"One of the reasons I like Svpply so much is I have found it to be helpful in buying fewer, but better, things. One way I use Svpply is to find high-quality merchandise from small businesses that manufacture goods in the US. When I actually buy something I find there, the digital shopping that takes place on Svpply is still helping to contribute to real-world consumerism, but perhaps a less-bad variety."
Chris Tackett, The Atlantic. This was exactly my goal for Svpply: to assist in what I hope becomes a broad cultural shift where people acquire fewer, nicer things. (via whiskyvangoghgo)
Very exciting to see The Atlantic break us down so accurately.
(via svpply)(via svpply)
“Political opposition forces are using new technologies to carry out public events – using toys with placards at mini-protests,” Andrei Mulintsev, the city’s deputy police chief, said at a press conference this week, according to local media. “In our opinion, this is still an unsanctioned public event.”
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“The authorities’ attempt to limit citizens’ rights to express their position has become absurd,” said Lyudmila Alexandrova, a 26-year-old graduate student and protest organiser. “We wanted to hyperbolise this attempt and show the absurdity and farce of officials’ struggle with their own people.”
(via Doll ‘protesters’ present small problem for Russian police | World news | The Guardian)
"He also has been credited with first using the words transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity, and teledildonics."
Ted Nelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ted Nelson, inventor of the hyperlink, namer of intertwingularity. His autobiography, Possiplex, is for sale on Lulu.
"I’d tell someone using it that they’re an individual, not a population."
Online Mortality Calculator Could Change Health Care—and Our Views on Death - The Daily Beast
"As I think I remarked to you at the outset of the space program, you are privileged to share in a pioneering project on a grand scale — in fact the grandest scale yet known to man. And I venture to predict that after all the huzzas have been uttered and the public acclaim is but a memory, you will derive the greatest satisfaction from the serene knowledge that you have discovered new truths. You can say to yourself: this I saw, this I experienced, this I know to be the truth. This experience is a precious thing; it is known to all researchers, in whatever field of endeavour, who have ventured into the unknown and have discovered new truths."
“In May of 1962, 37-year-old Malcolm Scott Carpenter became just the second American to orbit the Earth, as he piloted the Aurora 7 into space. On the eve of this historic journey, his father, Marion, proudly wrote him the following wonderful letter. “
"His hoop dreams even extended to making basketball a kind of adopted national pastime; a 2006 San Diego Union-Tribune story details a full-scale appropriation that includes giving the game a new scoring system: “three points for a dunk, four points for a three-pointer that does not touch the rim and eight points for a basket scored in the final three seconds. Miss a free throw, and it’s minus one."
Kim Jong-un: North Korea’s ‘Great Successor,’ Sports Fan - The Triangle Blog
betashop: New! Introducing the Fab Live Feed
we already have 1.4M members, over half of which have come via social sharing.
"No DRM, no regional restrictions, no crap. You can download this file, play it as much as you like, burn it to a DVD, whatever."
I love Louis CK
"In that sense, they are similar to the familiar “naked at school” dreams, but I still think it’s interesting the whatever part of the brain cooks up dreams has decided Facebook is a realm in which these anxieties are valid."
Modcult: Four Facebook Nightmares — Selected results from the Google search ‘I had a nightmare about Facebook’:
