February 2012
89 posts
“In the vision of the dream I once imagined myself searching for other...”
– from the transcript of the final program in the Carl Sagan’s Cosmos television series (1980)
“Lincoln loved to tell stories. Anyone who met with him commented on his endless...”
– Is storytelling a necessary component of leadership? Lincoln Tells a Story. (via curiositycounts)
Beinn a' Bheithir (Mountain of the Thunderbolt) →
The mountain at whose base tourists to Glencoe are landed was first called Beinn Ghuilbin but is now known as Beinn Bheithir. It got this name from a dragon which, long ago, took shelter in Corrie Liath, a great hollow in the face of the mountain and almost right above Ballachulish Pier. This dragon was apparently a terror to the surrounding district. From the lip of the corrie she...
“we do not want to pay for our memories. The films that remind us of our...”
– ‘We, the Web Kids,’ The Atlantic (via somethingchanged)
“GPS “spoofers” — devices that create false GPS signals to fool receivers into...”
– GPS ‘spoofers’ could be used for high-frequency financial trading fraud (Wired UK), via Aden D. (via new-aesthetic)
“Before I talk about my own troubles, let me tell you about another book,...”
– How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy, via @topfife. (via new-aesthetic)
“Oh I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and...”
– Dylan Thomas, November or December 1936 From The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas (via liquidnight)
“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when...”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really...”
– David Lynch (via kateoplis)
“Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people...”
– The Internet is a Major Driver of the Growth of Cognitive Inequality | Mother Jones
“cognitive inequality”
(via new-aesthetic)
Notes on the Tribe Of The Strange: The Unending... →
tribeofthestrange:
We Tribe-of-the-Strange ride in the bus marked “Further!” Where the only faith that is held is that things will change. That the only answer to questions is inevitably more questions.
Whose only beliefs are that what we see is just a glimpse afforded to us by cobbled together tool-kits that must be continually re-examined; questioning its contents… discarding, adapting,...
11 Free Philip K. Dick Short Stories
technoccult:
Open Culture rounded up 11 Philip K. Dick short stories that you can download for free - legally. It includes his first published story, “Beyond Lies the Wub,” which is also the source for the illustration above.
Original Article
Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery →
“He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings “loaner” devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes clean the minute he returns. In China, he disables Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, never lets his phone out of his sight and, in meetings, not only turns off his phone but also removes the battery, for fear his microphone could be turned on remotely. He connects to...
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that...”
– Lao Tzu (via fernsandmoss)
“just because they say action doesn’t mean you have to do something”
– Brando (via magnificentruin)
“This situation often produces extraordinary ironies. In Seattle, the only...”
– David Graeber, What the Fuck, Chris, I Thought You Were Cool (via collaterlysisters)