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...this stuff, nobody's going to - and maybe something wonderful could come from of it. I don't want to sound all massively promilitary, but Jim always said that some of the most loving, kind people in the world are military people because they've seen how bad things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Who Stare at Goats Author Jon Ronson | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...maintain barriers to entry on the Internet and why it's such a tough environment to play in. Now a number of folks say "Well, look, Google gave them $900 million in an ad deal for something they only paid $580 million for. How can that be bad?" And the answer to that is: Given that Fox Interactive Media group, of which MySpace is a part, actually lost money this year even after the short-term Google ad-deal windfall, $580 million doesn't seem like such a bargain. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sizing Up Murdoch, Redstone and Other Moguls | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...racism, doing nothing to combat it, but trivializes it to the scale of what could be a Facebook app. Tired of the same old liberal versus conservative grids? Instead, check out my bigot meter... telling you that when I see faces of black people, I think to press "Bad" instead of "Good." FlyBy actually wonders how much the design of this program forces these unexpected results. Though, consequently, you should probably expect to learn you are a racist...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: Project Implicitly Racist | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...system uses Pavlovian conditioning to have the user sort cropped faces into left and right categories, originally denoted as "European American" or "African American," a red 'X' signaled when the user makes a selection of which the program does not approve. The second round then replaces these titles with "Bad" and "Good," now flashing words intended to be sorted based on connotations. Later rounds permutate "Good" and "Bad" with "European American" and "African American," in the race test, to measure changes in reaction times when, for example, "Good" is paired with "European American" or "Bad" with "African American". The results...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: Project Implicitly Racist | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...manage to dominate on economic issues after two cycles of losing - often by double digits - on their handling of the economy? Part of it was simply keeping that focus on jobs, and not allowing itself to get sidetracked by social or cultural issues. After all, when the economy is bad, grass-roots anger at whomever is in power can be a powerful weapon, and populist, pro-change rhetoric always sounds good. A Republican base riled up by Obama's ambitious agenda also helped. "We're just motivated by the current political environment," says Jonathan Rogers, 25, a military officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia Race Gives Republicans a Blueprint for Success | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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