February 2012
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“Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but...”
– Nathan Englander on creating constraints when writing (in the New Yorker)
btw, Nathan has a Tumblr now.
(via agneswan)
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“…the world is currently run by a generation whose upbringing has left them...”
– Ben Hammersley’s speech to the IAAC (via new-aesthetic)
This is a great talk.
What fascinates me, though, are the people in their 20’s who think this same way because they’ve spent their entire adult lives working for companies that are older than the internet.
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Obama campaign launches Technology campaign office... →
The Obama campaign has, for the first time, opened a new type of campaign office in San Francisco: A Technology Field Office. It is believed to be the first such type of campaign office for a presidential campaign.
“We learned from 2008 that using the talents and skills of our supporters was a key to building the most effective organization,” said Obama campaign deputy press secretary Katie...
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“Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our...”
– Innovation Starvation by Neal Stephenson
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WatchEveryone’s Asian Mother snuck into Jeremy Lin’s press conference last night
I know that the Jeremy Lin story is about breaking down stereotypes and everything…
… but this reporter’s question is just hilarious. I have no idea what news organization she works for but I suspect she’s a writer at Asian American Moms Magazine which is probably a real thing. (And if you get that joke then...
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“As an old-school internet guy *and* a massive music nerd, I’ve spent a lot of...”
– Eric Eberhardt, creator of You are listening to, a website mixing live police radio feed with ambient music, kind of blew our minds with his Q&A. Read the whole thing on our blog. Check out his project page here. (via kickstarter)
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I really love Eric’s project and his energy....
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holy crap this extension is really useful:...
miserylolita:
sauceNAO used to take me ten seconds
now it literally takes 2 seconds
If you use google chrome as a browser and want to speed up finding sources for fanart, I definitely, definitely recommend this.
Here’s the link
Here’s the Firefox version
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WatchEverything is a Remix: The Matrix
futurejournalismproject:
Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker, and friends have been working on a four-part video series called Everything is a Remix.
Here, to demonstrate their point, they juxtapose scenes from the Matrix with films that it drew inspiration from. For example, as we move along the timeline:
0:27 - Fist of Legend (1994)
0:38 - Tai-Chi...
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“Whatever the reasons behind adult men’s troubling fascination with “jailbait,”...”
– Why Do Men Love ‘Barely Legal’ Porn? (via siddman)
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Head transplants and Szymborska’s Experiment «... →
This is a link to an article with some slightly freakish footage of experiments in removing or transplanting the heads of dogs and monkeys. Click through if you’d like. The more interesting part imo is this bit:
Neuroscientist Steven Rose gives an interesting video commentary on the experiment, drawing from recent findings in ‘embodied cognition‘ which have suggested that the brain cannot...
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