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Flights of fancy:
Inside the intense world of virtual pilots – WaPo
CIA’s former ‘chief
of disguise’ has a new holiday job: ‘Kids’ Gift Detective’ for Target – WaPo
Before he was a spy,
‘Argo’s’ Tony Mendez was an artist. He still is. – WaPo
Documents from the
archive of whistleblower and former NSA worker Edward Snowden show that Britain's GCHQ signals intelligence agency has
targeted European, German and Israeli politicians for surveillance.
TECH
The Day Google Had to
'Start Over' on Android – The
Atlantic
Google was building a secret mobile product to fend off chief rival
Microsoft. Then Apple announced the iPhone, and everything changed.
Google’s Robot Army – The
New Yorker
Andy Rubin, the former head of Android, would lead an “effort to create
a new generation of robots.” Over the weekend, Google revealed how sweeping its
ambitions truly are.
Oculus Primed: Meet
the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality – Wired
Darpa’s Robotic
Gladiators Will Battle on This Disaster Course – Wired
Robotics Challenge:
Creating the Disaster Response of the Future – Spiegel
Seventeen rescue robots are competing in Florida this weekend, where
their task is to clear away debris, break through walls and climb ladders -- a
test run for their use in future disaster scenarios. But the humanoid figures
are still a little shaky on their feet.
Designer of pinball machines and creator of the arcade hit Defender is
still doing it.
Placebo-philes – Anxious
Machine
Glitch in the
Afterlife – Boing Boing
Stewart Butterfield tells how a few million dollars worth of art,
created for a beloved massively-multiplayer game, ended up in the public domain
after its death.
Into the Bitcoin
Mines
– NYT
On the flat lava plain of Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, near the Arctic Circle, you can find the
mines of Bitcoin.
OTHER
Drugs Will Kill Your
Friends – The
Atlantic
Comedian Rob Delaney reflects on his time in rehab.
What Anesthesia Can
Teach Us About Consciousness – NYT
A classic of Chicago crime
Relive the first tech
bubble with Monopoly: The .com Edition – Quartz
Best of Book Bits
2013 (Part I) – The
Capital Spectator
New York Times Business
Best Sellers List – Market
Folly
The Selling of
Attention Deficit Disorder – NYT
The Number of Diagnoses Soared Amid a 20-Year Drug Marketing Campaign
In No One We Trust – Joseph
Stiglitz / NYT
We do not measure trust in our national income accounts, but investments
in trust are no less important than those in human capital or machines.
We are the freak show – Money Illusion
Words That Finance
Has Changed The Meaning of Forever – Macro
Man
Your Environment
Matters If You Want To Make Better Decisions – Farnam
Street
The Economics of
Selling Out – Priceonomics
It’s hard to stand out from a crowd by being the same as everyone else.
But once the crowd knows you, average is good. That’s true whether you’re an
aspiring Senator or an aspiring musician, and that’s why we complain about
sellouts so bitterly and so often.
8 Things The World’s
Most Successful People All Have In Common – Bakadesuyo
How I Got Hooked on
E-Cigs Hints at $2.3 Trillion Market – BB
MY MOVIE SUGGESTIONS:
What Porn Stars Do
When The Porn Industry Shuts Down – Forbes
Take This Town and
Shove It – Politico
A White House reporter’s tale of sex, booze and the briefing room.
The Ultimate Cheat
Sheet For Selling Anything – James
Altucher / Techcrunch
MY MOVIE SUGGESTIONS:
OLDER