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Awesome
"OMEGA touch pads and starting blocks are part of an integrated timing system capable of recording times to the nearest 1/1000th of a second. However, because it is not possible to build swimming pools in which each lane is guaranteed to be precisely the same length, Olympic and World Records are still recorded to the nearest 1/100th of a second."
via omegawatches.com
via blog.wired.com
"It's become a bit of a game because this hallway is designed to save energy. So when you walk down it, the lights will switch on and then off after you've passed. So sometimes I'm sitting in the dark answering emails and I try to see how much I can type without triggering the motion sensors again. It's also fun to surprise unsuspecting hotel guests who pop out the elevator and see someone typing in the dark corner. And then he ends up being 'Hurley.'"
via dispatchesfromtheisland.blogspot.com
via newsok.com
“In downtown Charlotte, a luxury condominium is scheduled for construction this year that will allow residents to drive their cars into a garage elevator, ride up to the floor they live on, and park right next to their front door. I have a hard time figuring out whether that is a triumph for urbanism or a defeat.”
via tnr.com
I read stuff
This library contains 62 books overall; 23 books were read in the last year; 2 books were read in the last month, for an average of 2 books each month.
planned books (0):
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current books (1):
recent books (61):
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The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Best American Essays 2007 by David Foster Wallace, Editor
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 by Richard Preston, Editor
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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McSweeney’s Issue 21 (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern) by Various
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
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How to Cheat at Everything: A Con Man Reveals the Secrets of the Esoteric Trade of Cheating, Scams a by Simon Lovell
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The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man by David Maurer
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The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival by Stanley N. Alpert
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Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
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Kingdom of Fear : Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Centur by Hunter S. Thompson
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The Science Of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, And Follow The Golden Rule by Michael Shermer
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
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