July 28, 2010

Charlie Smith - Always keep your eyes open while working…

Hah, Charlie’s new reality show is pretty good.

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.

Scott Rosenberg (via azspot)

Let go. Now is all we have.

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
July 25, 2010
ksouth:

A line showing the speed of light on a scale model of Earth and the Moon, about 1 1/3 seconds.

ksouth:

A line showing the speed of light on a scale model of Earth and the Moon, about 1 1/3 seconds.

Synth nerd meetup yesterday. Many deep technical conversations on the ride up and back.

Synth nerd meetup yesterday. Many deep technical conversations on the ride up and back.