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The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Debt-Peonage Society

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Debt-Peonage Society: Warren Buffett recently made headlines by saying America is more likely to turn into a “sharecroppers’ society” than an “ownership society.” But I think the right term is a “debt peonage” society – after the system, prevalent in the post-Civil War South, in […]

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my new professorial technique will smash you!

Slacker Manager: The unspoken language of…: If a picture is better than a thousand words, then a person’s body language has got to “speak” volumes. A lot of the focus on body language at work has been on how to avoid looking all twitchy and nervous. Not much is mentioned about how to use body […]

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Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons: Not sure why I hadn’t run accross the Wikimedia Commons site before today, but I’m glad I finally did. Every time I find another wiki site like this I just find the concept very powerful. I just think it’s so cool that people would put their work into the public domain without the […]

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i dunno how they figure this….

Your Heart is Red What Color is Your Heart? brought to you by Quizilla via cheekyprof

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Shure Earphones > E Series > E3c

Shure Earphones > E Series > E3c: these are worth every penny…..

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American Scientist Online – Harry Collins

American Scientist Online – Harry Collins : This is easy—it is a little book, written in 1958 by the Wittgenstein-inspired philosopher Peter Winch, called The Idea of a Social Science. It’s short, and the words are easy, but the ideas are so difficult when first encountered that, when I first read it in 1967, it […]

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McCord Museum of Canadian History – Mind Your Manners!

McCord Museum of Canadian History – Mind Your Manners!: a great little game for those into victorian manners…. i of course gat a perfect score.

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! Kendall Tarrant – Interviews from Hell !

! Kendall Tarrant – Interviews from Hell !:

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Civiblog: A free internet blogging service for global civil society

Civiblog: A free internet blogging service for global civil society: The Citizen Lab (www.citizenlab.org), an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada, with the support of Internet services company Tucows, is offering free web blogs to all those working in global civil society with their Civiblog […]

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Google Fight : Make this fight with googleFight love VS fear

Google Fight : Make this fight with googleFight love VS fear: machiavellli was right.

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