May 2013
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Read more fiction.
I used to read a lot of non-fiction, especially business books. In fact I’m still on a few publishers lists for receiving advanced copies of business books. But I find myself reading more science fiction, and I’m really enjoying the genre some call progressive or speculative science fiction. This genre also seems to cover cyberpunk, and dystopian genres (I could be wrong here on the...
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“Unified logins let us get to know our audience in ways we never could before....”
– Welcome to Google Island | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
It’s okay if that freaks you out, just a little. Now go read Nick Harkaway’s The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World.
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Larry Page Wants Earth To Have A Mad Scientist... →
I could see it now; it would be like the Island of Misfit Toys, but with crazy scientists instead. What could go wrong?
On a simular note, I’ve been reading The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius and really enjoying the fun collection of short stories.
Listening to Where Is My Mind? by Pixies
My theme song. – Preview it on Path.
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Spite is a Great Motivator
Spite gets a bad rap. I’ve actually found spite to be a great motivator in my life. Before you think I’m some horrible person, I’ve never intentionally caused harm to someone out of spite. I’m not talking about the hateful, malice kind of spite, I’m talking about the, “I’m going to prove you wrong” kind of spite. And I’m not talking about the...
Reading The Mad Scientist's Guide to World...
It’s like this book was written just for me. – View on Path.
Listening to The Geeks Were Right by The Faint
Of course we are. – Preview it on Path.
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Printing Body Parts for Humans or the Guns to...
3D Printing is a tool. How you use it is up to you.
3-D Printer Makes A Bionic Ear
Scientists Create Sensor As Sensitive As Real Skin
This Is The World’s First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun
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The Problem with Google Glass
Google Glass solves the need to take your phone out of your pocket at the expense of wearing it on your face.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Glass and why it elicits such a polarizing response from people and this is what I’ve come up with.
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Serious Question? Is Google Glass Nerdy of Dorky? →
We’ve progressed so far in our collective acceptance of all things geeky, that we’ve now started to accept the nerdy. But apparently we’re not so far along that we’ll accept the dory? So which is it?
The Segway. The Bluetooth headset. The pocket protector.
What do these three technologies have in common? They all pretty much work as promised. They all seem like good...
April 2013
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Invasive predator fish that can live out of water... →
Seriously? This thing is insane. I think it’s a left-over Soviet experiment developed to scare the crap out of us.
The northern snakehead fish, native to China, Russia and Korea, has been spotted in Queens in recent years, and one was quietly observed in Harlem Meer several years ago.
The fish eats frogs and crayfish and has the ability to breathe air and live for days out of water in...
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The Complete Contents of the First Web Page →
World Wide Web
The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.
Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, Mailing lists , Policy , November’s W3 news , Frequently Asked Questions .
What’s out...
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“The early days of MTV were all about epic narratives and the dazzle of rapid...”
– Lindsay Zoladz considers the past, present, and future of the music video in her latest Ordinary Machines column. (via pitchfork)
The new escapism?
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Cable Companies Race to the Bottom Trying to Beat... →
Time Warner Cable is playing a risky game. I’m sure that Google has much lower fixed cost in their system than traditional cable companies. They better figure out a way to get lean and profit from the data and the add-ons better than Google can. So, good luck with that.
We’ve been rolling out our free WiFi network across our footprint for some time now, as part of our larger strategy to...
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It made my morning when I overheard a conversation between two German men (we’ll call them Hans and Frans):
Hans, “It’s a rumor.”
Frans, “It’s not a rumor.”
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Tumblr needs trending topics.
Or, maybe it’s just better not to know what’s trending on Tumblr?
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Will Big Data Mark the End of the Market Research... →
hautepop:
In an inter-connected world, where products have sensors and are connected to the internet, companies will know in real-time how people use their product, when they use it, for how long they use it and when things go wrong. Whenever a product needs to be improved or a new product needs to be developed, organisations can simply look at the real-time sensor data pouring into the...
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How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future →
Really smart. Most tech companies still don’t think likt this.
The exponential improvement of a given technology — Moore’s Law in the case of computer chip technology — measures the ultimate speed at which a large group of creative humans can proceed to improve a technology, under competition, when there’s no physical barrier to its improvement and when the technology must pay its own...
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Turntable.fm announced a new feature to their music service:
Today he’s launching Piki, a Pandora-like free radio service for the iPhone and web backed by your friends tastes instead of algorithms. After all, he built Turntable to quench his thirst for human-curated music and playlists, yet a lot of the people he liked the most didn’t have time to DJ a Turntable room.
Which I...
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Is this what we've become?
Bad things happen. Every industry attracts bad players.
It’s sad, but I have to believe that there’s still more good than bad out there.
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Facebook Phone Home - The Better To Spam You With →
Some people are asking, why would Facebook create a new phone “experience?” Here’s where I’ll give some context to the announcement.
We all want to share and connect. That’s how we discover new information and build meaningful relationships. But today, phones are built around tasks and apps. To see what’s happening with your friends, you pull out your phone...
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“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
– H. L. Mencken (via hreha)
Truth.
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March 2013
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“My hometown, Mountain View, Calif., has become the unofficial capital of the...”
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Google’s Self-Driving Robot Cars Are Ruining My Commute 