This would be infuriating to play, but also I want all of these as pillows for my couch. Also really surprised that something like this never made it into Little Big Planet.
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
How news of #Ferguson spread across Twitter
Geotagged Tweets mentioning “Ferguson” and key terms, CDT
You absolutely must click through to see the whole thing if only b/c I couldn’t make a gif that included the entire world map.
h/t @kthread
Powerful photo from Howard University.
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I really hope that strong and powerful responses like this continue to build support and momentum.
A sample of tweets on #Ferguson tonight, 8/13/14
“Justice isn’t here right now”
Pick Two
There’s an old engineering rule about fast, cheap, and reliable – choose two. If you’re at NASA and you’re sending something to the moon you need it to be fast and reliable, but you can throw away cheap. Throwaway medical instruments in an operating room need to have a different thing – doesn’t have to work for long, and since you’re going to throw it away it would be nice if it’s cheap, so you make your trade-offs.
That as a rule of thumb is mostly what engineering is about. You can have most things, but not everything. I think security engineering are about tolerable failure modes – are about what the tolerable levels of failure are. Determine what failure modes are tolerable and what are not and I can design around not having the intolerable ones. But the cost of »
Some of the revelations attributed to Snowden may not in fact have come from him but from another leaker spilling secrets under Snowden’s name. Snowden himself adamantly refuses to address this possibility on the record. But independent of my visit to Snowden, I was given unrestricted access to his cache of documents in various locations. And going through this archive using a sophisticated digital search tool, I could not find some of the documents that have made their way into public view, leading me to conclude that there must be a second leaker somewhere. I’m not alone in reaching that conclusion. Both Greenwald and security expert Bruce Schneier—who have had extensive access to the cache—have publicly stated that they believe another whistle-blower is releasing secret documents to the media.
I’ve heard this, but wasn’t aware that they both feel that this »
It’s dangerous to assume that numbers tell the whole story. It’s better to think of data not as a smoking gun, but as a trail of breadcrumbs. Metrics can point you toward problem areas or alert you to a potential issue that you might not have otherwise noticed.
We definitely agree with this statement in a pretty good article about metrics pitfalls: 5 Measurement Pitfalls to Avoid. (via analyticisms)
“Flowers aren’t just beautiful to show on tables,” said Azuma Makoto, a 38-year-old artist based in Tokyo. His latest installation piece, if you could call it that, takes this statement to the extreme. Two botanical objects — “Shiki 1,” a Japanese white pine bonsai suspended from a metal frame, and an untitled arrangement of orchids, hydrangeas, lilies and irises, among other blossoms — were launched into the stratosphere on Tuesday in Black Rock Desert outside Gerlach, Nevada, a site made famous for its hosting of the annual Burning Man festival. ”I wanted to see the movement and beauty of plants and flowers suspended in space,” Makoto explained that morning.
Tumblr’s recomendation engine is curated really well. I don’t know how many robots are involved in this process, but every time I see a suggested post from another user it »
Slack is killing email
It’s been four years since Stewart Butterfield last sent an email to a work colleague. His team long ago replaced email with a chat app that plugged in to all their favorite services like Twitter,…
Believe the hype. Slack rules. I bet this would work well for companies/orgs/etc too who are not even working on software.
Video artist Erdal Inci clones multiple recordings of himself moving through public spaces resulting in these bizarre looping performances.
via This is Colossal
My jaw dropped when I saw this. It’s gorgeous.
Usability Retrospective: StoryMaker
Usability Retrospective: StoryMaker
Project Director Steve Wyshywaniuk shares insights gathered from user testing and collaborative design of the app, StoryMaker.
Building Apps. Living the Dream.
Watch Frank
Yep, need to see this.
Mercury Content In Upper Oceans Has Tripled Since Industrial Revolution – Neomatica
Mercury Content In Upper Oceans Has Tripled Since Industrial Revolution – Neomatica
Scientists have completed analysis of 12 oceanographic sampling cruises which were carried over the last 8 years. For the first time, mercury pollution burden was calculated for the world’s oceans thus filling a major gap in our knowledge. The research was published in the journal Nature. The scientists who worked on this project include members …
Just because we can’t see one of the biggest impacts of the industrial revolution doesn’t mean it’s not there. I really wish we took better care of our amazing oceans.
I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain.
Jonathan Carroll (via theremina)
As a die hard fan of Singing in the Rain, this is »
You might think you know a thing or two about paper airplanes, but do you know about the Tube? Or the the Tumbling Wing? Going Deep with David Rees will blow your mind.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Wild fires in #oregon as seen from above.
You never know where an awkward, humble thing may lead you.” He was referring to the segment called “How To Flip a Coin,” where the question of how to flip a quarter with panache led him to research the nature of randomness and entropy and the eventual heat death of the universe. “Not all that stuff made it into the episode though.
Going Deep is my favorite show of the summer.