November 2009
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“Even if America is exhausted, worn out and a shadow of her former self, from...”
– David Brin, on how America might be remembered in the future.
Nov 30th
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“I’d go forward about 200,000 years to see if we’d survived that long and, if so,...”
– J. Richard Gott on to when, given the opportunity, he would travel in time. When asked why, he replied: Because that’s how long homo sapiens have been around. I’ve done some thinking about time not just in terms of travel or physics, but in relation to how long things last—things like the Berlin...
Nov 30th
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“The artist is aware of space, mass, motion and energy. He is cognizant of our...”
– Leone Kahl, Director, Stables Art Gallery, Taos, ca. 1963 (Quoted by Megan Prelinger in a guest post for BERG)
Nov 30th
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Nov 30th
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“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly...”
– Albert Einstein
Nov 30th
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Without maths we’re lost in a dark labyrinth. It’s... →
Nov 29th
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Nov 29th
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“We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able...”
– Brian Eno (on the death of uncool)
Nov 29th
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Nov 28th
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Nov 28th
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In 1998, 36% of American households had a cell... →
Nov 28th
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Design Observer: Maps of Cyberspace →
Nov 28th
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Paul Rand: "Good ideas rarely come in bunches" →
Nov 25th
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Nov 25th
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“Thought changes our life and our behaviour. I also believe that drawing works in...”
– Milton Glaser on “How you live changes your brain.”
Nov 25th
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The average American wastes more than 1/2 a pound... →
Nov 24th
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Is IBM's cat brain simulation actually a scam? →
IBM scientist Henry Markam responds to the hype: … what IBM reported is a scam — no where near a cat-scale brain simulation […] I am absolutely shocked at this announcement. Not because it is any kind of technical feat, but because of the mass deception of the public. (via Futurismic)
Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative &... →
Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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How do you find web content? →
Search is changing. In the early days, we used portals. Then we moved on to search engines. Today, we have numerous social channels enabling us to create, share and find content. How do you find the content you care about on the web today? Do you ever search for it, or do you find it from friends on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc.?
Nov 24th
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Nov 23rd
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Man weds idoru. →
From Futurismic: Unsurprisingly, a peep at the comments thread reveals that it’s probably not quite everything it seems to be – Konami, makers ofLove Plus, are quite savvy on reality-crossover marketing for these products, and I think we’re safe in assuming that the fellow in question may have been motivated by something more than a deep affection for a bundle of pixels on his Nintendo DS. The...
Nov 23rd
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Humans have been able to change the world because... →
Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic write for GOOD on the ‘coming singularity.’ Before you assume this will be one of those annoying singularity apologetics (it is, at some level), consider that there are some interesting points made nonetheless: Why are singularity researchers so concerned about the prospect of smarter-than-human intelligence? To answer this question, we must first...
Nov 23rd
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Nov 23rd
The half-life of knowledge is the amount of time... →
If the half-life of psychology is said to be five years, then the half-life of web technology is five minutes.
Nov 23rd
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Nov 23rd
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Beyond those are films – so seldom seen that one... →
Nov 23rd
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“But leave it now, leave it; as you left a washed-out day at Stourport or the...”
– Geoffrey Hill, from The Triumph of Love (via Bryan Appleyard)
Nov 23rd
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Nov 22nd
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Intel Predicts Brain waves will replace keyboard... →
Nov 22nd
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Nov 21st
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“Even if future trespassers could understand what keep and out mean when placed...”
– Juliet Lapidos on “How to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations.”
Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
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Is it possible that Westerners, on average, have... →
Nov 21st
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“There’s nowhere to go after limone,” I say. “Limone is the...”
– Jon Ronson on telling his son the worst swear word in the world
Nov 21st
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“Hell is not other people. Hell is being surrounded by free candy.”
– David Sherwin
Nov 20th
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