January 2012
3 posts
blog.bufferapp.com: 6 Incredible Examples Of How... →
futuramb:
1.) Twitter Accurately Predicts Politician’s Victory at New Hampshire Primary
2.) Twitter knows how you will be feeling this Friday
3.) Did Twitter predict the revolution in Egypt?
4.) Predict the future yourself with Twitter and Timeu.se
5.) Hedgefund to make bets based on Tweets – beats the market
6.) Predicting and stopping the spread of diseases with Twitter
Note: All of...
http://ideasareawesome.com/post/15337555579/3d-audi... →
ideasareawesome:
3D Audio.
Go grab your headphones. Now.
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Watchjeffpianki:
This morning at sunrise I went skateboarding and filmed it.
You are the 98% →
Great comment on Occupywallstreet
Sweet Potato and Chickpea Curry
Ingredients
1 white onion
thumb sized piece of ginger
3-4 cloves of garlic
300 ml of vegetable stock
3 salad tomatoes. Chopped with skins removed.
1 sweet potato
small bunch of coriander
1 tin of chickpeas
1 tin of coconut milk
200ml of basmati rice.
2 tsp coriander seed
3 tsp of cumin seed
2 tsp of mild curry powder
1 tsp of turmeric
3 small green chillies
Method
Chop the onion...
September 2011
2 posts
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“Productivity is for machines. If you can measure it, robots should do it.”
– Kevin Kelly (via stoweboyd)
August 2011
3 posts
Watchcoketalk:
Every time I read about New Yorkers being evacuated, I can’t help but think of this scene from The Wire.
July 2011
7 posts
Inmates Cash in on Prison Phone Glitch →
From Arelis R. Hernández at the Orlando Sentinel comes a hilariously idiotic story of a jail in Lake County, Florida, where rather than having money withdrawn from their accounts, inmates were paid to make phone calls. So much so that one man bonded out after making 77 calls and having $1,250 deposited into his account. He ended up turning himself in a few hours later.
When Hacks Attack →
The amount of plagiarism is shocking. Jericho found that 99.3% of the words in Spyware Reference & Study Guide, by Gregory D. Evans, are plagiarized—that’s 320 out of 322 pages, with the author copying up to 100 straight pages at a time—as is 95% of Evans’s How to Become the World’s No. 1 Hacker.
Watchtwentyfourbit:
Ryan Adams - Shine Through the Dark
Another cut from benefit compilation Live From Nowhere Near You just hit the web in the form of “Shine Through the Dark,” a previously unreleased track by Ryan Adams that was recorded “post-meltdown, while lying in bed with the flu.” According to Under the Radar — where the song premiered today — Adams called it “the first track I wrote after my...
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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the...”
– http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
Man receives world's first synthetic windpipe →
infoneer-pulse:
The advantage of the synthetic trachea is that no death or donation is needed. “The big conceptual breakthrough is that we can move from transplanting organs to manufacturing them for patients,” says David Green, the president of Harvard Bioscience in Holliston, Massachusetts, which provided the technology for coating the synthetic trachea with the cells
» via New Scientist
The FBI's Role in Hemingway's Suicide →
coketalk:
“This man, who had stood his ground against charging water buffaloes, who had flown missions over Germany, who had refused to accept the prevailing style of writing but, enduring rejection and poverty, had insisted on writing in his own unique way, this man, my deepest friend, was afraid — afraid that the F.B.I. was after him, that his body was disintegrating, that his friends had...
June 2011
3 posts
The History of Dialogue: Other People's Papers
thenewinquiry:
(via)
This is a dialogue between Teach, an adjunct philosophy instructor at a public university in New York, and Cheat, who has authored over 100 papers for pay.
Teach: In my philosophy class of 36 students I had six instances of plagiarism. I ended up turning them all in to the Committee on Academic Standing.
Cheat: Do you remember how they plagiarized?
T: One is a case of...
“There is no such thing as content. There is no content industry full of content...”
– From This Is Not Content
This. So wonderfully and aptly stated.
(via modernandmaterialthings)
“Like dusty and determined archaeologists, Google’s massive bots crawl the Web...”
– How Facebook Can Put Google Out of Business (via annielin)
May 2011
6 posts
“But we can’t have a strong middle class in a world where the only official...”
– Jaron Lanier: One on One - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
Mini Toad: "I can't figure out if you want to make... →
songbytoad:
“I can’t figure out if you want to make music or make sales. In these times, people seem to confuse the two, as though commercial success is any marker of artistic worth. If people want to be artists of any kind they should be prepared to toil in obscurity. It’s one of those unpleasant truths…
And yet artists flock to major record labels to seek validation through...
Interesting Poker Article on Motherboard →
April 2011
4 posts
WatchFascinating talk by Julian Treasure on how sound affects our lives and experiences.
‘Save the Day’
Three excellent...
2 tags
WatchElectrical Independence -Ulrich Schnauss.
Schnauss walks us through his synths.
March 2011
3 posts
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WatchListen with headphones
February 2011
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January 2011
1 post
Coke Talk of the Day
coketalk:
If I pulled out my tampon and used it to sign headshots on the corner of Hollywood and Highland, I would be arrested and put on involuntary psychiatric hold.
If Marina Abramović did the same thing, she would be hailed a genius and get another write up in The New Yorker.
These are the things I think about when I’m stuck in traffic.
December 2010
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October 2010
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September 2010
2 posts
Unscrupulous Man Eater: A Rant: Foul Ass Women →
unscrupulousmaneater:
I just walked into the restroom and went into one of the stalls when I was smacked in the face by the most horrid smell. The smell of fresh shit. I look down and what do I see? SMEARED SHIT ON THE TOILET SEAT! What.the.fuck. Who takes a shit and then doesn’t clean up after themself? Just because…
I’ve never understood how some people mange to get shit all...
August 2010
2 posts
WatchI’ve been waiting for this. Ace.
twentyfourbit:
Watch Clip: “Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town”
Bruce Springsteen announced the release of an epic 6-disc CD/DVD Darkness on the Edge of Town reissue box set today, which includes a remastered version of the 1978 record, full-length documentary, The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, live footage/audio, songwriting...
Girl quits her job on dry erase board, emails... →
jameswhyte:
Quitting your job in style just reached a whole new level of awesome.
July 2010
1 post
Ryan Adams Recording New Solo Albums, Preps...
twentyfourbit:
The moment in which I officially lost track of all the new Ryan Adams albums being prepped for distribution, remixed, or recorded as of this morning was a thing of beauty as a constant flurry of activity from one of my favorite living singer-songwriters is something I grew accustomed to in the 00s and simply cannot live (happily) without. Fortunately, Adams has provided plenty of...