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(via jonathan-deamer) Oh my god. It is the end times. (via whitneymcn) |
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 subsuming cover concept, Is helplessly isolated and explodes its identity, the delusion that it is but a specimen. There is solidarity between such thinking and metaphysics at the time of its fall. (Adorno, Negative Dialectics)
I don’t remember what I thought about this at all.
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 whatsoever. (via jsomers)
It’s like a metaphor.
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The Economist (regarding the last 400 years, actually rather proudly)
UPDATE:
So like, probably at least 50% there already. |
smarterplanet:IBM Builds NATO a Private Cloud for Intelligence Work | Fast Company
Pretty important looking sign.
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(Facebook developement docs) Think about it. |
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.
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. Following the parade, mulligan stew is served to hundreds of people in the city park. Live entertainment, a carnival, and a flea market are also part of the festivities. They also win money for the parade to help them get food. The first and most important rule of the hobo code was ‘decide your own life’, which meant ‘do what you want to do’.
“Hobo.” Wikipedia.
More:
H. L. Mencken, in his The American Language (4th ed., 1937), wrote:
Tramps and hobos are commonly lumped together, but in their own sight they are sharply differentiated. A hobo or bo is simply a migratory laborer; he may take some longish holidays, but soon or late he returns to work. A tramp never works if it can be avoided; he simply travels. Lower than either is the bum, who neither works nor travels, save when impelled to motion by the police.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face — forever.”
- George Orwellhey guys, it’s caturday!
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 0Auth 2.0 (though still has a basic authentication/API key system as well) and is JSON-only.
Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook are an interesting trio to see converging. Since Facebook entered the location game they’re the three biggest players. Foursquare was the first to offer a writable API allowing third party apps to let users check-in to locations. Gowalla’s API got (official) write support only a few weeks before Facebook announced its location-based “Places” feature in August. Facebook provided a read-only API for Places to all but a few select partners from the feature’s launch until opening write access to all last month. Now Foursquare is the one playing catch-up, dropping XML support and joining its two competitors on the short list of services leading the industry in the move to OAuth 2.0.
The location-based social networking scene gets a lot of hype, but at least in terms of API competition and innovation it really is heating up. Just last week, Gowalla announced a major feature update, which it characterized as “the most significant update to the service we’ve ever released” on the company blog. Gowalla “now supports checking in on both Facebook Places and Foursquare” by linking a Gowalla account to a user’s corresponding accounts on the other services. The same APIs all three companies are racing to improve on various fronts allows Gowalla—which some might characterize as an also-ran at this point—to attempt a power-play by being first to admit its users probably want to access the other services too.
“Interestingly” indeed!
