February 2012
3 posts
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“The copyright wars are just the beta version of a long coming war on...”
– Cory Doctorow: Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing
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“Our vision is to create a commercially sustainable, social enterprise that...”
– thepeoplessupermarket.org - No that’s what I call a mision statement for a supermarket.
January 2012
4 posts
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“The Che Guevara of the 21st century is the network. … The 21st century is a...”
– Alex J. Ross (Senior Adviser at the US Department of State)
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“How do you know the direction to head with products? It boils down to taste....”
– Steve Jobs (via LukeW)
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“Technological progress—in particular, improvements in computer hardware,...”
– Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee(Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy)
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December 2011
6 posts
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“I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you...”
– Bill Hicks (via sirmitchell)
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Badass JavaScript: Introducing ALAC.js: An Apple... →
badassjs:
Recently, Apple open sourced the original encoder and decoder for the Apple Lossless audio codec which is written in C/C++. ALAC is, as its name implies, a lossless codec, which means that it is compressed but does not lose any quality. When decoded, ALAC audio files are bit-for-bit identical…
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“Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces (via @manusporny)”
– Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces (via johnallsopp)
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WatchColin Tudge’s Do-Lecture How we can get good food for everyone. “We need to learn from nature not ignore it. It has all the answers. We think the answer to our food problems is to have bigger farms. But the opposite is true.”
Colin provides us with some great design principles for ecosystems provied by mother nature:
Be diverse
Run on low input
Integrate with others
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“Let’s be clear on the cause of these problems. It’s not really about wealthy...”
– An Open Letter to Occupy by @carrotmob (via @timoreilly)
Tape 200: Götterdämmerung →
November 2011
5 posts
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Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden... →
“So why do we talk about the Norden bombsight? Well because we live in an age where there are lots and lots of Norden bombsights. We live in a time where there are all kinds of really, really smart people running around, saying that they’ve invented gadgets that will forever change our world. They’ve invented websites that will allow people to be free. They’ve invented some...
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“There is no such hand in touchscreen computer devices. The touchscreen has no...”
– Tufte on touch http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003qM&topic_id=1
Tape 199: Gorillas im Nebel →
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The future of touch →
A nice collection of gems that give a glimpse into the future of touch interactions by Patric (via interactionblog.com)
October 2011
7 posts
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“The future world is reasonable chaos”
– Novalis
Tape 198: Jammern wie die Großen →
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Shit that Siri says →
That is what you call an interface with a human touch. And this is why apple still rules. (via @pixeljoe)
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“Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a...”
– Alfred North Whitehead
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“If you judge Apple’s products by the reaction of analysts and the press, you’re...”
– MG Siegler (via david)
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“Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first...”
– Alfred North Whitehead (via @DougCoupland)
Tape 197: Der Langsamkeit entkommen →
September 2011
10 posts
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The Physics of Road Runner →
“These clips from Warner Brothers Road Runner and Coyote cartoons are intended for use by physics teachers.”
You gotta love coyote … (via @timoreilly)
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“Players don’t play to complete games, just as readers don’t read to finish...”
– Stéphane Bura Emotion Engineering in Videogames
Tape 196: Zärtliche Alltags-Terroristen →
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Are jobs obsolete? →
Douglas Rushkoff: We’re living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That’s because, on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need. America is productive enough that it could probably shelter, feed, educate, and even provide health care for its entire population with just a fraction of us actually working. (via @swissmiss)
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Help to spread nonviolence - Just pay attention to... →
Julia Bacha asks why we only pay attention to violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict — and not to the nonviolent leaders who may one day bring peace.
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“One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.”
– Russian saying
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August 2011
3 posts
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Tape 195: Die Rache des Herrenmagazinredakteurs →
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“Wir müssen wieder zurück zu einer gekonnten Langsamkeit.”
– Loriot
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July 2011
13 posts
Tape 194: Gib’ Deinem Affen Zucker →
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bal·kan·ize
david:
[bawl-kuh-nahyz] — verb
To break up (as a region or group) into smaller and often hostile units.
(via Steve Jobs)
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Tape 193: Wertloser Schweiß →
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