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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

  • Invasion of the body hackers (“Footsteps, sweat, caffeine, memories, stress, even sex and dating habits – it can all be calculated and scored like a baseball batting average. And if there isn’t already an app or a device for tracking it, one will probably appear in the next few years.”) (via)
  • A field guide to bullshit (“But the more we rely on mystery to get us out of intellectual trouble, or the more we use it as a carpet under which to sweep inconvenient facts, the more vulnerable we are to deceit, by others and by ourselves.”) (also via)

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The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

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