February 2012
41 posts
“Screw your FOIAs. I’m done. I’m a civilian now. You leave me the hell alone.”
– West Virginia Administration Secretary Robert Ferguson said Wednesday, after he announced his resignation.
“Holding one’s caustic jabber in mixed company is a sure trait of manners, is it...”
– Marc Smirnoff, editor, Oxford American
“Having been through this it’s a bit easier for me to understand why TV...”
– stamen design | Kanye West is an a**hole and other Twitter moments from the MTV Video Music Awards
“People who are good at linear thinking are usually a little fuzzy on the...”
– Friend who wishes to remain nameless.
“To transform bacteria was once a huge deal, a new method. Today, you can do it...”
– Cathal Garvey, quoted in Doing Biotech in My Bedroom
“What’s interesting about AA is that the program doesn’t directly attack many of...”
– Why Did Whitney Fail Rehab? Too Much Talent. - Charles Duhigg
“It’s a revolution. We’re really just getting under way. But the march of...”
– Gary King, director of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, quoted in The New York Times
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“Accepting data shaped by someone else’s choices is a tacit acceptance of...”
– (the teeming void): This is Data?
“Below, you will find a typical board, in this case, my homage to the French...”
– Know Your Internet: What Is Pinterest and Why Should I Care? - Alexis Madrigal
“The reason the Web took off is not because it was a magic idea, but because I...”
– Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web
“In the world of plenty, the only currency is attention.”
“We absolutely need breaks and distance from our routines to gain a new points of...”
– The Myth of the Disconnected Life by Jason Farman
“At the moment I realized these were no longer magic numbers. Instead, I was...”
– Three Magic Numbers (via GigaOm)
“Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging...”
– \/\The Conscience of a Hacker/\/ by +++The Mentor+++, January 8, 1986 (via Wired)
“The word “hacker” has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in...”
– Mark Zuckerberg’s Letter to Investors: ‘The Hacker Way’
freeDive →
Just a quick note to point out this awesome new (free!) tool launched by the Knight Digital Media Center. The prolific Scot Hacker and Len de Groot have built a way for even the most tech-unsavvy journalists to embed searchable databases right into a webpage or blog post. The dead-simple process uses a Google spreadsheet as the database and the Google Visualization API to make that data look good...
