Author Archives: Niall Murphy
Tech entrepreneur John Vaccaro, who bought up a large amount of Ponzi-fraudster Bernie Madoff’s clothing at auction, is now reselling the cut-up pants and sweaters as custom iPad covers for several hundred bucks apiece. To lawyers, no doubt.
Madoff’s Immoral Fabric (NY Post)
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‘Mathemusician’ and class doodler Vi Hart offers another modest suggestion as to how time spent at boring lectures can be used to greater benefit.
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Baroness Susan Greenfield is a UK neuroscientist known for her evidence-free predictions about how the Internet is going to turn us all into a bunch of mental and social cripples. Defending her views in a Guardian interview last Saturday, she said:
“I point to the increase in autism and I point to internet use. That’s all.”
This drove the science writer Carl Zimmer to sum up the ridiculousness of the statement in 140 characters or less:
Within minutes, someone had added:
And so #greenfieldism was conjoured into the mimetwittosphere:
Hie thee to #greenfieldism. It needs more Irish content.
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Dudenum PI
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You remember the opening to Magnum PI, right?
So does Brooklyn based film editor Connor Kalista.
