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http://cta.io/reincarnatedapp snoopdogg: reggae & west...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:04:18 -0400

http://cta.io/reincarnatedapp

snoopdogg:

reggae & west coast gangsta go togetha like #ginandjuice! #ReincarnatedApp #respectthewest #jamaicalove

Hear Me

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:29:13 -0400

Hear Me:

Snoop Lion Reincarnated: “La La La” featuring Jovi Rockwell!

Peta, thanks for the Post -- great to meet you too, and best of luck with the Citia magic! Shall bump into you again, I'm sure. Rohan x

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:36:35 -0500

No worries! Hope you had fun and productive TOCCon. Keep in touch. x

Met this interesting chap/author last night at the PBS Media...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:24:38 -0500

Met this interesting chap/author last night at the PBS Media Shift Lab Pre-#TOCCON Mixer! Good Luck Rohan!

Spy Week: From Saucy Pics to Passwords: How to Share Sensitive Information Over the Internet(via @Lifehacker)

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:38:32 -0500

Spy Week: From Saucy Pics to Passwords: How to Share Sensitive Information Over the Internet(via @Lifehacker):

Raise your hand if you’ve shared a username and password with someone over IM? Ever share a document with your SSN or other extremely sensitive information without protecting it?

futurejournalismproject: The Reliable Electronic...

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:31:09 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

The Reliable Electronic Memory

Advertisement circa 1950 via BoingBoing.

50’s ads are still so cool even the technology being advertised is now basically a dinosaur!

Thinking about....

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:23:53 -0400

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

—Eric Hoffer, American social writer

From The Daily Heller: The Seventh Seal of Disapproval by Steven Heller

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:30:26 -0400

From The Daily Heller: The Seventh Seal of Disapproval by Steven Heller:

Death. Can’t live with it or without it. It sucks! Death is terrible when someone you love passes. But we’ve also all grieved when, say, a product that we’ve become attached to is put out on the ice flow. The Stone Twins, from Amsterdam, memorialized this grief over things in their book, Logo R.I.P., which was first published in 2003. It commemorated 50 defunct logos; “many included may be regarded as icons of their time or international design classics,” noted Gerech Stone in a recent letter. “The core thesis of Logo R.I.P. is that logos that were once an integral part of our visual culture and lives are worthy of commemoration, or even preservation.”

This year a second edition has been published by BIS with some new tombstones in the logo cemetery, including AT&T, Kodak, Lucent, Xerox and Rand’s Enron. “These ‘obituaries,’” Stone wrote, “ensure that although the logos may be gone, they are not forgotten.” Given the morbidly clever way the logos are presented, I don’t think I’ll forget them too soon.

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Tagged as: Daily Heller, Logos R.I.P., Steven Heller, Stone Twins

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explore-blog: Renaud Hallée uses fire as a music instrument....

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:57:19 -0400

explore-blog:

Renaud Hallée uses fire as a music instrument. More experimental music made from nature here.

ebookporn: This is one of the most helpful and constructive...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:39:12 -0400

ebookporn:

This is one of the most helpful and constructive infographics for authors and publishers I have seen this year. Thinking of having it tattooed. ~ eP

literaryjukebox: We always think of the imagination as the...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:03:26 -0400

literaryjukebox:

We always think of the imagination as the faculty that forms images. On the contrary, it is a faculty that deforms the images that we perceive; it is, above all, the faculty that frees us from immediate images and changes them. If there is no change, or unexpected fusion of images, there is no imagination; there is no imaginative process. If the image that is present does not make us think of one that is absent, if an image does not determine an abundance—an explosion— of atypical images, then there is no imagination.

Gaston Bachelard in Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement

Song: “Pure Imagination” by Rest (Sing Me To Sleep: Indie Lullabies)

iTunes :: Amazon

Kevin Kelly tells technology's epic story

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:30:01 -0400

Kevin Kelly tells technology's epic story:

Kevin Kelly’s TEDxAmsterdam talk from 2010: thought-provoking muses on what technology means in our lives — from its impact at the personal level to its place in the cosmos.

"So what does the Internet want? It wants to lower the cost for creating and sharing information. The..."

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:59:39 -0400

“So what does the Internet want? It wants to lower the cost for creating and sharing information. The notion sounds unimpeachable when you phrase it like that, until you realize all the strange places that kind of affordance ultimately leads to. The Internet wants to breed algorithms that can execute thousands of financial transactions per minute, and it wants to disseminate the #occupywallstreet meme across the planet. The Internet ‘wants’ both the Wall Street tycoons and the popular insurrection at its feet.”

- Steven Johnson on the “peer progressive” movement and what the internet wants (via explore-blog)

Found On The Creative Finder, This Week’s Inspiration Starters - DesignTAXI.com

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:11:07 -0400

Found On The Creative Finder, This Week’s Inspiration Starters - DesignTAXI.com

"Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read"

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:02:48 -0400

“Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read”

- Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read | Open Culture (via thnkrtv)

Great list!!

"I certainly want [my readers] to think like scientists – to think critically, skeptically – but I..."

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:49:29 -0400

“I certainly want [my readers] to think like scientists – to think critically, skeptically – but I also want them to be imbued with the poetry of the universe, the poetry of reality, which is what science is.”

- Richard Dawkins, echoing the famous words of Richard Feynman and Carl Sagan, in this great BBC 4 Radio interview.

Also see Dawkins’s The Magic of Reality, a children’s book debunking religious mythology with the awe of science.

(via explore-blog)

"… people — I mean the average person, the great majority of people, the enormous majority of people..."

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:40:13 -0400

“… people — I mean the average person, the great majority of people, the enormous majority of people — are woefully, pitifully, absolutely ignorant of the science of the world that they live in, and they can stay that way … And an interesting question of the relation of science to modern society is just that — why is it possible for people to stay so woefully ignorant and yet reasonably happy in modern society when so much knowledge is unavailable to them?… I think we should teach them wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more. And that the knowledge is just to put into correct framework the wonder that nature is.”

- Richard Feynman on the role of scientific culture in modern society (via explore-blog)

How to Be an Explorer of the World by Maria Popova

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:03:51 -0400

It all began with this simple list, which Smith scribbled on a piece of paper in the middle a sleepless night in 2007:

Taken from illustrator Keri Smith’s Wreck This Box set of interactive journals, Maria Popova finds delight and inspiration in the creativity of being simple. WE LIKE THIS APPROACH and the 13 points above are definitely words to live by.

19 Old-Timey Slang Terms to Bolster Your Vocabulary

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:09:25 -0400

19 Old-Timey Slang Terms to Bolster Your Vocabulary:

nevver:

In the ketchup: Operating at a deficit

John Hollowlegs: A hungry man [hobo use]

Lobbygow: One who loafs around an opium den in hopes of being offered a free pipe

Happy cabbage: A sizable amount of money to be spent on self-satisfying things

Zib: A nondescript nincompoop

Give someone the wind: To jilt a suitor with great suddenness

The zings: A hangover

Butter and egg man: A wealthy, unsophisticated, small-town businessman who tries to become a playboy, especially when visiting a large city

Cluck and grunt: Eggs and ham

Off the cob: Corny

Dog robber: A baseball umpire

Happies: Arch supporters [shoe salesman use]

High-wine: A mixture of grain alcohol and Coca-Cola [hobo use]

Flub the dub: To evade one’s duty

Donkey’s breakfast: A straw mattress

George Eddy: A customer who does not tip

Wet sock: A limp, flaccid handshake

Gazoozle: To cheat

On a toot: On a drunken spree

Mental Floss

explore-blog: “Shouldn’t everybody be on the internet?...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:07:28 -0400

explore-blog:

“Shouldn’t everybody be on the internet? YESSS.”

Kids in adorable 90s haircuts predict the future of the internet (“by the time we’re in college, the internet will be our telephone, television, shopping center, and workplace”; “…and I even found a recipe for catfood cupcakes”) in an oddly prophetic PSA from 1995.

Then, see Arthur C. Clarke predict it way back in 1964.