December 2011
7 posts
Numbers from my life in 2011
I posted 4,014 entries, photos, tweets, etc for a total of 23,038 words
Most of my actual wordy blogging happened on Tumblr (12,833 words)
I did my 8:36pm photo 356 out of 365 days (here they are)
I posted 73 things to Tumblr, 2,389 tweets, 237 Foursquare checkins, and 517 photos to Flickr.
I checked in with 165 different people. Top 13: Kellianne (580 times), Niko (382 times),...
A Note From HBO, But Not From The Future →
parislemon:
Jeremy Toeman responds to my letter to HBO (to let me pay for HBO Go without requiring that I pay for cable). He makes a number of solid points as to why the economics simply will not work right now.
But the keywords are “right now”.
I have no doubt that HBO is in no hurry to walk away from their cable partners who not only send them billions, but handle all the logistics...
Simplifying.
habitlabs:
Jump on in the Budge waiting room if you’re not already! We’re going to be letting a bunch of people in right after Christmahanukwanza.
Simulationism
The best case I can think of against the existence of God is that the universe doesn’t seem to have very many other examples of a single point of failure, top-down, authority. Even “queen bees” and ants and those things are not so much in charge as specialized to a particular task (which isn’t management). In general, queens and kings are just too vulnerable to survive very...
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The interface to our subconscious
You know how sometimes you’re hungry and you start wondering to yourself, “What am I in the mood for?” This process of one part of the brain asking another part of the brain a question is something we all do a lot, and it struck me the other day that there was actually something really interesting and beautiful about how it works.
What’s happening here, anyway? Let me try...
Chris DeVore: Software With Soul →
habitlabs:
The explicit goal of the creative minds behind these projects is to develop an authentic, sustained, empathetic relationship with the end-user — to make their customers feel powerful, magical and cared for by their software.
Caring As A Service. In a way, it seems so obvious, and yet, still so very rare. This is the tiny dent I hope to make in the universe.
“Neoteny, one of my favorite words, means the retention of childlike attributions...”
– Joi Ito, “The Internet, Innovation, and Learning”
Relevant to my interests on multiple levels.