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You know exactly who they dont want in here but the guy with shorts and flip flops is welcome This is in Rockafella Center btw
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You know exactly who they dont want in here but the guy with shorts and flip flops is welcome This is in Rockafella Center btw
It’s really about communicating with people that I work with that there are limits.
Omar Wasow looks at the rise in violence in the 1970s in black communities, and the forces responsible for the rise in disparities of black incarceration.
Speaking of citizen science, Gale McCullough (PopTech 2010), a former nursery school teacher and old-fashioned naturalist, discovered a whale that had journeyed an unprecedented 6,000 miles from Brazil to Madagascar. The technology she used? Flickr. Through the photo sharing website where people post their “I-went-on-a-whale-watch-trip” photos, she found matching photos of the whales.
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My local police precinct (Southwest Detectives in Philadelphia) is doing this fascinating thing where they post pictures from memory cards on stolen cameras to help find the original owners. It’s a strange combination of useful and invasive — one or two of the pictures border on intensely personal. But there are some really interesting pictures and I love the idea of someone finding their lost or stolen stuff this way.
What a great post! I feel guilty reblogging it.
I’d like to see the full spectrum of psychedelics be integrated into hospice care.
I never would have thought that writing gender-neutral language in software would be a harder problem than, say, indexing the entirety of the Internet for perfect search results.
Some people squirt their cats when they’re misbehaving, so maybe it could have water in the phone, and you could squirt the dog.
To present email and text messages as they often feel would create an experimental novel, as if descending from Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs cut-ups.
The subtext of nearly every interaction with a health-care provider in the U.S. is: You’re lucky to have this coverage. Don’t push it. There are thousands of patients waiting behind you who are in even worse condition than you are. Let’s get through this as quickly as possible so the whole bloody machine doesn’t come grinding to a halt.
And when I was 13 years old, reading this, I didn’t understand the scouring of the Shire. They won—why are there all these other pages? But I reread these books every few years, and every time my appreciation for what Tolkien did there grows. It was this kind of sad elegy on the price of victory.
A few months ago, I said in Berlin, “Cognitive cities require the approval and collaboration of city authorities. The same people who make flyposting illegal.”
It’s sad, and somewhat annoying – especially for Tom – but a better example that these streets are not our streets won’t be found in Britain today.
The slipper to coffee snobbery was fairly close to my bed when I woke up.
I’m uncomfortable using a privately-owned social network as the medium to give voice to our sensors and objects.
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The Yip Yips discover dubstep.
A lot of the moms there are giving their kids Botox, I’m not the only one who does it.
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(via 50 Watts)
And somehow I knew that the notional space behind all of the computer screens would be one single universe.
I’ve just gotten to a point where this is no longer working for me. Too many of my day-to-day concerns are not consonant with the way I want to experience the world.
“It’s Andy Hertzfeld, the original Mac guy,” he said.
Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.
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Two nuclear power plants in Nebraska, 100 miles apart, are completely surrounded by water. (via Flooding Won’t Overcome Nuclear Plants, Officials Say : NPR)
I have a theory that all men in the universe can be classified into two groups depending on which of the following two questions they answer “yes” to: 1. Have you ever partied with cheerleaders? or, 2. Have you ever been bitten by a snake?
The world is full of aging baby boomers who are looking forward to psychedelic retirement and psychedelic hospice. They had psychedelic experiences in their youth that were useful to them. They gave up the drugs for family and career. Now they’re thinking back to those valuable experiences and they want to get re-engaged.