February 2012
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WatchWho will get the biggest slice of 3D-printed pie? | Crave - CNET via futuramb
Ugh. I think I almost barfed when I heard her say “It’s like a mash-up of Facebook and iTunes — where you can print at home or from us in the cloud.” I don’t even know where to begin. And then she starts talking about app developers?!
I had my reservations about Bre because he...
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Helicopter Parents Hover In The Workplace →
Alexander: In the ‘90 the Baby Boom generation convinced itself that 40 was the new 30. Now we’ve got an economy and a generation of youths for whom 30 is the new 20.
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January 2012
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Thoughts.
Remember that we are done in by our sins — and not for our sins. Also, recall that in nature there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ choice — simply a decision with consequences.
These aren’t personal quotes — but they were in my head this morning. I felt bad because I didn’t get very far on my mask design (for copper electro-plating) last night....
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“Matt Richtel’s recent NYT article on teenagers who share their Facebook...”
– Parents’ snooping teaches kids to share their passwords with each other via BoingBoing
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WatchEgyptian Revolution: “The Flood”
Part one of a three part documentary created by Heba Kandil, a former Reuters journalist, and produced by TrustMedia, the media development wing of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Run Time: 5:22. Egyptian Revolution Part 2: The Clash. Egyptian Revolution Part 3: The Fall.
via futurejournalismprojec
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Pirate Bay Press Release →
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture.
Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to ...
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“… Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
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WatchIf Mitt Romney really believes corporations are people, he’s a serial killer! Ha. Thank you Jon Stewart.
via peterfeld
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“As a member of the Walkman generation, I have made peace with the fact that I...”
– Cory Doctorow
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Umwelt →
In 1909, the biologist Jakob von Uexküll introduced the concept of the umwelt. He wanted a word to express a simple (but often overlooked) observation: different animals in the same ecosystem pick up on different environmental signals. In the blind and deaf world of the tick, the important signals are temperature and the odor of butyric acid. For the black ghost knifefish, it’s electrical...
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“one underlying thing that Cerf misses, is how vital universal network access is...”
– Information Diet | Why Horses Are Not in the Constitution (via interestingsnippets)