Adrian’s Microblog

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

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.

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)

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)