septembre 2011
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The World by National Geographic →
Beautiful iPad app from the National Geographic magazine atlas.
Visual Business Intelligence - Dyslexics Could Be... →
août 2011
17 billets
Things You Cannot Believe →
Early in the 20th Century, the British philosopher G. E. Moore noticed that sentences of a certain form have a quite peculiar feature. Consider:
>I believe it is Tuesday, but today is Monday.
>Today is Monday, but I do not believe that.
>I believe that today is Tuesday, but it’s not true that today is Tuesday.
These statements, when considered as first-personal...
It's a bug's life →
A noteworthy popular intellectual trend in recent years might be called “How Everything Works, In Spite of Itself.” Roughly, the trajectory can be described by James Gleick’s Chaos, which appeared in 1988; M. Mitchell Waldrop’s Complexity in 1992; and Steven Johnson’s Emergence, debuting in 2001. On the even more popular side, one can glance at Gladwell’s Tipping Point and Surowiecki’s Wisdom...
A Daily Dose of Architecture: Otherworldly →
Small-scale hand built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities.
The Dutch Way - Bicycles and Fresh Bread -... →
Dutch drivers are taught that when you are about to get out of the car, you reach for the door handle with your right hand — bringing your arm across your body to the door. This forces a driver to swivel shoulders and head, so that before opening the door you can see if there is a bike coming from behind. Likewise, every Dutch child has to pass a bicycle safety exam at school. The coexistence...
Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use... →
It makes me think that we need a new type of class in schools across the land immediately. Electronic literacy. Just like we learn to skim tables of content or look through an index or just skim chapter titles to find what we’re looking for, we need to teach people about this CTRL+F thing.
Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social... →
The Great Splintering - Umair Haque - Harvard... →
London’s become a city where many young people feel they’re finished before they start. Global economic imbalances (think, crudely, a country with a perpetual trade deficit) ultimately mean that there aren’t enough jobs to go around — and entrepreneurship is about as British as fish and chips are American. Being lucky enough to land a job that propels you into the ranks of the...
juillet 2011
1 billet
News International papers targeted Gordon Brown →
soupsoup:
Newspapers obtained details from the former prime minister’s bank account and legal file and his family’s medical records
avril 2011
4 billets
Three weeks at sea… | Crikey →
Side View Mirror Project →
The Usability of Passwords →
mars 2011
8 billets
janvier 2011
5 billets
Michael Chabon blogs for The Atlantic →
Soundscapes: Burning Man →
Bushpunk and the Future of Africa →
Mark Lamster: The Greatest Building in New York →
The Quora Explosion (raw data) - Dustin Curtis →
novembre 2010
15 billets
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The boiling, erupting Sun →
“A million Earths could fit inside the Sun. In case you woke up today feeling important.”
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“The temptation, once the polls close Tuesday night, will be to portray...”
– Republican Election Wins Will Draw Glowing Press, Just Like Obama Once Did - Howard Kurtz in The Daily Beast
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Daily Kos: Gallup has GOP +15 in generic ballot →
Brace yourself!
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“Rather than look with disdain at what the Democrats seem to see as the vulgar...”
– Obama’s Morning-After Plan - Tina Brown in The Daily Beast
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First Listen: Bruce Springsteen, 'The Promise' →
The Promise, subtitled The Lost Sessions: Darkness on the Edge of Town, is not the usual odds-and-ends reissue package. In 1975, after Born to Run made him a megastar, Bruce Springsteen found himself in a lawsuit with his then-manager, which blocked the singer from making a follow-up for nearly two years until the suit was settled. While lawyers bickered, Springsteen toured and wrote...
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The Real Reason White iPhone 4 Is Delayed (Hint:... →
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Life aboard the International Space Station →
It’s 10 years since the first crew entered the International Space Station 220 miles above the Earth. But what is it like aboard a big tin can travelling at 17,500mph?