October 2010
1 post
The End of Men [longform.org] →
Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to...
September 2010
4 posts
Nick Sweeney · what Bagpuss can teach us about the... →
Need to think about this a bit…
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“If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you are the product being...”
– http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046
The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By... →
Utterly brilliant on so many levels. One to Reread blog about and generally dwell on.
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“Gaming is the lens that focused my imagination into a tool that I could use”
– Will Wheaton, PAX East Keynote 2010
August 2010
1 post
Does Language Influence Culture? - WSJ.com →
The Tower of Babel’ by Pieter Brueghel the
Elder, 1563.
Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely
express thoughts, or do the structures in languages (without our
knowledge or consent) shape the very thoughts we wish to
express?
Take “Humpty Dumpty sat on a…” Even this snippet of a nursery
rhyme reveals how much languages can differ...
July 2010
3 posts
Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game... →
In 1991, Klaus Teuber was well on his way to
becoming one of the planet’s hottest board game designers. Teuber
(pronounced “TOY-burr”), a dental technician living with his wife
and three kids in a white row house in Rossdorf, Germany, had
created a game a few years earlier called Barbarossa
and the Riddlemaster, a sort of ur-Cranium in which players
mold figures...
“experiments about the “decay time” and the relative weight of good and bad...”
– The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com
The Atlantic :: Magazine :: The Enemy Within →
When the Conficker computer “worm” was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators. It uses an encryption code so sophisticated that only a very few people could have deployed it. For the first time ever, the cyber-security elites of the...
June 2010
5 posts
“You’re a thousand times more likely to die because of what some urban banker did...”
– [Bruce Sterling Interview: Cities - Boing Boing]
Your Brain on Computers - Plugged-In Parents -... →
“It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest...”
– [Does the Internet Make You Smarter? - Clay Shirky (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284973472694334.html)
May 2010
2 posts
“What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact...”
– Regis Debray, Wired 3.01, Jan 1995, p. 162
“It is the arrogance of every age to believe that yesterday was calm.”
– Tom Peters, Wired 5.12, Dec 1997
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
3 posts
November 2009
1 post
October 2009
7 posts
September 2009
13 posts
October 2008
3 posts
“Success is the sum of a lot of little things done correctly.”
– Fernand Point
September 2008
4 posts
“A few methods short in the object factory”
– Charles Stross, Accelerando
August 2008
3 posts
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles...”
– Maya Angelou