February 2010
50 posts
WatchVery cool concept video from the Touch project playing on the concept of digital ‘nearness’ — reminds me very much of this analog version.
“The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to...”
– Streisand effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Feynman Algorithm
hereharehere:
1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3. Write down the solution.
(via)
The time has come, the Walrus said.
“Nearly five years ago—back when Flickr was still in its infancy, and Facebook was on just a few college campuses—we founded Tiny Pictures with a view to helping people share experiences as they happen.
Radar was born a short time later, and focused on delivering a real-time, mobile stream of pictures and conversation shared by you and your friends on any phone…long before...
Cliché →
bobulate:
Seth Godin on clichés:
In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. “Cliché” came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The French word “cliché” comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a...
“However, that is rarely how things play out. Most entrepreneurs fall into the...”
– Redeye VC: The Penny Gap
““I believe this: If we really mean it when we say Thy will be done, then...”
– Well, here’s what I think - Roger Ebert’s Journal
“There are some things crowds can do, such as count the jelly beans in the jar or...”
– Jaron Lanier (You Are Not a Gadget — it’s a great read).
Watchskyrog:
From a mess to the masses.
“It’s early in the twenty-first century, and that means that these words...”
– Jaron Lanier in the preface to You Are Not a Gadget.
My roommates
Matt: Oh Jeff, you'll get a kick out of this --
Jeff: I'll be the judge of that.
“In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is...”
– Feds push for tracking cell phones | Politics and Law - CNET News
Um…what?
“We ended up staying on, talking and dancing, connecting and disconnecting, for...”
– Is ChatRoulette the Future of the Internet or Its Distant Past?
“We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small...”
– Google (via soupsoup)
Skynet.
WatchMy friend Tom ridiculing Korean children behind their back (they’re not allowed to use the internet so…)
tommichael:
Yeaaaa I know their’s aren’t very good, but believe me, my example was awesome.
“…any theoretical economic argument that can be stated in a sentence is as likely...”
– James Kwak (via azspot)
“Thorp’s system, based on complex mathematics and hundreds of hours of...”
– ‘The Quants’: It Pays To Know Your Wall Street Math : NPR
“find some resource that’s expensive or scarce, and imagine what you could...”
– Me. On How to See the Future.