January 2012
Watch(via Raymond Chandler & Ian Fleming in Conversation (1958) | Open Culture)
Further Notes on Cloud Computing
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““In the last few weeks, the Pentagon may have downgraded counterinsurgency...”
– Air Force’s Top Brain Wants a ‘Social Radar’ to ‘See Into Hearts and Minds’ | Danger Room | Wired.com
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live...”
– Muhammad Ali: In His Own Words (via life)
Continuations: Tech Tuesday: Anatomy of a URL →
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Last week’s overview of “How the Web Works” introduced the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) as the fundamental way things are addressed on the web. Before we pick apart some actual URLs, it is worth looking at the name itself. The promise behind “Uniform” is that this addressing scheme can be…
Watch(via Apollo 11 lunar landing told through data)
cwl: If there is more evidence that shows there is... →
cwnl:
If there is more evidence that shows there is no purpose to this universe and our being, why do people conclude that this means their life means nothing? That’s it’s all meaningless? Why can’t it be that you are free to choose whatever purpose you feel like choosing. Does that not satisfy you?…
Salman Rushdie: Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair,... →
salmanrushdie1:
On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small,…
“But that argument, however well meaning, misses a larger point: technology is an...”
– Internet Access Is Not a Human Right - NYTimes.com
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