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- January 22, 2014
Coca-Cola Small World Machine
Nevermind it is from a corporation that I am indifferent to, this ad campaign is pretty cool. “[Coca Cola] connected two vending machines to each other—one in India and one in Pakistan. These machines allowed people to talk, “touch” hands, trace drawings together, and dance with each other. That Coca-Cola had the audacity to connect […]
- January 22, 2014
Maths for Love
This story is yet another example of the power of data. How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love. “I think that what I did is just a slightly more algorithmic, large-scale, and machine-learning-based version of what everyone does on the site,” McKinlay says. Everyone tries to create an optimal profile—he just had […]
- January 20, 2014
Wearable Tech
It’s predicted to be the next big thing. With Google’s insulin-predicting contact lenses, the game seems to have taken a pivotal turn. “Wearable tech is going to become primarily a sensor and software game, and wearable hardwear is going to trend toward invisibility. […] we’ll start wearing tiny sensors—which will be pleasant to wear and […]
- January 19, 2014
Bottom Bitch Feminism
An interesting alternative view to the more mainstream sentiment of Beyonce as the embodiment of Black feminism. The problem with Beyhive Bottom Bitch Feminism The coontocracy of assimilationist corporate negroes is in full effect, riding for patriarchal capitalist agendas and having us believe that somehow Beyonce’s success is a step toward some dystopic vision […]
- January 18, 2014
Open Source Thermostat
Connected devices/Internet of Things/M2M (Machine to Machine)/Industrial Internet is a certified big deal, and Google’s Nest acquisition proves it. Source: Building an Open Source Nest
- January 17, 2014
The Ballet of Life and Death
Reading Amanda Palmer’s blog always makes me feel agitated and overwhelmed. Like the dormant notion of my mortality is suddenly awakened. There are so many ways to live, so much to life, so much to live (or die?) for, so many experiences to have and so little time to do it all. She wrote about […]
- January 16, 2014
Navigating Stuckness
“In the tradeoff between timeliness and timelessness, choose the latter. The zeitgeist rewards timeliness, but your soul rewards timelessness.” Best article I have read in a long while. It came at exactly the time I need it. Navigating Stuckness by Jonathan Harris “[…]each time I’d been majorly stuck, it meant that a life chapter was […]
- January 15, 2014
The Future of Business
99 Facts on the Future of Business Some interesting excerpts: Over 40% of the companies that were at the top of Furtune 500 in 2000 were no longer there in 2010 The half-life of a piece of content shared on top social networks Twitter and Facebook is 3 hours. (Half-life is the amount of time […]
- January 15, 2014
Astronaut Chris Hadfield
I can’t believe it took me so long to discover Chris Hadfield. During his time at the International Space Station, Commander Hadfield went from being an obscure space commander to an orbiting rockstar, thanks to his hundreds of inter-galactic updates on social media channels like Twitter and Facebook, which generated a lot of attention and […]
- January 14, 2014
Humanism
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion. – Abraham Lincoln
- January 13, 2014
Doris Lessing
via Amorous Musings “What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.” Doris Lessing, born in Iran – then known as Persia – and brought up in the African bush in Zimbabwe, a […]