http://www.instapaper.com/starredhttp://cnnsi.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?&urlID=460782872&action=cpt&partnerID=289881Eight years after it forever shifted baseball's tectonic plates, Moneyball is a Brad Pitt movie, but its ethos has changed. Intellectual firepower is mandatory, but no guarantee of success now that the game's financial giants have cracked the code. Competitive advantage: Red SoxMon, 07 May 2012 20:01:59 EDThttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/01/ai-artificial-intelligence-robots-sautoyNo computer can yet pass the 'Turing test' and be taken as human. But the hunt for artificial intelligence is moving in a different, exciting direction that involves creativity, language – and even jazzMon, 07 May 2012 20:01:50 EDThttp://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/hope-2-0-inside-obamas-campaign-20120329?print=trueThe president's reelection machine is gearing up to mobilize millions of volunteers. But are they too fed up to turn out? Mon, 07 May 2012 19:56:36 EDThttps://www.readability.com/articles/aonptf8bIt’s late July, and as usual, Guns n' Roses are screwing everything up. They're out on the road with devil-may-care attitudes and no set list, serving up a bunch of unfamiliar songs and saying their new records' will be done when they're done.Mon, 07 May 2012 19:56:28 EDThttps://www.readability.com/articles/lzi1alfaHere it is, on a coat hook in midtown Manhattan: the Army-issue green shirt, with “CBS NEWS” written in white letters on the ID tag, that Dan Rather wore in 1966 while hunkered down in rice paddies along the Cambodian border. It would be one of the legendary network anchor’s most famous assignments: dispatching dramatic reports on the Vietnam conflict for millions of Americans sitting down to the evening news. In 16mm films you can see him, young and square-jawed, hair thick and black, barking into a microphone and recoiling from machine guns that rat-a-tat-tat behind him.Mon, 07 May 2012 19:56:25 EDThttps://www.readability.com/articles/zeekripfSyria's harsh and stagnant dictatorship at first seemed immune to the wave of unrest that swept through most of the Arab world after the revolution in Tunisia in January 2011. But in mid-March, demonstrations broke out in several cities, and grew rapidly after security forces fired on protesters.Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:02:05 EDThttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/entertainmentweekly/lost/~3/pIeX3sNmhm0/0,,20359605,00.htmlThu, 29 Mar 2012 14:08:08 EDThttp://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/01/suicides200801?printable=trueWhen Theresa Duncan, 40, took her own life on July 10, followed a week later by her boyfriend, Jeremy Blake, 35, their friends were stunned and the press was fascinated: what had destroyed this glamorous couple, stars of New York’s multi-media art world, still madly in love after 12 years?Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:06:16 EDThttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/836210/postsA British liberal discovers England's greatest philosopher.Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:36:33 EDThttp://nplusonemag.com/54Pitchfork, 1995–presentWed, 07 Mar 2012 15:16:43 EST