December 2011
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“I deny this reality. this reality is a computational matrix.”
– The Doctor, trial of a time lord.
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dendensden replied to your post: Frustration Write your post in notepad or equivalent, paste into this box, do the final formatting touches, and go. This is what I should do. It is just not what I’ve done. 
Dec 22nd
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Frustration
For the third time in two days I have written a post in this box only to have it erased before I could post it. It is terribly frustrating. 
Dec 21st
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“The psychologist Dean Simonton argues that this fecundity is often at the heart...”
– - Malcolm Gladwell, Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse via The New Yorker (via stoweboyd) Keep working. I’ve got nothing to add to this. 
Dec 20th
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“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I’d take it. That’s what I’ve always...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via bookmania) I know that feeling. It’s frightening, really. 
Dec 20th
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
– Howard Thurman | The values-driven startup  (via courtenaybird) Don’t spend your life doing things you don’t enjoy. Thrive.  My goal, my one goal in life, is to leave this world a far different place than it would have been without me. I light up, I come alive, when I can change the...
Dec 20th
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Badass JavaScript: Introducing ALAC.js: An Apple... →
badassjs: Recently, Apple open sourced the original encoder and decoder for the Apple Lossless audio codec which is written in C/C++. ALAC is, as its name implies, a lossless codec, which means that it is compressed but does not lose any quality. When decoded, ALAC audio files are bit-for-bit identical…
Dec 20th
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Fabric made from MILK!
beansondesign: Fabric made from MILK is sustainable fiber. It takes about 6 pints to make a dress.
Dec 19th
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5 Books You Can't Download
scribnerbooks:         Because they’re not available as an e-book, and won’t be, for the foreseeable future. [via] When it comes to content that isn’t legally available digitally my mantra is the same as it is with any other out of print media: if you won’t let me buy it, I won’t feel bad about downloading it for free.  I already own physical copies of all of these books....
Dec 19th
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Daily Patricia: money →
patriciahandschiegel: Money will go digital soon. First payments, then likely the currency itself. It will be much more complicated (and probably not so complicated) than a sentence on a blog post can describe but it is still likely when-scenario. Right now most see it the internet for just information delivery, and… http://bitcoin.org/ ? 
Dec 19th
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breakfast
patriciahandschiegel: Simple breakfast for a house guest this morning: Skinless organic chicken apple sausage, scrambled eggs with garlic salt and parsley, Ezekiel sprouted bread, fresh apples Officially jealous.  
Dec 18th
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Leet Hitchhikers
leet percent of pi is 42.  1337%π=~42 Sometimes math makes me laugh  http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1337%25+x+pi
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Stowe Boyd: Why Apps Are The Future →
stoweboyd: Dave Winer wants us to ignore the rapid adoption of apps — primarily driven by the genius generation of smart phones now on the market — because he says they ‘are not the future’. This reminds me of the Chico Marx line, ‘Who are you going to believe? Me, or your own eyes?’ Leaving aside the… “Apps” are a stopgap solution to a long term problem. “Apps” are as...
Dec 17th
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“One downside of the e-social revolution is that if all this ubiquitous...”
– Social Media And The Loss Of Uncorrelated Wisdom  (via courtenaybird) The kinds of people who read someone else’s opinion on a social media site and use it to supplant their own opinion are the same kinds of people who do that in real life.  Social media makes it easy for the masses to have...
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“The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open...”
– An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via emmawelles)
Dec 16th
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On Internet Photography
The Hundreds: How do you think the Internet has changed the way people take pictures?
Alex Martinez: It’s the ideal way to share photos but a horrible way to experience them. The pendulum always swings to the extremes first, and I think we are experiencing that now with the internet and photography. With independent books and zines on the rise again I kind of feel a balancing out happening.
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Such an interesting point. Books and magazines aren't dying, they aren't going all digital, they are changing. They are becoming personal and customized. Unique is the name of the game, how long will it take big companies to catch up to that.
Print on demand technologies mean that I can have books and magazines that are completely unique to me, one of a kind, and still affordable.
Why has no one embraced that? Copyright laws are one problem, software is another. In the publishing world, the ability of our hardware far outstrips the ability of our software. Managing huge amounts of data (and the metadata and copyright information that goes along with it) isn't an easy task. Once it's been accomplished, turning that data into physical goods should be easy as pie.
I'd love to do it, but I can't do it alone.
Who wants to help? (Hell, who wants to beat me to it?)
Dec 16th
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Daily Patricia: what to make, what to make →
patriciahandschiegel: Have you ever read posts here and wondered, “how can we make things that fit into the future of the internet now?” Today’s post is for this. 1. The internet as a platform for improved education — The internet has incredible capacity to redefine and modernize the education system at a lower cost… The internet has a huge potential as a platform for education...
Dec 16th
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New old Dr. Who →
    The BBC has discovered two new Dr. Who Episodes. How beautiful is that?  Two episodes were found, intact, in some dudes closet. Click the link. Watch the clip. Report back here as soon as you can point me toward a torrent. ;-) 
Dec 13th
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Star Wars and Star Trek Unite against Twilight →
George Tekai demands it. 
Dec 13th
eytancragg asked: honk honk read mspa honk
Dec 11th
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Daily Patricia: sunday conversation →
patriciahandschiegel: A reader reblogged yesterday’s post with some great points and thoughts. Here is how I’d respond to this if we were in a conversation: Reader: Computers are cheap and getting cheaper. Everything is a computer. The internet is ubiquitous. To say that the future of the internet is to be the… Thanks for the response. You’re posts tend to be incredibly articulate...
Dec 11th
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