This would make a pretty swish living room (Abandoned Stuff Blog via robot-heart + pilnick)
One of America's most influential conservative judges, Richard Posner, has proposed a ban on linking to online content without permission
Except that what makes the web a web. Without link it would be isolated useless blobs.
Matt Webb lays out the 100 hour challenge
So I say our decisions about culture at large, about the question of how to spend our 100 million hours, I say these are rooted in personal ability to wield the tools of production. And as we said, 100 hours practice would get you a really long way.
Here’s my challenge. Right now, put aside 100 hours over this summer. Do it right now, in your head. Put that time aside. 100 hours. 8 hours a week for the next 12 weeks. One hour a day, or one working day a week. It’s one summer out of your entire life, it’s nothing. Okay, you’ve got that 100 hours?
Now for the next two days, go to talks and start conversations with people you don’t know, and choose what to spend your 100 hours on.
I guarantee that everyone in this room can produce something or has some special skill, and maybe they’re not even aware of it.
Ask them what theirs is, find out, because you’ll get ideas about what to learn yourself, and decide what to spend your 100 hours on. Do that for me.
Because when you contribute, when you participate in culture, when you’re no longer solving problems, but inventing culture itself, that is when life starts getting interesting.
“when people start learning something new, they perceive the world around them differently. If you start learning how to play the guitar, suddenly the guitar stands out in all the music you listen to. […] as more and more people have access to things like iMovie, they begin to understand the manipulative power of editing. Watching reality TV almost becomes like a game as you try to second-guess how the editor is trying to manipulate you”
“Over the last 20 years, however, the cost of tools related to the authorship of media has plummeted. […] The fact that tons of people know names of fonts like Helvetica is weird!”
“You know, in total, over three years and six missions, twelve men have spent, cumulatively, only one hundred and sixty man-hours on the actual surface of the moon”
“It’s truer now than it’s ever been. It amazes me that my company, only four permanent people on staff, can produce an electronic model of all of Manhattan just to try out an new idea with maps. Or we can make gadgets out of plastic and electronics. I mean, we’re tiny.”
“It might be one million miles long and as thin as a sheet of paper, aimed towards the sun—a tomato”
“Possibly in space the approach to vegetables might be different. Did that ever strike you—because we are thinking of three-dimensional vegetables, maybe in space, where you have a lot of sunlight, you might get a two-dimensional tomato”
“there may be as few as four individual dandelions competing with each other for the territory of the whole of North America”
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