January 2012
123 posts
“The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and...”
– Yancey Strickler, a founder of Kickstarter | The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online - NYTimes.com (via courtenaybird)
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Berries, according to botanists.
malibueinstein:
Things that are berries:
-avocados
-pumpkins
-tomatoes
Things that are not berries:
-blackberries
-strawberries
-raspberries
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“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both...”
– Arthur C. Clarke (via kapi)
Nerdology: And to borrow from Contact, “I’d say if it is just us… seems like an awful waste of space.”
(via nerdology)
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The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient... →
futuramb:
We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare...
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How sharing disrupts media | Felix Salmon →
futuramb:
There are lots of ways of publishing content onto the web, and if you look at the relative popularity of, say, WordPress vs Tumblr vs Twitter, then it’s easy to come to the conclusion that the easier you make it to publish, the more popular you’re going to be. But at Tumblr, at least, there’s something else very interesting going on: according to Karp, there are 9 curators for every...
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Edge.org asked 191 famous thinkers "What is Your... →
climateadaptation:
“I was told some years ago that the reason why some species of sea turtles migrate all the way across the South Atlantic to lay their eggs on the east coast of South America after mating on the west coast of Africa is that when the behavior started, Gondwanaland was just beginning to break apart (that would be between 130 and 110 million years ago), and these turtles...
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Stack Overflow:What would be a good linux stack... →
I would like to make my own RSS reader and I thought it might be nicely implemented through a (linux) mail server. It seems perfect: the subject line is the title, the from would be the feed url, HTML body content, etc.
The features I want this for are for mass filtering; I want to be able to, through whatever interface:
archive items
tag items into a categories
resend to someone else
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