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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My favorite posts (outdated)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My favorite posts (outdated)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 02 2010
“ The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility. ”— Scott Adams
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fragmad
fragmad
March 01 2010
The Hub Vienna
"will bring together social entrepreneurs from every profession, background and culture – united by their imagination and drive to pursue enterprising ideas for a radically better world: innovators and executives, community leaders and policy-makers, investors, activists, students, creatives and many more... passionate people who see and do things differently in a space designed to let them thrive."It might well be unjustified, but I have to admit I'm a little skeptical of the whole sustainability/social entrepreneurship crowd. It seems like there's a lot of events designed to make the participants feel better about themselves at spectacular locations (In the mountains! In the woods! In the city!) and little bootstrapping, hacking and getting stuff done. The Hub London is at least a very cool space though, so I'm sure this can become a valuable part of the Viennese scene.
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February 23 2010
Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games (DICE 2010) (via fox@fury)
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cypher
cypherFebruary 13 2010
The goal of education and experience: To move things from the "shit you don't know you don't know" into the "shit you know you don't know" category (the "known unknowns", as Rumsfeld would put it).
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February 06 2010
“— Jane McGonigal via elzr[Game designers] are the best designers of human experience, and we’re applying all of our talent, all our insight to optimizing virtual [rather than real] experience. That needs to end, starting today. ... We have the responsibility to take what we’ve learned as an industry over the past 30 years and start making everyday life more like our games [...] so that when people all over the world wake up every morning, they wake up with a mission, with allies, with a sense of being a part of a bigger story, part of a system that wants them to be happy.”
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February 03 2010
Fragments on education 2.0
1. Chapter 4, "Teaching with Technology" is (surprisingly, despite Douglas Rushkoff's involvement) the only watchworthy part of the PBS Frontline episode "Life on the Virtual Frontier". The money quote:
"The world that we're preparing [our students] for isn't going to require them to remember a bunch of information that someone tells them. The world's gonna require them to do stuff, to build things, to work on stuff."
"The world that we're preparing [our students] for isn't going to require them to remember a bunch of information that someone tells them. The world's gonna require them to do stuff, to build things, to work on stuff."
2. Robin Sloan sees the iPad as the greatest canvas for a new kind of interactive media: "I think the young Hayao Miyazakis of this world ought to be learning Objective-C".
3. Inkling seems like infant steps towards exploring what that could look like applied to education.
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postpoeia
January 14 2010
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kellerabteil via luca“ However, like socialism, which is a far simpler model than capitalism and which has proved fantastically evil in its treatment of those who disagreed with it, objectivism has turned out to be completely inept at dealing with disagreement. Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles. ”— Erik Naggum on Atlas Shrugged - Kent Pitman - Open Salon
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elpollodiabloJanuary 10 2010
“ Stars are not important. There’s nothing interesting about stars. Street lamps are very important because they’re so rare: As far as we know there are only a few million of them in the universe. And they were built by monkeys. ”— Terry Pratchett
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January 07 2010
“ Menschen, die nach Sinn in ihrem Leben suchen und achtlos an einer Schneeflocke vorbeigehen ohne sie und ihre wunderbare Symetrie zu beachten sind wie Ertrinkende, die benommen an einem Rettungsring vorbeitreiben. ”— Philipp Tiefenbacher
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“ Meiner Meinung macht es keinen Sinn sich über andere Menschen aufzuregen. Man würde nie fertig aber schnell verbittert werden. ”— Philipp Tiefenbacher @wizard23
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January 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 05 2010
How to say stupid things about social media
Cory Doctorow debunking "It's inconsequential", "It is ugly" and "It is ephemeral".
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January 04 2010
Play fullscreen
There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing – absolutely nothing – except switch itself off. –Arthur C. Clarke
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January 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
Freighter travel - Wikitravel
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clifford
December 08 2009
“ Hackerspaces enrich their region's cultural and technological scene. They are places of information, discussion, experimentation and openness. They are the real world manifestations of a new paradigm, originated in the free, border-less and undiscriminating nature of the internet and its communications structures. Hackerspaces are places where freedom of opinion meets creativity and spawns inspiration. They're the birth-place of start-up firms that employ cutting edge technology, of altruistic community projects and of art in new media. ”— Open letter in support of Forskningsavdelningen – Metalab
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December 07 2009
Less Wrong: That Alien Message
How the AI that we locked in a box to be safe will trick us, wrapped in a compelling sci fi story.
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antifuchs
November 30 2009
A bust of Lenin remains visible atop the buried Soviet research station at the Southern Pole of Inacessability, one of the most remote places on Earth, abandoned in 1967.
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