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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: It's Weird to Think That One Day I'll Photoshop You Out of These Very Vacation Photos.
But one thing I've learned through my years of dating is that just because I'll want to erase you from my memory, I don't have to erase all these great travel experiences. Will I want to forget hiking up that volcano the other day? Of course not. I'll just want to forget that you were hiking with me − and thanks to the magic of Photoshop, I can.
Socio-Technical Assemblages « Service Design Research
There’s a strong tendency to see services as ‘things’: we often hear that services are ‘more complex’ than products. All kinds of means to grasp the complexity of an airline or a hospital can be applied – cybernetics, actor-network theory, etc. But the interaction between a prostitute and his or her john or jane is complex in a way I don’t think these approaches capture.
Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society
Stephen Colbert isn't really a right-wing nutcase; he just plays one on TV. We can be reasonably sure that when he promoted the term 'truthiness' to denote a claim that feels right, even if there is no factual evidence to support it, he was making fun of certain right-wingers whose fact-checking is mostly internal; who will accept as true a story that fits with their worldview, regardless of the facts. Of course this is a universal human tendency, to which left-wingers are not immune, but Manjoo cites scientific studies that indicate that right-wingers are more susceptible to it (see below).
L'UMP scientifiquement moins scientifique ?
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2008
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2007
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: One Thousand Monkeys Rise Up.
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2006
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency:
Only a Game: The Rituals of Alea
