Being right is overrated.
Doc Searls (via jayparkinsonmd)
It’s true. And you will never hear this from a politician.
I VOTE YES!
The staff at Tumblr were seriously on top of their game when they created the handy Mass-Editor feature. I love viewing my posts, past and present, in this compact way. Not to mention, it helps me to keep my blog neat and weed out the “Blast from the Past” posts that just don’t seem to belong anymore. I hope you’ve all experienced this wonderfulness at least once..
I totally agree. It’s a great interface. I hope I get to see what this does the to tumblr medium: will this new curation tool create blogs that converge more tightly on themes? Blogs with shorter histories in general?
What does it mean to think? Can machines think, or only humans? These questions have obsessed computer science since the 1950s, and grow more important every day as the internet canopy closes over our heads, leaving us in the pregnant half-light of the cybersphere.David Gelernter in Dream-Logic, The Internet and Artificial Thought
Mailorder Wombs: Outsourcing Birth to India
As the article puts it:
[…] maybe what makes the global surrogacy market so different [from other business transactions] is that the service providers are women in poor countries who feel compelled to lease their bodies to care for their own families.
In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday - NYTimes.comExecutives in the spring program also heard that some young people had started leaving college to set up their own synthetic biology labs on the cheap. Such people resemble computer tinkerers from a generation earlier, attendees note, except now they’re fiddling with the genetic code of organisms rather than software.
“Biology is moving outside of the traditional education sphere,” says Andrew Hessel, a former research operations manager at Amgen, during a lecture here. “The students are teaching their professors. This is happening faster than the computer evolved. These students don’t have newsletters. They have Web sites.”
The opposite of “sharing information” isn’t “keeping secrets.” Sometimes, it’s just “knowing when to shut up.the newsweek tumblr
…distraction is nothing new. Over a century ago, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche described his harassed peers. “One thinks with a watch in one’s hand,” he wrote in 1887, “even as one eats one’s midday meal while reading the latest news of the stock market”. Yet Nietzsche didn’t blame clocks or markets. “We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life,” he wrote in his Untimely Meditations, “because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.Friedrich Nietzsche, quoted in “The Distraction Society,” posted by Fascinated. Apropos of this. (via mills)
Detroit—Once a 20th century industrial dynamo, now an 18th century rural society? Pheasants and deer wander among the rusting towers and ruined factories as nature reclaims this mighty American metropolis. Even more shocking: there is not a single supermarket in all of Detroit. In this episode, the remaining citizens of Detroit are turning this industrial wasteland… into a life-giving urban garden.
From Red State Road Trip 2.
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