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Nobody is against empathy. Nonetheless, it’s insufficient. These days empathy has become a shortcut. It has become a way to experience delicious moral emotions without confronting the weaknesses in our nature that prevent us from actually acting upon them. It has become a way to experience the illusion of moral progress without having to do the nasty work of making moral judgments. In a culture that is inarticulate about moral categories and touchy about giving offense, teaching empathy is a safe way for schools and other institutions to seem virtuous without risking controversy or hurting anybody’s feelings. — David Brooks (via ayjay)
pulmonaire:
Descend (by Hengki Koentjoro)
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection. — from The Wise Man’s Fear
Sometime it’s good to get a little clarification on these things. ;)
Animated GIF’s taken to a whole new level. Match a little high-speed photography with photo-masking, and you can get some really neat effects.
(via Rick, via fromme-toyou)
Did Netflix screw up? I don’t think so.
Ghostery keeps places like Facebook and Google from tracking you
Want, in the right order. — yours truly
livejamie:
This is a live mash-up from French boy genius Madeon called “Pop Culture.” It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen done.
I have only a moderate understanding of what I’m seeing here, but I’d love for someone to explain it all to me one day. Neat. :)
“Trello. Organize anything, together.
“Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what’s being worked on, who’s working on what, and where something is in a process.”
Wouldn’t it be great if most software didn’t require hours of training on how to use? … :)
‘America needs heroes,’ it is sometimes said, a phrase that’s often uttered in a wistful tone, almost cooingly, as if we were talking about a lonely child. But do we really ‘need heroes’? We need leaders, who marshal us to the muddle. We need role models, who show us how to deal with it. But what we really need are citizens, who refuse to infantilize themselves with talk of heroes and put their shoulders to the public wheel instead. The political scientist Jonathan Weiler sees the cult of the uniform as a kind of citizenship-by-proxy. Soldiers and cops and firefighters, he argues, embody a notion of public service to which the rest of us are now no more than spectators. What we really need, in other words, is a swift kick in the pants. — William Deresiewicz (via ayjay)
Shower faucets, and how they work. :)
Seems especially true of the hotel models.
(useful water temperature in green; click thru for bigger version; via organized-ignorance)
hilker:
Opening Night ‘Projections’. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Kansas City - September 16, 2011 (by Quixotic Fusion) don’t tell me Kansas City doesn’t have culture.
Lightning strikes from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano.
Not sure which is more surreal, reality or fantasy.
(via organized-ignorance)
CUBE Dieter Rams (www.the-black-cube.com) from Andreas Unteidig on Vimeo.
I feel like there’s something to learn here…honesty in design, doing more with less, remove many goods to properly appreciate one good, …
(Dieter Rams on the design of a black cube.)
(via swissmiss)
livejamie:
This is Gamarjobat, a mohawked Japanese miming/comedy duo
Mike Dempsey’s Design Business Tips (via swissmiss)
Better to see something once than to hear about it a hundred times. — Russian saying