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"In the long run, people will trust Twitter more than they do Facebook."

Sat, 19 May 2012 15:29:49 +0200

“In the long run, people will trust Twitter more than they do Facebook.”

- Nick Bilton

Facebook vs. Twitter - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson)
Totally agree. Twitter is a network that is focused on providing an efficient expierence and a benefit (lightning fast social news that don’t waste too much of your time). Facebook is a service that is focused on growth and collecting data. I wish more people would use twitter as a social hub and store their data elsewhere.

kickstarter: Kinetic Creatures are a set of three walking...

Sat, 19 May 2012 08:10:43 +0200

kickstarter:

Kinetic Creatures are a set of three walking cardboard animal sculptures: Elly the elephant, Rory the rhino, and Geno the giraffe. Each is made up of cardboard pieces that you assemble using tabs-and-slots, and that you can make come alive with a simple mechanical motion. Feeling especially makery? The platform specs will be open-sourced to a website, so that folks can build their own mechanisms for play. So cool.

Laura Carstensen: Older people are happier. “When we...

Sat, 05 May 2012 14:26:29 +0200

Laura Carstensen: Older people are happier.

“When we recognize that we don’t have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.”

…

“My father, who is 92, likes to say, ‘Let’s stop talking only about how to save the old folks and start talking about how to get them to save us all.’ ”

Happy Birthday, Gerhard Polt.

Sat, 05 May 2012 14:22:39 +0200

Happy Birthday, Gerhard Polt.

Zero by Zealous Creative

Tue, 01 May 2012 16:01:31 +0200

Zero by Zealous Creative

nevver: Early GPS

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:41:11 +0200

nevver:

Early GPS

Kabul baloon seller by Muhammed Muheisen (via Guardiany...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:50:00 +0200

Kabul baloon seller by Muhammed Muheisen (via Guardiany Eyewitness)

Jellyfish

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:58:14 +0200

Jellyfish

"I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really..."

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:54:12 +0200

“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces “intelligence.””

- Susan Sonntag

azizisbored: Ron Burgundy’s “Anchorman” Announcement - CONAN on...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:56:03 +0200

azizisbored:

Ron Burgundy’s “Anchorman” Announcement - CONAN on TBS (by teamcoco)

YES!!!

Oh my god, he’s back! So good to see him flute.

Wrecking Crew Orchestra’s Tron-Inspired Dance Routine (via...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:08:24 +0200

Wrecking Crew Orchestra’s Tron-Inspired Dance Routine (via swabble)

The fifth beatle

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:30:40 +0200

The fifth beatle

Share.JS

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:00:05 +0200

Share.JS:

“If you haven’t heard of it, Operational Transformation is a class of algorithms that do multi-site realtime concurrency. OT is like realtime git. It works with any amount of lag (from zero to an extended holiday). It lets users make live, concurrent edits with low bandwidth. OT gives you eventual consistency between multiple users without retries, without errors and without any data being overwritten. …

… I am an ex Google Wave engineer. Wave took 2 years to write and if we rewrote it today, it would take almost as long to write a second time. (What??)

Enter ShareJS. ShareJS is a simple (~4k LOC) coffeescript server & web client library for OT. With ShareJS, your website can let your users collaboratively edit text documents and arbitrary JSON data in realtime.”

Sounds promising. Seems like a good starting point for real time collaboration projects.

szymon: Megaphone passive ceramic iPhone amplifierby by...

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:00:06 +0100

szymon:

Megaphone passive ceramic iPhone amplifierby by en&is

George Orwell - A life in Pictures: Very well written and...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:35:14 +0100

George Orwell - A life in Pictures: Very well written and produced. Love the humour and the details of this little masterpiece. I think one should not regard it as a documentary but more as an entertaining movie about a fascinating life. During the first 50 seconds Chris Langham does a fantastic job at introducing us to George Orwell. (via openculture)

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace."

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:38:04 +0100

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”

- John Lennon (via openculture: How Bertrand Russel turned the Beatles against the Vietnam War)
This guy was way ahead of his time.

Susan Cain: The power of introverts. An enlightening speech...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:00:06 +0100

Susan Cain: The power of introverts. An enlightening speech about being quiet and contemplative – solitude matters.

True Innovation @ Bell Labs

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:00:05 +0100

True Innovation @ Bell Labs:

“His fundamental belief was that an “institute of creative technology” like his own needed a “critical mass” of talented people to foster a busy exchange of ideas. But innovation required much more than that. Mr. Kelly was convinced that physical proximity was everything; phone calls alone wouldn’t do. Quite intentionally, Bell Labs housed thinkers and doers under one roof. Purposefully mixed together on the transistor project were physicists, metallurgists and electrical engineers; side by side were specialists in theory, experimentation and manufacturing. Like an able concert hall conductor, he sought a harmony, and sometimes a tension, between scientific disciplines; between researchers and developers; and between soloists and groups.”
…
“But he gave his researchers not only freedom but also time. Lots of time — years to pursue what they felt was essential. One might see this as impossible in today’s faster, more competitive world. Or one might contend it is irrelevant because Bell Labs (unlike today’s technology companies) had the luxury of serving a parent organization that had a large and dependable income ensured by its monopoly status. Nobody had to meet benchmarks to help with quarterly earnings; nobody had to rush a product to market before the competition did. “
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“The conflation of these different kinds of innovations seems to be leading us toward a belief that small groups of profit-seeking entrepreneurs turning out innovative consumer products are as effective as our innovative forebears. History does not support this belief. The teams at Bell Labs that invented the laser, transistor and solar cell were not seeking profits. They were seeking understanding. Yet in the process they created not only new products but entirely new — and lucrative — industries.”

Steven Pinker - ‘Some Questions About...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:00:05 +0100

Steven Pinker - ‘Some Questions About Violence’.

Interesting stats and views. Bottom line: We’re living in relatively peaceful times - stop romanticising the past.

Jim Henson Pilots The Muppet Show with Adult Episode, "Sex and Violence"

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:14:15 +0100

Jim Henson Pilots The Muppet Show with Adult Episode, "Sex and Violence":

“In the early 1970s, Jim Henson was worried that the Muppets were becoming typecast as children’s entertainment. So in December of 1974 he produced a pilot episode for The Muppet Show and gave it a name that was about as far away from Sesame Street as you could get: Sex and Violence.”
As always the performance of the Swedish Chef is awesome…