May 2009
“German Romanticism coined an opposite to Heimweh, Fernweh...”
– Nostalgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The Bottom Ten
1. AIDS
2. 9/11
3. Cancer
4. Disease
5. Famine
6. Fascism...”
– Pick One
“WASHINGTON — In the mountains of northwest Pakistan, the psychological impact of...”
– The Downside of Letting Robots Do the Bombing - NYTimes.com
“Human warriors have long spoken of the bonds forged in combat and of becoming a...”
– Real Soldiers Love Their Robot Brethren - Yahoo! News
“Very creative people get atemporal early on. Are relatively unimpressed by the...”
“Less creative people believe in “originality” and...”
“When I look for collaborators I look for atemporality, whatever relevant kinds...”
“Otherwise, result will be “now-bound”. Or, actually, for me, a...”
“Your bleeding-edge Now is always someone else’s past. Someone else’s...”
“The most intelligent 21st-century fashion strives for a radical atemporality....”
“That week’s new Mac obsoleting as you drove it home from the dealer. Like...”
– Twitter / William Gibson
“We have been cheated out of the future,” he writes, “yet the...”
– Twitter / bldgblog
“Commerce is good. It’s the way people create and exchange value. Corporatism is...”
– Douglas Rushkoff (via azspot)
“At Google we’re committed to helping enable a future where access to...”
– This is part one of a dream I’ve had. Energy Information
“But if I had to boil it down to a sentence, I’d say she stared loneliness and...”
– Theme | Laurel Nakadate’s Lens on the Lonely
Kindle Books Now A Shocking 35% Of Sales When... →
holy crap.
WatchFlickr Video Embed: Night Run II, 1st Half
“Just had an “internet moment” of finding something that took my...”
– Twitter / Ivan Askwith
WatchOn Hiring a Milkshake. via Helen @ BWeek.
Putting Products to Work | The Businessweek Video Library
City Generation
from aaronmeyers:
At GDC two years ago I went to a session where a couple of the guys from Introversion Software presented their work. Towards the end of the presentation, they showed a demo (or video of a demo?) of a new city generator being created for a future game. Even at a very very early stage, the city generator was a pretty astonishing sight to see the complex networks of roads and...
Watchaltnytterfarlig:
Aron Koblin’s talk at Picnic2008.
“J. Peter Pham at James Madison University says piracy financiers are usually...”
– Behind The Business Plan Of Pirates Inc. : NPR
WatchThe cardboard sea: see Infinite Ammo’s new Paper Moon in motion - Offworld
“Programs in Washington, D.C.; Chicago, Toronto and San Francisco allow young...”
– Teenagers Get Sex Education Via Cellphone - NYTimes.com
“Northeastern University plans to ask its roughly 5,000 graduates to forgo the...”
– Fear of swine flu nixes Northeastern graduation handshakes - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe
