February 2011
January 2011
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“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”
– Thomas Merton, 1915 - 1968
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getoffmyblog replied to your quote: Every successful revolution puts on, in time, the…
I just read The Proud Tower by Tuchman, blew my mind.
I haven’t read it yet, but added it to my list. The review I read makes it a must!
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“Every successful revolution puts on, in time, the robes of the tyrant it has...”
– Barbara W. Tuchman, 1912 - 1989
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CandyShell Wrap iPad Case by Speck →
funway:
CandyShell is one of Speck’s most popular case series. Now a new CandyShell Wrap iPad case has been added. If you’re interested, let’s go on checking the unique iPad case. The iPad case belongs to Speck’s CandyShell series, same as other CandyShell iPad cases, Wrap also …
I think I like this better than my Otterbox. Must investigate!
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figuremeout replied to your photo: OK, nothing happened. You can all go back to Taco…
However, when I read into this event, seems people who eat at Taco Bell (myself included) didnt seem to care. If you make the decision to eat there, for the most part, are of an elective participation. Its fast food. If offends you, dont eat it.
Yeah, I have primarily opted out. If I’m ravenously...
New theories reveal the nature of numbers →
science:
This feels like it should be exciting, but is also frustratingly above my head. What can be gleaned from press releases is this: a partition of a number is simply a way of writing it as a sum. So, 4 = 3+1 = 2+2 = 2+1+1 = 1+1+1+1, which means that the number 4 has 5 partitions. But the number of partitions grows very rapidly. By the time we’re at 100, the number is more than 190 million....
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16 Things You Didn't know About Sleep →
technogeeknotes:
This makes me want to take a serious NAP!
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“It is harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
– Virginia Woolf, 1882 - 1941
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mudwerks:
Pete Steele | Coal Creek March
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e.ggtimer.com →
guy:
A super simple online timer. I’m using it to try and make sure I don’t sit at my desk for more than an hour at a time since sitting is bad for your health.
ugh… sitting.
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Facebook confirms plans to make Credits the... →
removepoke:
That means all Facebook game developers will be able to start using Credits as their payment system for virtual goods — in fact, Facebook is requiring them to make the switch by July.
via VentureBeat
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Watchaculturedkid:
Grafitismo Ep-02
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Most Original/Creative Tumblr Layout I've Seen...
weeparkwarrior:
http://www.removepoke.com
Okay, thanks, but all credit (and boundless appreciation) for the theme of that site goes to the very lovely and talented Ms. Wee and her awesome work on that and a bunch of other great Tumblr themes.
Yellowstone National Park Will Destroy Us All [Old... →
“So HTML is the new HTML5, HTML5 is the new AJAX, FlashPlayer is the new Java,...”
– [insert new technology here] is the New [insert old technology here]
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Russian prison installs tanning beds →
As part of its 240-year anniversary, the Butyrskaya Prison in Moscow, known for centuries for its harsh living conditions, will offer the services of tanning beds to its inmates, but each prisoner will have to pay 10 rubles per minute if they want a rich golden glow—equating to about $0.33 in U.S. dollars. That may not seem like much to us, but when the average monthly salary in the country...
Your brain will never turn into software on a... →
fieldyweb:
Getting ready to upload your consciousness into a brain-emulating computer in a decade or two? You’ll be waiting a lot longer than that. Princeton computer science researcher Timothy B. Lee doesn’t think we’ll ever upload our brains. Here’s why.