December 2010
24 posts
The Men Who Stole the World →
A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which they turned into code, which they released on the Internet for free. These four men, not one of whom finished college, laid the foundations for much of the digital-media environment we currently inhabit. Then, for all intents and...
November 2010
32 posts
“Education is not some mysterious priesthood where only initiates know the deep...”
– Alan Gottlieb
ceandersen:
“Never think of taking a book with you. The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should, therefore, not permit yourself even to think while you walk; but divert yourself by the objects surrounding you.” — Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Peter Carr (via 18thcentury)
If the book was the smartphone of the 18th century, does this make this quote the equivalent to...
A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web →
Some impressive investigative reporting from the Times on a scammy drop shipper with an attitude. I’m a bit disappointed they actually linked to his site (on phone now, so fingers crossed it’s a nofollow link??)
Amazon.com: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy... →
ceandersen:
Kanye’s newest is 4 bucks on Amazon. It’s amazing. Seriously. You have no reason not to buy it.
And Amazon has a $3 MP3 coupon making Kanye’s new album a dollar.
Grelling–Nelson paradox →
Suppose one interprets the adjectives “autological” and “heterological” as follows:
An adjective is autological (sometimes homological) if and only if it describes itself. For example “short” is autological, since the word “short” is short. “English,” “unhyphenated” and “pentasyllabic” are also autological. An adjective is heterological if it does not describe itself. Hence “long” is a...
Mapnificent San Francisco - Dynamic Public... →
mollybierman:
ummm amazing map tool that shows how far you can get from point A in a given amount of time
“Alright, alright, think of it like this: jump ahead ten, twenty years, okay? And...”
– Jesse in “Before Sunrise”
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The Myth of Charter Schools →
American public education is a failed enterprise. The problem is not money. Public schools already spend too much. Test scores are low because there are so many bad teachers, whose jobs are protected by powerful unions. Students drop out because the schools fail them, but they could accomplish practically anything if they were saved from bad teachers. They would get higher test scores if...
How TV Superchef Jamie Oliver's 'Food Revolution'... →
marco:
Got this great story from Give Me Something To Read, Instapaper’s companion site edited by Nostrich. I wanted to quote nearly every paragraph.
What’s great about this article is that it provides an intelligent counterpoint and reality check against all of the usual “the entire U.S. food system sucks and is killing our children but first making them fat” narrative of the documentaries...
“Think of the person you know who has the highest GPA. Now ask yourself why you...”
– via the choi
Why Do Zebras Have Stripes?
fakescience:
Scale of the Universe →
thehiso:
word of advice from the link’s source, “Don’t view this while stoned.”
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“Brett A. Rosenberg ’12 concluded the event with a presentation titled...”
– Crimson article on a TED-like presentation series at Adams House
The Brain That Changed Everything →
When a surgeon cut into Henry Molaison’s skull to treat him for epilepsy, he inadvertently created the most important brain-research subject of our time — a man who could no longer remember, who taught us everything we know about memory. Six decades later, another daring researcher is cutting into Henry’s brain. Another revolution in brain science is about to begin.
Ra Ra the Lunch Man brings Taylor Swift across the... →
