, It doesn't have a social media component. 
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March 27, 6:33 AM
If you are a curator or web publisher using RSS feeds an Feedburner here is something that you definitely want to pay attention to, as Google may soon close down this service. Chris Coyer has an informative and useful article analyzing what is going to happen, and what you can do now or later to handle this likely event. From the comments, Maxime Valette writes: "...sign that FeedBurner is shutting down soon is that the “permanent redirection” on delete is a new option since October. Before that it was only a “30-day redirection”. Update an outdated service like FeedBurner just to improve the deletion service is generally not a good sign." Useful, informatve. 7/10 Full article: http://css-tricks.com/lets-say-feedburner-shuts-down/ 
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March 27, 7:36 AM
It's as well to be prepared, and this article gives some useful tips should Google decide to shut down the Feedburner service (and the omens are not good, following the announcement about the shut down of Google Reader). Delete the scoop?
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The Golf Channel is apparently testing a new way to film golfers at this week's Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. Titleist posted this photo of the Golf Channel's hover camera flying over one of its pros, Scott Stallings, hitting at the range. It looks insane.
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Soon there will be drones everywhere. When do we get the personal drones that carry all our stuff?
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Some crap that marketing gave us. The intern probably wrote it on a napkin while they were all out playing polo and getting drunk at 11am on a Wednesday.
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Funny site, not always safe for work, that stabs ...and stabs .. and stabs ... the ad biz Delete the scoop?
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SL eBooks Turns Hollywood's Best Unproduced Screenplays Into E-Books
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SL eBooks, has stumbled upon a clever way to repurpose quality content that almost no one has ever read. They work with various managers and agencies in the film industry in an effort to find readable screenplays that, for one reason or another, were either sold, optioned or overlooked by the studios before being given the green light that turns a script into a silver screen feature. Those screenplays are then massaged into e-book novellas, as the company is calling them. Delete the scoop?
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Yep ... the 'plus' is all about Google's bottom line. 
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May 12, 10:52 AM
Google doesn't care, because G+ is merely a means to corral everybody into using one sign-on for all Google products so they can scrape data. Delete the scoop?
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Because our SimCity -- the new SimCity -- is really about getting these agents to move around, it's much more about flows. Things have to be in motion. I can't look at anybody's city as a screenshot and tell you what's going on; I have to see it live and moving before I can fully understand if your roads are OK, if your power is flowing, if your water is flowing, if your sewage is getting dumped out, if your garbage is getting picked up, and so on. All that stuff depends on trucks actually getting to the garbage cans, for example, and there's no way to tell that through a snapshot. 
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May 11, 9:34 PM
Fascinating interview with the lead developer of the new Sim City game and how they used Google Earth and Netflix offering to inform the game design. Delete the scoop?
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One recent Thursday morning, I logged into my email and made an alarming discovery. Instead of opening my inbox, Google directed me to a notice: “Account has been disabled. Via CatherineFitzpatrick
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A good (cautionary) tale, and a constant reminder: when its free, you are the product. Delete the scoop?
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Some days, the hardest thing in the world to do is create content. It seems that no matter how Herculean the effort, the words just sit there like a lump. Via Baochi
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The Bullitt Center building in Seattle generates its own electricity, composts its waste and uses natural ventilation to keep the building comfortable. They hope this will serve as a model for future buildings.
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Proof-of-concept that living buildings are attainable. Delete the scoop?
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Google engineers are looking at ways to stop using passwords, which they believe are no longer enough to keep users safe.
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This might make sense for companies, think RSA only more secure. Though its unclear what you do if (when) someone loses the key. For ordinary people, its another attack on privacy. Say goodbye to pseudonyms. It's nymwars all over again, just much worse. Delete the scoop?
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One of my favorite conferences every year is Microconf , because it focuses on small software businesses, which is where my heart and soul is businesswise. I know a lot of folks can’t justify a trip out to Vegas (though you should really come in 2014 if you possibly can — 2013 is only a few days from me posting this and already quite sold out), so I always ask Rob and Mike (the organizers) for a copy of my video so I can produce a transcript and put it online. My 2012 talk focuses on building systems to achieve marketing objectives at a software company. I’ve been successful at doing things at a variety of scales, from my own one-man software business to consulting clients with 8 figures a year of revenue. A lot of the tactics covered are wildly actionable if you run a SaaS business.
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Patrick McKenzie shares the trials and tribulations of launching a successful (small) SaaS business, including some great tips on pricing your own product and useful service-providers. Delete the scoop?
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Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer #3 2013 - Official final trailer 3 in HD - starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban - J.J. Abrams directs... Via Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist
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So happy they're continuing to make these movies with the new cast. 
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's curator insight,
April 23, 4:28 PM
I can't wait to watch this one :-) 
George Jackson's comment,
April 24, 4:14 PM
I've only watched one trailer for this movie. I don't want to ride to be ruined when I go see it.
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April 27, 3:45 PM
@ George. Trailer can be spoilers. Sometimes the fun is in the surprises.
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Scientists in both the United St and Morocco are studying what it would be like to send human exhibitions to Mars.
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Life on Mars
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March 29, 2:26 PM
Seems some have a lot of fun :-) Delete the scoop?
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The South Korea government has revealed that initial investigations into the malware attack that affected networks belonging to key banks and broadcasters yesterday has been pinpointed to an IP address in China. That could support the theory that the attack was coordinated by North Korea. Delete the scoop?
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In the last 10 days, we had a two day outage at comiXology that kept people from buying new comics or reading ones they had previously bought but not stored locally. Then, JManga went and closed up shop, deleting all purchases from users who thought they were paying money to buy comics. It reinforces a lot of what we've been saying all along: DRM-encumbered comics are not comic purchases. They're comic rentals, subject to the whim of the distributor and their servers.
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WIth cloud sync's and forcing internet connections to allow access to content, all digital media is becoming "rentals". This article speaks to how comic publishers are serving their media. Delete the scoop?
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