What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Inside A Copper Tube… (via Digg)
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As Marc Andreessen says, software is eating the world. It’s a creative gale of destruction that irreversibly changes every industry it touches, and if you don’t control the software, the software controls you. It mediates how and with whom you communicate, what news you see, and what other software you’re able to run. It influences the very way your brain works, as you process the creative gale of distraction that interrupts us all hundreds of times each day. With every ping, software burrows deeper into our lives.
Matt Mullenweg (via azspot)
Thinking about software is like repeating the same word over and over. The more you do it the more abstract it becomes.
Geographical and astronomical illustrations from the mid-1800s by John Philipps Emslie via The Wellcome Collection)
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Creative Protesting
One unique form of protest is the “Automaidan.” The drivers just take their cars and block SWAT buses or whole police buildings to prevent the possible illegal actions against peaceful people.
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Grandpa’s iPad — Shawn Blanc
My Grandpa’s iPad has enabled him to do something that he’s been unable to do for as long as I can remember. The 9.7-inch touch screen has turned my Grandpa into a photographer.Just when I start to become jaded by technology something like this comes along and reminds me why it matters. Great piece by Shawn.
My Grandpa’s iPad has enabled him to do something that he’s been unable to do for as long as I can remember. The 9.7-inch touch screen has turned my Grandpa into a photographer.
Backblaze buys a lot of hard drives. Here’s how well they hold up.
as someone with 2 seagates running his house this is deeply concerning. I guess I should expect to replace these sooner rather then later.
BBC targets social media users with Instagram video news
BBC News is stepping up its efforts to reach new audiences on social media platforms after mobile and tablet viewing figures overtook desktop use for the first time in December.
On 16 January, BBC News launched Instafax, a new short-form video news service delivered to Instagram users. The project is a month-long experiment, with three 15-second videos uploaded a day, intended to serve as a roundup of the day’s news.
The name is a throwback to the BBC’s former Ceefax service – the world’s first teletext service that ran on UK television until 2012. This is described as the updated version of a text-based, short-form news service for the digital age.
The bit that’s missing from all of these stories is probably its most brilliant:
For 38 years, the BBC ran »
A Running List of Things We Know the NSA Can Do. So Far.
A Running List of Things We Know the NSA Can Do. So Far.
wnyc:
Full list on the Brian Lehrer Show blog.
An important list to remind yourself of from time to time.
We need to remember, first of all, that storytelling is a partnership, an act of co-creation, not a matter of the author leading the audience by the nose. But this raises questions of control—as in, who controls the story, the author or the audience? After 150 years of mass media, we find it all too easy to assume that by taking any posture other than utter passivity, the audience is going to usurp the role of the author: It’s choose-your-own-adventure or nothing. But that’s not actually what most audiences want.
People want a story they can immerse themselves in—an emotionally gripping narrative they can in some way inhabit. They’re asking to be a passenger, not an onlooker. So as an author, how do you make room for them without giving them the wheel? That’s the question.
Horace Mann is a pretty amazing guy if you’ve never heard of him. Among being a pillar of education reform in the 19th century he was also a very early abolitionist.
He was chosen president of the newly established Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio. There he taught economics, philosophy, and theology; he was popular with students and with lay audiences across the Midwest who attended his lectures promoting public schools. Mann also employed the first woman faculty member to be paid on an equal basis with her male colleagues, Rebecca Pennell, his niece. His commencement message to the class of 1859 to “be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity” is repeated to the graduating class at each commencement. He collapsed shortly after the 1859 commencement and died that summer. [via wikipedia]
Feds Can’t Enforce Net Neutrality: What This Means For You
Feds Can’t Enforce Net Neutrality: What This Means For You
In a pitched battle over the open Internet, federal judges hand telecom companies a big win.
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US Senate votes to ban plastic guns
US Senate votes to ban plastic guns
US Senate votes to ban plastic guns