February 2012
17 posts
“Hardly anyone “surfs” the Web anymore.”
– Evgeny Morozov in “The Death of the Cyberflâneur”
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“It strikes me that the current fetishization of analog technology has less to do...”
– Carina Chocano, NYTimes, via mediology
January 2012
36 posts
Rhizome | Technology is Not Enough: The Story of... →
Over email O’Sullivan explained how ITP has accommodated so many changes over the years: “The program is pretty agile [and] evolutionary, so we change a little every year—which heads off big cataclysmic changes. Doubling the space of the floor and accepting more students was one big positive landmark. The Dot Com boom did bring the culture in a slightly bad direction but the bust brought it...
The Ethics of Brain-Boosting →
The idea of a simple, cheap and widely available device that could boost brain function sounds too good to be true.
Yet promising results in the lab with emerging ‘brain stimulation’ techniques, though still very preliminary, have prompted Oxford neuroscientists to team up with leading ethicists at the University to consider the issues the new technology could raise. […]
TDCS uses...
“When you look at those two videos [2010 vs 2012] side by side, it almost appears...”
– i love the way you think, dpstylez.
“New foursquare intro video distances them from the check-in” sur AboutFoursquare (January 26th, 2012)
My favorite part of running this company is seeing people “get” the transformation from “game mechanics and checkins are cute” to “with 1.5bn checkins, we can...
“If you know how to use Excel on top of having all of the above cited analytical...”
– thanks, NYTimes comments.
“Most people in the tech world agree that the problem of piracy needs to be...”
– this should have been the 2nd or 3rd paragraph.
Python Quick References (by version) →
NICE!
weird I hadn’t seen this yet?
“Namespaces are created at different moments and have different lifetimes.”
– far out.
Ominous G
Scroogled by Cory Doctorow
“Greg,” the man said, “we’re not smearing anyone. We’re just going to clean things up a bit. For some select people. You know what I mean? Everyone’s Google profile is a little scary under close inspection. Close inspection is the order of the day in politics. Standing for office is like a public colonoscopy.” He loaded the...
