February 2011
Watchdpstyles:
arainert:
The research in this video suggests that there’s a ways to go before getting a mainstream audience to cut the (cable) cord.
An Experiment In Cord Cutting (by Hill Holliday)
Good points at the end (5:10) about how people actually want “programming” (one show after the next, chosen by the programmer). For all the “channels” that are actually on Boxee and GoogleTV, I...
January 2011
Science Proves You're Stupid →
You can’t understand your brain unless you break it. Without brain damage, you are incapable of acquiring any insight into how your mind works, because your brain is sublimely designed to trick you into thinking you have a clue.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Muse (70)
Metric (43)
Kings of Convenience (26)
Kanye West (25)
The Civil Wars (11)
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Angry birds as an expression of the human... →
rmward:
The complex math our brains are capable of is amazing, and the fact that it’s approximate and completely non-numerical makes it all the more fascinating to me. I’d love to understand how our brains can instinctively figure out the flight path of a thrown ball, but (most of us) can’t do relatively simple multiplication in our heads.
Interesting article.
Hero. →
radikool:
you know your badass when you save your OWN life.
that is pretty badass.
“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein (via junkyardblues)
“conveying the appearance of conveying a point of view”
– Magnificent Ruin (via nevver)
“What drives me to be an artist, to make the work I do and I think that a large...”
– Phillip Toledano (via eliz)
“Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of...”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (via simko)
Letters to a Young Poet →
abteen:
“Letters To A Young Poet are ten letters written to a young man about to enter the German military. His name was Franz Kappus, he was 19 years old, and he wrote Rilke looking for guidance and a critique of some of his poems. Rilke was himself only 27 when the first letter was written. The resulting five year correspondence is a virtual owner’s manual on what it is (and what is required)...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Muse (76)
Kanye West (40)
Daft Punk (23)
Emilie Simon (22)
Richard Vission & Static (15)
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“Just as a package sent by mail can bear a stamp “fragile”, “breakable” or...”
– Nassim Taleb (via azspot)
Interesting.
“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
