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Exclusive Screenshots: Google Calendar
Exclusive Screenshots: Google Calendar Posted by Michael Arrington I am now in possession of screenshots from Google’s long delayed new Ajax calendar application, which will be called “CL2″ (the CL2 login screen is here). It was only a matter of time before someone broke down and leaked these – as far as I know these […]
MoreBrain Candy-Malcolm Gladwell
http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_05_16_a_brain.html May 16, 2005 The Critics: Books Is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up? 1. Twenty years ago, a political philosopher named James Flynn uncovered a curious fact. Americans—at least, as measured by I.Q. tests—were getting smarter. This fact had been obscured for years, because the people who give I.Q. tests continually […]
MoreMalcolm Gladwell on the Freakonomics Paradox
Malcolm Gladwell on the Freakonomics Paradox Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and, over the years, a collection of startlingly good New Yorker articles, has addressed on his blog the question of why he endorsed Freakonomics (by writing a blurb before it was published) even though its explanation of the 1990’s crime drop […]
MoreLloyd Grove as Usual
• March 13, 2006 | 4:18 p.m. ET Daily Made-up News (Keith Olbermann) SECAUCUS – Everybody who writes for a living ought to be subjected to one day in which they are written about. The results would be mortifying – and educational. Today’s lesson in this subject should go to gossip columnist Lloyd Grove, his […]
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