| My Ticker Spoofs Posted: 10 May 2011 12:11 AM PDT As an homage to this dopey Microsoft/Skype deal, the first twenty anagrams of Microsoft Skype that pop up for me at Wordsmith. Compotes Frisky Comfier Sky Stop Comfier Sky Opts Comfier Sky Pots Comfier Sky Spot Comfier Sky Post Comfier Sky Tops Comfiest Sky Pro Specify Stork Om Forceps Skim Toy Forceps Omit Sky Forceps It Smoky Forceps Ti Smoky Force Skimp Toys Force Skimps Toy Force Skimpy Sot Force Skim Typos Force Skims Typo Force Spiky Most Force Spiky Mots Force Spiky Toms Force Skits Mopy Force Impost Sky Force Mists Poky Lots more here. 
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| The Short-Short Long Posted: 09 May 2011 03:15 PM PDT From a new speech by a Bank of England official on the vanishing idea of long term: Is the world becoming short-sighted? As individuals, it sometimes feels that way. Information is streamed in ever greater volumes and at ever rising velocities. Timelines for decision-making appear to have been compressed. Pressures to deliver immediate results seem to have intensified. Tenure patterns for some of our most important life choices (marriage, jobs, money) are in secular decline.1 Some have called this the era of "quarterly capitalism".2 These forces may be altering not just the way we act, but also the way we think. Neurologically, our brains are adapting to increasing volumes and velocities of information by shortening attention spans. Technological innovation, such as the world wide web, may have caused a permanent neurological rewiring, as did previous technological revolutions such as the printing press and typewriter.3 Like a transistor radio, our brains may be permanently retuning to a shorter wave-length. More here, and worth reading in its entirety. 
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