January 2012
the meadow of fireflies?..
via @itscolossal
“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of...”
– Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-92)
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...”
– Herman Hesse (via @johannal)
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”
– Haruki Murakami (via elige)
December 2011
“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the...”
– Albert Einstein (via elige)
“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”
– Samuel Beckett
(via sol-psych)
“Er is pas sprake van echte
liefde als je elkaar niet meer
wilt verbeteren.
...”
– V.Uyen
November 2011
“When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.”
– Henry Kutner (via nathanielstuart)
Instagram Engineering: Instagram Engineering... →
instagram-engineering:
In our office, we have a pretty amazing paper shredder. Seriously, the thing shreds just about anything. It even has a special slot for credit cards (why anyone would want to regularly shred credit cards is beyond me, but I digress…).
One day, after shredding some paper, I thought to myself:…
“Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a...”
– Pinboard blog, via notational & dhotson (via simloovoo)
This phrase summarizes G+ for me :)
It # π: "Black Bird" by Georges Perec (as Arthur... →
godfreyyouth:
‘Twas upon a midnight tristful I sat poring, wan and wistful, Through many a quaint and curious list full of my consorts slain - I sat nodding, almost napping, till I caught a sound of tapping, As of spirits softly rapping, rapping at my door in vain. “‘Tis a visitor,” I…
We bring into the world a net made from our dreams. If all goes well, in the end it will be full of memories.
And that’s the only thing we could possibly take away.
October 2011
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Jacob Appelbaum: Air Space - a trip through an...
Amplify’d from boingboing.net
We were headed straight into a modern surveillance state and were lucky to be getting free cookies at the halfway mark.
Read more at boingboing.net
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a1g6ci
…
How can we end all this?
“I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another...”
– Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (via mythologyofblue)
the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a... →
understatementblog:
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
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Edward Docx - Among the Russians
Amplify’d from www.prospectmagazine.co.ukDeciding to write a novel is like visiting an obscure, half-forgotten and slowly-evaporating planet entirely comprised of swimming pools and deciding that what is needed is… yes, another swimming pool! But, for obscure reasons, a swimming pool that must be built single-handedly from scratch and then filled using only a syringe.Read more at...
National Geographic Magazine: How Do Giant Pandas... →
nationalgeographicmagazine:
Rachel Kaufman
for National Geographic News
Published October 17, 2011 A new analysis of panda poop has finally answered an age-old question: How do giant pandas survive on a diet that’s 99 percent bamboo when they have the guts of carnivores? Plant-eating animals tend to have longer…
“Don’t forget to love yourself.”
– Soren Kierkegaard