February 2012
“Your sharp fingerbones or splintery skull would rub on the whale’s intestinal...”
– Swallowed by a whale — a true tale? - Salon.com
“Choice is not freedom”
– Teller Reveals His Secrets
“If something weird like an alien invasion did happen, such an event would...”
– Film-makers push smartphone cameras to their limits - Telegraph
“the drugs that treat their family members’ cancer, the highways they drive on to...”
– Politics is a Business. A Big, Broken One. Let’s Fix It. - Anil Dash
“The world does not OWE you Season 1 of “Game Of Thrones” in the form you want it...”
– Heavy Hangs The Bandwidth That Torrents The Crown – Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)
“I’m totally opposed to stealing an Xbox. Unless Microsoft sets a price for them...”
– Heavy Hangs The Bandwidth That Torrents The Crown – Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)
“The single least-attractive attribute of many of the people who download content...”
– Heavy Hangs The Bandwidth That Torrents The Crown – Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)
“iBooks Author serves publishers, period. It’ll help you publish your Firefly fan...”
– dy/dan » Blog Archive » It’s Called iBooks Author, Not iMathTextbooks Author, And The Trouble That Results
“if you didn’t have a conflict, you didn’t have an interest”
– Shane Warne’s Never-Ending Glory (Part 1) | The Global Mail
“Dyson: Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone...”
– Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired’s Kevin Kelly | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
The Boy Who Played With Fusion | Popular Science →
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“Every time I hear someone on a podcast say that RSS is dead I can’t help but...”
– inessential.com: Podcasts (via superfeedr)
“Rather than tell her 11th-grade English students the definition of...”
– Mooresville School District, a Laptop Success Story - NYTimes.com
“I ask because I worry that we increasingly externalise problems rather than...”
– Goodreads | Chris McDowall (New Zealand)’s review of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“The Mahabharat was crowd-sourced over centuries,” he told his Nasscom audience....”
– Shekhar Kapur Announces Qyuki: A Social Network For Stories - NYTimes.com
“The “possessed” spider even crochets a specific geometric design in the net,...”
– How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - Magazine - The Atlantic
“[iCloud in OS X Mountain Lion] not a replacement of traditional Mac file...”
– Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion
“factual errors, including some that contradicted their own cited sources”
– The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia
“You should not delete information supported by the majority of sources to...”
– The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia
“Experienced data journalists list spreadsheets as a top data journalism too”
– The bond between data and journalism grows stronger - O’Reilly Radar
“When information was scarce, most of our efforts were devoted to hunting and...”
– The bond between data and journalism grows stronger - O’Reilly Radar
“The standards process doesn’t only help with interoperability, it also helps...”
– A List Apart: Articles: Every Time You Call a Proprietary Feature “CSS3,” a Kitten Dies
life is grand.: An almost perfect personal... →
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I’m editing this a bit, but this is a beautiful worldview from al3x:
In terms of social ideology, I identify as a secular humanist. On matters of faith, I’m an agnostic. Politically, I’m a [registered—I’m not registered] independent; my politics are closest to that of The Economist…
“The function of a newsroom in the future is to coordinate the voices of the...”
– Scripting News: NYT growing the wrong way
“applicants should focus on how existing systems can be used to deliver...”
– KNC 2.0: The Knight News Challenge revamps to quicken the pace of journalism innovation » Nieman Journalism Lab
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“One interesting detail that emerged in the case was that the U.S. Patent Office...”
– Jury to Eolas: Nobody owns the interactive web - O’Reilly Radar
“ It’s been said it a thousand times before, by me and many others, but it’s...”
– stevenberlinjohnson.com: Anatomy Of An Idea
“Zynga generates over 15 TB of new data every single day”
– Big Data and Little Data: from Zynga to Moneyball - Inside Enterprise IT - Enterprise - Dell Community
“Ultimately, this is a false construct. What these discussions need is the...”
– When you commit to “release early and often” you have to actually do it - O’Reilly Radar
“technically the web was invented in France, not Switzerland”
– David Galbraith’s Blog » Blog Archive » Tim Berners-Lee. Confirming The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented
“In every case, humanity and common sense made the insoluble problem just get up...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“White-collar crime happens through an intersection of pathology and opportunity;”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“criminal activity seems like most other human choices—a question of contingent...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“If mass incarceration is considered as a system of social control—specifically,...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“A conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged; a liberal is a conservative who’s...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“A policy of good jobs in principle, but no jobs in practice, might assuage our...”
– Slate - Dismal Scientist - March 20, 1997
“[Zuckerberg] owns 28.4 percent of the company outright and he controls 57...”
– For Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches - NYTimes.com