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December 2011

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Learning, Freedom and the Web → learningfreedomandtheweb.org
Dec 31, 20111 note
Dec 31, 2011
Culturepile 2011 - Most listened too...

Dirty Beaches - Badlands

The Wandering Lake - The Wandering Lake

Grouper - Alien Observer & Dream Loss

Colin Stetson - New History Of Warfare Vol 2: Judges

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

Bellowhead - Hedonism

Kate Bush - 50 Kinds Of Snow

James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual

Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Everything’s Getting Older

Richard Skelton - Landings

Radiohead - King of Limbs (+ Daily Mail/Staircase double A-side)

Land of Kush’s Eygptian Light Orchestra - Monogamy

Goodbye Babylon boxset of American gospel music

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck

Tom Waits - Bad As Me

Wild Beasts - Smother

Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love

Anything released by Ghostbox, particularly We Are All Pan’s People and The Advisory Circle

Dec 31, 20111 note
“All I know is when I’m not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I’m working, it’s quite clear I know nothing” —John Cage
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Dec 31, 2011
"It’s true that women, as a gender, have been systemically disadvantaged through history, but they aren’t the only ones: economic exploitation is also systemic and coercive, and so is race. And feminists need to engage with all of this, with class and race, land enclosure and industrialisation, colonialism and the slave trade, if only out of solidarity with the less privileged sisters. And yet, the strange thing is how often they haven’t" → lrb.co.uk
Dec 31, 2011
"This Inari is perhaps the ultimate lift snack. It is a tofu pouch! When combined with chopsticks we are looking at possibly the cleanest food that can legally be taken into a lift. I’m very happy to have found this on my second attempt at sushi in a lift. I travelled with two colleagues in the lift, over three floors. We remain on good terms." → eatinginalift.tumblr.com
Dec 30, 2011
"There's no word for accountability in Finnish," he later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted." → m.theatlantic.com
Dec 30, 2011
Let ds be the infinitesimal link / Of which for the present we've only to think / Let T be the tension, and T + dT / The same for the end that is nearest to B. → newscientist.com
Dec 30, 20112 notes
A tree hotel in the far north of Sweden, near the small village of Harads, close to the polar circle.
 
A shelter up in the trees; a lightweight aluminium structure hung around a tree trunk, a 4x4x4 meters box clad in mirrored glass. → dezeen.com
Dec 30, 20111 note
Dec 30, 2011
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“Before economics can progress it must abandon its suicidal formalism.” —Robert Heilbroner
Dec 30, 2011
My dog has no nose → themanwhofellasleep.com
Dec 29, 2011
“And you may make of it what you will. And you will. You will. You will. You will.” —Preface to The Enthusiast Almanack
Dec 29, 20111 note
“No-one fired a pistol to mark the start of the race to the bottom. The earth just tilted and everyone slid into the hole” —Jonathan Safran Foer, from ‘Eating Animals’
Dec 29, 20112 notes
#Jonathan Safran Foer
Desert Places by Robert Frost

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost covered smooth in snow, But a few weeds and stubble showing last. The woods around it have it—it is theirs. All animals are smothered in their lairs. I am too absent-spirited to count; The loneliness includes me unawares. And lonely as it is that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less— A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expression, nothing to express. They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

Dec 25, 2011
“News reporting is populated today by a strange netherworld of PR-driven half truths, synthetic personalities and waves of apocalyptic fear” —@marginalutility
Dec 22, 2011
“Done is better than perfect” —The Done manifesto
Dec 22, 2011
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“What is on the other side of gold is the same as what is on this side” —John Berger
Dec 18, 2011
THE BITCH, THE STUD AND THE PRAWN (from Adam Curtis' blog - one of the most extraordinary things I've ever read) → bbc.co.uk
Dec 18, 20111 note
Automated trust systems undermine trust by incentivizing cooperation because of the fear of punishment rather than actual trust. If we rely on computational systems for a trust framework, we actually lose our instincts and capacity for personal trust; even more, we cease to care about it. And there's a big difference between trusting someone and relying on a system that says they're trustworthy. → radar.oreilly.com
Dec 18, 20111 note
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The suicidal behavior reporting button is located within the normal mechanism for reporting questionable content. But it's *not* on the first menu of options, as you can see on the left. Instead, you have to mark something "Violence or harmful behavior" before you see the option to report "Suicidal Content." This seems suboptimal to me as I wouldn't think to put suicidal behavior into that category. A Facebook spokesperson told me, "We have been, and will continue to, work with the suicide prevention community and iterate on the placement of the Suicidal Content button."  → theatlantic.com
Dec 17, 2011
This figure, according to Jamie, is a new commodity, one to replace gold, silver and copper. This is Ram Man, a minor character in the 1980s television show He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe. → bbc.co.uk
Dec 16, 2011
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Dec 16, 2011
"This doesn't look like a hard-working part of an economy humming along: it's nothing less than epic capitalist onanism" → guardian.co.uk
Dec 13, 2011
Keep watching the skies → nytimes.com
Dec 12, 2011
"A scientist should be the first to say he doesn't know," a tiger biologist told me when I asked some detail of tiger behaviour. "A scientist goes forward towards truth but never gets there." Which is roughly what Donne said too. "On a huge hill, / Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and he that will. / Reach her, about must, and about must go." → guardian.co.uk
Dec 12, 20111 note
Unevolved brands → unevolvedbrands.tumblr.com
Dec 12, 2011
“Those who drink on credit get twice as drunk” —Turkish proverb
Dec 9, 20111 note
“What is rewarded above is punished below. Petty robbery is a crime against property; grand larceny is a property owner’s right” —Roberto Galeano
Dec 8, 2011
"Oedipus practically invented bad sex, so I'm not in the least bit surprised." → theregister.co.uk
Dec 8, 2011
What is Santa's carbon footprint? → designtaxi.com
Dec 8, 20111 note
Overslept / So tired / If late / Get fired / Why bother? / Why the pain? / Just go home / Do it again → theatlanticcities.com
Dec 7, 20111 note
"n the beginning, Coke created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Coke moved upon the face of the waters." → iwontbebuying.tumblr.com
Dec 7, 2011
Are the Muppets Communists?  → blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Dec 7, 2011
Play
Dec 7, 2011
Dec 4, 20113,823 notes
" Each seller is given a mug and invited to sell it to a buyer. The buyers are given nothing and are invited to use their own money to buy a mug from a seller. The average prices offered in a typical experiment were: sellers $7.12, buyers $2.87. Because the price gap was so large, few mugs were actually sold. The experiment convincingly demolished the central dogma of classical economics. The central dogma says that in a free market, buyers and sellers will agree on a price that both sides regard as fair. The dogma is true for professional traders trading stocks in a stock market. It is untrue for nonprofessional buyers and sellers because of the endowment effect. Trading that should be profitable to both sides does not occur, because most people do not think like traders." → nybooks.com
Dec 4, 2011
Virtual globetrotting → virtualglobetrotting.com
Dec 2, 2011
Dec 2, 20112 notes
“Hardly art, hardly garbage” —The Thermals
Dec 2, 2011
“When you concentrate you lose territory, when you gain territory you lose concentration” —Han Ulrich Obrist
Dec 1, 2011
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