MacLeod’s Loser layer had me puzzled for a long time, because I was interpreting it in cultural terms: the kind of person you call a “loser.” While some may be losers in that sense too, they are primarily losers in the economic sense: those who have, for various reasons, made (or been forced to make) a bad economic bargain. They’ve given up some... - http://dh2k.tumblr.com/post...
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In my opinion, one of the best things humanity has captured on video. Done in 1979 by Voyager 1 as it approached Jupiter.
fucking hypnotizing - http://dh2k.tumblr.com/post...
Before Gutenberg, a book cost about as much as a small house. As a result, only kings and bishops could afford to own a book of their own. This situation naturally led to the creation of shared books, of libraries where scholars (everyone else was too busy not starving) could come to read books that they didn’t have to own. The library as... - http://dh2k.tumblr.com/post...
Can anyone make music? Ge Wang, a professor at Stanford and the creator of Smule, thinks so. The problem is that people have to get drunk in order to get over their fear enough to do karaoke. Ge is dealing with this by making a series of apps for iPhones and other devices that make composing music not merely easy, but fearless. He’s seen what... - http://dh2k.tumblr.com/post...
The opportunity for widespread education and skills improvement is far bigger than it has ever been before. When we can deliver lectures and lessons digitally, at scale, for virtually free, the only thing holding us back is the status quo (and our belief in the permanence of status). - http://dh2k.tumblr.com/post...
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things. - http://dh2k.tumblr.com/post...