June 2009
26 posts
TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead at home - Los Angeles Times →
latimes.com
It’s a terrible week to be famous.
Girl Who Does Not Age Baffles Doctors - ABC News →
abcnews.go.com
Years Pass, but Brooke Greenberg Remains a Toddler. No One Can Explain How or Why.
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I said it - unless your own reason and your own common sense agree.”
—Buddha
“Everything is literally entangled, it can all be communicated with and affected “at a distance” because there is no distance, only a simulation of apparent separation which our limited consciousness feeds us second by second at 11 bits. The “telepathy” which brings people together is no more or less supernatural or unlikely than the “telepathy” which brings two of your fingers together when you think about it. Patience, participation and constant close observation of what’s going on, on the inside and on the outside will soon make you a fine sorcerer, if that’s what you want to be.”
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[Grant Morrison] (via solidair) (via morgenstern)
[Grant Morrison] (via solidair) (via morgenstern)
17-Year-Old Thinks She's Getting Into Photography →
theonion.com
So cruel, so accurate.
Maybe I should use this website to gain attention for employment... →
ssshotaru.homestead.com
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Hah!
When can you start? Err…WH3N CAN U START?!!!?! OMG LOL
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Berners-Lee: We no longer fully understand the web →
newscientist.com
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, says its size and power over society have become so great that we no longer fully comprehend how it works
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
—Buddha (via kari-shma; iindia) (via beenthinking)
Never fails
In three different classes in college, we discussed data analysis. And in each class, when being warned on the dangers of finding correlations in data and assuming they were causal, the following example was given (or some derivation of it):
It is a statistical fact that the incidence of shark attacks is directly related to ice cream sales.
Sure. The first time I heard it, I had to think for a second. Everybody does. Then there’s kind of an awkward laugh, and the discussion continues.
Except there’s always someone who doesn’t get it. In my last class, it was a middle aged lady who had a response for everything in the class, even the things she knew nothing about. A few minutes later, she announced “I still don’t get it. Did they do an autopsy? How did they know?”
Oh college. I won’t miss you.
“Speaking last night at an Internet Week event sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan Miller, News Corp.’s newly-installed chief digital officer, said he envisions a future where at least some of the TV shows and movies on Hulu, the premium video site co-owned by News Corp. (NWS), NBC Universal and Disney (DIS), are available only to subscribers.
Miller, whose last job was running AOL (parent of Daily Finance), prefaced his remark by noting that he won’t attend his first Hulu board meeting until Monday, so the scenario he foresees is merely his own speculation. But, he continued, “in my opinion the answer could be yes. I don’t see why over time that shouldn’t happen. I don’t think it’s on the agenda for Monday [but] it seems to me that over time that could be a logical thing.” —
Miller, whose last job was running AOL (parent of Daily Finance), prefaced his remark by noting that he won’t attend his first Hulu board meeting until Monday, so the scenario he foresees is merely his own speculation. But, he continued, “in my opinion the answer could be yes. I don’t see why over time that shouldn’t happen. I don’t think it’s on the agenda for Monday [but] it seems to me that over time that could be a logical thing.” —
Soon, you’ll have to pay for Hulu (via jilllian)
Personally I think that this makes sense. In the Internet age, we revel in how many things we can get for free. Free music, free television, free movies, free news, free everything. But how long can this process really sustain itself? It’s already killing the newspapers, then online services like Hulu have the potential to put a serious damper on television ad revenue…my point is, when all these things reach a point where there is no money to be made, there are only two options: start charging money for your service, or cease to exist. Actors, directors, writers, producers…they don’t work for free.
