in the Wikipedia culture, the notion of "neutrality" is not understood so much as an end result, but as a process. Elsewhere, I employed the fancy coinage of "epistemic stance" (2005) to label the good faith, open-minded, "writing for the enemy" disposition contributors should take: "We should all be engaged in explaining each other's points of view as sympathetically as possible"; while, "The other side might very well find your attempts to characterize their views substandard, but it's the thought that counts" - Ognjen Strpić
"Wood is indeed convertible to useful chemicals, because termites do it every day, causing $1 billion of damage every year in the United States. But to live on a diet of wood is challenging, not least because wood contains so little nitrogen. So how do termites do it? [...] The trick lies in a cunning triple symbiosis, a team of Japanese scientists report in Friday’s issue of Science. In the termites’ gut lives an amoeba-like microbe called a protist, and inside each protist live some 10,000 members of an obscure bacterium. [...] The overall process whereby this troika of species makes a meal of wood is shown in the graphic at left: the termite chews the wood into particles that are absorbed by the amoeba. The amoeba breaks down the cellulose of the wood and gets the nitrogen it needs from its bacteria. The net result is that the two microbes digest wood into sugars and other nutrients of use to the termite." - Goran Zec
During the 1990s, when the World Wide Web was bright and shiny and new, it exerted a strong centrifugal force on us. And that landscape felt not only new but liberating. But that view was an illusion. Even back then, the counterforce to the web's centrifugal force - the centripetal force that would draw us back toward big, central information stores - was building. Hyperlinks were creating feedback loops that served to amplify the popularity of popular sites, feedback loops that would become massively more powerful when modern search engines, like Google, began to rank pages on the basis of links and traffic and other measures of popularity. Navigational tools that used to emphasize ephemera began to filter it out. Roads out began to curve back in. Wikipedia provides a great example of the formative power of the web's centripetal force. . At heart a vast exercise in cut-and-paste paraphrasing (it explicitly bans original thinking. Wikipedia is the lazy man's link... - katepe
Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008 report. Since 2004, their annual study has unearthed and analyzed the trends and themes of blogging. - katepe
Al problem je s jaikuom što se, ako ga držim zatvorenog za opću javnost, ne pojavljuje na friendfeedu ni nakon što ga ”dozovem”. Twitter to ne radi, pa stoga ipak ima mjesto u mom srcu. - Una Bauer
slazem se jer ne razumem sta treba ciniti - Ksenija
Ta kava iz automata na ffu je jedina kava koju sam istinski voljela i jedina koju sam uopće mogla piti a da ne umrem od lupanja srca. Tri kune? Pa to je pljačka. - Una Bauer
Vrijeme za anegdotu! Negdje oko 1997., dok je na FF-u bio samo jedan automat sam posve slučajno otkrio kako, ako *držiš* gumb za jaču kavu stisnut dok stišćeš onaj s izborom, automat ne uzme lovu i možeš tražiti povrat. Mnogo kave je uslijedilo; tip je sumnjao na mene, no znao sam tko je pa nisam to radio kad je bio tamo. Nešto vremena i par proračuna Zimbabwea u kavi kasnije, postavio je curu da prati što se zbiva, pa je shvatio i onesposobio gumb za jaču kavu. :( Bilo je to dobro vrijeme... - Goran Zec
dok ne uvedu lajkanje komentara mi cemo se ovako iscrpljivati lajkajuci i komentirajuci uz lajkanje... - marcell mars
Da sam znao da imate tako zabavan aparat za kavu - ne bih vrijeme provodio ircajući se na terminalima na SRCEtu... Nego bih odlazio na FF i stiskao dugmad do besvjesti ;-) - Tomo Krajina
a sada... ta-daaa... ircerska anegdota! - Ognjen Strpić
Noë uses the fantastic analogy of dance to highlight how we can only understand this practice by considering the dancers, the world and the mind together. Dance does not exist solely between our ears.
Consciousness is not something that happens in us. It is something we do. - Ognjen Strpić