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"Every time John Borthwick describes the company he founded six years ago, it comes out a little different. Betaworks is… complex. It invests in some internet startups like a venture capital firm (Twitter, Tumblr, Airbnb), operates other wholly owned products like a studio (Digg, Dots, Giphy), and spins out more mature endeavors as standalone companies (Chartbeat, Bitly, SocialFlow). Only 10 people work for Betaworks itself. Everyone else, from investors to engineers, could be described as within its—thus far, very lucrative—financial orbit. ¶ That complexity may explain why the company has just released a 137-page volume about itself that reads like a futurist’s chapbook. Formally, the book is Betaworks’s annual letter to shareholders. In previous years, Borthwick has penned the letters himself, opining on broad internet trends that form the basis of his investment strategy. They have achieved a certain cult status, if not quite on the level of Warren Buffett’s annual missives." • #прокниги ∙ #рассказывание_историй - × × ×

“From 8-bit humor to painterly moving comics, artists are using using GIFs in mind-blowing ways.” - × × ×

Australia’s reigning champ of 8-bit psycho-scapes. You may know him from the Scott Pilgrim video game or Kings of Power 4 Billion% (<— Warning: Will melt your face + entire life). - nazer

«Не так давно художник Дмитрий Мишенин, создатель арт-группы Doping-Pong обнаружил, что его работу незаконно используют на Первом канале. Решив разобраться с ситуацией, он столкнулся с бюрократией и недобросовестностью чиновников и деятелей телевидения. Мы публикуем его рассказ о том, как он боролся за свои права и, как ни странно, отстоял их». - × × ×

Этому треду нужен комментарий Тобе - Коломеец

Поставил заслуженную одну звезду в сторе расписаниям. Если в картах ещё раз увижу — поставлю заслуженную одну звезду и им. • #жёлтая_стрелка ∙ #yandex_ff - × × ×

Спасибо за фидбек, будем разбираться. Так быть не должно — при закрытии должен перестать показываться. Написала менеджеру проекта и разработчикам - тлен, тлен, кладбище

Спасибо, будем ждать! - × × ×

... В жанре видеоэссе. - × × ×

“But how did this happen? How did a concept from Pago Pago become part of global gaming culture? How did an Austronesian spiritual force come on board the Exodar, and become part of the life of my draenei shaman? To answer this question we have to return to the Pacific, and to the Austronesians themselves.” • #проигры - × × ×

“The Appendix is a reader-supported quarterly journal of experimental and narrative history.” - × × ×

Надо только фарш разложить в удачном порядке, без лишних повторов, с разными фазами. Разные рецепты, не очень большие порции. • #музыкальная шкатулка - × × ×

После четырех недель в горах музыка совершенно изумительно звучит (и я обнаружила, что по ней скучаю куда больше, чем по горячему душу или мягкой постели). - лайм безбожников

"A new generation of photographers is emerging in Russia, with a vision and an aesthetic that offers a fresh take on classic questions about Russian identity and the possibilities of their art form. From beguiling portraiture to striking landscapes, this is the new wave: 24 photographers reimagining Russia for the world" - × × ×

“The Calvert Journal is a daily briefing on the culture and creativity of modern Russia. Further development, currently in planning, involves widening the scope of the journal beyond Russia to cover the broader region of Eastern Europe. Calvert 22 Foundation's mission is to create projects and partnerships focused on the contemporary art and culture of Russia and Eastern Europe.” - × × ×

И нужно ли какие-то выводы извлечь из последних трёх забегов, которые кончались всё более печально. - × × ×

А че было? Кто такой ML? Что ты там делаешь? - Неягл☀в

ML — региональный представитель и коммьюнити-менеджер Нанораймо в регионе (municipal liaison), организует движуху, отвечает на вопросы, присматривает за форумом, собирает в офлайне. Было интересно в начале и тоскливо потом, времени на всё не хватает, и особенно не хватает свинцовой жопы на то, чтобы сесть и написать свои 1666,66 слов в день из той истории, которую начал рассказывать в роман этого года. - × × ×

"There was a point when blogs were the only sites that got down and dirty with every kind of gadget that spun up labs in apartments to test manufacturer claims and to be a consumer advocate. That was a valuable thing, and it became an obsession for a certain segment of the populace. Now, however, technology is in the mainstream. It’s in the ground water. Sites (or verticals) like these are also symptomatic of the fact that companies are specifically designing their products to not promote specifications; instead they’re being made to emphasize the user experience (something that was totally foreign to many industries just a decade ago). As the devices themselves de-emphasize their inner workings — the iPhone is carefully designed so that anybody who’s ever touched the thing can use it — this is reflected in public perception. People are busier than ever and have been educated by the industry to care about how something works, not why it works. And sites like this are reflections of that." - × × ×

"At Apple he masterminded the iPod and was once seen as a potential CEO. Now the founder of Nest–which he recently sold to Google for $3.2 billion–is leading the search giant’s effort to disrupt your home." - × × ×

"Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, was an adolescent boy in a small Alabama town in the early 1970s when he saw something he couldn’t forget. Bicycling home on a new 10-speed, he passed a large cross in flames in front of a house — one that he knew belonged to a black family. Around the cross were Klansmen, dressed in white cloaks and hoods, chanting racial slurs. Mr. Cook heard glass break, maybe someone throwing something through a window. He yelled, “Stop!”" - × × ×

"What follows is a strange hybrid, part mystery story and part smartphone productivity software, an app that inexplicably rocketed to the most-downloaded spot in the App Store’s games section in April and stayed there throughout the month. A product of a collaboration between two men who worked together without ever having met in person, the game evokes the simplest text-based computer games of the nineteen-seventies while stimulating a very modern impulse to constantly check and recheck one’s phone. It’s like a puzzle composed of deconstructed to-do lists." • #проигры - × × ×

Судя по тому, что в последних айфонах камеры стоят от Сони (и поэтому в каком-то смысле фотоуспех Айфонов в немалой степени заслужен японскими инженерами), то и новые изогнутые сенсоры можно ждать уже в айфонах следующего года. - × × ×

“Anyone can learn meditation. It takes some patience and time to get used to meditating and it’s easier for some people to adjust to than others. If you aren’t enjoying your practice, consider trying one of these alternatives instead of traditional meditation or as a segue into a meditation routine.” • #медитация - × × ×

“iPhone Photography Awards™ (IPPAWARDS) is the first and the longest running iPhone photography competition since 2007. IPPAWARDS has been celebrating the creativity of the iPhone users since the first iPhone has inspired, excited and engaged the users worldwide. Since then every year, IPPAWARDS has selected the best shots among thousands of images submitted by iPhone photographers from 70+ countries around the world. Winners are selected by the jury members in several steps and The Photographer of the Year prize awarded.” - × × ×

Тёмный центр объектива (стремительно уменьшающегося в размерах) привлекает минимум внимания, и научиться замечать, а потом ещё и смотреть в него — отдельный навык и умение. • #порно_два_ноль - × × ×

Заодно это хорошо ложится в причины моей любви к Sony F-88 и её поворотному объективу: фотографов замечаешь не потому, что они тебя _фотографируют_, а потому что они на тебя _смотрят_. Когда не смотрят, то замечаешь гораздо меньше. (Машет Юре @earlyadopter с его творческим методом «фотографии от пуза») - × × ×

“Bookshops are closing down like nobody’s business. So do they need rethinking for the electronic age? Rosanna de Lisle asks four firms of architects and designers to create the bookshop of their dreams” • #прокниги - × × ×

“This was not simply a wealthy nation crowing about its financial success. The Dutch were the leading merchants of their time, and they saw good accounting as the key to both their wealth and the moral health of their society. To the audience of the time, the paintings carried a clear message: Mastering finance was an achievement requiring both skill and humility.” - × × ×

“As a guest today in my daughter’s second-grade classroom, full of math-enthusiastic seven-and-eight-year-old girls, I led a mathematical investigation of graph coloring, chromatic numbers, map coloring and Eulerian paths and circuits. I brought in a pile of sample graphs I had prepared, and all the girls made up their own graphs and maps to challenge each other. By the end each child had compiled a mathematical “coloring book” containing the results of their explorations. Let me tell you a little about what we did.” - × × ×

Мэджик и торжество апофении. - × × ×

“Jonah is not your typical media mogul, however. He’s smarter than most, and more accessible, and also much happier than many to share his thoughts. Which is why I asked Jonah if he’d be interested in talking to me over an extended period. To my delight, he said yes, and we ended up having four interviews spanning more than six hours. ¶ The resulting Q&A is long, for which I make no apologies. You’ll learn a lot about Jonah Peretti and how he thinks — but you’ll also learn a great deal about the modern media world, the way the Internet has evolved, and the way that Jonah has evolved with it.” • #длиннотексты ∙ #будущее_мидий - × × ×

91 минута чтения, говорит нам Медиум. Интервью в 8 глав. - × × ×

“We have taken out fibrils from natural cellulose fibres,” Lundell says. “Then we have assembled fibrils again into very strong filament. It is about 10 to 20 microns thick, much like a strand of hair.” ¶ The research offers potential for creating natural clothing textiles based on wood instead of cotton, or even replacing fiberglass in cars, trucks and boats. ¶ Lundell says that that unlike existing processes for making strands of cellulose, such as rayon, their composition process is environmentally friendly and sustainable. The only other ingredient in the process is sodium chloride – commonly known as table salt – for binding the fibrils together.” - × × ×

Древесина с солью [x] - × × ×

КО беспокоится о последствиях контакта с водой - Good command or file name

А парни с CBS сделают короткое Укрощение строптивой с закадровым смехом всего на три сезона, или там Двенадцатую ночь. Короткие эпизоды, удобно. • #letmeshowyou - × × ×