May 2012
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$8000 Black and White Only Digital Camera →
I will admit to experiencing a lot of camera lust, and the name Leica is enough to get me salivating, but I really just can’t believe this announcement. Surely there is a market, albeit niche, for digital camera that can’t perceive colour, or they wouldn’t make it. That said, when I next look to grow my camera collection, this will be the last one on my list.
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“[The] average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and [we] have about two...”
– The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories. (via explore-blog)
Who measures this? How can you measure this? What constitutes a daydream? These numbers are astounding. I know that some of my best ideas come while daydreaming, but executing them becomes some...
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“Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the...”
– Nietzsche (via explore-blog)
April 2012
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“I cannot prove scientifically that Truth must be conceived as a Truth that is...”
– Einstein, in conversation with Indian philosopher Tagore in 1940, discussing truth and beauty in the context of science and spirituality – one of recorded history’s most intellectually remarkable conversations.
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Announcing the Windows 8 Editions →
Wow, a very sane set of editions for windows? The ability to switch interface languages in the basic edition? I’m almost convinced.
via Daring Fireball
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Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down... →
there is no real debate about whether drugs should once again be criminalized. More significantly, none of the nightmare scenarios touted by preenactment decriminalization opponents — from rampant increases in drug usage among the young to the transformation of Lisbon into a haven for “drug tourists” — has occurred.
—cato.org
The semantics and details are important here,...
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Instagram: Instagram + Facebook →
instagram:
Today, we couldn’t be happier to announce that Instagram has agreed to be acquired by Facebook.
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The Instagram app will still be the same one you know and love. You’ll still have all the same people you follow and that follow you.You’ll still be able to share to other social networks. And you’ll still have all the other features that make the app so fun and...
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Link Between Fast Food and Depression →
EurekAlert article.
According to a recent study headed by scientists from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Granada, eating commercial baked goods (fairy cakes, croissants, doughnuts, etc.) and fast food (hamburgers, hotdogs and pizza) is linked to depression.
Published in the Public Health Nutrition journal, the results reveal that consumers of fast food,...
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Exclusive: a behind-the-scenes look at Facebook... →
Did you know that the Facebook app is a 1.5GB binary and that They push updates to their servers through BitTorrent? I love Facebooks openness about the technology they use to power the worlds second largest website.
“1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and...”
– C. S. Lewis on writing, joining other sage writing advice from Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Wilder, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Henry Miller, and David Ogilvy.
More on the power of simple words.
(via explore-blog)
Such great advice.
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14-year-old girl drinks 2 "Monster's", dies from... →
cranquis:
…The amount of caffeine [the girl] drank in the two Monster energy drinks is about the same as that found in 14 cans of Coca Cola — and is almost five times the recommended caffeine limit from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Apparently, if you happen to have Mitral Valve Prolapse (a usually-harmless condition, found in approximately 10% of the population), as this unlucky...
March 2012
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Base Jump Inside a Church, Brussels Belgium →
The video isn’t very clear, but that is one of the wildest stunts I’ve seen in a while.
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Facebook warns employers not to solicit passwords,... →
“If an employer sees on Facebook that someone is a member of a protected group (e.g. over a certain age, etc.) that employer may open themselves up to claims of discrimination if they don’t hire that person.”
“We’ll take action to protect the privacy and security of our users, whether by engaging policymakers or, where appropriate, by initiating legal action,...
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Screenshots of Despair →
Being into tech and software, there’s some truly funny interface copy out there.
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The Browser You Love(d) To Hate →
The title of the campaign sums up my sentiments exactly and this sort of marketing is going a long ways to win my affections. It seems that todays Microsoft knows that it’s not number one in everything and that it’s necessary to make cool and useful stuff for people to want to use it. IE9 is not that bad, I use it.
via Daring Fireball
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Sparrow Mail for iOS →
I’ve been using Sparrow as my default desktop mail client for a few months now and I love it. It’s nimble, as the name implies. It’s equally comfortable being shrunk down to IM sized message list as being blown up to be full screen on my iMac. A lot of work was done to create certain flows that are very quick for the majority of day to day email tasks, along with some cool cloud...
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The opposite of poverty is not wealth. … In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.
There’s a lot of great food for thought in this video. I’ve long been for the re-positioning the mentality of the death sentence from ‘does the crime deserve death?’ to ‘do I have the right to take someones life?’. Watch it, you won’t regret that you...
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This Article Generating Thousands Of Dollars In Ad... →
You know it!
“Creativity can seem like magic. We look at people like Steve Jobs and Bob Dylan,...”
– Jonah Lehrer, who has previously explored the architecture of knowledge and innovation, on what new research reveals about how to be creative – a taste of Lehrer’s new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works.
Kony 2012, Really? →
It wouldn’t be fair to criticize the video without having watched it, so I put it on over lunch. All I can say is serioulsly?! April 20th? 4/20? Is this a pot smoking club?
Anyway, having been familiar with the project since 2006 it’s important to note that it is not a Christian organization, but that many people within are practicing Christian. Secondly, the money you give will be...
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Poly – free web font on the Behance Network →
I really like this serif family.
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February 2012
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Leap Day
Today is leap day, at least for those following either the Gregorian or the antiquated Julian calendar system. Leap day exists to make sure that with the passing of time April remains a spring month, ready for farmers to sow their crops. And it’s our pursuit of this noble goal that has made the exact date of George Washingtons birthday a trick question. He was born on the Julian Calendar and...
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Why I Don't Hate Religion
I wanted to spend some time fleshing out some thoughts regarding religion, I’ve recently encountered a lot of negativity from both Christians and anti-theists towards that word and I think both sides are misinformed.
It’s foolishness for Christians to try and somehow cleave their beliefs from the title of religion. While the anti-theistic opinion that religion is an outmoded,...
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“People complain about the cost of software, then act surprised when companies...”
– Or this.
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Wannaburger - Edinburgh's Quality Fast Food... →
I’ve had this site open on my browser for almost a year now meaning to share it with the world. I was in Edinburgh last march and ate here every day for a week, it was amazing. Check it out.
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I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what... →
This. This is what I hate about studios.
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“Here is a list of sites you can steal images from.”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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March 26, 2010
‘A whole hour till the next bus!’ The reality was just starting to sink in. I needed to go to the airport, not immediately, I still had 12 hours to my flight, but I didn’t have the money to spend the night in a hotel, and when you don’t have any other option, an airport isn’t so bad. They usually get pretty quiet at night and put a roof over your head, though you do...
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Pole To Pole Run - The Greatest Run in History →
An incredible trek from the North Pole to the South Pole. Pat >Farmer will run two marathons every day, no days off, for almost a year, over 13,000 miles through 14 countries in a race to raise $100 million for the International Red Cross.
One of the most ambitious feats of athleticism I’ve ever heard of. Pat Farmer has successfully ran from the North Pole to Argentina so far and...
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Dubious Assumption Indeed →
Regarding SOPA/PIPA:
In the entire discussion, I’ve seen no discussion of credible evidence of this economic harm. There’s no question in my mind that piracy exists, that people around the world are enjoying creative content without paying for it, and even that some criminals are profiting by redistributing it. But is there actual economic harm?
First, I agree with the above cited...
January 2012
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The Sliver of Perception →
In the grand scheme of things, we’re all pretty much blind and deaf.
Goodbye 2011
All my friends back home in Spain are already celebrating the needle having ticked over to 2012 and as I ready myself for the evenings festivities I feel a slight bit of emotion saying goodbye to a year filled with ups, downs, twists and turns, challenges and growth. I raced up and down mountains, I risked myself emotionally, I faced the past and problems therein, I got help from others, and made...
December 2011
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Let's put 'Christ'-mas in its place →
So instead of engaging in a battle to reclaim Christmas, I propose an alternative. Let’s take Christ out of Christmas.
I know what you’re thinking: What about “the reason for the season”? But that’s precisely my point. Do Christians really want to think of the son of God as the reason for reduced-price waffle-makers and winter wonderland scenes at the local...
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Milk and Cookies Math →
Did you ever want to know how many calories santa would consume eating two cookies and a glass of milk per child in the US? WolframAlfa can help.
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That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
— Christopher Hitchens, self described antitheist and champion of the ‘New Atheist’ movement.
And what evidence validates such an assertion?
