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maentis: Step 84 - Survival

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:21:33 -0500

maentis:

Step 84 - Survival

thegodfounder: Black Friday/being different: Everlane’s way of...

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:19:10 -0500

thegodfounder:

Black Friday/being different: Everlane’s way of doing business today. None.

fharperart: I did this illo about two weeks ago for TWA workers...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:24:37 -0500

fharperart:

I did this illo about two weeks ago for TWA workers union about hurricane Irene.

"It’s called persistent starting. Anytime I give someone motivational advice this is the most..."

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:36:47 -0500

“

It’s called persistent starting. Anytime I give someone motivational advice this is the most important thing. It’s super easy and works like a charm, as you now know.

Pick something you want to do but keep putting off. It can be anything. Tell yourself you’ll spend five minutes doing it and then quit after five minutes *if* you still don’t want to do it. After five minutes if you still want to quit then quit. No tricks or mind games. You won’t want to quit. What happens is the part of our brain that plans and carries out our day to day actions takes over our bodies and we just keep doing what we’re doing. Planing the next step, executing the current one. Autopilot in a way.

It’s from a book called The Now Habit that came out in the eighties. Pretty good advice overall but this part is the best.

”

- Chyndonax, commenting in Reddit, this is my hand clamp. It’s been the best motivational tool I’ve ever used. (via timoni)

warrenellis: (via Subtraction.com: Space Helmets)

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 04:48:43 -0500

warrenellis:

(via Subtraction.com: Space Helmets)

Photo

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:12:33 -0500

explore-blog: Gorgonize: To have a paralyzing or mesmerizing...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 04:29:54 -0400

explore-blog:

Gorgonize: To have a paralyzing or mesmerizing effect on: Stupefy or petrify. Unusual words rendered in bold, beautiful graphics.

atmos: (via Alfred Hitchcock for photographer Jean-Loup Sieff -...

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:11:09 -0400

atmos:

(via Alfred Hitchcock for photographer Jean-Loup Sieff - Imgur)

What a playful man

newyorker: A 1960 Arthur Getz cover.

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:52:28 -0400

newyorker:

A 1960 Arthur Getz cover.

dvirreznik: Data Never Sleeps. Informative infographic,...

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:18:59 -0400

dvirreznik:

Data Never Sleeps.
Informative infographic, spotted on @Amdocs Blog.

Full URL: http://visual.ly/data-never-sleeps

"Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever—the..."

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:15:37 -0400

“Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever—the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or…) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It’s not abnormal, and it’s not just for business. It’s just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it’s just life.”

- Ian Bogost, “The Cigarette of This Century”. Via Shawn Blanc. (via tonylucero)

Those cigarettes, they’ll kill you.

(via s-m-i)

revoltfactory: Hierarchy of INTERNET needs (via What Would The...

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:48:52 -0400

revoltfactory:

Hierarchy of INTERNET needs

(via What Would The Internet Do?)

Peter Cawdron - Coconut Headphones

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:04:49 -0400

maskedmarauder:

If you haven’t heard of Cargo Cults, you’ve missed out on one of the most intriguing insights into human nature, first made popular by noted physicist Richard Feynman in his 1974 commencement speech at CalTech. (Note: Christopher Moore’s wonderful novel “Island of the Sequined Love Nun” is all about Cargo Cults and it’s very, very funny.)

Although the cults themselves did not originate in the second world war, it was this war that transformed them. During the war, the people of Melanesia (a group of islands NE of Australia) found their normal daily routine overwhelmed by the Japanese and then the American war machines. Overnight, air bases would spring up. Forrest were cut down, runways built, and large steel birds flew in from the sky full of cargo, the likes of which the islanders had never seen before. The Melanesian people were fascinated by this radical transformation of their island and struggled to comprehend the world at large beyond the seas.

When the war ended and the air force abandoned them, they began mimicking the actions of the soldiers. They would clear bushland to form a runway, march with sticks instead of rifles, hoist American flags, build control towers complete with pseudo radios made from coconuts and straw, all in an effort to bring back the planes with their precious cargo.

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emelieberg: ‘Mondo Cane’ (Dog World) made in 1962 by Paolo...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:19:36 -0400

emelieberg:

‘Mondo Cane’ (Dog World) made in 1962 by Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti.

A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced, non-native cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth of the advanced culture through magical thinking, religious rituals and practices, believing that the wealth was intended for them by their deities and ancestors.

Following contact with people from more technically advanced societies through exploration, colonization, missionary efforts, and international warfare, cargo cults were initially documented in New Guinea and other Micronesian and Melanesian countries in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

Geek's are not the mainstream

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:04:32 -0400

Geek's are not the mainstream:

s-m-i:

“Geeks are lamenting that they don’t dominate and control this network, and expressing it in the only way we know how: Through technological triumphalism. If the culture of a giant network doesn’t resemble the culture we prefer, then it must be a problem that can be solved by making the network more technically complicated.”

— Why Your Complaint About Twitter Is Wrong - Anil Dash

There are certain insights you can only have when your firmly rooted in the tech sphere (aka, programming, reading tech news, studying start-ups, early adopting new services, using every app known to man, and being a power user of technology, etc.) You may be able to envision new technical possibilities that ‘mainstreamers’ could never even consider.

At the same time, this deep level of technical insight can also disconnect you from mainstream sensibilities, and it’s important to find ways to root yourself in how the masses experience and interact with technology.

irreality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult If you...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:28:50 -0400

irreality:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

If you build it they will come.

When they don’t come, just build them.

onelastfix: tree tent Trying to imagine how they got inside.

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:44:24 -0400

onelastfix:

tree tent

Trying to imagine how they got inside.

It’s recommended to build a cozy bulb during the night.

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:10:02 -0400

It’s recommended to build a cozy bulb during the night.

The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:07 -0400

The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In:

What’s happened over the last five years shows not that Apple disrupted the phone handset industry, but rather that Apple destroyed the handset industry — by disrupting the computer industry.

explore-blog: Before the iconic Brooklyn Bridge was built, this...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:14:11 -0400

explore-blog:

Before the iconic Brooklyn Bridge was built, this flimsy footbridge allowed workers to access the construction site. It soon became a popular and dangerous tourist attraction.