Ecco The Dolphin was RIGHT!
A recent paper published in the scientific journal ‘Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology’ suggests that octopuses might be aliens.
Category: Finds
Links, quotes, and other things I found on the web.
The Good War
The Good War. Very thought provoking. This does very well in explaining why I am a conscientious objector.
Progressive alliances are the future of British politics.
“Make Votes Matter estimates that, had this election been run under Proportional Representation, the Conservative lead over Labour would have been slashed to 16 seats. The Greens would have won 11 and our combined total, along with Labour and the Liberal Democrats, would have easily surpassed the Conservatives. A progressive government could have happened.”
Caroline Lucas, Co-leader of the Green Party
I think I’m going to delete all my social media / email apps when I travel to USA this year.
Electronic Media Searches At Border Crossings Raise Worry
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/electronic-media-searches-at-border
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last
Churchill
The meaning of ‘knowing’
The meaning of ‘knowing’ has shifted from being able to remember and repeat information to being able to find and use it.
Nobel laureate Herbert Simon
Tim Cook on workplace rights
So long as the law remains silent on the workplace rights of gay and lesbian Americans, we as a nation are effectively consenting to discrimination against them.
Tim Cook
The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.
John Gruber, looking back on five years of the iPhone.
Starting with the opening gag with Siri doing stand-up comedy and continuing through to Apple’s new maps and Siri’s new features, there was an unmistakeable “Fuck you, Google” undertone to the whole keynote. Apple is forcing Google out of iOS.
If you’re a programmer or designer, then you’re not like most people. Just because you change your settings in apps you use doesn’t mean that your users will, unless they are also programmers and designers.
Do users change their settings? » UIE Brain Sparks
I change settings on everything I use, and one of my favourite things is getting a new program just so I can look through the settings. They’re right, I’m not like other people 🙂
Apple conditioned us to forget about terminals and command-line interaces. Apple conditioned us to forget about floppy disks. Apple conditioned us to forget about parallel ports and adopt USB. And now Apple is conditioning us to rethink the way we scroll our content, but also, the need for disc drives and physical media.
Before you set scrolling back to the “old” way, think about this.
BBC Worldwide have published their Annual Review for 2011 which highlights Doctor Who as one of the ‘most valuable’ brands, largely responsible for the corporations commercial success.
Doctor Who was also the number-three TV series purchased globally on iTunes in 2010/11.
Wow! Very good news for Doctor Who fans: looks like it will carry on for the foreseeable future!
Doctor Who Online – Doctor Who Boosts BBC profits in the 2011 Annual Review
My new order of importance for things to read when I’m on the web:
My new order of importance for things to read when I’m on the web:
Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Facebook, RSS reader, Reddit.
What’s yours?
Why Harry Potter Should Really Be All About Hermione Granger
Why Harry Potter Should Really Be All About Hermione Granger
And when Snape assigns homework, Harry is all, “Wah-Wah, there is sport tomorrow, fulfilling my responsibility will be so hard.” MEANWHILE Hermione is MOVING ****ING TIME so she can take more classes. Because girl knows SOMETHING is happening and she needs to STUDY THE EFF UP.
Focusing is about saying no. And when you say no, you piss people off. But the result is truly great products.
Steve Jobs, 1997
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams, “The Salmon of Doubt”
Apple is now the largest mobile phone manufacturer by revenue
Apple is now the largest mobile phone manufacturer by revenue
Based on revenue, Apple is now the largest mobile phone provider in the world, surpassing even global leader Nokia.
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van der Post
Overcoming Bias : Opinion Warning Signs
Overcoming Bias : Opinion Warning Signs
Signs that your opinions function more to signal loyalty and ability than to estimate truth.
Some great ones here, and they pretty much sum up conversations with religious people:
- You have little interest in getting clear on what exactly is the position being argued.
- You find it easy to conclude that those who disagree with you are insincere or stupid.
- You are reluctant to change your publicly stated positions in response to new info.
- You care more about consistency between your beliefs than about belief accuracy.
- Your opinion doesn’t much change after talking with smart folks who know more.
- You find it hard to list weak points and counter-arguments on your positions.
