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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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)
“There are some times,” Patil explains, “when you can predict weather well for...”
– This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business | Fast Company (via interestingsnippets)
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“The copyright wars are just the beta version of a long coming war on...”
– Cory Doctorow (via chrbutler)
That call center you reached? If they're in the... →
Is it starting to make sense yet?
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America Isn't A Company →
“The thing is — and this is kind of important — governments are not corporations. I cannot stress this enough. There’s the obvious point that in democracies, legislatures tend to impose a more powerful constraint than shareholders, making it that much harder for leaders to execute the policies…
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