January 2008
40 posts
“No excuse to be so callous Dress yourself in bleeding madras Charm your way...”
– Vampire Weekend
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like....”
– Steve Jobs
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5 Boundary-Setting Tips for the Work Obsessed
via: fourhourworkweek.com 1. Choose flow-inducing hobbies that really engage you and pull your mind away from work. 2. Set goals in your personal life just like you do in your professional life. 3. Schedule dates with other people for non-work activities. 4. Use tech boundaries to separate your work and your life. 5. Decide your “no”s in advance.
Porn 2.0?
User generated and social networking sites for porn—it’s inevitable, right? YouTube + Porn = YouPorn Twitter + Porn = Boobik Wikipedia + Sex = Chickipedia and a Folk Song about porn.
“Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? / I’ve seen those English dramas...”
– Vampire Weekend
Mark Lives in Ikea
5 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Career
Via. web worker daily 1. Keep building that online persona. 2. Create additional income streams, even if you are an employee. 3. Stay aware of what the market wants. 4. Invest in human capital. 5. Create social capital too.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
– Alan Kay
“i’m scared! where will it take us?
to the future, to the past, AWAY FROM...”
– the ice cream floats
AT&T's Internet Filtering
an at&t sponsored internet talkshow shuts down the interview with joel johnson of boing boing after talking about at&t’s plan with internet filtering. BOING BOING LINK: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/01/21/talking-about-atts-i.html YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY6cCGENlj8 NEWS: New York Times Slate
healthy image (gatorade + web 2.0) = G2
how to extend the brand of a high calorie energy drink with a healthier, youthful and hip image. clean up the design, add some of that aqua web 2.0 sphere, remove the vowels, add the number 2, italicize the logo to make it look fast and energetic. instead of using the word diet, add keywords like low calorie, electrolytes, performance, and off the field hydration. G2. www.gatorade.com
wii-close
A Wii-like interface through which the viewers can create their own avatars and then convert the avatars into Chuck Close-style portraits upon submission. http://www.cjny.com/myAvatar/
The Moral Instinct
Evolution has endowed us with ethical impulses. Do we know what to do with them? an article by steven pinker on morality at the new york times sunday magazine. illustration by adrian tomine. Read Article.
youtube + facebook = bigthink
Combining journalistically produced interviews with user-generated content, and playing both moderator and mediator, Big Think bridges what was an evident gap between credible, informed editorial opinion and the less controlled freestyle of online social media - thus creating a dynamic and wholly unique breed of engagement platform. Video steven pinker on human nature
The Constructivist Architecture
The canonical work of Constructivism was Vladimir Tatlin’s proposal for the Monument to the Third International (1919) which combined a machine aesthetic with dynamic components celebrating technology such as searchlights and projection screens. Constructivist Architecture Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin
the coral reef project
Using the techniques of hyperbolic crochet discovered by mathematician Daina Taimina, the Institute has been evolving a wide taxonomy of reef-life forms - loopy “kelps”, fringed “anemones”, and curlicued “corals.” http://www.theiff.org/reef/index.html
the seven dimensions of intelligence
Gardner’s claim is that pencil and paper IQ tests do not capture the full range of human intelligences, and that we all have individual profiles of strengths and weaknesses across multiple intelligence dimensions. wikipedia
237 Reasons and Counting
Many scientists assume people have sex for simple and straightforward reasons such as to experience sexual pleasure or to reproduce, but new research at The University of Texas at Austin reveals hundreds of varied and complex motivations that range from the spiritual to the vengeful. nytimes article original university of texas paper
Know Your Meme
memetic theory, constitutes a theoretical unit of cultural information, the building block of cultural evolution or diffusion that propagates from one mind to another analogously to the way in which a gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution.[1] Multiple memes may propagate as cooperative groups called memeplexes (meme complexes). ...
