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Tera Bite
The prefix “tera” (as in terabyte) comes from the Greek for “monster.”
(from The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words)
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Skeuomorph
Skeuomorph refers to a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original.
Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar.
The word derives from Greek, skeuos for ‘vessel’ or ‘tool’ and morphe for ‘shape.’
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“Objectivity is a fallacy. In campaign reporting more than any other kind of...”
– One of many quotables from Hack: Confessions of a Presidential Campaign Reporter (published back in 2008), by Michael Hastings (the feller who managed to get Gen. McChrystal canned), on one of the many difficulties faced by a free press (and therefore, democracy) on the campaign trail. Depressing...
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Idea in a Dream for HitRECord
wonderbot:
In my dream last night I went online to HitRECord and there was a page with a map. The map had little red dots all over it. You could zoom in to specific locations and if you hovered over a dot you could see which HitRECorders lived there. I thought it was really cool because you could see who lived near you so maybe you could get together and collaborate in person.
Love this idea!...
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Clarence Darrow on Nietzsche
fuckyeahexistentialism:
This is from his famous summation by defense attorney Clarence Darrow, arguing against the death penalty for Nathaniel Leopold and Richard Loeb, two precocious teenagers who murdered another boy to show that they could do it. Leopold claimed inspiration from Nietzsche. Here is Darrow on Leopold:
He became enamored of the philosophy of Nietzsche. Your Honor, I have read...
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“Life must go on, I forget just why.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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fuckyeahexistentialism:
Q: What do you get when you cross an aesthete with a phenomenologist? A: An interior daseiner.
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“I’ve got nothing particular to say, I don’t have any message to give...”
– Anish Kapoor
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