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The exquisite corpse was a parlor game played by the Surrealists, those convention-spurning artists, writers and pranksters who flourished in 1920s Paris. Its objective: to uncover the magic of accident. One person would write the opening of a sentence, fold the paper to conceal part of it, pass it...
During the past 50 years, transportation has become a patronage program in this country. In the name of keeping the Federal Government small (and political risks low), Congress earmarks pet projects and then allows states to spend the remaining federal funds any way they like. Without real oversight or clear...
HILLARY CLINTON, joking about her reputation in the blogosphere at the YearlyKos political convention held in Chicago
In a July 27 speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Wales announced his plans to take on the current state of search, which he believes is in need of transparency rather than "black box" algorithms to determine what results are presented to users. As he explains on his...
The propensity to challenge convention is one of the things that differentiates a hedgie, and it's something that humans are not necessarily wired to do, says Jim Leitner, manager of the Falcon Family Fund. Leitner spoke of this phenomenon at the conference and in Inside the House of Money...