Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed.
Den formulering som bäst beskriver mitt intryck av hans twitterflöde är filmtiteln Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Bildt flyger alltid ovanför molnen, i det torra intellektets eviga solsken. Att läsa hans tweets är som att titta in i utrikesministerversionen av ett sådant spotless mind: det är som om hans skalle var täckt av teflon på insidan likaväl som på utsidan. Orepad, möjligen oanvänd; det är inte helt lätt att avgöra. Och ett par gånger om dagen känner detta repfria intellekt ett behov av att meddela sig med världen.
Bitcoin is a decentralised computer currency designed by self-righteous Ayn Rand-reading nerds who despise looters and parasites like, er, you. It is used to purchase Internet services, illegal drugs and pictures of naked women holding video cards. Bitcoin works by an emergent synergy of cryptography, peer-to-peer, anonymity, anarchism, libertarianism, wasting stupendous quantities of electricity, the marketing department at NVidia, the enduring exchange value of tulip bulbs and doing all of this instead of Folding@Home.
— Excerpt from a comment about Bitcoin on Slashdot
Richard Phillips Sasha Grey 2011
This, along with his short Lindsay Lohan will be shown at the Venice Biennale.
Good lord, this is something new and special. I want more of this, of and by other people. Music videos, but for people. UPDATE: Apparently they’re called long portraits and I’m a philistine bumpkin with no manners anyhow, ERIC.
Täby Centrum
Köpcentret ska byggas ut och nya bostäder ska byggas. Just nu håller man på och gräver för ett parkeringsgarage. Fullständiga planer finns på nyatabycentrum.se. Man kan följa arbetet via en webbkamera om man vill.
How was this picture taken? Usually, pictures of the shuttle, taken from space, are snapped from the space station. Commonly, pictures of the space station are snapped from the shuttle. How, then, can there be a picture of both the shuttle and the station together, taken from space?
Follow the link for the explanation and more amazing photos.
Google’s frame is the browser window. Apple’s frame is the screen. That’s what we’ll remember about today’s keynote ten years from now.
Welcome to the recently coined term, “Sownage”. The state of being thoroughly “owned like Sony is”.
VHX.tv →
VHX.tv just launched as public beta. It’s like Flipboard and Instapaper for video. Awesome.
The Way I Work: David Karp of Tumblr →
I’m in this month’s Inc. Magazine! And I really can’t thank Liz enough for not portraying me as the idiot I usually come across as. :) Just about all of the details are right on.
(Source: inc.com)
jstn:
Awesome waterspouts off the coast of Australia.
On any given night in New York there are more people staying in homes via Airbnb than there are rooms in the biggest hotel in Manhattan.
