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Jason here. I'm a student of classical Chinese medicine and a massage therapist practicing Zero Balancing. My soul was forged from sky iron, fired in dragon's breath, tempered in a river in Southern Maryland, and etched with the Dhamma. The curious work of metallurgy you see before you is a steam-powered automaton from an era that never was. You might see him ambling around the city of Portland, OR.
In this bitty micro blog, you will find miscellaneous ponderments and a chronicle of my (sometimes brief) fascinations, extending to matters of mind, healing, spirituality, social media, science, parenting, memes, entrepreneurship, and most things nerdy, whimsical and sublime.
Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet
via wired.com
Even for a web-junkie like me, the upheavals happening in the online world and how people connect to one another virtually is making my head spin.
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google lets you opt out of targeted ads | Official Google Blog: Making ads more interesting
For our part, we're launching interest-based advertising with three important features that demonstrate our commitment to transparency and user choice.
- Transparency - We already clearly label most of the ads provided by Google on the AdSense partner network and on YouTube. You can click on the labels to get more information about how we serve ads, and the information we use to show you ads. This year we will expand the range of ad formats and publishers that display labels that provide a way to learn more and make choices about Google's ad serving.
- Choice - We have built a tool called Ads Preferences Manager, which lets you view, delete, or add interest categories associated with your browser so that you can receive ads that are more interesting to you.
- Control - You can always opt out of the advertising cookie for the AdSense partner network here. To make sure that your opt-out decision is respected (and isn't deleted if you clear the cookies from your browser), we have designed a plug-in for your browser that maintains your opt-out choice.
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ew. | The Day Facebook Changed Forever: Messages to Become Public By Default (UPDATED)
The worst case scenario is that Facebook will not open a free message search API for outside developers, instead it will make bulk access and analysis of all these public messages available only to commercial firms able to pay in order to harvest the data for marketing purposes. That seems pretty likely, unfortunately.
via readwriteweb.com
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Wish Fulfillment? No. But Dreams (and Sleep) Have Meaning - TIME
via time.com
The idea is that with little mental energy to spare, you're emotionally more attuned to things that are likely to be the most threatening in the immediate moment.
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Amanda Palmer of dresden doll fame teams up with Neil Gaiman for coffee table book
via nypress.com
“I found that when I was in beautiful places I wanted to take photos and put myself in them, but it seemed wrong to be alive,” says Palmer. “It just seemed uninteresting—such was my eternal logic at 22.”
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novel one day experiment at Israeli newspaper where staff is replaced by writers and poets
Alongside these cute reports were gripping journalistic accounts. David Grossman, one of Israel’s most famed novelists, spent a night at a children’s drug rehabilitation center in Jerusalem and wrote a cover page story about the tender exchanges between the patients, ending the article in the style of a celebrated author who’s treated like a prophet: “I lay in bed and thought wondrously how, amid the alienation and indifference of the harsh Israeli reality, such islands — stubborn little bubbles of care, tenderness and humanity — still exist.” Grossman’s pen transformed a run-of-the-mill feature into something epic.
via forward.com
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