Old Is The New New

Short NYT piece on the history of the algorithm, from Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk–”a part man, part machine … oracle for our times.”

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Henry Jenkins asks, “Was Herman Melville a Proto-Fan”?

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A trip to Salt Lake City, and other cool things.

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The smiley emoticon is twenty-five years old.

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21st century pickup artists, the death of leisure, why twee and emo are the future of romantic honesty, and whether society has learned anything from Hitch.

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Historical plaques to commemorate ephemeral and inconsequential moments.

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