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North Korea joins twitter

Micah Goulart — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:35:04 +0000

http://www.fastcompany.com/1683804/north-korea-joins-twitter-and-the-us-responds

15 Things You Never Knew about Evil Knievel

Ric Bruce — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:19:25 +0000

Non-Organic vs Organic

Micah Goulart — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:24:07 +0000

http://www.shoeboxblog.com/?p=17653

BP Irony

Micah Goulart — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:11:08 +0000

Do not leave pumps unattended. You are responsible for spills.

What’s Your Time Perspective?

Ric Bruce — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:13:12 +0000

A fascinating 10-minute animated talk by Philip Zimbardo about the different “time zones” or “time perspectives” that people can have and how the different zones affect people’s world views:

Via @kottke

World Cup Fan Shirt

Micah Goulart — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:04:14 +0000

Posters for all 32 World Cup nations

Micah Goulart — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:59:44 +0000

Brazil

USA

Switzerland

Spain

South Africa

Slovenia

Nigeria

South Korea

Uruguay

Paraguay

New Zealand

Slovakia

Argentina

Greece

Mexico

Portugal

Italy

Germany

France

England

Holland

Denmark

Cameroon

Ghana

Japan

Honduras

Serbia

Chile

Australia

Cotte di Voire

Algeria

North Korea

The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

Micah Goulart — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:06:42 +0000

So many great sections to quote from this article. Below are a few that stood out.

The depth of our intelligence hinges on our ability to transfer information from working memory, the scratch pad of consciousness, to long-term memory, the mind’s filing system.

Imagine filling a bathtub with a thimble; that’s the challenge involved in moving information from working memory into long-term memory.

The problem is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of thought. Once a means to an end, a way to identify information for further study, it’s becoming an end in itself—our preferred method of both learning and analysis. Dazzled by the Net’s treasures, we are blind to the damage we may be doing to our intellectual lives and even our culture.

What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: We are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest. In the process, we seem fated to sacrifice much of what makes our minds so interesting.

Read the whole article.

Math = Purity

Micah Goulart — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:05:06 +0000

Passive Agressive Mom

Micah Goulart — Mon, 10 May 2010 02:15:43 +0000