December 2009
55 posts
Florence & The Machine - ‘Falling’
“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This...”
– Henry Rollins
(via mariamaria09)
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If the brain is the most evolved and sophisticated system known, then creating...”
– SuperBrain: The Brain Re-Creating Itself
IBM is attempting to replicate human scale creative intelligence through cognitive processing. The potential positive and negative outcomes are immense in scale.
Everything But The Girl - ‘Missing (Todd...
Detroit's Unemployment Rate Is Nearly 50% →
(via soupsoup)
This is totally totally incredible. How a major city in one of the supposedly most developed countries in the world could have such high unemployment speaks volumes of the depths of disrepair that the former superpower has sunk to over the last 2 decades. Hopefully for everyones sake they can dig themselves out again…
“When people think of computer science the image that immediately pops into many...”
– Sapna Cheryan, a University of Washington assistant professor of psychology, and the lead author of a study that shows the environment and trappings of computer science is what turns women away, not the field itself (via Physorg.)
Ambient belonging is so powerful. Immediately I can think of lots of...
BRANDS OF THE FUTURE
wearethedigitalkids:
wolffolinsblog:
Many brands today are not equipped to live online. There is a discrepancy in how they are presented and how they work in the real world.
Steve Rubel’s summary of the Le Web conference accounts for this change:
“One of the great untold stories is just how much Facebook and Twitter are growing off-site. Facebook announced they reach 60 million through...
“7. Flight attendants will tell you to turn it off on take off and landing. You...”
– 10 reasons to buy a Kindle 2… and 10 reasons not to (via peterwknox) (via soupsoup)
“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and...”
– Tom Robbins (via quote-book)
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse...”
– Albert Camus (via johannal) (via quote-book)
Razorlight - Wire to Wire
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. ”
– Charles Bukowski (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
The Chemical Brothers - “Star Guitar”
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“Tonight, Barack Obama sends 30,000 troops into Afghanistan and for some reason...”
– Stephen Colbert (via soupsoup)
i will learn how to love a person and then i will...
seen from a great enough distance i cannot be seen i feel this as an extremely distinct sensation of feeling like shit; the effect of small children is that they use declarative sentences and then look at your face with an expression that says, ‘you will never do enough for the people you love’; i can feel the universe expanding and it feels like no one is trying hard enough the effect of this...
making my day