Kara Swisher

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Viral Video: Silent Night, Holy Night on SNL

SNL-Silent-Night-Children-Choir_After the horrible tragedy of the Connecticut school shooting last week, it’s hard — and even inappropriate — to be funny.

That’s why this opening of “Saturday Night Live” this weekend — a cold open of the New York City Children’s Chorus performing “Silent Night” — was the perfect choice.

What is there to say, really? So the voices of angels sing.


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer