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I still wish I could breath underwater

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I watched the movie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou on DVD tonight. It starred Bill Murray and a host of other well known actors. Critics hated it, or loved it — in about equal measure. I also loved it and hated it, in about the same measure. It’s a odd movie […]

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History

Subtle impact

Twenty years ago, most people would probably say that the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was the single-most significant event of the last century. Five years into a new century and history is already writing a different story. Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The […]

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Technology is neither good nor evil

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Technorati has been coming under fire a great deal lately, including this latest by Om Malik, who writes: So this is where I lose the plot – I tag my post, Technorati benefits, and despite all that, my tags help spammers who clog my RSS readers gain more readers. That’s absolutely rotten! […]

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I still wish I could breath under water

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I watched the movie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou on DVD tonight. It starred Bill Murray and a host of other well known actors. Critics hated it, or loved it — in about equal measure. I also loved it and hated it, in about the same measure. It’s a odd movie […]

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Creative genius with data

Jeff Jarvis writes today about looking for technologists for a new start up: As you may know, I’m working on a still-stealth start-up for news and we’re looking for talent, starting with a top-notch engineer who’s both an algorithms/analytics expert and a creative genius when it comes to playing with data. Of course, we’re always on the […]