An Italian court has held 3 high-level Google-rs criminally liable for a cruel video posted to YouTube by Italian teenagers. (more)

I've had Time Machine problems regularly with my MacBookPro since moving its Back Up to the IOmega - 2011-06-11-Time CapsuleGettingFull - (more)

A growing number of people think their job is useless. Time to rethink the meaning of work (more)

7 Ways to Delight Users with Animation | Webdesigner Depot (more)

Google announced that it’s killing off Google Reader (RssAggregator) effective July 1, 2013. Earlier Product Manager Brian Shih (more)

Author writing about Good Diet. (more)

Michael Pollan book ISBN:0143114964: for an intro, you could read his "UnhappyMeals" article (more)

newly-invented word http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism (more)

Ben Evans: Ten Year Futures: Electric and autonomous cars (DriverlessCar) will change cities, virtual and Mixed Reality will change the entire computing experience, and Machine Learning is changing the kind of questions that computers can answer. But each of these is also just beginning, (more)

Ben Thompson: Not OK, Google: Fake News, on the other hand, tells people who’ve already made up their minds what they want to hear. Certainly it’s not ideal, but the tradeoffs in dealing with the problem, at least in terms of Facebook, are very problematic (more)

Bob Lefsetz: Twitter Results: By Wall Street standards Twitter’s a diving joke. A company that’s hit a financial wall with no obvious upside. By cultural standards it’s a juggernaut, far exceeding the impact of Facebook and Snapchat, even Instagram. (more)

Mixed reality (MR), sometimes referred to as hybrid reality,[1] is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time. Mixed reality takes place not only in the physical world or the virtual world,[1] but is a mix of reality and Virtual Reality, encompassing both Augmented Reality and augmented virtuality.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality

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Charles Hugh Smith on Japan example of Narcissism, Consumerism, and the End Of Growth. What we're seeing in Japan is the confluence of three dynamics: definancialization, the demise of growth-positive demographics and the devolution of the consumerist model of endless "demand" and "Economic Growth ." Japan is the leading-edge of the crumbling model of advanced neoliberal capitalism: that consumerist excess creates wealth, prosperity and happiness.

law created by the US Congress and signed by George W Bush in Aug'2005 containing billions of dollars in Pork Barrel projects, buried among the actual HighWay construction/maintenance. (more)

Doc Searls notes RIAA toady Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), accompanpied by co-toadies Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Joe Biden (D-DE) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), have re-introduced the Net- user- podcaster- radio- satellite- freedom- technology- and market-hostile PERFORM act, which failed to gain traction after it was introduced last year.

Dan Miller of Opus Research: If Bots Take Over for Humans We Only Have Ourselves to Blame - Small Business Trends (more)

Associated with the ColdWar. (more)

Doug Muder: What’s Our Story? If Western society no longer feels comfortable telling the Greece-to-Rome-to-Europe story (Narrative) (in which progress’ forward march leads to democracy, science, and human rights), what story should we be telling? (more)