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13
Dec 09

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Pew Research Center: A Fast Look at How Impressions of Barack Obama Have Changed – Interactive display, showing what went up, and what went down.
10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company – ReadWriteStart – 1. Is this your first venture? 2. Are you really an entrepreneur? 3. Does your venture involve something you understand really well? 4. Can your mother understand the value proposition? 5. Can you see the right wave? 6. What does your startup want to be when it grows up? 7. Starting a company is hard and uncertain. 8. Get a partner or fly solo? 9. Would you refuse a well-paying job to do this? 10. Can you raise appropriate financing?

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23
Mar 09

:::Philebrity…media, culture, music and more::: » Blog Archive » For Sale: The SS United States – as you’ve probably noticed, the great ship has sat in neglect and disrepair just off Delaware Avenue since 1996. Those days could be coming to an end quite soon, though, as the ship is up for sale, and according to this excellent PlanPhilly story by Steven B. Ujifusa, it will most likely go to scrap, providing an utterly awful national metaphor: It would most likely be “towed to Asia, and run aground on a foul, oil-smeared beach,” where it would be destroyed and sold off as hunks of metal to Asian junkmen. Owch. There is a conservancy group, The S.S. United States Conservancy, but it doesn’t look good. So if you’re an enterprising soul with lots of local and national pride, and with millions to spare, why not take a ride down to South Philly and take a look?

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Jan 09

How your friends’ friends can affect your mood – life – 30 December 2008 – New Scientist – Indeed, it is becoming clear that a whole range of phenomena are transmitted through networks of friends in ways that are not entirely understood: happiness and depression, obesity, drinking and smoking habits, ill-health, the inclination to turn out and vote in elections, a taste for certain music or food, a preference for online privacy, even the tendency to attempt or think about suicide. They ripple through networks "like pebbles thrown into a pond", says Nicholas Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, who has pioneered much of the new work.