January 2010
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December 2009
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“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our...”
– Richard Dawkins, from Chpt 1 of his 1998 book Unweaving the Rainbow
“1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2)...”
– Douglas Adams in DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, explaining how the world works (1999).
“What would happen if I or someone else were to tear up the photograph? The...”
– Ron Burnett, Can Images Think?
via John Connell
“To design is always to redesign”
– Bruno Latour, in a keynote lecture given at History of Design Society, September 2008 A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design.
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WatchVisualizing empires decline, specifically British, Portuguese, French and Spanish empires from 1800-2009, Pedro M. Cruz
via Kottke
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles...”
– Maya Angelou
via @JoanVinallCox, Cory Doctorow, who adds:
I’d give myself a 7/10 on the luggage thing, a 9/10 on the rain, and a 5/10 on the lights. Lots of room for improvement.
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves...”
– Mark Weiser, The Computer for the 21st Century, Scientific American, 1991
“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to...”
– Chimamanda Adichie, on the danger of a single story and the value of many.
via TEDtalks, @james3neal
“A good sketch is better than a long speech.”
– often attributed to Napolean Bonaparte
“There’s nothing native about young people’s engagement with...”
– Danah Boyd, dismissing the stereotype that millenials are “digital natives.”
