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1. For all my friends and family that enjoy reading, this is awesome.

2. This is a cool post about how we measure the success of movies incorrectly. Basically, we should rank movies using an indexed-for-inflation + number of tickets sold formula/ amount of money spent to produce the movie that is nowhere near as sexy as the simple easy number we see on websites like rottentomatoes.

3. Ironically, the story of the Ak-47 (minus the millions killed using it) sounds like a great story involving national pride, perserverance in the face of difficult odds, and great ingenuity. The picture at the top is particularly creepy.

4. If you fuck with the process that produced the IPhone, you'll piss off about 20 million people.

5. As odd as it may sound, this is really good news. One fallacy always at play in public/charter schools is that it's all about "choice." My new job is quickly teaching me it's not. It's about producing quality schools and how we go about doing it. Tying resources to success/failure is what will (eventually) produce better results. That means shutting down shitty schools, of all kinds.