January 2012
42 posts
“What they had stumbled upon was a subculture of Kubrick fans that has been...”
– ‘Room 237,’ Documentary With Theories About ‘The Shining’ by https://findings.comRobert Ito (via Findings.com)
“The moral authority of the networked public is on a different plane than the...”
– The Moral Battle Between Pirates and Copyright Lobbyists | TorrentFreak (via Findings.com)
“The irony is that the MIT researchers who pioneered the passwords didn’t really...”
– The World’s First Computer Password? It Was Useless Too (via Findings.com)
“The effect of these technologies is to transform a hitherto linear experience —...”
– The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality (via Findings.com)
“In a blinding flash of inspiration, the other day I realized that...”
– 3.05: Gossip is Philosophy (via Findings.com)
“It’s behavior like Chris Dodd’s that makes it rational not only to be cynical...”
– Chris Dodd’s paid SOPA crusading (via Findings.com)
“Formal robotics competitions are growing in popularity, but what if robots were...”
– Merging Play and Learning: Why Students Love Robots - Education - GOOD (via Findings.com)
“It shows, yet again, that he just doesn’t get it. People were protesting...”
– MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren’t Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought | Techdirt (via Findings.com)
“If bogosort were used to sort a deck of cards, it would consist of checking if...”
– Bogosort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via Findings.com)
“Writing in his blog on the New York Times yesterday, David Pogue, one of the...”
– Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestimates Hollywood « Clay Shirky (via Findings.com)
“There were intense debates about the constitutionality of the legislation —...”
– Were we smarter 100 years ago..? | The Public Domain | (via Findings.com)
“Apple, in this EULA, is claiming a right not just to its software, but to its...”
– Apple’s mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement | ZDNet (via Findings.com)
“Even former Senator Chris Dodd, the head of the Motion Picture Association of...”
– Internet wins: SOPA and PIPA both shelved (via Findings.com)
“Literature has been in a plundered, fragmentary state for a long time. When I...”
– The ecstasy of influence:
A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper’s Magazine) (via Findings.com)
“When you see Snooki’s book on the New York Times Best Seller List, you know...”
– Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us” (via Findings.com)
“In December, a group of professors from America’s top philosophy...”
– What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology (via Findings.com)
“The old media firms in the US aren’t out to get you personally, of course...”
– Sopa and Pipa would create a consumption-only internet (via Findings.com)
“Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google...”
– This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek (via Findings.com)
“But here’s Bakshy’s most crucial finding: Although we’re more likely to share...”
– Online echo chambers: A study of 250 million Facebook users reveals the Web isn’t as polarized as we thought. (via Findings.com)
“Norms, laws and code together determine what is possible and likely, and...”
– Jonathan Stray » Norms, Laws, and Code (via Findings.com)
“One more human weak-link is that robots may likely have better situational...”
– Drone-Ethics Briefing: What a Leading Robot Expert Told the CIA (via Findings.com)
“Known as deja vu (literally “already seen”), an early explanation...”
– The science behind memory glitches (via Findings.com)
“Google’s decision to exit the Chinese market over human rights abuses reportedly...”
– Google Really Is Less Evil Than Its Competitors - Forbes (via Findings.com)
“Another reason why Natures attracted attention was its subject matter. For a...”
– Shape of sounds to come - FT.com (via Findings.com)
“Consider the case of a big program that has arbitrary complicated dependencies....”
– PyPy Status Blog: Transactional Memory (II) (via Findings.com)
“Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep,...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson (via Findings.com)
“Geeking out involves the more expertise-centered forms of interest-driven...”
– Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digit by https://findings.comMizuko Ito, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Matteo Bittanti, Danah Boyd, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, C. J. Pascoe, Laura...
“It turned out to be a tricky question. Under international law, the United...”
– A Push for Historic Preservation on the Moon by https://findings.comKenneth Chang (via Findings.com)
“The important tests of whether or not a regulation is fit for a purpose are...”
– Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing - Boing Boing (via Findings.com)
“NASAs Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure...”
– NASA’s Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy (via Findings.com)
“Software is eating the world. Verticals like publishing, music, real estate and...”
– Goodbye Information Economy, Hello Feedback Economy - Forbes (via Findings.com)
“Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and...”
– Outliers: The Story of Success by https://findings.comMalcolm Gladwell (via Findings.com)
“Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without...”
– On bullshit and law schools : Lawyers, Guns & Money (via Findings.com)
“As much as I want the halcyon days of Raymond Carver sending off his ream of...”
– TechCrunch | Barnes & Noble Mulls Splitting Nook Business And Selling “Dead Tree” Publishing Company (via Findings.com)
Peter Higgs tells James Elwes that without the... →
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via bookmania)
““This [hacker] community can put humanity back in space in a meaningful...”
– Hackers prepare space satellites (via Findings.com)
“Someone had once proposed the doubtful theory that all three of the remaining...”
– Nova by https://findings.comSamuel R. Delany (via Findings.com) 