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• Channel 4 raises Bing word-extinction alarm

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 160
  UK TV channel forecasts end of language Roll over Wittgenstein, Channel 4 has a bold claim to make, thanks to New Media guru Benjamin Cohen. It’s trumpeted in what must be the weirdest press release we’ve received in years - or at least since the Blooks one .… ? Go here to see the original:  Channel 4 ...
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• What Is Going on with Tinsley Mortimers Love Life? [Mortified]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 862
  The Tinz just wrapped shooting for her reality show and it looks like her showmance, Prince Casimir Wittgenstein-Sayn, has gotten the boot for a new beau. Whos the lucky guy? Former American Idol...
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• Tinsley Mortimer and Devorah Rose Teach Us How Reality TV Is Supposed to Work [Punching Bags]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 862
  Tinsley Mortimer and Devorah Rose had a fake fight Monday night at a Guest of a Guest party in front of every New York social blogger and reporter and a camera crew. Welcome to the new process for...
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• Deception By Connotation

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  William Shakespeare may have known how to capture the romantic moment, but he did not always get it right: What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; This may be true in a world of denotations; but Juliet was apparently too love-struck to recognize that words have ...
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• String around the Earth: excellent math question

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 435
  Have you ever considered snugly wrapping a string around the entire Earth? If you did that, and then you added merely one additional meter of string (which would then raise the string uniformly off the surface of the Earth), how much higher off the ground would that new string be (the original long string, plus one ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  (Image from The Folio Society : Paul Austers New York Trilogy ) This week introduces Disjecta , a new weekly feature of  A Piece of Monologue . It aims to digest news across philosophy and the arts into manageable bitesize portions. And yes, this format is a blatant steal from 3:AM Magazine s superb ...
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• Private Language and Marketing-Speak

  
  Digital Tonto — Authority: 117
  Marketing is, to a large extent, about communication.  Consumer desire needs to be translated into a product and, in turn, the consumer has to understand how the product will make his life better in some way.  A good marketer is a communication professional. Many marketers often use their own private language, ...
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• Book Review: Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard

  
  Ms. Smarty Pants Know It All — Authority: 120
  Like Breakfast at Tiffany’s , Wittgenstein’s Nephew is a work wherein a narrator is describing a friend and his past relationship with this friend. Here, the narrator is named. The author, Thomas, is sharing his notes about Paul Wittgenstein , the nephew of famed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein . Thomas ...
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• Always the Same Thing

  
  Diner's Journal — Authority: 673
  Is having only one item on the menu a good thing? Wittgenstein thought so.
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• Understanding in a Flash and the Mastery of Technique

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 491
      Eternity and Know-how   I’ve been reflecting on the concurrences between the excellent passage from Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations below, and the Spinoza point made, which follows. Wittgenstein’s brilliant, economically, though quite gnomically put point has always been ...
  5 weeks ago

• Why I’m so much better than you

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 465
  About 15 years ago, I paid 50 cents at a used for a book called Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Man and His Philosophy. It earned its pay this morning when I pulled it down and read this passage while my wife was trying to talk to me: A CHINESE SAGE of the distant past was once asked by his diciples what he would do if he ...
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