Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. | | | | Battlestar Galactica. Man vs. machine in one of the greatest TV series ever. 2004.
(SyFy) | | | | |  | “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
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| | rantnrave:// Our thoughts go out to everyone in the path of HURRICANE HARVEY. Special good wishes to one of my oldest friends JEFF STEIN and his family. Braving through this with a positive attitude. And to all those helping. Help because you can... Local news is very important. Don't think so? Check this... NET NEUTRALITY comment deadline is today at 7pm ET. Get in there... As you may have noticed I took a lot of time off this summer. I published 7 days a week for 10 years. I needed a break. Normal 5-day a week publishes with rantnrave for MediaREDEF will resume on Sept. 5. Reminder that the REDEF site is updated all day long. 6 days a week and up-to-the-minute. You can view the raw curation here... Good things to watch over your long weekend? On HULU: Never saw the remake of the series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA? Go now. A fantastic show with lofty messages. One of the best ever. On AMAZON PRIME: Two great music docs. OASIS: SUPERSONIC. The rise and fall basically. Loved it. And the story of their record label UPSIDE DOWN: THE CREATION RECORDS STORY. The only guy crazier than the GALLAGHER brothers was the founder of their label ALAN MCGEE. On SHOWTIME: WHITNEY: CAN I BE ME. A truly sad and devastating take on her downfall and death. Shades of the same story that we saw in the AMY WINEHOUSE doc. What I thought I knew was wrong... Happy Birthday to BETH COMSTOCK, GARY GINSBERG, JORDAN LEVIN, JASON SHELLEN, GLENN S. EISEN, JENNIFER POLLAK, JAMIE TISCH, SEAN FINNEGAN, JOHANNA VANDERSPOOL, JIM HUGHES, and ELANA SOFKO. Belated to KEVIN REILLY, PAM KAUFMAN, IAN ROGERS, FRANK CONWAY, EILON TIROSH, BRIAN CHESKY, JEFF CLAVIER, DON DODGE, BRETT SCHNITTLICH, and ELANA BOURKOFF. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Harvard Business Review |
| In this package we examine how GE undertook the massive task of transitioning from a classic conglomerate to a global technology-driven company. | | |
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 | Tim Harford |
| "Blade Runner" (1982) is a magnificent film, but there's something odd about it. The heroine, Rachael, seems to be a beautiful young woman. In reality, she's a piece of technology -- an organic robot designed by the Tyrell Corporation. She has a lifelike mind, imbued with memories extracted from a human being. | | |
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 | Business Insider |
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 | Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| Break out of this self-destructive habit to become more productive in work and life. | | |
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 | Benedict Evans |
| There are now several dozen companies trying to make the technology for autonomous cars, across OEMs, their traditional suppliers, existing major tech companies and startups. Clearly, not all of these will succeed, but enough of them have a chance that one wonders what and where the winner-take-all effects could be, and what kinds of leverage there might be. | | |
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 | South China Morning Post |
| Helen Wong says armed with the wealth of the baby boomers and the tech savvy of the millennials, China’s young consumers are a formidable force that will transform China and power the world economy | | |
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 | Chicago Booth |
| Economists have long been puzzled by event-ticket underpricing: underpricing reduces revenue for the artist, and encourages socially wasteful rent-seeking by ticket brokers. Why not use an auction to set price correctly? This paper studies the introduction of auctions into this market by Ticketmaster. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| The fast-casual concept is the new driving force in the American restaurant industry. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| In May of last year, a teenager in a dreary suburb of Paris live-streamed her own suicide -- and acquired a morbid kind of digital celebrity. | | |
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 | Vice |
| Ten years ago, a company invented a device that transformed the labor involved in the production of male orgasms. | | |
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 | GQ |
| As a teenager I was more of a Chuck Taylor guy. Then I got a good job and everything changed. | | |
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 | Salon |
| Once a diverse, cosmopolitan society, Egypt has descended into corruption, inequality and bigotry. Anything about that sound familiar? | | |
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 | Current Affairs |
| Joe Arpaio’s reign was two decades of intimidation, cruelty, and abuses of power. | | |
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 | Wired |
| A vulnerability in hotel keycard locks was a security disaster--and the opportunity of a lifetime for one burglar. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| I first came to the writer Ellen Ullman through her second novel, "By Blood," which I read in gulps. When I went to see what else she had published, I discovered her other job: programming. Her memoir "Close to the Machine," which takes place during the late-90s internet boom, captured the emotional draw of creating code. | | |
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 | Recorded Future |
| Understanding North Korean national objectives, state organizations, and military strategy are key to attributing North Korean cyber activity. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Nearly 20 years after it changed the way we make restaurant reservations, the company and the new sector it created are still struggling. | | |
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 | 99U |
| A handy guide to navigating what's coming up next in the design world. | | |
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 | Variety |
| The line stretches down Fifth Avenue in San Diego's Gaslamp quarter. More than 100 people wait to tour the Michael J. Wolf Fine Arts gallery, which has been converted for Comic-Con into an exhibition of costumes and props from CBS All Access' " Star Trek: Discovery," the forthcoming installment in the 51-year-old science-fiction franchise. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Donald Trump’s rise is, in a sense, just one symptom of the damage the tech oligarchs are doing to America. | | |
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 | Waypoint |
| What Telltale did for the adventure game, EA wants to do for the sports narrative. | | |
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 | Gizmodo |
| As the absurdity on our home planet grows, so does humanity’s curiosity about life beyond 1 AU. Of course, wildly speculating about aliens is nothing new: it’s been fueling many facets of science fiction for years. But recently-proposed missions to“Ocean worlds” that could harbor microbial life make the search for extraterrestrials less tinfoil hat-like and a bit more tangible. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Female scientists that say they are at the forefront of a movement to liberate people of all genders from what they see as the sexist limits of "hardwiring." | | |
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