February 2012
5 posts
Ryan Dahl: The Software Stack and Latency →
antirobotrobot:
I love this Scale of the Universe graphic. It allows you to compare the sizes of objects in the universe from atoms to galaxies. I got to thinking about how different professions work with objects at different scales and how these professions use very different tools. A particle physicist’s tool…
Brain Spillage: Could Have by Wisława Szymborska →
spaceykate:
Could Have
by Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012)
It could have happened. It had to happen. It happened earlier. Later. Nearer. Farther off. It happened, but not to you. You were saved because you were the first. You were saved because you were the last. Alone. With others. On the right. On the…
January 2012
22 posts
Google Reincarnates Dead Paper Mill as Data Center... →
Brilliant!
‘Don’t Be That Guy’ ad campaign cuts Vancouver sex... →
About time
Watch(via Silent Beauties: Ginn and Company (Athenaeum Press) - 1925)
A silent film that happens to show the building where I work.
“Ladies Learning Code famously began with a tweet. In June 2011, Heather Payne...”
– When She Codes, The Revolution’s Coming | Toronto Standard | News, Media, Art, Business, Technology, Fashion, Events
“You try to go to a producer today and say you want to make a film that hasn’t...”
– Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
Antonio Fatas and Ilian Mihov on the Global... →
“Here’s my suggestion: a jubilee isn’t nearly enough. It’s a...”
– Reimagining Debt | Umair Haque. Eudaimonics. Redesigning Global Prosperity.
Help Author Diane Duane Recover Her Savings by... →
Diane Duane, one of our favorite YA science fiction authors, is having a pretty horrible start to her new year; her entire bank account was sucked dry by some nasty, nasty jerkweed, and she’s been left with nothing. While her bank is actively helping her and her husband to regain their funds, there are still bills that need to be paid before the mess is completely sorted out and their...
“More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock...”
– ― Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, The Eye in the Pyramid, 1975
Ramen Music →
a delightful and beautiful subscription collection of indy music. Really good stuff and well presented. This is what magazines for the web should look and sound like.
A definition of unschooling
teethandambitions:
I have a friend who needs help understanding unschooling. Reblog this with your personal definition of it, please and thank you?
Unschooling: The natural and lifelong process of learning itself.
Don’t go somewhere to learn, learn to learn always. Never stop.
Another horrible thing Paypal has done →
Guerrilla Grafters: Turning Public Trees Into... →
Damn cool.
December 2011
19 posts
You Are Not Your Name and Photo: A Call to... →
Great points about identity.
ACLU fights Kafkaesque secret Occupy Boston... →
This is scary stuff.
93-Year-Old Tennessee Woman Who Cleaned State... →
This is what anti-immigrant laws achieve. This is what anti-terrorism laws achieve.
GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA -... →
Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru | The Church in Wales →
Delightful sermon from the Archbishop of Wales given yesterday.
On rainbows on Env →
Thomas Lauer: How to handle an INTJ →
Terrifyingly accurate description of how I think.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal →
This comic might be my favorite SMBC ever.
We are the 99 percent of startups →
Actually a really brilliant read about startup culture and our problems of thinking big when we should be thinking local. Not just a knockoff name pun like Occupy My Seat or anything that silly.
asada's memorandum: The Day I Saw Van Gogh's... →
asada0:
Japanease version
The other day, I experienced the “Color Vision Experience Room” at the event of the Hokkaido Color Universal Design Organization (HCUDO), where I had invited to speak. The event’s main objective was to educate the public about the diversity of color vision which exists in…
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Node.js Rockstar Blog: New node.js debugger →
indutny:
Since 0.6.0 version node.js ships with a brand-new builtin debugger. It’s quite different from previous one, and the most noticeable change is that we made debugger a repl.
It acts just like a normal node.js repl, but with internal commands like: next, step, out and etc.
Lets take a…
WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: North Carolina is trying... →
wilwheaton:
This is reblogged from Neil Gaiman. I can’t do a native reblog because it was a question post, so I’m reformatting it here to make it easier for all of us to spread this around and effect a change:
www[.]change[.]org/petitions/dr-jeannette-m-council-drop-the-72-hour-kill-proposal north…
November 2011
30 posts
Notes EM: this is how you start a takedown! →
evgenymorozov:
The first paragraph of Matt Cartmill’s review of Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions book. It appeared in the International Journal of Primatology (Vol. 12, No. 1, 1991)
This is a book that contradicts itself a hundred times; but that is not a criticism of it, because its author thinks…
Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. | jwz →
This. A thousand times, this. So many people burn out trying to start their own company in software these days.
Majoritee →
Interesting concept.
People upload tee designs. Maybe even you!
You order your favorite.
Every day, we print the tee that gets the most orders.
You get an awesome tee and the designer gets a nice cut!