23 hours ago by Ben Atlas

I am not deleting the accounts. I would still have the ambassadorships there so people can find me. But I do plan to minimize my visits to the sites, max out the privacy settings in Facebook including the exclusion from the search result. Un-follow the static Twitter noise. I have been actually doin ...

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1 day ago by Ben Atlas

Jaron Lanier, Photo by Aaron Salcido This is perhaps the most significant lecture in a decade (as is the book, reading it now). Jaron Lanier reflects on the cultural and economic crossroads through the defining prism of the internet culture. Some of this observations like the one about ten years req ...

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2 days ago by Ben Atlas

There is this peculiar impression that till the enraged voters in Massachusetts sent a Republican to the Senate, no one, except the unemployed, remembered about the devastating structural changes in the economy. I am not talking about the Jews here specifically; perhaps this is a metaphor for any gr ...

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2 days ago by uncoveringyou

There is this beast who stalks me You know the one. I’ve told you about him … he’s poisonous, venomous he tries to control all I do. But Today….I had an epiphany! I prayed today – as I have often done. I’m not religious, but I have faith Faith in Christ, faith in the universe, faith in the elements, ...

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3 days ago by Stanley Bronstein

Meditation for Saturday – February 6, 2010 100 Most Important Human Traits Numbers 81 Through 85 This comes from a list of the 100 Most Important Human Traits as printed in the Investor’s Business Daily Newspaper a few year’s back. After listing each trait, I’m going to define the key words from eac ...

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3 days ago by johndierckx

Grace period over, police warn covert texters Drivers are slipping back into “old habits” of using cellphones while driving and are now taking their eyes completely off the road to text covertly, police say. Police have ended their grace period for drivers caught using a hand-held cellphone and are ...

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3 days ago by drm

The Pew Research survey on Internet usage paints a brilliant picture of Internet usage, particularly by the Millenials (Gen Y and younger.) Fast Company has a good summary here. For those of us out of the Gen Y bracket, there’s an important matter of language and connotation. When we say Internet, w ...

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5 days ago by herself

Reading an article Barb passed along about must-have features in new homes, I was surprised by what I was found. If I had to guess what the 10 "must-have" features in a new house would be, I wouldn't have been able to hit on a solid third of what's in this list. Gone are the days of bigger meaning b ...

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5 days ago by Ben Atlas

David Assaf quoted a lot from Avrom Ber Gotlober, I was looking for his books, till someone pointed to this link. For the reading convenience I converted the html into (PDF) זכרונות ומסעות – אברהם בר גוטלובר This has to be funniest quote in a long time: ואין סתירה לזה במה שהחסידים מקללים ומגנים את כ ...

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5 days ago by Ben Atlas

But of course I am paraphrasing Solveichik. I met the Rov and I spoke to people who knew him much better, even his early students. The man had the worst social skills that one would expect from an odd genius in the midst of a grand cross cultural mix up. Some of his students still nurse the hurtful ...

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