January 2012
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“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the...”
– Anne Lamott on intuition vs. rationality, alongside similar sentiments by Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs (via curiositycounts)
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Only in Sweden Would File-Sharing Become an... →
December 2011
10 posts
Old Weird America - An Exploration of the Harry... →
brian-cooper:
“Welcome
With this blog, i want to use the Folkways Anthology as a roadmap to explore american folk music. I’ ll use texts, images, music and videos gathered from my personal collection and from the web to make this work-in-progress enjoyable and educational the best i can. Any suggestions, additional informations, comments and critics are welcome…
I’ll use Harry Smith’s...
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November 2011
22 posts
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Soup: Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi →
soupsoup:
18 November 2011
Linda P.B. Katehi,
I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, and I teach in the Program in Critical Theory and in Science & Technology Studies. I have a strong record of research, teaching, and service. I am currently…
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“High school and college students may be ‘digital natives,’ but they’re wretched...”
– Clive Thompson on why kids can’t search and the importance of educating against the filter bubble (via curiositycounts)
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“Any dancer or doctor knows full well what an incredibly expressive device your...”
– Do yourself a favor and read this brilliant rant on the future of interaction design by former Apple designer Bret Victor (via curiositycounts)
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This is worth reposting.. in case you missed it the first time
While You Were Sleeping: For those of you still... →
whileyouweresleeping:
What is going on in Europe is catastrophic.
If, as it looks like it’s happening, Italy follows the same path as Greece, and investors continue to ditch not only Italian bonds, but also Irish, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, and French bonds, the euro is very likely to disappear.
While Greece can…
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New York Subways to Enter a New Sorry Era -... →
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Bret Victor on the future of Interactive Design
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“Jobs’s sensibility was editorial, not inventive. His gift lay in taking what was...”
– Malcolm Gladwell on Steve Jobs’s real genius, a nod to combinatorial creativity and remix as invention (via curiositycounts)
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check out that New Yorker article if you haven’t yet!
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WatchHarry Houdini- “Water Torture Cell” (recorded in 1914)
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October 2011
14 posts
Obama's Executive Order of the Day: Easing Student... →
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Get Paid for Taking Pictures with Your iPhone →
Grab five to ten minutes here or there, at the right time and the right place, to complete a massive task no one person could do on his or her own. That’s exactly what a new startup called Gigwalk is trying to do, using the power of– you guessed it– the iPhone. You download the app, enter your PayPal information and get assigned entry level “gigs” or jobs that may take just a few minutes at...
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Found Sound Nation’s mobile street studios connect the classical musicians from the Lucerne Festival Academy with everyday citizens to create music together
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“A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. They don’t...”
– Steve Jobs in a 1996 Wired interview, one of 200+ insightful and inspirational quotes found in I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words (via curiositycounts)
Watchsavoring these new my brightest diamond videos
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Watchinteresting glance into the OWC process
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Occupy Wall Street’s Direct Democracy
How can a nonhierarchical society organize itself? Consensus, a short documentary from Meerkat Media Collective, illuminates the complex, slow-moving, but very directly democratic process by which protesters discuss and make decisions.
via short of the week