Apr 2, 2012
The Wind Map. Yet another beautiful creation by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.

The Wind Map. Yet another beautiful creation by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.

Jan 7, 2012
A remarkably useful visualization.

A remarkably useful visualization.

Nov 29, 2011
jayparkinsonmd: Hany Farid has come up with a nice solution to solve that self-esteem problem so many of us face when we see photos of beautiful people in magazines— use a computer algorithm to grade how much photoshop altering was used and mandate that every altered image is labeled with this grade. Level 1 is minute changes and 5 is fabricated fantasy. This of course won’t solve our country’s self-esteem problem, but it’s an interesting way of raising awareness.

jayparkinsonmd:

Hany Farid has come up with a nice solution to solve that self-esteem problem so many of us face when we see photos of beautiful people in magazines— use a computer algorithm to grade how much photoshop altering was used and mandate that every altered image is labeled with this grade. Level 1 is minute changes and 5 is fabricated fantasy.

This of course won’t solve our country’s self-esteem problem, but it’s an interesting way of raising awareness.

Nov 27, 2011
You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
Steve Jobs in PBS’ “One Last Thing”
Sep 6, 2011
You people in the developed world are certainly free to debate the merits of genetically modified foods, but can we eat first?
Florence Wambugu, Kenyan plant pathologist and virologist
Aug 20, 2011

How software is eating the world

Marc Andreesson defends the value of software companies in the face of bubble fear in the Valley.

Aug 18, 2011
People adapting to available resources. (Taken with Instagram at Valencia Street Muscle)

People adapting to available resources. (Taken with Instagram at Valencia Street Muscle)

Aug 11, 2011
It begins.

It begins.

Aug 2, 2011
…the word “organic” has been stretched and twisted to admit the very sort of industrial practices for which it once offered a critique and an alternative. The final standards also demonstrate how, in Gene Kahn’s words, “everything eventually morphs into the way the world is.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, p154
Jul 11, 2011

Ephemeralization

Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller, is the ability of technological advancement to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing”.

(Source: petervidani)

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