February 2009
“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to bjy more and more of...”
– Karl Marx, 1867
The Equity Kicker (via rafer)
January 2009
Wii Fit Hack
thor:
Matt Cutts hacked his Wii Fit board to send data to his Linux box. He records his timestamped weight straight to google docs each day.
I want to do this.
“I wanted to wallow in that innocent wonder and joy that you could get out of a...”
– Andrew Stanton, director of Wall-E
via NoahBrier:MetaFilter:Newsweek
Access is better than ownership.
Access is so superior to ownership, or possession, that it will drive the emerging intangible economy. The chief holdup to full-scale conversion from ownership to omni-access is the issue of modification and control. In traditional property regimes only owners have the right to modify or control the use of the property. The right of modification is not transferred in rental, leasing, or licensing...
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
(via gregnews)
Wife murdered for Facebook status →
A man murdered his estranged wife after becoming “enraged” when she changed her marital status on Facebook to “single”
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This is disturbing. I wonder how the facebook sales guy who is trying to sell ad placement to dating sites when people change their relationship status thinks of all this.
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7 sins of success →
7 sins of success by Jeffrey Kalmikoff
1. Gluttony
Spreading yourself too thin
2. Greed
Sacrificing your core business by spending too much time on non-core ideas
3. Sloth
Not reaching 100% completion, 100% of the time
4. Lust
Getting lured away from what you need to do by what you want to do
5. Pride
Forgetting that everything can always be made better
6. Wrath
Getting...
WatchMy buddy Ronen is working with Joseph Gordon-Levitt on a new project called hitrecord.org its trying to pave the way for remixed video via the internets.
They are really on to something.
Watch this posted video and the video about off-set printing
I really love Ronen’s editing style, its magical. If you watch closely you can see it.
Watchmarco:
(via peterwknox:kristynseda:soupsoup:brooklynmutt)
‘I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear…’
Our 44th President takes the oath of office. There was a trivial, momentary slip when Chief Justice John Roberts asked Obama to recite the first line of the oath in the incorrect order. Roberts said “execute the office of President of the United States faithfully,” rather than “faithfully...
Hold Your Own Photo-Design Contests With Aviary’s... →
“Now Aviary, the company behind Worth1000, is looking to give site owners a chance to run their own image-design competitions. The company has built a powerful suite of browser-based imaged editing tools, and is now launching a new site called w1k.com that helps users easily create their own online photo-editing contests. These contests can consist of anything from crowdsourced logo-design...
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“I’m convinced that most people only spend 1-2 hours a day actually working. Of...”
– nathanbowers (via lindsaycampbell)
Term of The Day : Self-Fashioning
Self-fashioning, a term introduced by Stephen Greenblatt (Renaissance Self-Fashioning, 1980), is used to describe the process of constructing one’s identity and public persona according to a set of socially acceptable standards.
[source:wikipedia:self-fashioning]
via Seth Goldstein:Preening in Social Media
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Fog by Mason Proper
via Marc Ecko
Listen to...
“So focusing on how to get the tasks at hand done in the most effective and...”
– Mike Lazerow
“Twitter: an online tool that enables bookish adults to simulate the popularity...”
– from @zeldman
(via noneck)
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Spreeder - Free online speed reading trainer →
Spreeder lets you train your brain to consume content faster than you do now.
via @marshallk
Zapreader does the same thing but their red logo distracts me.
Twitter Challenge
Twitter presents their audience with a challenge - if you don’t like what we’ve done, you have every means to make it better for free, so don’t complain, do something. Originally posted as a comment by gbattle on betaworks using Disqus.