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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned – washingtonpost.com –They will “attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s copyright.”– [via http://melissawiley.com] The Psychopedia or, How To Do Stuff: Episode 156: How to Exact Revenge “Nothing [...]

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Ivy elites, I weep for thee

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

From The American Scholar: One of the great errors of an elite education, then, is that it teaches you to think that measures of intelligence and academic achievement are measures of value in some moral or metaphysical sense. But they’re not. Graduates of elite schools are not more valuable than stupid people, or talentless people, [...]

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