New Zealand children help us understand the meaning of Christmas. :)
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Google Maps Easter egg, LOTR-style. :)
(via katykelley)
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. — J.R.R. Tolkien (via askthecatholic)
Only those who are open to love are enveloped in the light of Christmas. If truth were a mere mathematical formula…it would impose itself by its own power. But if Truth is Love, it calls for faith, for the ‘yes’ of our hearts. — B16
“Four Expanses”
(the subtitle I’d like to give this photo)
Robin Williams pokes fun at Apple’s Siri assistant for the iPhone 4S - this is funny, and as with all good humor, has an element of truth. Hope you enjoy! :)
(via Ed Kless, via samradford)
Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent. — Herbert A. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial (via therecognitioneffect)
The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness. — B16 (via wondrouspilgrim)
More Data Was Transmitted Over the Internet in 2010 Than All Previous Years Combined
by yours truly
And a different type of beauty. :)
simplehuman: tools for efficient living
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I wish I had a faster lens, but hopefully this communicates some of the beauty. Complete with band at the opposite end of the frame…(cue music)…
It seems every time I turn around, Ólafur Arnalds is doing something neat. This time, he’s creating and recording a new song every day for a whole week – with strings accompaniment – from his living room. :)
Entitled “Living Room Songs”, the videos are being uploaded to YouTube daily, and MP3’s are available for free download. A studio recording will be released on High Quality Download/CD/Vinyl via Erased Tapes before the year is out, and can be pre-ordered.
The video above is from Day 6, and is called Lag Fyrir Ömmu (via oliarnalds)
As an undergrad I was an art major. Frankly, few of my fellow art majors were talented enough to make a living at it, even after four (or more!) years of training. Sure they loved art, but in the immortal words of Tina Turner, “What’s love got to do with it?” “Find what you love and never settle for less” is an excellent recipe for frustration and poverty. “Reconcile yourself to the limits of your talent and temperament and find the most satisfactory compromise between what you love to do and what you need to do feed your children” is rather less stirring, but it’s much better advice.
Steve Jobs’ gorgeous gadgets have no doubt helped some do what they love, and better. But mostly iStuff is so beloved because it offers such attractively pleasant diversion from the disappointment of having settled of necessity on lives we do not thoroughly love. To whom is watching Iron Man 2 on an iPad alone not settling?
For my part, I intend to be the dickens out of myself and chase my dreams like a starved coyote chases a vole because I’m so awesome there’s practically no chance this won’t turn out spectacularly well. Which is why I write blog posts for very small amounts of money in Iowa.
— Will Wilkinson (via ayjay)When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws. — G. K. Chesterton
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
hilker:
“The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope array in Chile captured this shot of a combined view of the Antennae Galaxies , which are about 75 million light-years from Earth. The image reveals a view of the Universe that cannot be seen at all by visible-light and infrared telescopes.” ( First Image Released by Alma Telescope | Space.com via Scoble’s g+)
Okay folks, another leap forward, brought to you by the people at Apple.
Siri personal assistant is a ubiquitous voice drive interface to your mobile device. Check it out in the video above, and available 10/14 on the new iPhone 4S.
(via Thisismynextvideo)
UPDATE: Oh, and the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 updates are pretty cool too – you can check them out at Apple’s iPhone page. I become ever more amazed at the pace of ground-breaking innovation coming out of Apple–I keep thinking there can’t be more left, and then they turn around and do something amazing like this. Props, big props.