December 2007
“Before me lies only what I must do with the talent given to me before I die....”
– Ken Foo, a 26year old artist from Singapore as told on startdrawing.org | the asia drawing portal
Tofugu.com Named “Most Humorous Blog on Japan in... →
spez.name: Fun Facts About Steve Huffman, Inventor... →
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The Cripplebush Ghost Tour →
A really neat account of project that is part history and part public art. Apparently inspired by the Yellow Arrow Project.
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protagonist →
n: the principal character in a work of fiction
“The point of all this is that it doesn’t matter how many times you fail....”
– Success & Motivation - Blog Maverick Mark Cuban on what it takes to go from zero to hero.
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger...”
– Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, as quoted in The 4-Hour Work Week
Motion Mountain - The Adventure of Physics : The... →
from dailymeh: How does a rainbow form? Is levitation possible? Do time machines exist? What does ‘quantum’ mean? What is the maximum force value found in nature? Is ‘empty space’ really empty? Is the universe a set? Which problems in physics are still unsolved? This site provides a free physics textbook that tells the story of how it became possible, after 2500 years of exploration,...
“Forget what that one guy, whom you don’t even know said about how the world has...”
– Shawn Blanc.
The Rise and Fall of the Hit.
The Internet’s peer-to-peer architecture is optimized for a symmetrical traffic load, with as many senders as receivers and data transmissions spread out over geography and time.Chris Anderson The message is that you are both a consumer and a producer of a digital commodity. What you choose to publish has a ripple effect, like the death of a Ray Bradbury butterfly.
A Simple Code - Web Karma, Distilled →
“Tumblelogs are the punk rock of blogging.”
– London’s The Daily Telegraph
“The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact...”
– Frank Zappa Quotes I saw this while reading how media studies can massage your message. I didn’t really understand how the steak and cow were meant to demonstrate Marshall McLuhan`s famous words. They really are quite different things. I did enjoy uncovering the Zappa quote though. Thanks...
Christmas is a secular holiday - reaction
I’m sick of religious media commentators… // you’ve seen the post before …out of Christmas, we’re taking the Christmas out of Winter Solstice, and that’s the kind of fundamentalism I can get down with. — jstn// here’s what one disgruntled Japanese consumer had to say… クリスマス中止のお知らせとか言ってる奴ら爆発しろ — ilya — il-y-a “All those people saying Christmas should stop,...
“I should really just figure out how to put my tumblr blog at www.bizstone.com....”
– Biz Stone, Genius: My Tumblr Hey Biz, I’m sure a self proclaimed genius should be able to work it out! Any way, there is always help available if you need it. ;-)
I can read the dashboard now, but only with images off and even then it`s painfully slow. The only other option is to pull all the tumblrs I follow into my google reader, but then I`d lose that tumblr experience and reblog option.
Putting this on my wish list for tumblr: a dashboard I can read from my nintendoDS, or mobile phone.
Christmas is a secular holiday
I’m sick of religious media commentators being up in arms about the perceived secularization of Christmas. I agree that materialism is out of control in our culture, but humans all over the world have been celebrating the winter solstice time since long before Jesus. Roland Martin recently said, “we should continue to remember that Jesus is the reason for the season.” Well,...
“In the real world, over time, proprietary systems won’t work....”
– Walter B. Wriston talks about the future of money and social change in an interview for Wired 4.10: The Future of Money.
“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“Information about money has become almost as important as money itself”
– Walter B. Wriston
“The currency of the Web, after all, is the link”
– Erick Schonfeld And with it we pay attention, and recieve traffic. It’s an excellent description. Wriston’s law is also something that we can also use to describe the way that links work to bind the web together. Capital will go where it is wanted, and stay where it is well-treated. ...
Coffee breathes life in to conversation. →
In Japan people will pay exorbitant prices to have you talk to them in English, in stuffy little glass cubicles, in forty minute fixes. When the venue for formal study of language school chain is gone, they will have you around for coffee. I lov… Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Ditch The Portfolio. →
— coffeehousejunkie “What you need is a scrapbook of cultural activity”.
The Automatic Professor Machine →
Now I know where to go to get my masters.
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a...”
– Nelson Mandela Nelson was hard at work enhancing the freedom of others during his 27 year stay in prison, on convictions for crimes that included sabotage.
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given...”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower If you think about it, there is still freedom of thought in prison. One name sprang to mind immediately when I saw this quote, and that was Nelson Mandela. Mandela, winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, spent 27 years in prison, but that didn’t stop him from...
Striking writers in talks to launch Web start-ups →
via anthonydever. This is awesome news, which could potentially catalyse a real revolution in how we consume our entertainment. At present, television’s main advantage over the net is that it’s where the writing talent is - this could change that. It also presents a potentially practical way that screen writers, who work best in groups, could manifest what Jakob Lodwick dubbed...
Lifehacker's 2007 Guide to Free Software and... →
A lot of obvious links there, and being limited to only free applications means the list misses some of the most essential applications that are available, but it is still a pretty exhaustive list. Except they forgot the best text editor I have ever used, xPad. It’s free, I’m surprised they overlooked it. — vasta
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
– Martin Luther King Jnr.
“If you spend a little time searching before you post, you can probably find your...”
– Jorn Barger - vasta I picked up on this a little earlier over at the Tumblers on ning. A lot of what Jorn has to say about blogging in general indicates a much broader view of the internet as a social network. More recently social networks have been seen as things that exist on the internet, which...
Santa's Ghetto.
Unfazed by controversy, Banksy is taking to the streets of Bethlehem again this year to stage what has been described as “probably the world’s most low-concept art event”. Santa’s Ghetto is taking place in a former chicken shop on Manger Square in Bethlehem opposite the Church of the Nativity. Not where Santa Claus was born, but alledgedly where that other central figure in...
Banksy: the joker.
I stumbled across this profile article on Banksy, the infamous Bristol bomber, on the Independent. The link was on the original Robot Wisdom blog, which I had to do a bit of digging to find. The article was published on the 23rd of September 200, so it’s a bit dated but it does describe his larrikin antics and his rise to celebrity quite well. I although celebrity is a term that he would...
The Tumblers! →
Tumblr people of all the world, unite! Ning social network.