July 2009
24 posts
“The Internet is a historical anomaly and the way technology has propagated on it...”
– Chris Muscarella on Why Japan’s Smartphones Haven’t Gone Global
How Iran Could Save the Middle East →
“If everyone’s friends are at the mall, then we’ll abandon the public...”
– Outsmarting the Facebook Lobster Trap: Three Worries, One Guideline, Seven Principles
“everyone else who thinks online subscription fees can save the newspaper...”
– Daring Fireball on Pay Walls
Five things I mentioned while in Québec and...
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A Communications Primer, by Eames
“A Communications Primer”, created in 1953, focuses on the aspects of “communication”, including the notions of transmission, noise, redundancy, distortion, misunderstanding, and much more
Anna Daly at Senses of Cinema describes it as follows: “Schematic diagrams and simple associations serve to highlight the message: clear...
“Play is essential, it’s through play that you find connections between things...”
– Jim Coudal
Is American beer any good? →
WatchKuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona)
robot-women-3 by missShellie
via flickr.com
for sale on etsy
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“just as it is natural for gorillas to love leaves, it is natural for people to...”
– Elizabeth Kolbert in the New Yorker on why we are so fat
(via kottke)
“if the consensus of the economic experts is grim, the consensus of the climate...”
– Krugman
Economist Debates: Sustainable development: on the...
The planetwide problems of climate change and damage to ecosystems that face humanity now are rather different from those solved by the green revolution, in that they are often the consequences either of uninternalised economic externalities or of the “tragedy of the commons”, in which a scramble for resources that nobody owns results in those resources being destroyed rather than...
“A tweet may not look like much, but its value lies in the mental dimension. You...”
– One Lesson from the Crisis: It’s Time to Create Your Own Economy | Fast
WatchThe Remnants
“I don’t want to admit to being so superficial as to structure an entire...”
– Infinite Summer