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Assume this is a work of fiction.
July 28, 2010
Charlie Smith - Always keep your eyes open while working…
Hah, Charlie’s new reality show is pretty good.
22 hours ago
July 27, 2010
“ The Web is now old enough for us to know just how badly links rot over time. Much of the material from the early days of the Web is already gone. Facebook and Twitter actually make it nearly impossible for you to find older material, even stuff that you’ve contributed yourself. The more dynamic the Web gets and the more stuff we move into “the cloud,” the less confident we can be that information that once was public will remain available to the public. There are conferences on “digital preservation” these days because this is actually a serious and important problem. We need to solve it for the sake of future historians and for the sake of our descendants. We need, as Dave Winer puts it, to “future-safe” the culture we are creating together today. In other words: I’m a lot less worried about the Web that never forgets than I am about the Web that can’t remember.
“ This is followed by a sequence in which Mr. Burton suggests ways of having fun without spending much money. This includes such games as rag basketball, double-dutch rope jumping and the tossing of yogurtcup lids. This is obviously not a show for those kids who demand and get expensive bicycles or portable stereos.
July 26, 2010
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3 days ago
July 25, 2010
4 days agoA line showing the speed of light on a scale model of Earth and the Moon, about 1 1/3 seconds.
Does Language Influence Culture?
4 days agoPretty interesting article in the WSJ today. Basically says that language profoundly influences how we see the world. Some examples:
- Russian speakers who have more words for light and dark blues are better able to visually discriminate shades of blue.
- An aboriginal community in Australia doesn’t use terms like “left” and “right”, and instead uses north, south, east and west for directions. As a result they have greater spatial orientation.
- People who speak languages that drop the agent of causality, for example “the vase broke itself” versus “John broke the vase,” don’t often associate blame for events.
- One group who uses the words “few” and “many” in favor of actual number words have difficulty keeping track of exact quantities.
- English speakers see time on a horizontal plane, with the best years ahead and the past behind us. Whereas Mandarin speakers see new events emerging like a spring of water, with the past above and the future below.
Here’s a bit more on the research. Pretty interesting!
Synth nerd meetup yesterday. Many deep technical conversations on the ride up and back.
4 days ago