Something More Than a Machine

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The Covers Project: A cover chain is a set of songs in which each RECORDING is a cover of a RECORDING by the ARTIST who covered the preceding song.

Reblogged May 12, 2008 at 01:50 AM #

IKEA: Flat-pack accounting: If you ever wondered why IKEA seems so charitable -- what, with the low-price breakfast, free childcare, allegedly great employee benefits and in some cases free room and board for traveling customers, it may be because IKEA is in fact a Dutch not-for-profit foundation dedicated to "innovation in the field of architectural and interior design". Fascinating read.
Reblogged May 8, 2008 at 08:33 PM #

The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher: Interesting essay from 1991. I admit I've been out of the loop and can't speak for today's public education climate, but I can say this is an accurate depiction of my experience in high school -- and to a lesser extent, middle school. Unfortunately, most private schools are either religious or disciplinary in nature and the home-schooling movement is dominated by religious fundamentalists and paranoid schizophrenics. Choice quote:
"School" is an essential support system for a vision of social engineering that condemns most people to be subordinate stones in a pyramid that narrows to a control point as it ascends.
and bonus:
We cannot afford to save money, not even to help children.

Reblogged May 7, 2008 at 01:13 PM #

Colours Are Brighter: Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, The Kooks and Four Tet are amongst the artists contributing to a collection of children’s songs curated by Belle and Sebastian, to raise funds for children’s charity, Save the Children.

Reblogged May 6, 2008 at 08:12 PM #

Thom Yorke - Atoms for Peace (Four Tet remix): Don't know how I missed this.
Reblogged May 6, 2008 at 07:53 PM #

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Memory Hacks: Reblogged April 30, 2008 at 09:17 PM #

Continental Gin Building - Artist Studios - 2008 SPRING OPEN STUDIOS:: A definite must-do this weekend.
Reblogged April 23, 2008 at 04:16 PM #

Excellent advice from Bill Clinton: Also, no relation to Josh Marshall (as far as I know)
Reblogged April 22, 2008 at 06:57 PM #

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm: As we plan the days, weeks, even years of our lives, he would have us rely not merely on our traditional sources of self-knowledge — introspection, intuition, and conscious thought — but also on something new: predictions about ourselves encoded in machines.

Reblogged April 22, 2008 at 05:23 PM #

daniel shiffman: Great Processing hacks
Reblogged April 21, 2008 at 01:52 PM #

Anatomy of an Ikea product | Crave : The gadget blog: For the large scale automation fan in all of us.
Reblogged April 21, 2008 at 01:30 PM #