March 2012
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“Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, if...”
– JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane and shameful “personhood” law
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52hertz:
via we speak for the earth:
Underwater Noise Disturbs Whales 120 Miles Away
Pulsing sounds made by technology used to monitor fish stocks may affect how baleen whales communicate, even at great distances.
Marine biologists working in Massachusetts waters noticed that humpback whales sang less during the fall of 2006, when a low frequency signal showed up in their recordings. They...
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Watchvia The Virtual Art of the 80s Game World
Hailing way from 1989 we begin with this wonderful in game animation, taken from Mike Singleton’s seminal first person Action/Strategy ‘Midwinter’ . I actually covered the back story and game mechanics in depth a few years back, today the focus is the virtual world itself . This long forgotten classic (23 years old!) featured the implementation of many...
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“Many projects make the mistake of having too many rewards or too complicated of...”
– via the 99%
4. Design a simple, well-thought-out rewards system.
Kickstarter has you give out rewards to backers at different levels of funding (i.e. $5, $25, $50). Many projects make the mistake of having too many rewards or too complicated of a structure. “However simple you think your...
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“There can’t be anything in the film that tells you one way or another because...”
– - Christopher Nolan on the ending of Inception, via stay for the credits
spotted via breakingfangs
Wow… An interesting perspective that I definitely never thought about…
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Watchvia ftom film:
This is Larry. This is somewhere between point A and point B. Where ever it is… I miss it. I miss kneeling on-top of the van, working the crane, watching Larry push through the wind. Knowing that every mile meant something to him… something people wouldn’t see passing by in their cars…
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“You can always find problems with any decision, but you can’t let that stop you.”
– Ted Mosby (via ilikeslam)
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...”
– Henry David Thoreau, via hope and force
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“Every fall into love involves [to adapt Oscar Wilde] the triumph of hope over...”
– - Alain de Botton
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“Well, it was forwarded to [WikiLeaks] - and god knows what happens now -...”
– - Bradley Manning (via wreck and salvage)
via Glenn Greenwald : Manning could face death: For what? - WikiLeaks
As a reminder: Manning — convicted of nothing — continues to be held in 23-hour/day, highly repressive solitary confinement; despite protests from Amnesty International, a formal...
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via paul-stine:
The Dust Brothers - This Is Your...
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“Our story is the story of the universe. Every piece of everyone, of everything...”
– Professor Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe
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“Path is pretty in the same designy way as our modern museums…These museums are...”
– - Sexpigeon
This is the best thing I’ve read about Path, and it perfectly articulates something I’ve thought not only about Path, but also a lot of other exemplars of the fussy, post-Apple wave of “high design” in tech products. Khoi Vinh has written about the same phenomenon, arguing that the...
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Watch1st spotted via pile:
Do More With Your DSLR: Working with Available Light via Vimeo Video School
This in-depth tutorial shows you how to make the most of the lighting conditions in your shooting environment. For anyone wondering about white balance, in search of ISO info, or freaked out by f-stops, this one’s for you.
Learning dSLRs has never been so much fun! Also, the day that someone...
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