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"Facebook is about you sharing with the world. Google Plus is about Google understanding you. See the difference? This is why people sometimes say that Google doesn't get social. People don't join Facebook so Facebook can understand them better! In fact, the better Facebook understands them, the more wary of the service they get." Alexis writing on Google's attempts at social via @E C
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A video, not a reading, but a nice little piece of sci-fi: "Welcome to Life"
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Wesley Farrell Sold! erm, I'll take the value choice please...O a a a a and can I be James Bond, with loads of cash and a big Aston and have an abundance of women and a massive willi..ngness to learn everything :)
Winston Binauhan The future of Life - Welcome to LIFE
Claret Associates Hilarious. And the licensing bit? So true...
Poo Poo I want more videos like this!
Ahmad Al Goz U remind me with the days when we used to talk about 2012 as if it is ..... and still it is as it is ! But still this video can make you wander about human abilities of future inventions.
History of the official Nazi font and Helvetica, by Erik Spooner
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Jennifer S. I did not know it was a nazi font ... :)
Michael Aviles it isn't
Ben Gatzke I did Nazi this coming...
In Hollywood films serial killers occupy lairs filled with magazine clippings, sketches, curios and bizar trophies (think Se7en & Silence of the Lambs), they deliver manifestos and preach - exactly like avant-garde (and would-be avant-garde) artists.
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John Powers explores the overlaps between serial killers in films and artists: "Serial killers in Hollywood movies are a perfect fit. They are the Marcel Duchamp of Hollywood. They have a point, and it is to upend convention, break down social norms, to shock. They are manifesto writing preachers."
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An essay by James Victore, a design professor, on shyness: "Unfortunately, as an adult I found this habit does not serve me well. As a designer and lecturer I frequently find myself on stage or in front of a camera and have to "play" someone who is comfortable being there. Years of practice have lessened my fears, but I still have to summon the courage to walk confidently to the podium."
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Jackie Pena The cape is perfect. Not very good at speaking in public. No wonder I am behind the scenes...lol
Karen Peck I believe shyness and introversion is an innate default, and something we can learn to use to our advantage (rather than it being something to lead to our demise), and cultivate to be successful. The author doesn't agree about innateness, but this essay is an insightful take on shyness.
Karen Peck And the pictures are great!
Emily Walz James Victore gave a lecture at my undergrad when I was a junior. He was hilarious and a great lecturer.
Robert Bull Shyness is akin to caution and is part of the survival instinct package. Of course some have more shyness than others and experiences may have increased this shyness in certain people.
Basic Animation Aesthetics by David O'Reilly, talking about Please Say Something: files.davidoreill...
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Craig Mod made an incredible book of the making of Flipboard for iPhone, and wrote a long essay about the process and the reasoning: "Which brings us back to the previous point: Something curious happens to our ability to understand scope when we move all that goop of process and narrative into a computer. Even for those of us doing the making: the insiders."
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Kirk Bateman Really wish I could buy the book, really amazing insight for developers or designers
"In October of 1973, Bruce Severy — a 26-year-old English teacher at Drake High School, North Dakota — decided to use Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, as a teaching aid in his classroom. The next month, on November 7th, the head of the school board, Charles McCarthy, demanded that all 32 copies be burned in the school's furnace as a result of its "obscene language." Other books soon met with the same fate. On the 16th of November, Kurt Vonnegut sent McCarthy the following letter."
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Alexander M-A bwhahaha. @John Danenbarger
Mary Hester John, You are going to have several generations mad at you X, Y and Z. Was not every generation going to destroy the world? And I think the younger generation might be upset that the baby boomers have stole every online social media forum that they created. I love books. I never thought that an electronic book would be able to compete with the bound copy, but the Kindle has won me over. I still like how books look on the shelf. But I can see how young people can do all their reading electronically. ;)
John Danenbarger In fact, the Kindle (etc.) has ruined the bookshelf market. So people who used to buy books by the meter/yard to show off can't do it much longer. I love the Kindle because it allows me to carry all my reading with me. I read an article recently explaining how the tablet, the e-reader, and the smart phone all have different reading uses. And they do...the phone being for "emergency reading" in elevators and other tight places, when bringing the Kindle out or even with you is too tight/slow. I am still happy to see that people read.
Carla Mann Mary, Please do add your list of books to Pininterest when you have time...... I would enjoy seeing what some of your favorites are.......
Carla Mann I don't really care to do the "Kindle thing", at least not yet. I prefer real books, and I am big fan of the library. I will eventually evolve. I still have an answering machine that works just fine and I only use my cell phone for emergencies and it is a cheapy- pay as you go........ I don't understand the need or expense at this point..... just my opinion. We are re-doing a room in our house which will be known as the office/ library. There will be real books in the cabinets with glass doors.... :)
"Youth should be the only issue of the 2012 election, because all the subsidiary issues — inequality, the rising class system in America, the specter of decline, mass unemployment, the growing debt — are all fundamentally about the war against young Americans." an essay on the graying of politics and the effects of catering to the present at the cost of the future. please keep comments polite, this is important to think about. via @binx
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Robin Herrick pinterest and economics-you're doin' it wrong.
Gina Mullet Not enough young people to pay into social security. The baby boomers outnumber every other generation. I'm not disputing that social security should be given to those that have paid into it, but at this point it's a numbers game and it's going to have a very negative effect on my generation as we retire because there will be nothing left in social security for us even though we're paying into it.
Claudia Pine To look at this differently: many more young people, like only a few older ones, are learning to live more *reasonably* given the planet's limits. Older generation=people overconsuming everything & regarding it as their entitlement! Problem=claims that next gen is entitled to be exactly as stupid, greedy, and destructive to the planet. Solution= hope older ''squandering'' gen goes away soon without passing on the infection!
Bonnie Crockett Your solution is to hope the older generation "goes away soon"? Good grief!
Claudia Pine well, to be specific, I hope for the passing of the attitude of unlimited overuse of the planet's resources all for the pleasure of a few. The human species can't survive if it keeps trying to all live like the Americans on the right-hand side of the poster -- 5% of the planet using 30% of its resources & making 25% of its trash! Fortunately there's some in all gens learning to change. Like my 84-yr-old Mom, who I live with: recycling, raising a big garden, donating to env't and animal rights... and voting. :-)
Let Me Ride / an essay by Daniel Levin Becker on rap, culture, and peeking through the fence
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Lorenzo Gordon Definitely worth a read.
Sandra Fauconnier Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this!
Anna Thomas "Hip-hop culture preaches the virtues of keeping it real over the virtues of interpretive scrutiny" LOVE this
Sarah Rigdon Not that there's anything wrong with the vast majority of eye candy pinned by the people I follow, but this is the kind of thing I want to see more of on Pinterest. Quality. Thank you, and please keep it coming.
A Senseless Conversation cc @Ben Golder @James Leng
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James Leng awesome pre-bed time read!
Tommy Prevatt this story sucked me in.
Ben Golder This totally threw me back into my philosophy of mind class 4 years ago.
On digital mixtapes, leading the young to musical waters, and conversations we will probably have in the future: bit.ly/z2buU3
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"I will teach my daughter to accept nothing less than respect. Anyone who hurts her physically or emotionally doesn’t deserve her respect, friendship or love. I can’t teach my daughter to respect herself if I am teaching her that no one else has to respect her. I can’t raise sons that respect women, if I teach them that bullying is a valid expression of affection." / read the full post, via @binx
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Tonya Cameron stop socializing your kids to think this way. Then maybe domestic violence rates would decline a bit. "If a boy calls you names, pulls your hair, and makes you feel bad, he likes you." Then we look at grown women who are physically and verbally abused like they're crazy when she says, "he just does those things because he loves me." SMH. Deluded
Eli Carroll A little bit of razzing never hurt anyone as long as its kept within limits, no boy should be a bully to a little girl but its a truth of life, little boys tease little girls when they like them.
Jenna Callahan Teasing is indeed much different than bullying. My husband picks on me all the time, but I do the same to him- it gives us both a good laugh. I tend to be serious a lot, so this helps me loosen up a little bit. :)
Tina Kriskywicz *Tonya, Please don't insult us parents by saying that we are "socializing our children to think this way"! As the mother of boys, I can assure you that elementary school aged girls spend their recesses chasing, teasing and heckling little boys. That's just what kids do at that age. It's 2012 for goodness sakes. You make it sound as if little girls are somehow unequal to boys and that they need special consideration! Stop implying that little girls are somehow the victims here! We are talking about little kids who don't yet have the mental capacities to express their feelings for the opposite sex. Let them be kids! And how on earth did you go from little kids teasing eachother to domestic violence?..that's a huge stretch.
Tina Kriskywicz And you, as a female, should remember all too well, little boys teasing you on the playground. As well as teasing the boys yourself! Stop being so ultra sensitive. This post was supposed to be funny! It was supposed to bring our memories back to the day when we were just innocent children on the playground...
"Sometimes the polish is all that counts. You can’t judge the market for a five star hotel by building a seedy motel and seeing how well it performs." via @Tom Carden
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On Dropbox: "Even going back in time, they seem unstoppable, their future inevitable. But it was not always so. I’d like to zoom in on this point in the graph. What was going on during those first six months? Was the future bright and shiny even when there was no impressive customer curve? When half the customers were just personal favors called in and new signups didn’t happen daily?" / via @Tom Carden
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The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism / by Jonathan Lethem / love this man
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P.J. Williams Hear! Hear! So many "heretical" ideas all in one thought-provoking article!
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Jacopo Rumi Hi, All. It takes a bit of time but if you post interesting things, people will come. Besides, I have always been wary of people with bazillions of 'friends' on FB. On G+ you usually have less but much more substantial relations. I happened to know new people too because of that. Google+ is more about shared interests than minding other people's business. And, finally, G+ is proving a valuable tool for my company. In my opinion, Google got it right fulfilling the emerging need for corporate communication and social networking. What do you think ?
Jacopo Rumi ...see this: https://lh5.googleuserconte... (I'm going to create a suitable board to pin it )
J.A. Pak Apparently, Google+ is much more popular outside the US. Explains the sudden explosion of followers I've been getting. Google+ is really more like a micro blogging tool where ideas and videos are better shared than at FB. And more easier to use than Tumblr.
Matias Lehtoranta It certainly isn't catching on in Finland. Mostly because Facebook got here first and so everyone keeps saying "all my friends are on Facebook". No one has any need to go to Google+.
Jacopo Rumi You are right, Matias, to point out the 'snowball effect' and the existence of geographical preferences. Still I'm surprised that nobody wasn't just annoyed by FB or needed something more complete. We use G+ quite a bit in our company, if nothing else for the video hangouts feature: we do meetings, training and webminars with it. Photo sharing is so much better with G+ / Picasa that I don't see any possible reason to use anything else. Moreover, I'm struck with the patience of FB users with the mobile application...