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personalfactory: Buccaneer Initial Specs via...

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:47:27 -0700

Buccaneer Initial Specs via 3dprintingindustry.com

"Karp wasn’t the first person to create a tumblelog, the term used to describe the stripped-down..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:08:17 -0700

“Karp wasn’t the first person to create a tumblelog, the term used to describe the stripped-down blogging and content curation he has become known for. He wasn’t even the second. The true origin of Tumblr involves a German and an American, hundreds of lines of code, and their common desire to change the way we think about blogging.”

- The Daily Dot - The real origins of Tumblr

futurejournalismproject: Banksy on Advertising Via Upworthy....

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:31:10 -0700

futurejournalismproject:

Banksy on Advertising

Via Upworthy. Select to embiggen.

betalist: BitPagos allows merchants to accept or get payout in...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:17:55 -0700

betalist:

BitPagos allows merchants to accept or get payout in bitcoins for their products or services, from clients around the world. A low percent of Latin America population have credit cards, restricting the number of internet users able to pay online, also merchants dealing with foreign clients pay high fees doing overseas transactions. Merchants using BitPagos can increase their conversion rate by accepting a new payment method that can cover people and increase their profits by paying lower fees per transaction.

Sign up here

"In an urgent, important blog post, computer scientist and security expert Ed Felten lays out the..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:41 -0700

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In an urgent, important blog post, computer scientist and security expert Ed Felten lays out the case against rules requiring manufacturers to put wiretapping backdoors in their communications tools. Since the early 1990s, manufacturers of telephone switching equipment have had to follow a US law called CALEA that says that phone switches have to have a deliberate back-door that cops can use to secretly listen in on phone calls without having to physically attach anything to them. This has already been a huge security problem — through much of the 1990s, AT&T’s CALEA controls went through a Solaris machine that was thoroughly compromised by hackers, meaning that criminals could listen in on any call; during the 2005/6 Olympic bid, spies used the CALEA backdoors on the Greek phone company’s switches to listen in on the highest levels of government.

But now, thanks to the widespread adoption of cryptographically secured messaging services, law enforcement is finding that its CALEA backdoors are of declining utility — it doesn’t matter if you can intercept someone else’s phone calls or network traffic if the data you’re captured is unbreakably scrambled. In response, the FBI has floated the idea of “CALEA II”: a mandate to put wiretapping capabilities in computers, phones, and software.

”

- report

(via Boing Boing)

mossonrust: open source satellite initiative so this guy,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:10:30 -0700

mossonrust:

open source satellite initiative

so this guy, Song Hojun, designed, built, and launched a DIY satellite. do you even get how hot that is?

plus, he has posted instructions online, and funded the whole thing from OSSI t-shirt sales and donations.

austinkleon: creativemorningsaustin: Austin Kleon at...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:06:30 -0700

austinkleon:

creativemorningsaustin:

Austin Kleon at CreativeMornings/Austin from CreativeMornings/Austin on Vimeo.

Here’s the text and slides if you don’t feel like watching it all…

"Earlier this year, I wrote a piece for AlterNet called “Would We Have Drugged Up Einstein?” about..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:04:17 -0700

“Earlier this year, I wrote a piece for AlterNet called “Would We Have Drugged Up Einstein?” about why anti-authoritarians are diagnosed with mental illness. I received a huge response, including many emails from people who have been diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorder who positively resonated with this particular sentence: “Often a major pain of their lives that fuels their anxiety and/or depression is fear that their contempt for illegitimate authorities will cause them to be financially and socially marginalized, but they fear that compliance with such illegitimate authorities will cause them existential death.””

- ZCommunications | How Psychologists Subvert Democratic Movements by Bruce E. Levine | ZMagazine Article

"What’s impossible to ignore is how many of the individuals diagnosed with mental disorders are..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:03:58 -0700

“What’s impossible to ignore is how many of the individuals diagnosed with mental disorders are essentially anti-authoritarians. This was potentially a large army of anti-authoritarian activists that mental health professionals are keeping off democracy battlefields by convincing them that their depression, anxiety, and anger are a result of their mental illnesses and not, in part, a result of their pain over being in dehumanizing environments.”

- Bruce E. Levine (How psychologists subvert democratic movements)

shrinkrants: thenoobyorker: Slavoj Žižek’s talk with Charlie...

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:46:02 -0700

shrinkrants:

thenoobyorker:

Slavoj Žižek’s talk with Charlie Rose [Part 2, Part 3]

After watching that ten minute recreation of David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech, I started watching Charlie Rose’s interview with David Foster Wallace (RIP) when I remembered all about Charlie’s amazing interview with Slavoj. It’s amazing not because I like Slavoj or Charlie, but because it comes across as just two bro’s finishing each others sentences, being real on each others level and laughing honestly at each others jokes. On an individual level they couldn’t be more different but whenever two bros are in the same room, they find a common ground. It’s a law. It’s a property also seen in the activity of fireflies in Thailand. I think it’s some form of emergence (perhaps), though a derivative known as bromergence.

I haven’t made time to watch this whole interview yet, but from what I have seen, this is the least squirmy and most solid presentation of Žižek’s self that I have yet encountered. And I am struck by what a good interviewer Charlie Rose is. He’s very much his square, straight, white self; at ease in that and full of interest and curiosity about this other human being.

colchrishadfield: Same land, different politics. The US -...

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:22:25 -0700

colchrishadfield:

Same land, different politics. The US - Mexican border, seen from space.

"The legacy of identity politics has produced a problematic language idealism where we focus more on..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:20:58 -0700

“The legacy of identity politics has produced a problematic language idealism where we focus more on correct words and phrases rather than the material basis of oppression… And even in the moment where we imagine we are indeed combatting real world oppression we are, in fact, simply engaging with the level of appearance. […] This language idealism becomes nothing but a self-righteous exercise when it refuses to contemplate a praxis of mass pedagogy based on actually changing the material circumstances and instead focuses on anti-oppression training, atomized concepts of privilege, and how to speak correctly.”

- J. Moufawad-Paul (via selucha)

Finally.

(via mehreenkasana)

Fucking. Yes.

(via worsethandetroit)

snapdraws: Apologies for the terrible image quality - I’m...

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:01:46 -0700

snapdraws:

Apologies for the terrible image quality - I’m lacking scanner access at the minute so I had to take these photos on my phone

I was reading hyperbole and a half’s blog entry explaining their experience of depression and decided to make another sketchy comic based on my experiences with anxiety, which is another mental illness I think people tend to misunderstand quite frequently

Hopefully this will be of use to some people - whether they suffer from anxiety themselves or if they just want to know more about it

"He became something of a womaniser, dating undergraduates and hanging out with show girls and..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:56:15 -0700

“He became something of a womaniser, dating undergraduates and hanging out with show girls and prostitutes in Las Vegas. In a celebrated book of anecdotes about his life – Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman – the scientist recounts how he applied an experimental approach to chatting up women. Having assumed, like most men, that you had to start by offering to buy them a drink, he explains how a conversation with a master of ceremonies at a nightclub in Albuquerque one summer prompted him to change tactics. And to his surprise, an aloof persona proved far more successful than behaving like a gentleman.”

- Christopher Riley in Richard Feynman: Life, the universe and everything, The Telegraph.

In these days of frivolous entertainments and frayed attention spans, the people who become famous are not necessarily the brightest stars. One of the biggest hits on YouTube, after all, is a video of a French bulldog who can’t roll over. But in amongst all the skateboarding cats and laughing babies, a new animated video, featuring the words of a dead theoretical physicist, has gone viral. In the film, created from an original documentary made for the BBC back in the early Eighties, the late Nobel Prize-winning professor, Richard Feynman, can be heard extolling the wonders of science contained within a simple flower.

There is “beauty”, he says, not only in the flower’s appearance but also in an appreciation of its inner workings, and how it has evolved the right colours to attract insects to pollinate it. Those observations, he continues, raise further questions about the insects themselves and their perception of the world. “The science,” he concludes, “only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of the flower.” This interview was first recorded by the BBC producer Christopher Sykes, back in 1981 for an episode of Horizon called “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”. When it was broadcast the following year the programme was a surprise hit, with the audience beguiled by the silver-haired professor chatting to them about his life and his philosophy of science.

Now, thanks to the web, Richard Feynman’s unique talents – not just as a brilliant physicist, but as an inspiring communicator – are being rediscovered by a whole new audience. As well as the flower video, which, to date, has been watched nearly a quarter of a million times, YouTube is full of other clips paying homage to Feynman’s ground-breaking theories, pithy quips and eventful personal life.

Keep Reading.

But, Key Takeaway: You get girls by being aloof.

(via futurejournalismproject)

kohenari: David Foster Wallace’s brilliant 2005 commencement...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:11:40 -0700

kohenari:

David Foster Wallace’s brilliant 2005 commencement speech, “This Is Water,” adapted as a short film. If you haven’t seen it yet this week, spend a few minutes with it. Then maybe read the whole thing.

Don’t Learn How To Code, Learn How To Make Things

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:45:05 -0700

Don’t Learn How To Code, Learn How To Make Things:

You know what is fun? Making things. Turning a spark of creative insight into a thing that you can show people — a thing that people can use and from which they can derive some iota of pleasure or utility. Start with a simple website. Basic HTML and CSS. No product is too small. In fact, the opposite is true. If you don’t know how to build the first version of your product in a weekend — a usable working version, don’t try to build it. Programming is a means to an end, not an end in itself. You should be trying to do as little of it as possible to make the thing that you want.

The fastest way to make something is to simply start. Don’t get caught in the never ending process of learning, researching, and over-thinking your idea.

via jonathanmoore:

About 54 percent of graduate students report feeling so depressed they have “a hard time functioning,” as opposed to ten percent of the general population.

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:43:25 -0700

About 54 percent of graduate students report feeling so depressed they have “a hard time functioning,” as opposed to ten percent of the general population.:

dropouthangoutspaceout:

towerofsleep:

sterwood:

the89thkey:

rhizombie:

thenoobyorker:

Something to consider for the future.

lol my life right now

seriously.
and there is so little solidarity for the fact that this is so common.

Honestly, this is a large part of my wavering over going to grad school right now. I have enough problems with depression and stuff as it is. I don’t need a situation that will likely further my depression when I could possibly, you know, not be depressed.

I hear so much about this and I don’t want to gloat in an unseemly fashion but I am basically happier, more fulfilled, and more financially secure since I started my PhD than I have been at any time during my adult life. My program is great, my supervisor and professors have been really supportive, I feel like my work is coming along nicely and — okay, there’s no way to say this without gloating — the government is showering me with money.

So, hey kids, its not all bad. And to all you Americans looking at grad school: consider Canada.

I’m with Saelan on this one. I’ve learned to regulate my life rather well with what money I have and the load of work I set for myself. I was depressed when I was spending 7 days a week working on school and whatnot, but when I started making sure I took weekends off (seriously, so important) and not working too late (I never work after 7pm) things have been pretty good.

That being said, I am not get showered with as much money like Saelan is. I have internal scholarships and a provincial grant, but it’s not enough to live on overall. I’ve had to make up the rest by working in one capacity or another. Still, I wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t getting paid to go. Grad school is a worthwhile project, but for itself, not as a career. Maybe you go on to work in academia, maybe you don’t. What’s important is the act of actually becoming a scholar, of learning what it is to be a scholar.

"You’re a practicing psychotherapist. Can you define “mental illness”? No. Nobody..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:34:39 -0700

“You’re a practicing psychotherapist. Can you define “mental illness”?
No. Nobody can.”

- The Real Problems With Psychiatry - Hope Reese - The Atlantic

Open Source Ecology: Aaron Makaruk at TEDxMadrid (by TEDxTalks)

Sun, 05 May 2013 11:38:58 -0700

Open Source Ecology: Aaron Makaruk at TEDxMadrid (by TEDxTalks)

Feeling good at 90: Spry soon-to-be-nonagenarian Ellsworth...

Sun, 05 May 2013 10:37:41 -0700

Feeling good at 90: Spry soon-to-be-nonagenarian Ellsworth Kelly enjoys a moment with Carlos Basualdo, The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art, in the Museum’s newest installation, Homage to Ellsworth Kelly, in galleries 172 and 175.

Background image: “Red Yellow Blue White,” 1952, by Ellsworth Kelly © Ellsworth Kelly

philamuseum: