December 2011
“Denn wir, wo wir fühlen, verflüchtigen; ach wir
atmen uns aus und dahin; von...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke: Duineser Elegien II
“Intrinsic motivations come from within. As Daniel Pink explained in his...”
– Was just talking about this today.
The Overjustification Effect « You Are Not So Smart (via hoodablah)
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“In computability theory, the halting problem can be stated as follows: Given a...”
– Halting problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Our Internet intellectuals lack the intellectual ambition, and the basic...”
– The Internet Intellectual | The New Republic
By Evgeny Morozov on October 12, 2011 (via danpatterson)
This next part is from Kenyatta:
It’s a shame that both the accusation above and the review that this quote comes from are so filled with anger and bile because it clouds what’s actually a very...
“I knew that cyberspace was exciting, but none of the people I knew who were...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson (via hirmes)
“How long before Waxahachie’s lost tunnels are rediscovered? Imagine you...”
– I adapted the algorithm presentation at the AA in London to include a nod to the Waxahachie Superconducting Supercollider (and the physicists unleashed on Wall St. when it was cancelled.)
This was because it’s a part of the story I’ve grown interested in, but also because I was there...
The New Aesthetic: The Topographic Projections and... →
new-aesthetic:
The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries Series
These images were produced by direct, large format, light projection. The projector, powered by a mobile generator, was moved from site to site. All of the pieces were photographed at night using long exposures. On…
“One of these shortcuts is a belief that theatre – especially political theatre –...”
– Easy way out: why it’s weak to walk out on theatre | Stage | guardian.co.uk
“We have to abandon the arrogant belief that the world is merely a puzzle to be...”
– Vaclav Havel’s Critique of the West (via theatlantic)
Watch(Greg Lynn on calculus in architecture)
“People are using Apple as a prime example of design being of vital importance to...”
– yongfook
PS: your startup probably isn’t like Apple when Apple was a startup either. Which means design does kind of matter. But not in the way most people think it matters.
“ Women in Tech (& design) View more presentations from Janice Fraser ”
– I wish this had the speaker’s notes in it but it’s worth your time to review it. Via Tricia. Women in Tech (& design)
“Gambetta and Hertog found engineers only in right-wing groups — the ones that...”
– Why Are So Many Terrorists Engineers? - NYTimes.com (via iamdanw)
“Ab 2012 will die niederländische Fluggesellschaft KLM soziale Netzwerke für...”
– Basically: check into KLM, hook up your FB and linked in profiles, and they’ll seat you with someone you should be seated next to.
But: don’t check into KLM, the worst airline in the entire world.
Flugreisen: KLM sucht Sitznachbarn nach Facebook-Profilen aus | Digital | ZEIT ONLINE
“Critics charge that [Cooper Union’s] administration has made two big...”
– Cooper Union’s identity crisis: What would it mean for the famously free school to charge tuition? | Capital New York
