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Tumblelog byChristopher Clay, founder of Soup.io.
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wonder/marvel/learn
motivate/laugh
Timeless posts
Why I tumblelog
A ShouldDo list
My favorite posts (outdated)
Output so far
New News (2010?)
Startupwiki (2009–)
LIF (2008)
Soup.io (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
Timeless posts
Why I tumblelog
A ShouldDo list
My favorite posts (outdated)
Output so far
New News (2010?)
Startupwiki (2009–)
LIF (2008)
Soup.io (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
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March 16 2010
Memory Colors: A fascinating blog post on color correction in movies. See also this rant.
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March 07 2010
W3C Requirements for Japanese Text Layout: More fascinating details on Japanese typesetting than you ever wanted to know.
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fyi
fyiJanuary 06 2010
“ Most fascinating is a feature that would make any journalist tremble. Tuyuca requires verb-endings on statements to show how the speaker knows something. Diga ape-wi means that “the boy played soccer (I know because I saw him)”, while diga ape-hiyi means “the boy played soccer (I assume)”. English can provide such information, but for Tuyuca that is an obligatory ending on the verb. Evidential languages force speakers to think hard about how they learned what they say they know. ”— What Is the Most Complex Language in the World? – Neatorama
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hairinmy
hairinmyJanuary 02 2010
“ !Xóõ, spoken by just a few thousand, mostly in Botswana, has a blistering array of unusual sounds. Its vowels include plain, pharyngealised, strident and breathy, and they carry four tones. It has five basic clicks and 17 accompanying ones. The leading expert on the !Xóõ, Tony Traill, developed a lump on his larynx from learning to make their sounds. Further research showed that adult !Xóõ-speakers had the same lump (children had not developed it yet). ”— Economist.com: In search of the world's hardest language
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December 10 2009
“ Gene variants generally considered misfortunes (poor Jim, he got the “bad” gene) can instead now be understood as highly leveraged evolutionary bets, with both high risks and high potential rewards. ... [T]he children who suffer most from bad environments also profit the most from good ones. ”— The Science of Success – The Atlantic
November 04 2009
November 02 2009
Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do | Psychology Today
(It's because "you are more likely to be friends with someone who has more friends than with someone who has fewer friends.")October 20 2009
Play fullscreen
On Girls, Boys, and IT Careers
Google TechTalk by Dr. Cornelia Brunner (59:00)
Butch vs. femme ways of thinking about tech, and what the difference means for IT education: "[Currently we're focused on] finding the girls who are interested to think in butch ways [...] and making them feel comfortable in [the butch IT] world. The missing piece is inducting femme thinkers into this universe."
Google TechTalk by Dr. Cornelia Brunner (59:00)
Butch vs. femme ways of thinking about tech, and what the difference means for IT education: "[Currently we're focused on] finding the girls who are interested to think in butch ways [...] and making them feel comfortable in [the butch IT] world. The missing piece is inducting femme thinkers into this universe."
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antifuchs
antifuchs
October 18 2009
“ Schulden können zwar den einzelnen Schuldner ins Elend treiben, aber auf einer allgemeineren, systemischen Ebene machen Schulden nicht arm, sondern reich. Schon für den „ehrbaren Kaufmann", erst recht für den Industriellen, und ganz gewiss für ganze Gesellschaften gilt: Man kann sich nicht reich sparen, man kann sich nur reich investieren. ... Hätten die Menschen nicht begonnen über ihre Verhältnisse zu leben, würden wir immer noch in weit ärmeren Verhältnissen leben. ”— Erlöse uns von unseren Schulden! - Robert Misik
October 17 2009
Median voter theory - Wikipedia
"in a majority election, if voter policy preferences can be represented as a point along a single dimension ... and if there are only two politicians, then the politicians ... should both commit to the policy position preferred by the median voter." (ie, the same exact position)October 04 2009
Robert Misik über das Ausländerproblem – Bin normalerweise kein Fan von seinen Videocasts, aber diese Ausgabe ist gut, differenziert, inspirierend.
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August 17 2009
“ Environmentalists [can be seen as] being split into three groups:— Bright green environmentalism - Wikipedia
Light greens see protecting the environment first and foremost as a personal responsibility. ... They often focus on environmentalism as a lifestyle choice.
Dark greens believe that environmental problems are an inherent part of industrialized capitalism, and seek radical political change.
Bright greens believe that radical changes are needed in the economic and political operation of society in order to make it sustainable, but that better designs, new technologies and more widely distributed social innovations are the means to make those changes - and that society can neither shop nor protest its way to sustainability. ”
To what degree are these types reflected in, say, the Austrian Green party?
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ylem235
The Principles of Extropy
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Perpetual Progress
Seeking more intelligence, wisdom, and effectiveness, an open-ended lifespan, and the removal of political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to continuing development. Perpetually overcoming constraints on our progress and possibilities as individuals, as organizations, and as a species. Growing in healthy directions without bound. - Self-Transformation
Affirming continual ethical, intellectual, and physical self-improvement, through critical and creative thinking, perpetual learning, personal responsibility, proactivity, and experimentation. Using technology — in the widest sense to seek physiological and neurological augmentation along with emotional and psychological refinement. - Practical Optimism
Fueling action with positive expectations – individuals and organizations being tirelessly proactive. Adopting a rational, action-based optimism or "proaction", in place of both blind faith and stagnant pessimism. - Intelligent Technology
Designing and managing technologies not as ends in themselves but as effective means for improving life. Applying science and technology creatively and courageously to transcend "natural" but harmful, confining qualities derived from our biological heritage, culture, and environment. - Open Society - information and democracy
Supporting social orders that foster freedom of communication, freedom of action, experimentation, innovation, questioning, and learning. Opposing authoritarian social control and unnecessary hierarchy and favoring the rule of law and decentralization of power and responsibility. Preferring bargaining over battling, exchange over extortion, and communication over compulsion. - Self-Direction
Valuing independent thinking, individual freedom, personal responsibility, self-direction, self-respect, and a parallel respect for others. - Rational Thinking
Favoring reason over blind faith and questioning over dogma. Understanding, experimenting, learning, challenging, and innovating rather than clinging to beliefs.
July 13 2009
Bevölkerungswissenschaftler Herwig Birg im Interview
über die schrumpfene Bevölkerung in europäischen Ländern, deren wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen und die daraus resultierende Verschiebung von weltpolitischen Kraftverhältnissen, Zuwanderung & Integration, und den Vorschlag der Bevorzugung von Bürgern mit Kindern im Sozialsystem und der Arbeitswelt.Differenziert, teils provokativ, auf jeden Fall sehr interessant.
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Echolicht
Echolicht
June 30 2009
“ Feeling sleepy? That’s because parts of your brain are actually asleep ... Sleep creeps up on you as independent groups of brain cells become fatigued and switch into a sleep state even while you are still (mostly) awake. ”— Newswise Science News
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June 14 2009
“ What we are experiencing is not a crisis of capitalism. It is a crisis of finance [over-leverage], of democracy [unwillingness to enact short-term pain for long-term gain], of globalization [national politics vs. global economy] and ultimately of ethics. ”— Zakaria: A Capitalist Manifesto | Newsweek.com
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May 27 2009
Fußgängerzone, Aufzug, Flughafen
über das merkwürdige Verhalten von Menschen auf engem Raum - Leben in der Masse - sueddeutsche.deReposted from
konnex
konnexMay 26 2009
May 22 2009
“ How much stress we experience depends more on how well we control attention than on what happens to us. ”— Psychology Today: Finding flow
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evaku
evaku
May 21 2009
“ We can be happy experiencing the passive pleasure of a rested body, warm sunshine, or the contentment of a serene relationship, but this kind of happiness is dependent on favorable external circumstances. The happiness that follows flow is of our own making, and it leads to increasing complexity and growth in consciousness. ”— Psychology Today: Finding flow
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existenZ
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