The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
2013
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Schneier on Security · schneier
Me at RSA 2012
This is not a video of my talk at the RSA Conference earlier this year. This is a 16-minute version of that talk -- TED-like -- that the conference filmed the day after for the purpose of putting it on the Internet. Today's Internet threats are not technical; they're social and political. They aren't criminals,…
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Way
just download it, connect it to Twitter, and wait; one of the most intriguing games I've ever played
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water
live coding d3 sketchpad based on Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle; click a number and hold the alt key
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Matt Haughey's Lessons from a 40-Year-Old
on "lifestyle" businesses and the risks of taking funding
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Glitchr
Facebook page devoted to breaking their layout; related: tweets that break Twitter
feltron
"1. Why do you write your own software rather than only use existing software tools? A few years ago..."
“1. Why do you write your own software rather than only use existing software tools? A few years ago my work became almost exclusively data-driven and my design process became increasingly centered on a rules-based approach. I developed a set of processes for creating maps and charts that were effective, yet…
Schneier on Security · schneier
"Raise the Crime Rate"
I read this a couple of months ago, and I'm still not sure what I think about it. It's definitely one of the most thought-provoking essays I've read this year. According to government statistics, Americans are safer today than at any time in the last forty years. In 1990, there were 2,245 homicides in New York City.…
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO · Matt Cutts
New 30 day challenge: No news
A Computer Scientist in a Business School · Panos Ipeirotis
The (Unofficial) NIST Definition of Crowdsourcing
A Computer Scientist in a Business School · Panos Ipeirotis
Philippines: The country that never sleeps (or, When is the world working? The oDesk Edition)
Interconnected · Matt Webb
Instagram as an island economy
Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars. If you don't know: Facebook is a corporation with a database in which they would like to record every act that every person makes, annotated with the place and time, and another database that lists every social relationship each person has. They are persuading people…
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Chad
Public Beta of Mandrill SMTP Email Service
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Ben
OMG Make The Auto-Replies Go Away (Introducing ReplyTo)
Cognition by Happy Cog · Ryan Irelan
The Tech Behind Site Week
In February we gathered a group together in our Philadelphia office to redesign and rebuild our happycog.com website in one week. The goal of our Site Week was to redesign the website (Greg Hoy covers the thinking behind this in a Cognition post back in Janauary) and to push ourselves to do something different. In…
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Flashback Trojan Creators Scared of Xcode, But Not Norton Antivirus
On Wednesday, a Russian antivirus firm announced that over 600,000 Macs were infected with the Flashback trojan, exploiting a Java vulnerability to create the first significant malware infection in OS X history. If you're running a botnet, the goal is to avoid detection for as long as possible. Flashback took an…
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U.K. Government Digital Service Design Principles
The United Kingdom’s cabinet office tasked with transforming government digital services recently published this draft list of ten principles for digital design. As one might expect, none of them are particularly controversial, and so the whole batch seems somewhat bromidic. Still, it means something that a…
Quantified Self · Alexandra Carmichael
Four Hacks for Balancing Mood
Bustr Bensn
HOW DO WE CHANGE OURSELVES?
Two conflicting ideas that keep showing up for me: Have a Freaking Goal (I both love and totally disagree with this post) Free Will (I probably am a bit too infatuated with this book at the moment) Simplified versions of the 2 conflicting ideas: We aren’t gonna get any closer to our goals if we don’t have them Making…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
What You Need to Know About the Flashback Trojan
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Flashback Trojan Reportedly Controls Half a Million Macs and Counting
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
John Moltz’s Very Nice Web Site
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A 1-hour talk by Sam Harris about the illusion of free will....
A 1-hour talk by Sam Harris about the illusion of free will. Definitely worth watching for anyone remotely interested in the topic. Thanks to @collinferry for the link. One of my favorite parts of the talk was his thought experiment (at 19:00 in the video). The experiment walks you through a simple example of what…
Interconnected · Matt Webb
Peak Attention and the DuPont Equation
I keep coming back to this article A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 (which I first read back in Week 315), in particular the section Schumpeterian Growth and the Industrial Economy (1800-2000) which is about (and I quote) THE COLONIZATION OF TIME which I have written in caps and underlined because it…
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2 different kinds of personal assistants from the future
Which option would you rather have as a personal assistant: An automated service that knows you better than you know yourself, and surfaces opportunities of serendipity at the right moments A robot who is conscious and thinks of itself as an individual Artificial Intelligence is all about achieving Option 2, but I…
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On motivation
joinsessions: Motivation — A mythical, precious commodity, rumored to make it easy to begin things. If only you had enough of it, the things you wanted to be done would get done. I gave up on motivation years ago. As far as I’m concerned, if motivation is anything at all, it’s an undependable luxury. It’s a fleeting…
Habit Labs · ameliagreenhall
WHOA: New Programs, Free Programs
By popular demand, today we’re releasing Stretch Animal and Plank Animal! Pushup Animal has been so well loved - and so effective it surprised even us - that we made two of the next most requested programs ANIMAL programs as well. In Plank Animal, first learn how to plank (we’re talking about what yoga people call…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Charlie Kindel: ‘Google Will Abandon Android’
Interconnected · Matt Webb
Marx at 193
Some choice quotes from Marx at 193 by John Lanchester. Empiricism, because it takes its evidence from the existing order of things, is inherently prone to accepting as realities things that are merely evidence of underlying biases and ideological pressures. Empiricism, for Marx, will always confirm the status quo.…
The Art of Less Doing · [email protected] (Ari Meisel)
Things I Found Interesting This Week (3/30/12)
The Art of Less Doing · [email protected] (Ari Meisel)
How To Make Everything in Life Easier – Achievement Architecture
Blog | Ushahidi · Erik Hersman
“Sustainability” as a Shibboleth
... My heart’s in Accra · Ethan
The Passion of Mike Daisey: Journalism, Storytelling and the Ethics of Attention
Cognition by Happy Cog · Chris Cashdollar
Dear Branding Agencies,
You’ve crafted the “big picture” view. The client loves the new branding direction; they can practically smell the future you’ve unveiled for them. Now it’s time to get to work. That means you likely have a bazillion different projects in play to bring this new brand to life: identity packages, brochures of all…
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"Asked together: What do you need? What do you want? How can I help — those three questions are about..."
“Asked together: What do you need? What do you want? How can I help — those three questions are about all you really need to lead and manage people.” - John Lilly I keep coming back to these, too. (via dianakimball) Totally. And equally important: telling people what you need, what you want, and asking them for help.…
danah boyd | apophenia · zephoria
The Power of Youth: How Invisible Children Orchestrated Kony 2012
Signal vs. Noise · Jamis
Jam Tracks and Black Keys
My guitar instructor recently had me start practicing with a jam track (basically, a recorded song minus the lead guitar and vocals). I’m still learning my way around a minor pentatonic scale, so my improvisation “jam sessions” are halting and awkward, but it’s amazing how much fun it is. As long as I stay on the…