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Monday, April 23, 2012

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Email is not broken, we are.

Joshua Lyman.com: There seems to be a constant flow of “email is/is not broken” articles on HN and various other places. Some of them are very business-oriented, and some of them are scathing rejections (language). But most of them miss the point. Email as a system is not broken, but we, through our email behaviors, are broken.
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Is it okay to be difficult to work with?

MinnesotaPlaylist.com: Last week I asked the following question on Facebook and on Twitter: “Have you ever chosen to work with someone despite knowing they’re difficult to work with because of their talent?” There was a wide array of responses.
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A CNC machine for drawing drawing machines

Geek.com: Depicted in the video above is a computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine hard at work drawing other machines. A project developed by Pittsburgh-based spatial-artist Pablo Garcia, the machine’s task was to draw twelve different pictures of historical drawing machines. A professor of architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Garcia also runs a collaborative and multidisciplinary studio called POiNT.
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How Does The Coachella Tupac 'Hologram' Work?

International Business Times: The "resurrection" of rapper Tupac Shakur wowed audiences at the Coachella music festival. But the illusion isn't a hologram, as some have reported -- it's actually a 2-dimensional video cleverly projected using technology based on an old theatre trick.
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A Stunt Category for the Oscars

ThinkProgress: There have been on-and-off efforts over the year to get a stunts category into the Academy Awards, and apparently those conversations are starting up again. As someone who would like to see more movies like Casino Royale or District 9 to be in Oscar contention, and for action movies to have more incentives to think of themselves as Oscar-worthy and to raise their game correspondingly, I think I’m in favor of such an addition, pending what the final categories look like, of course.
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