“According to executive director Virginia Dajani, officials couldn’t decide whether he belonged for his words or for his music, so they settled on making him an honorary member, joining such previous choices as Meryl Streep, Woody Allen and a filmmaker who has made a documentary about Dylan, Martin Scorsese.”
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Researchers Can Do Accurate Profile Of You From Your Facebook Likes
“They analyzed the Likes of 58,466 volunteers and were able to determine with surprisingly high accuracy a range of personal information that some Facebook users may not have made public, including their sexuality, where they worship, how they’ll vote in the next election and what their IQ is.”
NPR’s Project To Convince Young Adults It’s Cool
The US public radio network “chose a bar hovering above Sixth Street [at SXSW in Austin] to kick off Generation Listen, a campaign to make public radio cool in the minds and ears of young people.”
Inventors’ New Fad: The Useless Machine
“In a world dominated by smarter and smarter gadgets, one of the dumbest machines on earth is making a quiet comeback. Invented in the 1950s by an artificial-intelligence expert, the device is known as the ‘useless machine.’ … [Its] sole purpose: You turn it on, and it turns itself off.”