Food for thought?
“Read books for pleasure. Buy old books you hope to dive into someday, even if you never do. Cherish the weight of a book on your chest as you fall asleep on a lazy winter afternoon. Books will still be here in 1,000 years. Pinterest will not.” — A graduation message from an analog dad to a digital son (via slim)
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Before the Wedding on Flickr.
The infamous beard people like.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy coming full circle.
The only thing that’s ever made me consider an ereader.
Writer’s Block by Jonathan Callan
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Such a great explosion. I just wanted actual hundreds of ships, ship-to-ship fighting, this explosion, the fleeing the wildfire, only to be trapped by the chain, and Tyrion climbing over the ships.
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“We should resist the false promise that the empty box below the Google logo has come to represent—either unmediated access to pure knowledge or a life of distraction and shallow information. It is a ruse. Knowledge is hard won; it is crafted, created, and organized by humans and their technologies. Google’s search algorithms are only the most recent in a long history of technologies that humans have developed to organize, evaluate, and engage their world.” — IASC: The Hedgehog Review - Volume 14, No. 1 (Spring 2012) - Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart - Chad Wellmon
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” — Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (via off-my-rocker)
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Yeah, goalkeeper vs goalkeeper in the shoot out drew cheers at the bar. Very badass.
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Engineer plans to build real-life version of Starship Enterprise within 20 years
Capt. Kirk explored the universe in the USS Enterprise around the year 2250, but at least one engineer thinks it can be done this century.
Wow! They used my photo!
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How Common Is Your Birthday?
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More importantly… Why are hospitals preventing births on Independence Day?
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“The importance of learning to code isn’t so that everyone will write code, and bury the world under billions of lines of badly conceived Python, Java, and Ruby. The importance of code is that it’s a part of the world we live in. I’ve had enough of legislators who think the Internet is about tubes, who haven’t the slightest idea about legitimate uses for file transfer utilities, and no concept at all about what privacy (and the invasion of privacy) might mean in an online space. I’ve had enough of patent inspectors who approve patents for which prior art has existed for decades. And I’ve had enough of judges making rulings after listening to lawyers arguing about technologies they don’t understand. Learning to code won’t solve these problems, but coding does force engagement with technology on a level other than pure ignorance. Coding is a part of cultural competence, even if you never do it professionally. Alsup is a modern hero.” —
A federal judge learned to code - O’Reilly Radar (via everythingisdisrupted)
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Great Blue Herons on Flickr.
I was so proud to get these three until I realized there was a fourth in the tree.
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If We Are What We Read, Who Are We, Exactly?
We love books for being books. But books are more than just words on pages, lovely or terrible adventures, weird imaginings, plot twists and romances and things that would never happen to us in real life and therefore we should read about. Books have the power to change us—but not just in our minds, apparently. According to research recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Geoff Kaufman of Tiltfactor Laboratories at Dartmouth College and Lisa Libby of Ohio State, the act of reading of and identifying with a fictional character means also that we tend to subconsciously adopt their behavior. In reading about our favorite characters, we may actually become more like them.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Shutterstock]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m416a34v681qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
If We Are What We Read, Who Are We, Exactly?
We love books for being books. But books are more than just words on pages, lovely or terrible adventures, weird imaginings, plot twists and romances and things that would never happen to us in real life and therefore we should read about. Books have the power to change us—but not just in our minds, apparently. According to research recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Geoff Kaufman of Tiltfactor Laboratories at Dartmouth College and Lisa Libby of Ohio State, the act of reading of and identifying with a fictional character means also that we tend to subconsciously adopt their behavior. In reading about our favorite characters, we may actually become more like them.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Shutterstock]
