May 2011
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Netflix For Pandas (or Why Knockoff Businesses... →
This way of thinking is quickly becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is not surprising since entrepreneurs take note of and emulate companies that get funding, press mentions, social media glory, and perceived traction – then turn around and get that same publicity with their copycat, reinforcing the same behavior.
This sends a clear message that budding entrepreneurs should pick an idea...
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ronen approaching. →
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A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric... →
It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type. In a review of the relevant literature it is shown that happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities, and...
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The Myth of Discipline | zen habits →
When people talk about wanting discipline in their lives, they usually mean they want to be more consistent at something. Maybe that’s exercise, or meditation, or writing, or some other creative activity, or finances, or eating, or productivity at work.
These are all doable without the concept of discipline. What you want is to build habits instead.
If you want to be consistent about...
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“the way to preserve information is to love the data: encrypted storage will rot,...”
– brewster kahle, speaking at the personal digital archiving conference, 24 feb 2011 (via bibliotech)
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Kola Boof On Bin Laden's Death (and Race) The... →
I just saw myself on the cover of the National Enquirer. It says “Exclusive Interview with Bin Laden’s Mistress”—but I’ve never given an interview to the National Enquirer; I have never in my life spoken to anyone at that magazine.
In Los Angeles, one of the top Black stations reported that because I tweeted about Osama’s demise two days before he died; I...
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Star Slinger - Dutchie Courage
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“People in emerging markets are going to want to have access to the same features...”
– Tricia Wang on the emergent shanzai smartphone culture.
She defines shanzai as “affordably hacked together outside of the dominant” system and can be applied to any dominant system- the early days of punk, hip hop, linux, apache, could all be considered shanzai.
At their roots, these phones,...
Here but Not Here | Metropolis Magazine →
“The real work of architecture that adapts and reflects this new mediated world is yet to come. A discussion about “social media and architecture” is still more likely to consider how architects can use Facebook—or Architizer—to market their work, rather than how social media changes our experience of it. And a conversation about “technology and architecture” is probably about parametric...
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Watchronenv-post:
Weekly Video #3: Process Portrait of Michael Cirino, the Orson Welles of food events, as he throws an elegant 6-course dinner party.. on the L train.
(Shooter links coming)
Ronen wins all the awards.
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Time travel is possible. Just ask the Samoans. →
doctorwho:
Samoa will jump forward in time by one day to make it easier to do business with Australia and New Zealand.
At present, Samoa is 21 hours behind Sydney. From 29 December it will be three hours ahead.
The change comes 119 years after Samoa moved in the opposite direction.
Then, it transferred to the east side of the international date line in an effort to aid trade with the US and...
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“If, in middle-eastern tradition, gods deliberately allow themselves to be killed...”
– from Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani
Media sites send Facebook more traffic than they... →
soupsoup:
Two interesting reports out today. One from Aol/Nielsen shows that 66% of content is shared via email, only 28% on social networks (but much higher for those under 35.)
Another from Pew, showing that Facebook sends Huffington Post 8% of it’s referring traffic. Google sends…
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Old Urbanist: A History of Street Standards →
One of the interesting things to learn is that the first regulations for very wide streets long predated the automobile, and were in fact a reaction of debatable justifiability to conditions in the mid-19th century English industrial city rather than the spatial needs of the car (those regulations in turn drawing inspiration from the Baroque city planning of the previous two centuries, the...
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“-rs1765719 1 5828516 GT
+rs1765719 1 5828516 GC”
– Someone put his entire genome into source control on GitHub, and this hilarious guy started sending him patches such as this diff: “Eyelids now close in proper way. Fixes issue #42.” (via courtneybolton)
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Collective Intelligence: groups with more women... →
“The average intelligence of the people in the group and the maximum intelligence of the people in the group doesn’t predict group intelligence,” Malone said. Which is to say: “Just getting a lot of smart people in a group does not necessarily make a smart group.” Furthermore, the researchers found, group intelligence is also only moderately correlated with qualities you’d think would be pretty...
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“A watch is not a timepiece. I don’t check my watch to tell time. I check...”
– OH at a restaurant.
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The Manic Happiness
Molly: the 'manic happiness'
Yatta: omg.
Yatta: that's my new band.
Molly: haha!
Molly: you can call a song, ":D"
Yatta: we'll release a 4 song ep entitled 'Everything You Said To Me Was Everything I Am'. with the hit single ":D"
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“I have seen a great number of poorly Photoshopped images in my time as a...”
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Kenna Lindsay, a New York-based photographer, in response to a CNN request to verify the authenticity of a widely circulated photo purporting to show bin Laden’s dead body.
(cnn via thedailywhat)
Dear Kenna Lindsay: you win The Entire Day.
For why this is ridiculously funny: KYMdb - This Looks...