December 2010
18 posts
Re-reading the classics
Yet the need in thinking is what makes us think. It asks to be negated by thinking; it must disappear in thought if it is to be really satisfied; and in this negation it survives. Represented in the inmost cell of thought is that which is unlike thought. The smallest intramundane traits would be of relevance to the absolute, for the micrological view cracks the shells of what, measured by the...
Chindōgu →
bestofwikipedia:
Chindo-gu is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. However, chindo-gu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions would find that it causes so many new problems, or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility...
“Western intellectuals dreamed up the ideas of enlightenment and progress, and...”
– The Economist (regarding the last 400 years, actually rather proudly)
I like when critics and proponents can agree on language
Want to look into the steps involved in becoming a “man of affairs”
UPDATE:
Type of: businessperson » capitalist » person » organism »...
The Snow
It has lost its charm
“When publishing, use only the ‘voice’ of the object.”
– (Facebook developement docs)
Think about it.
keyholez:
Also, the correlation here is bananas.
Even weirder. Firstly, seemingly unreasonably closely matched much of the time. Secondly, some changes directly correlated and some inversely correlated!
You know in the original Star Wars when they get away from the Death Star and Leia says they’re being tracked and that “They let us go. It’s the only explanation for the ease of our escape”, even though it seemed like they had to try really hard to escape?
That’s how Friday feels to me sometimes.
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seedz:
In 1900, the town fathers of Britt, Iowa invited Tourist Union #63 to bring their annual convention to town, and the National Hobo Convention has been held each year in early to mid August ever since.[10] Hobos stay in the “Hobo Jungle” telling stories around campfires at night. A hobo king and queen are named each year and get to ride on special floats in the Hobo Day parade....
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I wrote about foursquare's new API version on... →
Interestingly, the trends Foursquare is following are particularly trendy among its closest peers. Facebook’s Graph API actually started off with OAuth 2.0 and has only ever used JSON as a data format. (Facebook even helped lead the creation of the new version, initially in the form of something called OAuth WRAP.) The smaller-but-still-scrappy location-based social service Gowalla also supports...
Yeah, everyone makes mistakes, whatever. But how have they not even posted something on the staff blog yet? I mean, explain yourselves.
