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Wordnik’s Online Dictionary - No Arbiters, Please - NYTimes.com

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Steve Jobs to 2005 graduates: 'Stay hungry, stay foolish'

1984 Macintosh Computer SuperBowl Commercial

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Steve Jobs Reshaped Industries
By By DAVID POGUE
Published: August 25, 2011
It’s hard to imagine that we’ll ever see another 15 years of blockbuster, culture-changing hits like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad — from Apple or anyone else. And that’s really, really sad.

How Steve Jobs Changed The Way We Listen
by Bob Boilen NPR
"Steve Jobs and Apple didn't invent the MP3 player, but they sure made it work."

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Bob Dylan's Birthday is May 24th. Seems like a good time to post my This I Believe piece piece:

I believe in lingering – long conversational digressions, and slow time spent hammocked on the deck. I believe in seed-time, the gradual germination of plants, personalities, ideas. I believe in starting more projects than I can finish, in the promise of unfinished business. Same goes for books. I believe in listening to the sound between the words, enjoying the view between the lines on the page. I believe in trees and dirt, and in waiting for leaves to decompose into mulch, for finches to return in spring. I believe that every word counts, makes a difference. I believe in chewing slowly, in being the last person to leave the table.

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National Poetry Month- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

Poem-a-Day by Knopf Doubleday

Poetry Everywhere Videos including Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost and The Lanyard by Billy Collins

The Libraries Didn't Burn - Poets.org

Poetry by Marianne Moore

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Official Woody Guthrie Website

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http://www.imaginepeace.com/imaginepeace.html

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The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/business/02speed.html
By GRAHAM BOWLEY
Published: January 1, 2011
Machines have largely taken over stock market trading, creating a new
technological order affecting nearly everyone who owns shares of stock
or mutual funds.

Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/science/02see.html
By STEVE LOHR
Published: January 1, 2011
Computerized surveillance systems can protect hospital patients, watch
for criminals — or invade your privacy.

Global Entertainment
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/magazine/02fob-consumed-t.html
By ROB WALKER
Published: December 30, 2010
How online geo-tools and their tweakers make the surveillance state fun.

Rewired
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/magazine/02FOB-medium-t.html
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: December 30, 2010
The ideological implications of our new fiber-optic infrastructure.

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Where We Were When Lennon Was Killed - NYTimes.com

The Tea Maker by Yoko Ono

The Inspiration - NYTimes.com by Ray Davies

John Lennon - An Appreciation

LENNONYC - PBS American Masters

PBS Arts : Remembering Lennon: The Vigil for John Lennon

More here

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Bob Dylan mixes crowd-pleasers with subtle political commentary during Election Day show | cleveland.com

Despite the historic upheaval blowin’ in the wind, Bob Dylan didn’t overdo the political overtones during a sold-out concert Tuesday evening at E.J. Thomas Hall in Akron. Maybe because the polls were still open out West? Still, it was surely no coincidence that Mr. Voice of a Generation launched into an ominous “Masters of War” in the middle of the Election Day show. Bob Dylan mixes crowd-pleasers with subtle political commentary during Election Day show.

Setlist from BobDylan.com and another review of Tuesday night's show.

My short Ticketmaster review - http://bit.ly/bmTF4P

More Bob Dylan links

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View Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2010 in a larger map

This map is drawn from cases documented by ALA and the Kids' Right to Read Project, a collaboration of the National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression.

Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009

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Harvard Professor Howard Gardner in his new book, Five Minds for the Future, proposes five minds, or skills, students need to master. Three relate to the intellect: the disciplined, synthesizing and creative minds; two emphasize character: the respectful and ethical minds.

Gardner is known for his theory of Multiple Intelligences that describes nine different ways individuals demonstrate intelligence:

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr

From chapter four: The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words of the writer act as a catalyst in the mind of the reader, inspiring new insights, associations, and perceptions, sometimes even epiphanies. And the very existence of the attentive, critical reader provides the spur for the writer’s work. It gives the author the confidence to explore new forms of expression, to blaze difficult and demanding paths of thought, to venture into uncharted and sometimes hazardous territory. “All great men have written proudly, nor cared to explain,” said Emerson. “They knew that the intelligent reader would come at last, and would thank them.”
On NPR 'The Shallows': This Is Your Brain Online

Book Review - Cognitive Surplus - By Clay Shirky - NYTimes.com

The time we might free up by ditching TV is Shirky’s “cognitive surplus” — an ocean of hours that society could contribute to endeavors far more useful and fun than television. With the help of a researcher at I.B.M., Shirky calculated the total amount of time that people have spent creating one such project, Wikipedia. The collectively edited online encyclopedia is the product of about 100 million hours of human thought, Shirky found. In other words, in the time we spend watching TV, we could create 2,000 Wikipedia-size projects — and that’s just in America, and in just one year.

Book Review - Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg - The Letters - NYTimes.com

“Tonight while walking on the waterfront in the angelic streets I suddenly wanted to tell you how wonderful I think you are,” Jack Kerouac began a typical letter to his friend Allen Ginsberg in 1950. “God’s angels are ravishing and fooling me. I saw a whore and an old man in a lunch cart, and God — their faces! I wondered what God was up to.” God’s purpose would remain opaque to Kerouac — try as he might to impart some glimpse of it in his work — and a decaade later he was pretty much a burnt-out case. Poring over his old correspondence with Ginsberg and others in 1961, he sadly wondered at “the enthusiasms of younger men.” “Someday ‘The Letters of Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac’ will make America cry,” he wrote.

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