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Nov 20
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Suffering from Comparison [Placement Archives]

By Placement
Originally published – MAY 25, 2005 Now grossly over-magnified, marketing is pivotal in exaggerating choice in western culture. It’s a tired refrain to remind that branders and advertisers gorge you on implausible and improbable variants of things you already own or likely never needed — a buffet of attrition culminating…
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Nov 19
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Lost in Tallman Park

By Cycling
  This is the view "back", after little racing bike with 23mm road tires and I fought in vain against a leaf strewn hiking path in an attempt to find the paved "bike path". The hiking path dead ended and me and all the carbon fiber in the world had…
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Nov 18
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Making Light [Placement Archives]

By Placement
Originally published – June 13, 2005 Though you can draw a diagram for the different axis’s that humor works on, you can’t really sit down and tell somebody what “funny” is. Humor is contextual, inexplicable and personal. Bob Mankoff has been working on a research project with the University of…
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Nov 16
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Par Avian

By Par Avian
From 2004 to 2014, I ran a private mixtape collective for a group of 50 friends, all music savants.  It was a group that weathered the maturation of online music from the shadowy shores of Napster and Limewire to the gilded halls of Apple's one-click music store.  We were a…
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