January 2012
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. - William Gibson in Distrust That Particular Flavor
“My concept for the .data domain is to use it to create the “data web”—in a sense...”
– Wolfram|Alpha Blog : A .data Top-Level Internet Domain?
I believe that in our culture of simulation, the notion of authenticity is for us what sex was for the Victorians—threat and obsession, taboo and fascination. - Sherry Turkle
December 2011
3 posts
"Keep Your Head Up" by Ben Howard →
New Music
November 2011
6 posts
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Super Fancy Velcro Ibex: Sometimes I Get a Good... →
Nice Post by Ashley on the online Expression, Transmission and Consumption of good things.
It’s a known affair, but today I can’t help but comment on the beauty and inspiration I find in the convoluted world of social media and everything digital. A few days ago, I posted this:
That was after I heard the song Maps on David’s blog, which referenced the Ann Arbor …
“The potential miracle of the cookbook was immediately apparent: you start with a...”
– Adam Gopnik, New Yorker: What’s the Recipe? (via christmasgorilla)
October 2011
9 posts
Watchfred-wilson:
this is a great intro to soundcloud
soundcloud:
This is a great 4-minute interview by Fast Company with Alex.
If we wouldn’t already be working at SoundCloud, this would definitely make us want to :)
Europeans like to sit on thief furniture while Americans like to sit in it. - IKEA Ethnographical Research
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Saul Bellow
I began to feel the sensation in my gums warning of something lovely, and with it a close or painful feeling in the chest. People allergic to feathers or pollen will know what I’m talking about; they become aware of their presence with the most gradual subtlety. In my case the cause that morning was the color of the wall with the sunrise on it, and when it became deeper I had to put down the...
“Hey guys!” “Oh.. hey man! How’s it going? Weird seeing you here…!” “Haha yeah I know! Well actually I was walking down the street and my iPhone told me you guys are all here so I figured I’d come sit with you.”
“Oh…!” “…” “…”
- The Awkward Horrors of the Knowing Where Everyone Is All...
Watchtechinberlin:
up.front meet-up with presentation by Caitlin Winner, Co-Founder & CPO at Amen
Yesterday TechBerlin checked out the up.front web design meet-up that was held at co.up in Kreuzberg. There were at least 80 people present. Maybe more people could have attended if the gates had not closed by 8pm :-).
The closing speech was held by Caitlin Winner, co-founder of Amen which has...
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Jaron Lainer
Disclaimer: By sharing these quotes on Tumblr I am participating in the exact type of behavior that Lainer believes is watering down the net creative output of humanity.
“Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups… It is a culture of reaction without action.”
“The...
September 2011
2 posts
This city is not about other people or buildings or streets but about your mental structure. If we remember what Kafka writes about his Castle, we get a sense of it. Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/28/ai-weiwei-on-beijing-s-nightmare-city.html
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August 2011
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July 2011
3 posts
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Ashton Kutcher and Madonna’s manager invest in... →
Tech Crunch
Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never any good at doing in the first place.
- Adam Gopnik, What I Learned when I learned to draw
June 2011
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Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That’s why it’s so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many...
May 2011
3 posts
A quantum computer is the pot that, if watched, really won’t boil. Charles Bennett described quantum information as being “like the information of a dream - we can’t show it to others, and when we try to describe it we change the memory of it.” When one turns to a quantum computer for an “answer”, that answer, from having been held in that strange entangled...
April 2011
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March 2011
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“What’s slow about Path is that they are trying to think long term and trying not...”
– Joi Ito
February 2011
3 posts
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January 2011
3 posts
The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less on top-down planning and focus on maximum tinkering and recognizing opportunities[…] The reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error.
-Nassim Taleb
Painting is the ability to surround Venetian red so that it looks like vermillion. — Edgar Degas
December 2010
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November 2010
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There must be room for a magazine that offers an aspirational ideal to the middle manager in the suburban office park, that offers a respite from the deluge of vapid social network chatter, that transmits the country’s cultural inheritance and its shared way of life, that separates for busy people the things that are enduring from the things that aren’t.
- nytimes David Brooks
October 2010
3 posts
Stewart Shils on painting and eating oranges.
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September 2010
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