January 2011
29 posts
Watchfooyeahcode:
Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools. - via coloredGrayscale
I want to learn to do this with Clojure + overtone.
“You know the rule: If you are falling, dive.”
– Joseph Campbell (via metaconscious)
“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a...”
– Buckminster Fuller (via backspace)
iconoclastic.
Jellyfish Are the Dark Energy of the Oceans →
science:
It’s relatively common in science for a specific effect to be assigned a conventional cause, only for further measurements and calculations to find that the conventional cause can’t account fully for the effect. Far from being cause for panic, this is really a fantastic opportunity to discover exciting new facts about the world. For example, the conventional explanation for why the...
“Publishing data on the Web as Linked Data is […] not the problem. Because...”
– Georgi Kobilarov, via Danny Ayers
Highly relevant to my semantic Web blog CMS.
listening to "The Flashbulb- Sentroline Voyage" →
loving the Flashbulb lately. such an eclectic, wonderful blend of sounds
"personaldna"
My personalDNA Report
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“Nestlé didn’t fail at social media, they failed at fundamentally...”
– UXMag.com article on the true lesson behind apparent social media failures.
“Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be...”
– Milton Glaser: first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts. Glaser continues:
How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, “that looks just like Cézanne.” And you realize Cézanne...
vibefeeler →
I feel intrigued.
vibefeelr thus far has been a very pleasant experience, and the ideas behind it are very good. vibefeelr has created an ontology of emotions that’s fun and rewarding to browse and query. Eventually, a particularly empathetic string of words comes about, and I vibe with it. I’m intrigued of the possibilities of this app: seeing others vibe, and even more intriguing to...