"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
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Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | Further examination of Apple’s new social network reveals more problems. To review from last night’s post: 1. It’s awkward, at least, that it runs in iTunes and not a web browser. There’s no Back button, no way to copy the address of a page and share it outside of iTunes. Also if it were just a website we’d be able to access it from an iPad now, not some time in the future. 2. There’s no way to Like the song you’re listening to. In other words there doesn’t seem to be any integration with the [ continue reading Scripting News: Ping: It’s even worse than it appeared ] I made a graphic that shows how I think information moves through our society today. At the top is the discovery, on its way to becoming common knowledge at the bottom it has to move through several phases. Each phase is an ecological niche that is occupied by a different species. Each creature on the list feeds off of information and uses it for energy to do work. Without information it dies. Take any topic and you can trace its path through the information ecosystem. Global Climate Change, Health Care, Peak Oil, Asbestos concerns, Water on the moon, etc… [ continue reading How information moves in today’s society ] For years I’ve had a Google Account. It has a number of my email addresses associated with it, but the one I exposed as the primary address was my main contact address (currently 2010@denny.me – last year, 2009@denny.me – and so on). I have never used Gmail. When it first came out, I didn’t sign up because they wouldn’t let me have a 5 letter username (denny). Since then I’ve not needed it, because for years I’ve been running my own server, hosting my own domains, and my email all lives there. When I got my Android phone, [ continue reading why I don’t want Gmail as my primary Google Account address ] Well this is rich isn’t it? “If the app stops you having one ‘bad’ accident” – what is the sliding-scale and what would be accidental!! SHAME ON YOU TUAW – AND APPLE© FOR ALLOWING IT ON iTunes. Is Text’nDrive Pro worth $19.99? If you avoid even one traffic citation for “texting while driving,” you’d probably come out ahead. If the app keeps you from having a bad accident while you’re distracted by your iPhone, then it’s worth every penny you pay for it, and more. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TUAW review: Email while driving with Text’nDrive Pro [ continue reading be an ARSE and email while driving with Text’nDrive Pro for iPhone (!!! you what?) ] Young people may have one day have to change their names in order to escape their previous online activity, Google boss Eric Schmidt has warned. Mr Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal he feared they did not understand the consequences of having so much personal information about them online. BBC News [ continue reading Google boss Eric Schmidt warns on social use of media ] To move from doing social to being social, an organization must ask itself ‘who drives social bus?’ If the marketing group is just “out there” tweeting away, joining LinkedIN groups and setting up Facebook fan pages without a plan to build a deeper understanding of customer needs, or if the data generated by online social relationships are not being traced throughout the organization’s core operations, then chances are the company is just “doing” social. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» The Difference Between Doing Social Vs. Being Social | Social Media Today: .) [ continue reading the difference between doing social vs. being social ] Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. Type in your postcode or a place name to get started. If it is true – as many believe – that the political elite in Washington have been engaged in a love affair with Google since Barack Obama’s campaign for the White House, then it is also true that the US president is now beginning to notice some wrinkles and warts on his beloved. Although the faltering economic recovery has taken centre stage in Washington ahead of November’s midterm elections, Google this week appeared to have created some fresh problems for the administration. The news that Google had struck a deal withVerizon, the US telecoms group, over how the companies will [ continue reading Washington’s passion for Google cools ] On June 4, 2010 Michael Dell stated that he was considering taking Dell Inc. private “but would not comment when asked what would make him think about the possibility more seriously,” reported Reuters. Well, today we likely know the reasoning for that off-the-wall statement. The SEC charged Dell and senior executives with disclosure and accounting fraud yesterday and the story behind it is one hell of a bombshell! via The Dell Tale Starts to Unravel and it’s a Bombshell – Patently Apple. There are a lot of “how the mighty have fallen” stories about [ continue reading Dell bombshell that won’t run long (that I missed) ] People are boasting on Google’s behalf of their prowess in being able to catch Apple in market share. It is impressive, but not as much as you might think. Apple has never tried to lock-out their competitors, they’ve never designed their product strategies for market share. Jobs said that in a recent interview (I think it was at the D conference). Google has been able to do to Apple in mobile devices what Microsoft did to Apple in PCs, because Apple would rather control their share of the market and have a single target defined by both hardware and software [ continue reading Google vs iPhone and Facebook ] This bus stop advertisement was put up in Hamburg, Germany, and what makes it interesting is the fact that it’s an interactive poster which uses eye tracking camera. When no one looks directly at the poster, it displays a typical scene of domestic issue. And when a passer-by looks at the poster directly, the ‘eye tracking’ camera registers the people looking directly at the poster and the image changes into a photo of the same couple pretending to be happy. [ continue reading The First Poster That Responds To People Looking At It. ] from Pleated Jeans via I love charts ‘Inception’ explained – chart. So Google Fonts is out ♥ and a WordPress plugin exists ♠ to rapidly apply them – delight! I have shown remarkable control in changing everything but only with one font, for a while. The new Safari extensions allow a Google Fonts preview extension to try them out ♣ and the list is growing fast. Installing is a cinch and the settings are simple. First impressions of the display after installing the WordPress plugin are that it increases the loading-time but seems to play safe with most browsers on the mac and the PC however the implementation and display is [ continue reading early adopter or flim-flam addict? Google Fonts in the wild ] Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google) View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon. It’s the coolest social networking tool in the world. But is the geo-location app Foursquare a stalker’s dream? Just how easy it is to uncover the intimate details of a complete stranger’s life? But with such power comes responsibility and there are growing concerns that Foursquare is proving to be a “stalker’s dream”. Sure, you might earn yourself a “free” decaf latte when you check in five times at a coffee shop, but at what price to your privacy? Last month, a coding expert called Jesper Andersenmanaged to capture the details of 875,000 check-ins in San Francisco– currently, the [ continue reading How I became a Foursquare cyberstalker ] Is your Council on Twitter? Last time I checked, in March last year, your council probably wasn’t. And now it probably is. A total of twenty London boroughs have taken the plunge and are attempting to interact online with their residents, with varying degrees of success. Some are merely promoting council services, consultations or events. Some tediously regurgitate press releases and chop them off after the first 140 characters. Most only broadcast, while others occasionally respond. And a few are occasionally interesting, or useful, or even both. Here’s a clickable summary of how those 20 councils are doing, [ continue reading Twitterburra ] One year ago, in July 2009, Tumblr was going strong. They had 255 million pageviews that month. By November of last year, that was up to 420 million pageviews. But some new stats which Tumblr is releasing today show an explosion in growth since then. Tumblr is now at 1.5 billion pageviews a month — their Quantcast data confirms this. For the first time, Tumblr is now a top 50 site in the U.S. in terms of traffic as gauged by Quantcast. And only half of Tumblr’s 6.25 million users are in the U.S. Those users are now posting [ continue reading Tumblr Is on fire. now over 6 million users ] Apple is a company that desperately needs to grow up and wipe the smile off its face, and roll its sleeves up and start to appreciate that they’re no longer the upstart, the underdog, the Crazy One in the Richard Dreyfus ad. They are The Man, the Boss, the one who, from now on, everyone is going to be taking shots at and shits on. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Scripting News Apple’s brewing shitstorm: .) MP Robert Halfon argues that we need to stop internet companies from creating their own surveillance society. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Spiked Google is watching you!: .) Popular stream reader TweetDeck turned two on July 4th, and founder Iain Dodsworth just put up a post giving an update on the company’s progress. Tweetdeck now employs 15 people and recently raised more than $3 million in a series B round, led by betaworks. The company’s product started out as a Twitter client, but now supports multiple streams, including Facebook, Foursquare, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, and Myspace. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch TweetDeck Turns Two, Desktop App Passes 15 Million Downloads: .) [ continue reading TweetDeck Turns Two, Desktop App Passes 15 Million Downloads ] The German Data Protection Authority in Hamburg has launched legal action against Facebook, following complaints from people “who had not signed up to Facebook, but whose details had been added to the site by friends.” Facebook is accused of storing the private data of non-members without their permission, to be used for marketing purposes. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Boing Boing Germany goes after Facebook over claimed privacy violations: .) [ continue reading Germany goes after Facebook over claimed privacy violations ] One of Wales’ “elite” peaks has grown in stature after an official measurement to verify its height. It was feared Tryfan, in Snowdonia, could have fallen short of the 3,000ft (914m) elite mountain status needed to keep as one of Wales’ 14 highest peaks. But enthusiasts who scaled it with GPS equipment found the [ continue reading survey adds 8ft to Tryfan mountain’s height ] I’d love to see a coastal library set up a permanent book exchange like this. Has it been done? [pic from baddogwhiskas] (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Walking Paper Beach IKEA Ad Evokes Library Vibe: .) This map shows all trains (yellow pins) on the London Underground network in approximately real time (screenshot). Click the stations for a local map of that station. I have a (per-station) National Rail version, and a bookmarkable train times planner. Live map of London Underground trains. iPhone/iPad users: the new version of iTunes showing up on your computer right about now has new, non-negotiable terms of service. If you install it, you “agree” to allow Apple to collect precise information about your location in real time and use it, sell it, or give it away. Apple promises that its location data is “collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you.” Of course, AOL thought that the search data it released was anonymous and didn’t personally identify people, either. They were wrong. New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your “precise, real-time [ continue reading New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your ‘precise, real-time location’ ] This video is part of the Mammoths and Mastadons exhibit at The Field Museum in Chicago, and was the Long Short for our Seminar with Nils Gilman. It’s a reverse time lapse put together by Greg Mercer and Emily Ward (editing), and David Quednau (animation). Unwinding 20,000 years of a modern American city and frontier outposts, Native American settlements and the last ice age, we arrive in their world and resurrect them in film. Perhaps most interesting is that this film is not the only place mammoths can now come alive, but also as Stewart points [ continue reading Mammoth Time Lapse ] Every day, thousands of stories are passed around the internet on blogs and via Twitter. A new study by Journalism.org has examined the source of those stories. It turns out, most of them come from old-school media. We may like to share information via Twitter, but the information we share comes from the morning’s newspaper. This is a look at where blogs and Twitter users are getting their stories, and what kind of stories their users are most likely to link to. Source: Journalism.org A collaboration between GOOD and Part & Parcel. (CLICK HERE FOR [ continue reading Transparency: Where the Stuff on the Internet Comes From ] If Ron Wayne, now 76, weren’t one of the most luckless men in the history of Silicon Valley, it wouldn’t have turned out like this. He was present at the birth of cool on April Fool’s Day, 1976: Co-founder — along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak — of the Apple Computer Inc., Wayne designed the company’s original logo, wrote the manual for the Apple I computer, and drafted the fledgling company’s partnership agreement. Apple’s lost founder: Jobs, Woz and Wayne ] | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” |
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