January 2012
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Trust is fragile  →
Great post by @dhh on how to recover your customer trust after you screw up. We shouldn’t make jokes about anything even remotely related to people’s data.
Jan 23rd
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Don’t miss this video about SOPA, PIPA and the media industry, or stay in the couch consuming.
Jan 22nd
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Global temperatures have warmed significantly since 1880, the beginning of what scientists call the “modern record.” At this time, the coverage provided by weather stations allowed for essentially global temperature data. As greenhouse gas emissions from energy production, industry and vehicles have increased, temperatures have climbed, most notably since the late 1970s. In this...
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
“Don’t be creative. Be a creator. No one ever looks back and wishes that...”
– Stuart Langridge
Jan 19th
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Jan 17th
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Scientists replicate key evolutionary step in life... →
via aminotes: Scientists replicate key evolutionary step in life on earth Green cells are undergoing cell death, a cellular division-of-labor—fostering new life. “More than 500 million years ago, single-celled organisms on Earth’s surface began forming multi-cellular clusters that ultimately…
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Deception: magic that uses technology to create illusions.
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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John W. Long @johnwlong  Design Workflows For Rails We’ve come a long way since the early days of Rails. And the entire Rails system, while much more robust, can be intimidating and downright frustrating for designers to get started with. In this talk we’ll discuss a couple of different strategies for integrating designers into your team and what you can do to optimize your current...
Jan 11th
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Also: Could coding be the next mass profession? →
Could coding be the next mass profession? roybahat: Like farming was in the 17th century, factory work during the industrial revolution, construction during the Great Depression, and manufacturing after World War II. Better, because writing code is a creative act which can be done with or without a traditional (antiquated?) office-based job, and…
Jan 10th
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ListenA demo recording for a track from “Alligator...
Jan 8th
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“Just before Christmas I saw a BBC article where a man in Ireland found a letter...”
– Jon Tan @jontangerine
Jan 6th
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2011 Raconto - 2012 Objetivos
Un poco tarde debido al jaleo de fin de año pero aquí estoy, revisando lo más importante de 2011 y dejando constancias de los objetivos para 2012, respondiendo al meme Bonilla-Latorre. El año 2011, ha sido un año muy intenso. En lo profesional, junto con mis compañeros en Sonicbyte hemos completado más proyectos que ningún año. Hemos mejorado nuestra metodología de gestión de proyectos, podría...
Jan 3rd
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Power in Numbers →
Eric Lander, in this interview tells a lot of simple truths about science and the scientific world. 
Jan 3rd
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts,...”
– Charles Bukowski (via ageofreason)
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Dec 29th
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Beautiful presentation by @laurilj of Edward Tufte’s talk on presentation and information design. via altnytterfarlig How to present data & info. An illustrated summary of Edward Tufte’s talk on presentation and information design. (via Mike Arauz)
Dec 19th
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“If the mind is open enough to perceive that a given policy is harming rather...”
– Barbara Tuchman’s book, The March of Folly via @langdonw
Dec 18th
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Spoken word poet Sarah Kay
If I should have a daughter, instead of “Mom,” she’s gonna call me “Point B,” because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, “Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.”...
Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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Watch it evolve
Actually see change over time in a Darwin’s thinking: Multiple editions of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin’s theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin’s On the Origin of Species evolved over the course of several editions he wrote, edited, and updated during his lifetime. The first English...
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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“Like most people who make things, I’m extremely excited about what I’m going to...”
– Casey Reas, @reas Creator of Processing
Dec 13th
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Optimizing for happiness Bootstrapping + idea that makes you happy Excellent story by (@mojombo) Tom Preston-Werner at Startup School 2010. How github was built without private founding.
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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Corrosive corruption: A correlation between... →
Transparency International released annual data for the Corruption Perceptions Index. The Economist plotted it against the UN’s Human Development Index
Dec 10th
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Yellow Submarine iBook, damn it! :(
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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hub introduces git to GitHub hub 1.7.0 screencast (by Mislav Marohnić)
Dec 8th
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Una interesante aventura en la que Ricardo Piglia, guionista y actor, nos guía por el Buenos Aires de Macedonio Fernández. Documental dirigido por Andrés di Tella. Dedicado a Pablo López (nº3) Un enlace interesante: El paisaje del pensar. Macedonio en Misiones por Ana María Camblong
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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November 2011
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Nov 30th
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George Harrison
How great was this person! Thanks for all your music. George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)
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