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November 27, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ethical Conundrums
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I'm just gonna say, I'm really happy with how the inking on the sun came out.
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November 26, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Games for Humans
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BEEP BEEP BEEP
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November 25, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unappreciated
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I mean, technically we're only using the top half of the adjunct. Why do we have to pay for the whole thing?
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November 24, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A Meat-Race
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Okay, quick, let's switch them all to kale so we can claim they're grass-fed.
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November 23, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eat My Body
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You know what? We are NO LONGER best friends.
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Wednesday Book Reviews!
The Cartoon History of the Universe (volume 1) (Gonick) [image error]
I vaguely remember reading this as a kid, but I picked it up again on a friend’s suggestion and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s really not so much a history of the world as a bit of illustrated info on a bunch of really interesting points in time. The one strike against it is that it’s often, well, a bit wrong. Some of this is because it’s simply out of date, but (for example) at one point he mentions the infamous Aquatic Ape hypothesis, and it wasn’t (I don’t think!) as a joke.
Born on the Fourth of July (Kovick) [image error]
One of the great Vietnam memoirs, which I hadn’t yet read. This book is a bit more dreamlike than some of the others, dealing not just with war stories, but with his attempt to adjust back to society afterward despite an injury that leaves him paraplegic. In a sense, that makes this book a bit more unique (and perhaps timely) than a lot of other Vietnam memoirs, in that it’s really more about what war does to you *after* you get home.
The Attention Merchants (Wu) [image error]
This is A+ non-fiction. This book is a history of the idea that you can sell attention for money, using content as merely the attractor of the attention. Wu traces the whole history of this concept from early newspaper sales tactics, through war propaganda techniques, on through Google, Facebook, and so forth. One thing I really appreciate is that Wu isn’t explicitly arguing that the paradigm of attention sales is a bad one - he’s asking us to deal with what it means. I wish everyone in tech would take a peek at this book.
November 22, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Biology
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Nah, I'm kidding. You'll mostly be filling out grant applications.
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November 21, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - How Do I Love Thee
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I guess this is the week of dirty jokes.
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November 20, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A Solution for Global Warming
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Or we could throw up mirror particles to reflect sunlight to space and our shameful reflections back at us.
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November 19, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nerdy Kids
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Okay, try wrapping it in duct tape.
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November 18, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Rubber Duck Method
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Someone needs to invent a USB rubber duck that just tells you that you're garbage.
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