November 2011
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“Science is the act of exploration.
Science is the greatest of adventure...”
– Tomorrow’s guest, Brian Greene, during his appearance on The Colbert Report (via leagueofwhimsy)
October 2011
4 posts
via Frank: For Steve →
viafrank:
The world gives us so few who provide a way for us all to see in new ways. It always hurts when they leave. The effused sadness that has spread through the internet from the news of Steve Jobs’ death is to be expected. We lament when things are taken from us, and I’d say that Jobs’ death (like…
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“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the...”
– Paul Virilio, Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89 [via] (via wordstudio)
How FB keeps track of our behaviour. Facebook is... →
September 2011
12 posts
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Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers →
The Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers provides an early look at the developer features coming to the next version of Internet Explorer, as well as the latest HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 features available to developers of Metro style apps for Windows 8. By using the documentation and samples in this guide, developers and designers can prepare to use these new features.
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“Unlike a lot of film critics, Roger Ebert knows that there’s more to living than...”
– Critic John Powers takes a look at Roger Ebert’s memoir. [Ebert on Fresh Air] (via nprfreshair)
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August 2011
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agentfin: 1) I will not compliment your appearance... →
agentfin:
There are some changes I am going to have to make in my world. One of them applies to the basics of ‘hello.’
I’m one of those people who when I see a total stranger walking down the street looking ‘rad’ in one way or another, will out of the blue say “Hey! You look great! I love those shoes!”
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Stowe Boyd: Trust Is Trust, Online And Off →
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Recent Pew research that shows that those that use the web more, trust people more:
The typical Internet user is more than twice as likely as others to feel that people can be trusted,” with regular Facebook users the most trusting of all. “A Facebook user who uses the site multiple times per day is 43% more likely than other Internet users and more than three times as likely as...
The Return of the Girl Geeks →
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In the past year, the number of women majoring in Computer Science has nearly doubled at Harvard, rising from 13% to 25% (still nowhere near the 37% of 1984). And — because Harvard is not actually the center of the universe — it’s nice to know that the trend has been spotted elsewhere. In the past three years, the number of female Computer Science majors at MIT has risen by 28%....
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please...”
– Bill Cosby (via rachel-baker)
“There are really only two kinds of people in existence. There is everyone who...”
– Peter Kingsley (Thank you reclusland)
July 2011
32 posts
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution...”
– Twitter / @kanbanery: He who rejects change is t … (via rachel-baker)
“You give into distraction as if it is a murderer. You lay there, waiting to be...”
– Miranda July, “oracle” project. Thank you, saturnrising, wonderbotstudios & onfilmdirecting. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“The UI is not just an interface between the browser and a human, it’s an...”
– ~ Ryan Singer – in an interview at Future of Web Apps London 2010 (via nickdenardis)
