Linkpile

• New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears: Onion video.
• Here Comes The Only Real iPhone Killer: Specifically, it’s an elaborate hammer. Ha.
• the liberation mythology of the internet.: “This mythology is founded on a sweeping historical revisionism that conjures up an imaginary predigital world – a world of profound physical and economic constraints – from which the web is now liberating us. We were enslaved, and now we are saved. In a bizarrely fanciful twist, the digital world is presented as a “natural” counterpoint to the supposed artificiality of the physical world.”
• Judith Shulevitz on the Radical Idea of the Sabbath: “Q: Is Twitter killing God’s idea?”
• Advertising and pharmaceutical prices: “The classic Chicago School result was that advertising for eyeglasses lowered prices, due to increased competition. It doesn’t seem the same is true for pharmaceuticals.” Research cited.

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