February 2012
6 posts
“To us, the Web is a sort of shared external memory. We do not have to remember...”
– We, the Web Kids – an essay by Polish political writer and commentator Piotr Czerski lays out a manifesto for the generation nursed on the web. (via curiositycounts)
January 2012
5 posts
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
22 posts
“Adobe’s primer on the “proper use of the Photoshop trademark”: Always capitalize...”
– weird. i always thought becoming a verb = success …
Adobe Frowns on Photoshop Verb (via thenextweb)
“one story has the term originating in seventeenth-century France (corde du roi:...”
– Happy Corduroy Day! - The New Yorker
Watchmotherjones:
Local news report of the year: Cat stuck on cactus. Please watch the entire thing. And then go hug your cat.
“A view is a composite of experiences.”
– Daniel Kish (PopTech 2011), a blind man who uses his ears to see, on CNN. (via poptech)
Ai Weiwei only started typing in 2005 and now the... →
12-year-old app developer
A lot of kids these days like to play games, but now they want to make them. And it’s difficult - because not many kids know where to go to find out how to make a program. I mean, for soccer, you could go to a soccer team. For violin, you could get lessons … but what if you want to make an app? Kids’ parents might have done some of these [other] things when they were young. But...
“Ai Weiwei has a long history with Chinese authorities. The outspoken artist,...”
– Chinese social media users raise $830,000 of artist in just 3 days (via thenextweb)
“Who cares if radio survives? Something else will happen.”
– Ira Glass (via austinkleon)
March 2011
1 post
“… the winter offensives that pushed the Taliban out of much of Kunduz...”
– The New York Times, “A Year at War”
February 2010
3 posts
Watchgesture tech …
January 2010
6 posts
Dress like Kerouac
Nerd Boyfriend tells you how: http://nerdboyfriend.com/?p=4511
"Life Before Your Eyes"
This photo showcase is wonderful: http://www.pictorymag.com/showcases/life-before-your-eyes/
“As adults we have these well-trodden paths in our synapses. We have to crack the...”
– Kathleen Taylor, a professor at St. Mary’s College of California, quoted in this NYT story on adult learning and older brains.
October 2009
3 posts
“I’d say that a story told in a way that evokes images in readers’ minds is more...”
– Megan Crewe
September 2009
9 posts
Kind of bloop →
An 8-bit tribute to miles davis’ kind of blue