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» #mom - first time i've been tempted to recommend foursquare

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» @practicalethics - on not making a wrong move in the choice & identity argument: "In other words, many have had to endure endless abuse for their non-heterosexuality: daily bullying, loss of employment, public humiliation, discrimination, excommunication, loss of family and friends – sometimes murder or suicide. And then, finally, in the face of all this, struggling gay men and women had something to say that would cause some attackers to pause for a second by virtue of a few magic words: it’s not a choice. There are people who reclaimed their lives because of those magic words. Whether, in the end, sexuality is truly a choice doesn’t matter. But if someone who has endured malice all his life for feelings he felt no control over, finally, can get up in the morning and face the world with confidence while others back-off, just a little, then maybe we can better understand this particular timeline of progress and not mistake it for irresponsible activism."

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» The GHZ Gate: The garden gate

ghz-gate:

This gate depicts the famous “GHZ” experiment (named after its inventors, Greenburger, Horne and Zeilinger), which demonstrates a very strange property of quantum mechanics, called non-locality. This means that quantum measurements carried out in different locations can show spooky correlations…

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» Eagleton on the grand inquisitor: "The late Christopher Hitchens, who some people think is now discovering that his broadside God Is Not Great was slightly off the mark, would have scorned any such project. He did not consider that religion was a convenient fiction. He thought it was disgusting. Now there's something believers can get their teeth into …"

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(via New World Oil Demand Blasts Past Old World - Business Insider)

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» @michaelidov - brilliant & evocative . "symphony of hate": "Two years ago, I had the quintessential Moscow experience of getting stuck in the kind of power traffic jam these closures can cause, waiting for at least 30 minutes before that black ­G-class Mercedes whipped by. My cabbie suffered silently, muttering to himself every once in a while. So did everyone around us. Not tonight. As the presidential posse hangs a turn toward New Arbat, a vicious chorus of horns, pressed at once by seemingly everyone from here to the horizon, greets it head-on. A frozen symphony of hate and frustration hangs in the air. The traffic is not moving an inch, but at least there’s the noise."

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» truly radical chic in Moscow (congrats Andrew!): "the protest was being brought to you by the same people you would have relied on, weeks earlier, for restaurant picks"

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» @MartinWolf: needed, world government. "an increasing number of the public goods demanded by our civilisation will be global or have global aspects."

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» Love feature competition; we might even get privacy protection: "Google had gone much further than Facebook in trying to deal with the human rights concerns raised by its identity policies, though she also said that some users who tried to disguise their real names while setting up accounts might still encounter problems with Google’s appeals process."