From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Alain de Botton on HR Dept. Hell

FORA.tv – Alain de Botton in Conversation with Will Hearst.…

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Lingering | n+1

Naturally everyone wants to believe that by spending time online we are not steadily depriving real art, thought, and journalism of the attention and—since so …

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Grade Grubber | n+1

Considered in the most cynical light, the American system of education as it now exists is a status machine, absorbing young citizens, sorting them according …

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Scattershot, Desperate, and Sleazy | n+1

Reading Craigslist, I feel as though I am dipping my cup straight into the swift-flowing stream of human need.

via Scattershot, Desperate, and Sleazy |

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Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soul Craft

As Michael Agger writes:

We all can’t become motorcycle mechanics. And while Crawford would not be so unsubtle as to suggest direct prescriptions for happiness,

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Berners-Lee: We no longer fully understand the web – opinion – 05 June 2009 – New Scientist

[The Web] connects people as they make and follow hyperlinks to a degree that results in complex properties no one expected. It has something like

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