Life is grand

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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:39:12 +0000

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"Dyson: Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of..."

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:41:51 +0000

“Dyson: Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are strings of binary digits—bits. A Pixar movie is just a very large number, sitting idle on a disc, while Microsoft Windows is an even larger number, replicated across hundreds of millions of computers and constantly in use. Google is a fantastically large number, so large it is almost beyond comprehension, distributed and replicated across all kinds of hosts. When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn’t life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life.”

- 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

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:30:28 +0000

The Boy Who Played With Fusion | Popular Science:

www.popsci.com

"Every time I hear someone on a podcast say that RSS is dead I can’t help but think about how..."

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:13:59 +0000

“Every time I hear someone on a podcast say that RSS is dead I can’t help but think about how podcasts are distributed via RSS.”

- inessential.com: Podcasts (via superfeedr)

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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:28:04 +0000

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"Rather than tell her 11th-grade English students the definition of transcendentalism one recent day,..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:23:01 +0000

“Rather than tell her 11th-grade English students the definition of transcendentalism one recent day, Katheryn Higgins had them crowd-source their own — quite Thoreauly, it turned out — using Google Docs”

- Mooresville School District, a Laptop Success Story - NYTimes.com

"I ask because I worry that we increasingly externalise problems rather than looking within."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:13:20 +0000

“I ask because I worry that we increasingly externalise problems rather than looking within.”

- 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. “But then with the..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:11:57 +0000

““The Mahabharat was crowd-sourced over centuries,” he told his Nasscom audience. “But then with the creation of the Gutenberg press, we had the power to publish our stories. But we could not publish a never ending story so we came up with the three act structure. Now we are going back to never-ending stories that are crowd-sourced.””

- Shekhar Kapur Announces Qyuki: A Social Network For Stories - NYTimes.com

"The “possessed” spider even crochets a specific geometric design in the net, camouflaging the cocoon..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:54:13 +0000

“The “possessed” spider even crochets a specific geometric design in the net, camouflaging the cocoon from the wasp’s predators”

- How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - Magazine - The Atlantic

poptech: askjerves: El Hierro Submarine Volcano Eruption Four...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:10:20 +0000

poptech:

askjerves:

El Hierro Submarine Volcano Eruption

Four months in, the underwater eruption of the northwest coast of Africa will pretty soon become a new Canary Island.

Wild.

"[iCloud in OS X Mountain Lion] not a replacement of traditional Mac file management and..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:19:18 +0000

“[iCloud in OS X Mountain Lion] not a replacement of traditional Mac file management and organization. It’s a radically simplified alternative.”

- Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion

"factual errors, including some that contradicted their own cited sources"

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:17:06 +0000

“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 replace it with a minority..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:09:46 +0000

“You should not delete information supported by the majority of sources to replace it with a minority view”

- The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia

"Experienced data journalists list spreadsheets as a top data journalism too"

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:50:56 +0000

“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 gathering. Now that..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:48:59 +0000

“When information was scarce, most of our efforts were devoted to hunting and gathering. Now that information is abundant, processing is more important”

- The bond between data and journalism grows stronger - O’Reilly Radar

"The standards process doesn’t only help with interoperability, it also helps improve the design of..."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:28:13 +0000

“The standards process doesn’t only help with interoperability, it also helps improve the design of every feature”

- A List Apart: Articles: Every Time You Call a Proprietary Feature “CSS3,” a Kitten Dies

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Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:03:16 +0000

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life is grand.: An almost perfect personal worldview.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:16:43 +0000

life is grand.: An almost perfect personal worldview.:

ericaberger:

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 world to produce a..."

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:01:45 +0000

“The function of a newsroom in the future is to coordinate the voices of the world to produce a coherent news product”

- Scripting News: NYT growing the wrong way

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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:17:56 +0000

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