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Clay Shirky’s tantalising suggestion that perhaps TV is a temporary spare-time-filling measure, and that sometime soon we’re going to come up with … gulfstream/2431

Weirdly long, eloquent, and informative Craiglist post about friends and the Australian concept of “mateship” that I somewhat endorse. gulfstream/2312

TV show invites five Pacific tribesman to the UK. What they find strange: homelessness, artificial insemination of pigs, the time spent cleaning and washing … gulfstream/2326

Experimental Google feature: digg/reddit-like vote up/vote down buttons in search results. gulfstream/2354

Good, uh, “appreciation” of Facebook from Ben Brown: “Facebook’s crack engineering staff will continually release new applications and features … gulfstream/2372

Encouraging productive conversation in chat rooms by requiring that ever utterance is unique. gulfstream/2379

Make camera-phone ready “barcodes” for URLs. Intended for pasting Wikipedia URLs on monuments, but it works with any URL. (And arbitrarily … gulfstream/1831

The restaurants in Ikea’s German stores are apparently very popular: there’s only 37 stores, but they have the 11th highest revenue.“Flocks … gulfstream/1921

Some young Japanese are shutting themselves into their rooms, and effectively never coming out. gulfstream/1941

Eurasians are more beautiful, healthy, intelligent, etc.? (Nice theory, not very convincing.) gulfstream/1945

Figure I should put this up: the top 50 blogs in September 2000. gulfstream/2029

What’s known about yawning. (Seems like not so very much.) gulfstream/2079

Are cities the new countries? “The most important place to London is New York and to New York is London and Tokyo … London belongs to a country composed … gulfstream/2114