February 2010
34 posts
Old World vs. New World Computing →
jsj:
This is great, and I guess it also encapsulates my opinions on criticism of the iPad very nicely. An excerpt:
Old World computers can do pretty much anything, but carry the burden of 30 years of rapid, unplanned change. Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X based computers all fall into this category. In the New World, computers are task-centric. We are reading email, browsing the web, playing a...
January 2010
32 posts
Nobel laureate Douglas Osheroff →
Worth a listen.
Eve Ensler: Embrace your inner girl | Video on TED.com
So if you’re starting out Linux, I advise you to use the same method as I...
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hey, I got an idea. Instead of imagineering a “productivity system”,...
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Diffraction and Fraud in Digicams « Petavoxel →
apophenia: whose voice do you hear? gender issues... →
No, I’m not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody....
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What the hell...
Stranger: m or f
You: everyone keeps disconnecting from me
Stranger: o that sucks
Stranger: m or f
You: biologically or social identification?
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
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Information wants to be free, but if it is, then advertising will be everywhere.
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Fatbet.net →
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I mean, what do we like to read these days? Quick chapters. Plenty of white...
– Talkback on School Library Journal
Teen runs away to meet older WoW soulmate... →
Wow….
parkour motion reel on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Snowflakefail →
Yeah, something’s wrong with that snowflake.