February 2012
5 posts
January 2012
15 posts
The Future of Television, Like It or Not →
“On YouTube “airtime” is infinite, content costs almost nothing for YouTube to produce, and quantity, not quality, is the bottom line. “YouTube green-lights everything,” as Tim Shey, the director of the site’s division for coaching content creators, YouTube Next Lab, told me. It’s up to the audience, not the executive gut, to decide what’s worth watching.”
“She stood me up against a tree, she took the shotgun out of my hands, and she...”
– Incredible. But true. -jp
Threats And Lies, And ‘Who I’m Supposed To Be’ : StoryCorps
(via npr)
Stephen Hawking Is Blowing My Mind
“Time is defined only with the universe, so it makes no sense to talk about time before the universe began, it would be like asking for a point south of the South Pole.”
Does he moonlight as a Zen Master?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9672000/9672233.stm
Perspective! →
magnified-world:
Ever wonder exactly how big a bacteria is compared to a coffee bean? This scale shows you how big things are from coffee bean down to carbon atom.
This thing is really cool. For nerds. Like me.
This Photo Isn't Free
A great reality-check post from PetaPixel:
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/01/10/this-photograph-is-not-free/
'It Is Essential that We Colonize Space'
“It is possible that the human race could become extinct, but it is not inevitable.
I think it is almost certain that a disaster such as nuclear war or global warming will befall the Earth within a thousand years.
It is essential that we colonize space.
I believe that we will eventually establish self-sustaining colonies on Mars and other bodies in the Solar System although probably not...
The People that Made Your iPhone Want to Kill...
“As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week’s Consumer Electronic’s Show, the workers that make those products are threatening mass suicide for the horrid working conditions at Foxconn. 300 employees who worked making the Xbox 360 stood at the edge of the factory building, about to jump, after their boss reneged on promised compensation, reports English news site Want...
The Rise And Fall Of Poverty Porn →
“The modern era of the humanitarian crisis was born on American televisions in 1968. For two years, a vicious civil war raged in Nigeria after the Southeastern part of the country, Biafra, seceded. The Biafran leadership accused the Nigerian government of perpetrating genocide to inspire Western intervention, but the plea fell on deaf ears and the Nigerian military slowly whittled away at...
Don't Get Too Comfortable
Nice quote about adapting to change from Nick Kristof in this Fast Company article:
“In the process of industrialization, the people who mastered one technology tended not to be those who came to dominate the next technology. The stagecoach people didn’t produce motorcars. The motor vehicle people weren’t the ones who ended up producing trains. The train people weren’t the...
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