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
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And a different type of beauty. :)
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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
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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.
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For all you RSS readers, just updated my tumblelog to a new theme. Feel free to check it out, and let me know what ‘cha think.
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