"If you can build $100BN company using Internet to replace college yearbook, imagine using Internet to replace college"

"I'm the twoosh master" @ks44 teaches @BarackObama what a "twoosh" is (twitter swoosh is a tweet with 0 charaters left)

A couple of years ago at D8, Steve Jobs said on stage something like this: computers as we know them won’t go away, but they won’t be used nearly as much. They’ll be like trucks: most people don’t drive around in them all the time, but they’ll use them for special purposes, to get particular types of work done.

I haven’t always agreed with Jobs, and didn’t then, but I’ve since come around to this particular view of his, and come around pretty completely. I’m now convinced that what we think of as laptops and desktops today will be relegated to pretty nichey sorts of work tasks. The future, obviously at this point, belongs to other, more human & invisible, types of machines.

@shashashasha you can identify poor neighborhoods from space - via tree coverage

FACT: this is how all engineers visualize binary.

#Dragon grappled to the International Space Station!!!

APIs are UX for developers. I’ve always been surprised that there isn’t more material written about this aspect of our work, in a way that’s specific to the popular platforms.

"This was his routine: He'd work until midnight or later, and then fall asleep around 2 a.m. on one of the couches. At 7 a.m. -- and no later than 8 a.m. so he'd be safely out of his field bed before anyone else arrived -- he'd wake up, go down to the gym for a workout and a shower, and then go back upstairs and scarf a breakfast of cereal and water or Coke. Then he'd work all day, finally waiting until everyone else in the building had gone home before returning to one of his three favored couches.
"I got a really good work ethic," he said, "and I got in shape, since I had to work out every morning.""

Facebook is about you sharing with the world. Google Plus is about Google understanding you. See the difference? This is why people sometimes say that Google doesn't get social. People don't join Facebook so Facebook can understand them better! In fact, the better Facebook understands them, the more wary of the service they get.

RT @EC: I love the urban planning analogies in @alexismadrigal's piece on Google's social media forays.

I hope to one day be as awesome as this kid:

is one sweet spot for weird architectural structures. /cc @shashashasha

While well designed this really just makes me realize how little I know some of my FB friends: via @ashsmash

I'm talking about prototyping and building maps in Javascript at #fluentconf next week:

A little raucous typography to start your day: via @mariuswatz

@mikeestee improved:

RT @ericsoco: Oh my. Is this what #SF is coming to?

@kcimc this page of outcomes is another piece of incredible poetry

Enjoying , using TV anachronisms to learn about evolution of language.

Here's the highlight of my week so far (along with the name and location of the best coffee shop in San Francisco):

"Looking back, I've had a remarkable ride. I'm not sure I can call it a career, because a career implies that I had some kind of career plan, and I never did. The nearest thing I had was a list I made when I was 15 of everything I wanted to do: to write an adult novel, a children's book, a comic, a movie, record an audiobook, write an episode of Doctor Who... and so on. I didn't have a career. I just did the next thing on the list."

Just got introduced to Nicolas Jaar's Essential Mix, excellent and heady: via @nelson

See, if gamification meant THIS, I'd be all over it. @rands explains how well made games teach.

tomorrow: data vis open mic with #d3js, come join!

In the 1970s Tokyo, artist Akasegawa Genpei and his friends began noticing what they termed “hyperart,” aesthetic objects created by removing a structure’s function, while carefully maintaining the structure itself. They called these objects “Thomassons,” after an American pinch-hitter recruited by a Japanese baseball team, whose bat never connected with a ball.

Damn, impressed. 80000 points in this WebGL demo:

SACRAMENTO -- California took a step toward becoming the second state in the nation to allow self-driven cars on its roads on Monday, as the state Senate unanimously agreed to allow autonomously driven vehicles such as those pioneered by Google (GOOG).

"I've been deaf since birth and there are lot of "sound words" that I read a lot but don't really know what they mean, and dictionary definitions often just refer to other sound words. It's never mattered to me before, but now I'm trying to write a novel with one hearing narrator and every time I use a sound word I'm not sure I'm using it right. I posted awhile ago to /r/writing about "scream", "shout" and "yell" but I've generated a list of questions so I thought I should take it to a larger audience.
People crying in sadness vs crying out in anger, I know there's some gray area in between where they can be used interchangeably, it's hard to get
"shriek" and "ream" are both words that seem to imply emotion more than any specific sound. Is that right?"

well, now I can watch my #makerfaire talk too. ^_^ (via @aerialdomo)

Okay, this is crazy! Responsive coding, hosted backbone.js, d3.js, jquery.js, gists using bl.ocks and more:

Every time @golike's 24/7 grid visualization gets shown in a talk I do a silent fist pump:

Boyle’s film is a celebration of light. He uses the same silver retention technique that David Fincher used when filming Seven. This process gave the darkness of Seven deep rich dark and silvery white light. In Sunshine the technique is used to work back into the light, and golden light thunders across the screen like a waterfall. Light-sabers are diminished and lame in comparison to Boyle’s light show, which is deployed like a physical force. Sunshine is a Niagara. It is no stretch at all to understand the distraction Searle feel as he falls under the sun’s thrall. Doyle makes sun gazers of us all.

This annotated European country boundary timelapse makes me want to play Dice Wars again:

This annotated European country boundary timelapse makes me want to play Dice Wars again:

Here's @alexismadrigal making me miss him and @sarahrich like the dickens. Also eclipses.

Coolest pic I've seen so far: #eclipse #ItsLikeSpaceWithoutTheStars

All the shadows are sickles #eclipse

.@JamesCarruthers sure, just add a new build system. Here's the build system I'm using now:

Yeah, Jython + Processing + Sublime = writing processing sketches without hazzeling with Java syntax and crappy IDEs :)

Packed room for @rachelbinx 's workshop on Interactive Visualization at CCA!

RT @WSJ: On China: How the selling of coffee, cars and pizza sheds light on a nation racing toward superpower status.

Bitcoin takes the monetary system back essentially a hundred years. We know how to beat that system. In fact, we know how to nuke it for profit. Bitcoin is volatile, inherently deflationary and has no lender of last resort. Cornering and squeezing would work well - they use mass in a finite trading space. Modern predatory algos like bandsaw (testing markets by raising and suddenly dropping prices), sharktooth (electronically front-running orders), and band-burst (creating self-perpetuating volatile equilibria in a leverage-sensitive trading space, e.g. an inherently deflationary one), would rapidly wreak havoc. There is also a part of me that figures regulators will turn a blind eye to Bitcoin shenanigans.

physics and a sense of art:

"Moon would pull off one of the oddest hotel room stunts when he spent all night with accomplices nailing and strapping all of the furniture to the ceiling. For many years, the ceiling prank has become a repeated favorite amongst rock artists. Bret Michaels of Poison says he pulled off the stunt in several hotel rooms over the years saying, "It requires physics and a sense of art.""

“I’m just like a little kid. I get bored easily and computers excite me. Those are the two driving factors here.”

RT @enjalot: at his last talk @worrydream said I should copy him, so copy him I did! (slider&colorpicker plugi ...

"Blow Job" by Tadao Cern

awesome way to share files!! (found via reddit)

Since Nov. 2004, I've had 35,160 (mostly) personal email conversations. Also, the Gmail Meter is pretty cool:

Zentai (from the Japanese ゼンタイ) is a term for skin-tight garments that cover the entire body.[1] The word is a contraction of zenshin taitsu (全身タイツ) ("full-body tights").

"Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 421,233,615 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $38 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on May 18, 2012, under the symbol "FB." "

@robinsloan have noticed a lot of "That Moment" on Tumblr too also, Reaction GIFs!

@robinsloan have noticed a lot of "That Moment" on Tumblr too also, Reaction GIFs!

Baracklamation

Still some slots open! @rachelbinx: I'm giving a workshop this saturday, "Creating Interactive Visualizations"

It started with X-Men, but this Michael Fassbender crush is reaching new levels this week (video):

RT @paleofuture Ridley Scott says Blade Runner sequel will definitely feature female protagonist

Great to meet @macdiva @drewconway @bde @danverakis @BrianForde and many more yesterday for the event. So many ideas!

List of animals with fraudulent diplomas: via @jenniferdaniel

How the Facebook IPO compares to 2,400 other tech IPOs since 1980.

RT @jr_carpenter: more to suggest "Duchamps urinal" was actually Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven's urinal . vi ...

Subways 'share universal structure', research suggests - A recent study of the world’s largest subway...

Is Fashion Ready for a New Aesthetic? via @BoF and @hautepop + some gifs/words by us. :)

Afternoon experiment: in-browser vector/grid heatmaps

"Strictly Background" docu about movie extras, so so sad and so so great

I cannot contain my excitement. My talk at RSA made it into RSAnimate, here's a preview (goes live on Monday):

yeah. this.

Valuable novelty. - Clay Shirky talks about the links between space and creativity.

I'm participating in the @flux_factory New Aesthetic Death Match with @maximolly, @kcimc, and @carla_gannis on May 30:

RT @doingitwrong: Used @nervous_system's Cell Cycle to ask "What's a designer when you have user-based generative design?"
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"Never listen to people who try to make beginners feel like losers" replying to Jeff Atwood's post

"Never listen to people who try to make beginners feel like losers" replying to Jeff Atwood's post

Epic sigh. "How Yahoo killed Flickr and Lost the Internet": via @mikeestee

RT @pieratt: New post: "Transparency in the evolution of technology" /cc @TheNextWeb

go read @bryanboyer's excellent breakdown of OMA's design methodology:

whether it’s the institute’s glib attempt to “blur the line between audience and artist” or Michelli’s reference to “shallow” relational aesthetics (I don’t disagree with him about the Holler show), it strikes me as weird that no one is simply calling it “theater,” which is what it is.
At a basic level, what Abramović has done is take performance art, which often relies on contextualization within an art space, and put it in a theater. She may want to us to see her institute as a museum, I suppose, or in effect an art gallery, but a space in which audiences wander for a period of time and interact with live events isn’t a museum anymore than, say, Sleep No More is.

"At the time, all sorts of people were telling me that I needed to put quotes on the back cover of the book. So I asked Steve Jobs if he’d give me one. Various questions came back. But eventually Steve said, “Isaac Newton didn’t have back-cover quotes; why do you want them?” "

RT @faithannyoung: Dig the healthy mix of males and females @fastcompany 100 most Creative people 2012:

Incredible, a 121 megapixel (single shot!) image of the Earth taken by a Russian satellite:

"Currency is electricity; it connects us." -@Jack