Category: Culture
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Vote With Your Wallet, Buy Nothing Day
Today was Buy Nothing Day, Ad Busters’ annual day of anti-consumerist outreach. Despite my liberal hippie leanings, I generally have a visceral reaction against campaigns such as these. That’s a post for another day… In the spirit of Buy Nothing Day, I’d like to take a moment to ask for your input on a closely related…
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Posting Salary is Table Stakes
Today Marco Arment wrote about how frustrating it can be when employers don’t post salaries. If you see a job listing that doesn’t specify a salary range, assume it’s so low that they’re embarrassed to include it, they don’t respect you enough to tell you, or their heads are so far up their asses that…
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A picture of Mars’ moons
This is a picture of Mars’ moons, taken from the surface of Mars by the curiosity rover. Stunning. /r/curiosityrover
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TIL William Gibson wrote an episode of The X-Files
I’ve been re-watching The X-Files on Netflix. 1997’s season 5 has an abnormally high number of good monster of the week episodes. Today I watched Episode 11, “Kill Switch,” a story in which rouge AI has sexy-time with Mulder. I was pleasantly surprised (then not surprised at all in hindsight) to find out that the…
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TransMilenio: Bogotá’s sexy BRT.
I hope the team designing Winnipeg’s rapid transit has at visited Bogotá, because this looks really great.