February 2010
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your...”
– Orson Welles
The line blurs between animated & live-action... →
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Noogler →
Noogler, n, A new Googler. Rule of thumb: When you’ve been around longer than 1% of the staff, you cease being a Noogler.
Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous's Ass →
Business Insider article. The gist : Tumblr’s better designed.
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
– Muhammad Ali
“Most people need less done well, not more done poorly.”
– Brian Christiansen.Via.
How Different Cultures Shape the Brain - Newsweek →
Cultural neuroscience. This could be controversial.
with Chinese volunteers, the results were strikingly different. The “me” circuit hummed not only when they thought whether a particular adjective described themselves, but also when they considered whether it described their mother. The Westerners showed no such overlap between self and mom. Depending whether one lives in a...
WatchHaiti Earthquake Aftermath Montage by Khalid Mohtaseb
Shot with the Canon 5D Mark II. Breathtaking.
“Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good...”
– Zadie Smith Ten rules for writing fiction
“Simple Sentences: Be smart, but not academic. Prune words that don’t make a...”
– Scott Adams on comedic writing.
Or any writing, for that matter.
Behold the Violent History of Saturn's White Whale... →
Love this physorg article title on Saturn’s Prometheus. Oh so pulp.
Terrorism: the Most Meaningless and Manipulated... →
Glenn Greenwald in Salon:
Terrorism is simultaneously the single most meaningless and most manipulated word in the American political lexicon. The term now has virtually nothing to do with the act itself and everything to do with the identity of the actor, especially his or her religious identity.
“I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody’s head.”
– John Updike
“Technology is anything that doesn’t work yet.”
– W. Daniel Hillis
“Much of the web is rude, thoughtless, or chauvinistic. … Rather than rely on a...”
– Jim Rossignol (via marco)
“Hyperacuity : The perceived increase in sharpness due to grain.”
– Visual Acuity ↔ Hyperacuity
Mossad At Work | Wired →
The CCTV footage is a fascinating look into Mossad’s craft.
The footage, taken from cameras at the Dubai airport and several luxury hotels, follows the activities of 10 men and one woman as they arrived in Dubai on various European passports and moved among hotels and a shopping center, even changing disguises at one point, during the hours before Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed.