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Tumblelog byChristopher Clay, founder of Soup.io.
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Output so far
Heftling (2012?)
Luminous Flux (2012–) ♥
Mixtapes (2011)
27 (2010) ♥Team Armin Soyka (2010)
26 (2009) ♥
Startupwiki (2009–)
LIF (2008)
Soup (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!
LIF (2008)
Soup (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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May 02 2012
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November 18 2011
The Five-Year-Old's Guide to the Galaxy
Best of the "Explain Like I'm Five" subreddit – some good stuff here.
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July 14 2011
February 01 2011
October 04 2010
Sal Khan at Gel 2010 – if you haven't perused the Khan Academy video library, you should. Thank you, internet, for once again letting the whole world benefit from some enthusiastic person's charitable efforts in their bedroom.
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BrutusD
BrutusD
September 07 2010
August 31 2010
Dimensions is a BBC site that "takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are." – Check out Burning Man or The Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch compared to Vienna. Very cool!
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August 05 2010
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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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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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
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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
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 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.
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