January 2012
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so. new year, new discovery. fried curry leaves go REALLY WELL with mandarin oranges. approximately 2.5 leaves per wedge.
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Bill and Herb and Dorothy New York
We watched Bill Cunningham New York today.
Here’s his work on the NYT website.
He comes across as a real sweet old man, and a marvellous talent. His mind is a veritable treasury of all New York’s fashion for the last… It’s difficult to say, really. He makes references to things going back to the beginnings of the 1900’s.
I love how Bill looks at modern fashion...
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The Year of Coding Not So Dangerously
Hey, everybody. If you still haven’t heard about Codeacademy and Code Year, check out what they posted today:
In less than 7 days, more than 300,000 people pledged to learn to code in 2012 (you can still sign up!) Today, we’re proud to announce that we will be working with the White House to get more kids and adults learning to code. With their Summer Jobs+ program, the White House has...
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“You have made a difference in this fight; and as we near the next stage, and...”
– blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit: Stopped they must be; on this all depends. (via mediafuturist)
i… will do the same. i didn’t do that earth hour power out thing but i will do this.
zomg it’s going to be so difficult. maybe i should buy a ticket to kalimantan now or something....
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WatchAurasma takes you through the looking glass [Engadget], shows you the digital dimension within the real world.
WHAT WITCHCRAFT IS THIS?!
<3 <3 <3
The Hipster
His world is a sensuous one. He can’t touch the paintings hanging quietly and aloof in the museum with his hands, but he caresses them with his mind. He almost literally runs his fingers over the texture of oil curling from canvas and dips himself in the pastel calmness of the water colours.
Later, after a noon jaunt in a chic boutique looking a shawl for a friend he slips into a quiet nook...
“Seven out of ten young employees who are aware of their companies’ IT policies...”
– Source: Cisco Connected World Technology Report
Many Young Workers Are IT Rule-Breakers - The Daily Stat - January 10, 2012 - Harvard Business Review
(via futuramb)
please don’t call them rule-breakers. if anything, it’s the rules that are breaking human nature.
we can’t help...
Snippets: Coffee machines, not knowledge bases →
What I learned from John Seely Brown is that coffee machines are more relevant than handbooks if I am really interested in solving a problem. According to him real knowledge is not taught, it is experienced in the form of unwritten stories and conversation.
In his brilliant 2000 article…
haha… SO TRUE!!! not just techies but arty-farties too!
“The smartest person in the room is no longer a person but the room itself.”
– What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World (via courtenaybird)
it’s always been like that
“Gamers get hella uncomfortable over male sexuality too. Can you imagine a “good...”
– A forum post I read recently, trying to give a solid example of what ‘male objectification in gaming ’ would actually look like if it was anything equivalent to current female objectification in gaming. (via nothingbutsurrender)
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Kindle Touch to Developers: "C'mere and Stick Your...
Amirza commented on my post on whether or not to buy a Kindle that even if Amazon doesn’t release an update for landscape mode— or for any other trouble, for that matter— there’s always Yifan Lu’s Wonderful Fantastic and Marvellous Kindle Touch Jailbreak Page!
Like I replied, I have absolutely no idea what it’s about since I don’t code (learning with...
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Kindle Touch (Wifi/3G) and DX: To Buy or Not to...
Originally advice to a friend who asked. She said it was pretty useful and encouraged me to put it out there. So here it is.
If I could, I would get a kindle for everyone in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD. It’s so lovely!
The biggest issue for me is:
Unlike the previous model, the Kindle Touch has no landscape mode, which is annoying when the width of your paragraph/diagram is quite wide. You would...
“Would I dump the dollar [if I were China’s central banker]? I don’t...”
– Epiphanies from Austan Goolsbee
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[Excerpts] "A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man...
I really like this book. Reading it, you can tell the writer put in massive amounts of research to bring context to Holman’s story. It’s a beautiful piece written with great sensitiveness.
Here are two snippets.
From the Introduction:
UNTIL THE INVENTION of the internal combustion engine, the most prolific traveler in history was also the most unlikely. Born in 1786, James Holman...
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Kindle Touch No Haz Landscape Mode. WHAT?!
We just received the Kindle Touch here and it’s AWESOME. It’s so lovely I want to buy one for EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE WHOLE PLANET. But, it doesn’t have landscape mode, which is extremely sorely disappointing. :(
Here’s one guy’s smart but hopefully temporary solution:
Right now, a sort of “hack” is possible to allow Ubuntu (and other GNU/Linux distros) users...
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Search Engines, the Winner-takes-all Effect and...
I’m increasingly annoyed with what is now known as the “search engine bias”, which is really the winner-takes-all effect. Paraphrasing and adding to Eric Goldman, here’s how I see it:
The Winner-takes-All Effect in Search Engines
1. Searchers are impatient. If they don’t see the stuff they want in the first few results, they think the search engine is a failure....
What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on... →
infoneer-pulse:
What other works would be entering the public domain if we had the pre-1978 copyright laws? You might recognize some of the titles below.
Rudolf Flesch’s Why Johnny Can’t Read: And What You Can Do About It
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Return of the King, the final installment in his Lord of Rings trilogy
The Family of Man, Edward Steichen’s book of photographs showing the diversity...
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What Might a Penniless Community Do with a $25...
What might a poor, maybe rural, community do with Raspberry Pi’s 25 USD computers?
That’s: 32.42 Singapore Dollar 54.95 Papua New Guinea Kina 227,272.72 Indonesian Rupiah
What do you think?
Kind of a serious question. (Haha… Why do I always have such serious and strange questions?!) Thinking to import them to some of these places. Raspberry Pi itself says they were originally...
December 2011
54 posts
“If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.”
– Dag Hammarskjold.
My resolution for 2012 and, I guess, for life.
“Mediocrity isn’t a quest to be pursued — but a derelict deathtrap to be...”
– Mastering the Art of Living Meaningfully Well (via courtenaybird)
i can see what i want in the future. very few will like my vision. creating something comes with a lot, a lot, a lot of setbacks and discouragement.
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Triptych
John Lytle Wilson. Eric Joyner. Thomas Jackson.
“Someday all of our technology will learn to emotionally manipulate us. Your...”
– - Scott Adams
(via alysonsmediadiet:notational)
“dear samantha
i’m sorry
we have to get a divorce
i know that seems like an...”
– Jared Singer, An Entomologist’s Last Love Letter (via colporteur)
“The child who is a warrior now, where is his future tomorrow?”
– Yaso Kome, who had a simple idea to bring peace to Papua New Guinea: build elementary schools in places abandoned for years because of tribal fights.
Off, off, off yu go Off yu go to Port Moresby Kam...
i hate knowing that some futurists have given up on the state. it scares me to acknowledge that the state exists to serve itself and not us.
liberties with tradition, or, how the grinch stole...
every year during qingming (this year it was on 22 dec, thu) we go to the temple to offer food to our ancestors. every year i tell my mom, look, don’t bother waking up at 5am to cook like ten dishes. let’s just order pizza. and she’d say no, don’t be crazy. and i’d say i don’t care, when you’re dead i’m ordering you pizza on qingming. and she’d...
i am so tired dealing with the state
us: please don't put the money from sales of two small properties into the Retirement Account (RA). let us use it to buy a house so we won't need to borrow and have debt again.
cpf: no.
us: if you don't, we can't buy the house. and we already sold this one. so we live on the streets?
cpf: no. rent a flat.
us: that means a lot of debt. a LOT of debt.
cpf: still, no.
us: have a heart, why put us in debt when we can become self-sufficient?
cpf: -silence long time-
us: -sends some emails asking for a reply, sees member of parliament from ruling party (who doesn't really listen to us) who writes a letter to cpf-
cpf: no.
us: -sends email expressing deep disappointment and anger to every idiot boss in cpfb saying we'll advise everyone we know who needs to know about this. tells them we feel betrayed by the civil service and ashamed to be singaporeans.-
cpf: ok, you can use the money from your RA now.
[i swear, if you don't make some song and dance about the most common sense issues in this country, nothing gets done. it's psychotic, you know? it's psychosis on a national scale. i am exhausted.]
“We are already on the verge of discovering the secret of transmuting metals,...”
– Thomas Edison on his predictions for the year 2011
because when i die i can’t take anything with me and my memory, if any, will not stand through much of history.
“The psychologist Dean Simonton argues that this fecundity is often at the heart...”
– - Malcolm Gladwell, Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse via The New Yorker (via stoweboyd)
YES!!! WHY IS IT SO MANY PEOPLE DON’T SEE THIS!??!?!?! EXPERIMENT! EXPERIMENT! EXPERIMENT! MY GOODNESS I CAN’T SAY THIS ENOUGH.
it really doesn’t matter how bad or good an idea...
nickthejam:
Where the Tetris blocks come from.