Archive | August 2, 2012

Olympic Diary (2)—Party on, dudes!

So on Tuesday it was Beach Volleyball. Now, I have to say that my previous exposure to beach volleyball has been the occasional three minute interlude while channel surfing. And it basically appeared to be people lunging around in the sand, and occasionally jumping at the net. And not to deny that lumbering around in […]

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The revolution equation

by Allan Goldstein A weariness besets the world.  America drifts, Europe crumbles, China slows, markets everywhere are tired and broken.  A sort of nervous exhaustion stalks societies, our problems feel bigger than our solutions. This stagnation is a symptom, the disease is the lack of hope.  The cause is intellectual fatigue; the world is dying […]

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Facebook's bad year just got worse

It’s an interesting time to be Facebook. You know, as in the old Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times.” They’ve been the target of freedom and privacy advocates for some time. All the way back in 2008 I was talking about the company’s anti-privacy tendencies and arguing that things were only going to get […]

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