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http://www.techmeme.com/110928... - × × ×

MG Siegler: “Put simply: this is going to be the Android tablet that people buy. But most people will have no idea that it’s an Android tablet.” — http://parislemon.com/post... - × × ×

“Everyone can survive this. You will have to let go of some of your power. Yes, your therapist is right: You did hand your power over to him. But it's not that simple. It never is. Handing your power over to him gave you the exalted status of the abused. It gave you the keys to the martyr's fortress from which you hurl javelins in the dark. They seem to fall from the sky. But they're from you. I don't blame you for this. What choice did you have? I know this well. I did not discover what a martyr I was until quite late in life. But once I realized it, it made many other things clear. I want to suffer. It gives me license. I know this now. You will have to give up part of your martyr's cloak. Not all of it. We don't give up all of any of our archetypes. But we must hush them from time to time, when one takes over, or when they all clamor at once. I know you haven't made a spectacle of being a martyr but it is there on the edges, offering to enclose all your sorrows in its dark embrace. The martyr is the wounded soul but wields great power. This is how it wields its power: by suffering. It lies in wait for lachrymose moments; it sees an opening on center stage to cry in the spotlights. It's glorious and warm there, crying in the spotlight. It is exquisite. It is almost as good as parental love -- but then, who would know what that's really like?” - × × ×

#going_through_hell - × × ×

“Clark and I met on the Thursday before Labor Day, August 30, 2007. I don’t know exactly when we first said I love you, but the first email exchange containing the phrase, which he casually includes before signing off, is dated October 3 of that year. Nearly four years later, I sometimes type his email address in the search box in my Gmail. Hundreds of results pop up, and I’ll pick a few at random to read. The ease of our everyday interactions is what kills me. The way we spoke to each other about what I’d bring home for dinner or whether it was a PBR or a Grolsch kind of night. In nearly every conversation, there is something that releases the pressure from my chest by forcing a giant laugh.” - × × ×

#going_through_hell - × × ×

«Можно погадать об импульсе, который заставил заменить анкеты в профилях на генератор автобиографий: старая статья о селф-трекинге в журнале Wired? Взросление руководителей самой соцсети, на чей обобщенный портрет, похоже, намекает проморолик? (Желание запомнить первых девушек, жен, детей.) Точно одно, и об этом говорил на F8 Кристфер Кокс, вице-президент фейсбука: Фелтон — один из главных идеологов обновления, и он же его прилежный пользователь и образец для подражания. А кто откажется от этого: таймлайн — слишком человеческая идея; если есть что вспомнить и свободное время, то трудно пройти мимо.» #таймлайны • #говоря_статистически • #визуализация • #aqsc - × × ×

"Ditching Flash for HTML5 feels like the right choice for us for a number of engineering reasons. The exact same HTML5 documents work on the iPhone / iPad, Android phones/tablets, and modern desktop browsers. This is great from an operations perspective. This saves us from extra storage costs, and maximizes the cache hit ration on our CDN (since a desktop request fills the cache for a mobile request, and vice-versa). It’s also great from a software engineering perspective, because we can put all our energy into supporting one format and making it really great. Documents load 30% faster and are 40% smaller. ‘Nuff said on that front, faster is ALWAYS better. The documents are semantic and accessible. Google can parse it and index the documents, and so can any other bot, scraper, spider, or screen-reader. This means that you can write code that does interesting things with the text on the slideshare pages. You can even copy and paste text from a SlideShare document, something that was always a pain with Flash." - × × ×

(via @mindszenty) - × × ×

“In my presentation last month on UX and ROI: what to measure and what to expect I shared a big list of metrics. The idea being you can scan the list to see if there are any useful metrics to help measure the project / site you are working on. I’m not suggesting measure all these things, that would be crazy. This is more a suggestion / help list to use to think about what you might want to measure.” - × × ×

Мне нравятся красивые вещи, в том числе оружие. Холодное оружие для меня больше объект искусства, а вот огнестрельное увлекает как и всякая красивая и безотказная машина, выполняющая свои функции в любой ситуации. Пользоваться не умею, стрелять в тире несколько раз приходилось, навыка нет и я не особенно стремлюсь его получить, потому что все ситуации, в которых оно мне может понадобиться, означают крайнюю степень безвыходности. В то, что оружие в руках населения увеличивает безопасность общества я не верю — человечество, как мы помним, в среднем безнадёжно. Ок, поехали: спрашивать сюда, $username$ - × × ×

перечитать Алису в Зазеркалье :) - Michael Bravo

А также два с половиной года назад — http://friendfeed.com/urbansh... - × × ×

“Players of the online game Foldit have helped discover the structure of an enzyme that had the scientific community stumped for a decade, representing a significant step forward in attempts to cure retroviral diseases like AIDS. The enzyme, a Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) retroviral protease, was accurately modelled by Foldit players in just three weeks, and opens the door to development of antiretroviral drugs. Foldit makes use of players' 3D puzzle-solving abilities and competitive nature to solve problems that computers alone have been unable to do.” #trendtaste #проигры - × × ×

#Не_прошло_и_года. - × × ×

"Численность трудоспособного населения России до 2025 года уменьшится не менее чем на 10 миллионов человек, сообщил секретарь совета безопасности РФ Николай Патрушев. Смотрите оригинал материала на http://www.interfax.ru/society... "Страна вступает в наиболее сложный с точки зрения демографической ситуации период", - сказал он во вторник в Южно-Сахалинске на выездном совещании в Дальневосточном федеральном округе." #trendtaste - × × ×

“— Людей, которые меняют жизнь к лучшему, в последние пару лет стало заметно больше. Точнее, было, например, ноль, а стало, скажем, восемь таких людей. Появились «Гараж», «Стрелка», «Дождь», театр «Практика», новый парк Горького, винзаводы эти бесконечные. Я абсолютно уверен, что страну к лучшему поменяет не какой-нибудь новый честный Прохоров, а те, кто способен поменять к лучшему какое-то конкретное, понятное, обозримое пространство. Это все очень воодушевляет. Я очень верю в то, что человек, который провел время в новом прекрасном парке Горького, потом поел в красивом вкусном недорогом ресторане, а потом пришел назад в свой обосранный подъезд, попытается так или иначе подтянуть ситуацию в подъезде до новых стандартов. Минус этого эволюционного пути в том, что никто из нас не доживет до повсеместно чистых подъездов — медленный процесс. Но никаких других вариантов просто нет.” - Филипп Бахтин: «Дрянь пойдет своей дорогой, а прекрасное останется» - × × ×

Я уже рассказывал как-то, что моим главным фильтром являются любопытство, интерес и дефицит внимания. Они фильтруют широкий набор разных каналов, которые мне доступны. Так как я «генералист» (т.е. мне интересно знать как можно больше важных подробностей о разных вещах, а не вгрызаться в одну-единственную тему), то я стараюсь не пропускать важные штуки. А чтобы не тонуть под потоком, я предпочитаю сам приходить к «горе» (источникам информации), а не стоять под водопадом. Для этого пришлось настроить окружающий мир так, чтобы он меня не трогал никогда, кроме тех случаев, когда это нужно или важно. Т.е. я не проверяю почту иногда целыми днями, мой социопатский образ жизни и формат общения приводит к тому, что меня редко беспокоят люди в мессенджерах, несмотря на то, что у меня включён и скайп (пять открытых окон с разными людьми), и гугл-ток. В гугл-ридер я захожу раз в два дня и скорее просматриваю заголовки, чем что-то читаю. Ещё я иногда... #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

“ Here in the twenty-first century we’re surrounded by proof that we tend to live our stories. As I brought this section to close, one last synchronicity directed my attention to an article in New Scientist’s February 12, 2011, issue about work of William Casebeer of the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), based in Arlington, Virginia. Casebeer, a neurobiologist, goes so far as to suggest that certain narratives are as addictive as cocaine, commenting on the effects a compelling yarn might have upon the minds of enemy soldiers or suicide bombers. He is convinced that we should be investigating the military potential of stories, by creating “counter-narrative strategies” engineered to undermine or oppose the religious or political storylines that inspire war, oppression, and greed. We may scoff and leave it to military experts to develop a technology whereby a cadet is told a story so convincing he believes he’s superhuman before a battle, but I’d like to think that... - × × ×

"Н. К. Крупская упрекает Крокодила за то, что он мещанин. Но кому нужно, чтобы он был пролетарием?" - kett

там же Гармаш: "Смотрю на депутатов Госдумы и думаю: какой мог бы хороший начальник ДЭЗа быть. Типично русская история: люди не на своем месте" - kett

"Прочтите, что пишут американцы о Толстом, или французы о Чехове, или англичане о Мопассане - и вы поймете, что духовное сближение наций - это беседа глухонемых." - ⓒⓔⓐ

Observations from @fchimero's "Noticing" workshop @svaixd from @tomharman: - × × ×

“Released today, the first Open Badges beta was developed by Brian Brennan and Erin Knight, with support from Dan Mills and Ben Adida in Mozilla Labs. It includes a badge format spec, APIs and reference implementation for ‘badge backpack’ software. It also builds on other Mozilla open identity technology like Browser ID. Today’s announcement coincides with the launch of a $2 million badges for learning competition funded by MacArthur Foundation and run by HASTAC. Earlier this week, MacArthur approved a $1 million grant to Mozilla to work on the Open Badges Infrastructure, a platform that will be used by all winners of the competition.” #игрофикация - × × ×

Зарелизили бета-версию платформы для беджей, ура. - × × ×

Охохо. Аманда, Аманда. http://www.flickr.com/people... - × × ×

A short intro for the book Presentation Secrets. - × × ×

"The service, which is available as a Web site and iPhone app, comes from Gina Bianchini, the co-founder and former CEO of Ning. Mightybell’s content management tools try to anticipate the ways its guide creators might use them — to offer a packing list for a trip, for instance, or to set up a communal photo gallery for everyone who uses the guide. It helps creators add pictures, videos, times and locations, and encourages them to make their steps measurable so users can confirm that they have each been completed. Mightybell also has extensive and pretty tools for creators to analyze how people use their guides, including feedback on how every step was received by users, visualizations of conversion rates from various referrers like Facebook and Twitter, and details about which of their followers are most engaged. Registered guide users also get a multicolored timeline of everything they’ve ever done on the site." - × × ×

"Today however we’re hearing reports via the WSJ that Amazon may soon launch a book equivalent of the service, charging a fixed monthly fee for access to a library of books. Amazon will reportedly offer book publishers a substantial fee for their involvement in the program. ¶ The idea isn’t entirely new with services like ‘the library’, booksfree.com and bookswim existing for some time but both are currently primarily for offline paperbacks and hardbacks. There’s also 24symbols which recently launched a near identical offering, but currently only features titles that are public domain rather than premium bestsellers. With Amazon’s Kindle platform and intimate relationships with every premium publisher on the planet, this is a unique new space only the likes of Amazon and Apple are likely to be able to cater to." • #прокниги - × × ×

Вот это было бы здорово - Prometa

#amazon_longcon - × × ×

"The Narrative Science software can make inferences based on the historical data it collects and the sequence and outcomes of past games. To generate story “angles,” explains Mr. Hammond of Narrative Science, the software learns concepts for articles like “individual effort,” “team effort,” “come from behind,” “back and forth,” “season high,” “player’s streak” and “rankings for team.” Then the software decides what element is most important for that game, and it becomes the lead of the article, he said. The data also determines vocabulary selection. A lopsided score may well be termed a “rout” rather than a “win.”" #будущее_мидий #trendtaste - × × ×

"Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail over six months. The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would be useful to hackers, affidavits and other documents related to litigation in which the companies were embroiled, and trade secrets, such as contracts for business transactions. “Twenty gigs of data is a lot of data in six months of really doing nothing,” said researcher Peter Kim from the Godai Group. “And nobody knows this is happening.” Doppelganger domains are ones that are spelled almost identically to legitimate domains, but differ slightly, such as a missing period separating a subdomain name from a primary domain name – as in the case of seibm.com as opposed to the real se.ibm.com domain that IBM uses for its division in Sweden." - × × ×

“ An arrogant person only feels smart if someone else feels stupid. Their sense of themselves depends on thinking less of someone else. They insist on correcting other people’s grammar or showing them their flaws, as it’s the only way they can feel an approximation of confidence. Arrogance is about intent: its when ability (or perceived ability) is used to look down on others. A confident person feels competent from the inside out. They use their talents to genuinely try to be of use, or to succeed at the task at hand. They might seek external validation, but they don’t depend on it to define their sense of their ability or nature. In some cases an arrogant person may have more skill than a confident person, but the confident person will tend to wield whatever abilities they have with more calm control than an arrogant person can. ” - Скотт Беркун о разнице между высокомерием и уверенностью в себе: Arrogance vs. Confidence: what’s the difference? « Scott Berkun Проще говоря,... - × × ×

#про_девочек - #история_моей_жизни - × × ×

метачитатель - nazer1

я вам не чукча! я - метачукча! - кот от котов

^^ это читатель заметок на полях? - mindszenty

“Hart was best known for his 1971 invention of electronic books, or eBooks. He founded Project Gutenberg, which is recognized as one of the earliest and longest-lasting online literary projects. He often told this story of how he had the idea for eBooks. He had been granted access to significant computing power at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On July 4 1971, after being inspired by a free printed copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, he decided to type the text into a computer, and to transmit it to other users on the computer network. From this beginning, the digitization and distribution of literature was to be Hart's life's work, spanning over 40 years.” - × × ×

“A lifetime intellectual, Hart was inspired by his parents, both professors at the University of Illinois, to seek truth and to question authority. One of his favorite recent quotes, credited to George Bernard Shaw, is characteristic of his approach to life:  "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.  Unreasonable  people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.  All progress,  therefore, depends on unreasonable people." Michael prided himself on being unreasonable, and only in the later years of life did he mellow sufficiently to occasionally refrain from debate. Yet, his passion for life, and all the things in it, never abated.” - × × ×

Google Docs is down. Can't trust cloud. Going back to Mayan etching. Palenke is currently editing this slab. - × × ×

(третий раз упорно читается «полистать внутри поста») - 50 оттенков кошкости

“Huy Pham's Mourners Struggle To Make Sense Of His Death” — http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011... - × × ×

^ (список лайков!) «а там уж есть жираф / или его хотя бы хохот / зачем же думаешь их два» - × × ×

“A tag is the soul of the Internet.” - Derrick de Kerckhove, цитата Клайва Томпсона из его статьи про теги Инстаграма - × × ×

#музыкальная_шкатулка - × × ×

#ты_тормоз_но_это_ок - × × ×

А употребления голосовых интонаций и т.п. в тезаурусах вообще нет, кажется :( - mindszenty

“Leaders are not what many people think — people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. These include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, determination, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head even when things are going badly. This is the opposite of the “charisma” that we hear so much about.” - John Holt, цитата из поста Катерины Фейк об избытке шума вместо реальных событий, дел и достижений - × × ×

#leadersheep - × × ×

"With increasingly pervasive networked sensors, knowledgeable genetic tests, and falling data storage costs, our online identities become more and more just our identities. Trade-offs and double-edged swords abound: Is losing your genomic privacy an excessive price to pay for surviving cancer and evading plagues? Is compromising your sensory privacy through lifelogging a reasonable price to pay for preventing malicious impersonation and apprehending criminals? Is letting your insurance company know exactly how you steer and hit the gas and brake pedals, and where you drive, an acceptable price to pay for cheaper insurance?" - × × ×

Чарли снова прекрасен, и вот эта вот «среднесрочная перспектива» длиной в 500 лет, начиная через пятьдесят лет от сегодняшнего дня — вот это вот и есть «думать из будущего», а не постоянные бессмысленные споры «зачем вы прогноз форсайтом зовёте, юзабилисты штоле». - × × ×

"Fallout Monopoly was crafted by the talented artist Elisabeth Redel of Germany for her boyfriend—that’s one hell of a way to say “I love you.” Look how amazing the detailing is in Redel’s mimicry of the visual aesthetics from Fallout 3!" #проигры - × × ×

И ты находишься внутри этого движения, а не смотришь пассивно через стекло. - × × ×

«и готов эффект присутствия в аквариуме» - 50 оттенков кошкости

всем кто видел, хочется снимать. очень клево выглядит. люди по-разному трут. и все это с удивительной частотой, постоянно кто-то подходит. - Anton Noginov х

ну вот, например - http://vimeo.com/5687466 - Anton Noginov х

#И_выступит_с_докладом - × × ×

“The cumulative effect of these temptations and decisions isn’t intuitively obvious. Virtually no one has a gut-level sense of just how tiring it is to decide. Big decisions, small decisions, they all add up. Choosing what to have for breakfast, where to go on vacation, whom to hire, how much to spend — these all deplete willpower, and there’s no telltale symptom of when that willpower is low. It’s not like getting winded or hitting the wall during a marathon. Ego depletion manifests itself not as one feeling but rather as a propensity to experience everything more intensely. When the brain’s regulatory powers weaken, frustrations seem more irritating than usual. Impulses to eat, drink, spend and say stupid things feel more powerful (and alcohol causes self-control to decline further). Like those dogs in the experiment, ego-depleted humans become more likely to get into needless fights over turf. In making decisions, they take illogical shortcuts and tend to favor short-term gains and delayed costs. Like the depleted parole judges, they become inclined to take the safer, easier option even when that option hurts someone else. ¶ “Good decision making is not a trait of the person, in the sense that it’s always there,” Baumeister says. “It’s a state that fluctuates.” His studies show that people with the best self-control are the ones who structure their lives so as to conserve willpower. They don’t schedule endless back-to-back meetings. They avoid temptations like all-you-can-eat buffets, and they establish habits that eliminate the mental effort of making choices. Instead of deciding every morning whether or not to force themselves to exercise, they set up regular appointments to work out with a friend. Instead of counting on willpower to remain robust all day, they conserve it so that it’s available for emergencies and important decisions.” #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

Надпись на визитке: ego-depleted human. - × × ×

^ Эта конструкция разрывает мозг отсутствием центра тяжести. - alex@musayev.com

:) - × × ×

Ну. - mindszenty

Заяц ПЦ: Генератор модных проектов и актуальных профессий - × × ×

После сбора шестидесяти тысяч голосов в своём ежегодном летнем опросе читателей, редакция NPR собрала топ-лист самых значимых фантастических и фэнтезийных книг. В число финалистов вошло 237 названий, но для круглого счёта на сайте повесили топ-100, который можно распечатать и раскрасить маркерами, или повычёркивать читанное, а неизвестные названия добавить на досуге в список покупок или чтения. Список удобен тем, что серии здесь схлопнуты в отдельные пункты, а не разобраны по томам, так что можно быстро понять, на что обращать внимание и что незаслуженно прошло мимо. Список из сотни пусть полежит и у меня здесь, чтобы в следующий раз, когда мне будет не хватать увлекательного чтения (примерно лет через восемь-тринадцать, по последним подсчётам), можно было посмотреть на список нечитанной классики и вдохновиться. * * * The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card The Dune Chronicles, by Frank... - × × ×

#прокниги - × × ×