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July 27, 2012

Rolling Stone Mobile – Politics – Politics: Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math (Is anyone else reminded of that scene from “The Day After Tomorrow” with Dick Cheney?)

NPR.org » A Nerd Is Not A Geek: Two Spins On Spider-Man (The Toby McGuire version was better, and more real.)

What would you tell your younger self? — GigaOm (Best one: “Tell her how you feel.”)

End Game: Inside the Destruction of Curt Schillings’ 38 Studios

Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich (Oldie)

George Stuart Robertson: An Englishman at the first modern Olympic games

I.B.M. Is No Longer a Tech Bellwether – NYTimes.com (Also see this week…)

Are Indian high schoolers manning the help desk (Too bad to be true)

The Little-Known History of How the Modern Olympics Got Their Start | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine

The debt battle last year lost us a lot of money (Can’t wait for the next round…sigh)

Austerity’s Big Winners Prove To Be Wall Street And The Wealthy (Austerity is about getting what the rich want, as usual – it’s stupid and short-sighted)

They’ve got no better ideas (Let’s buy back our stock!)

Dreaming of a world with no intellectuals – The Chronicle