Source: boingboing.net
In an effort to try and remain here on newsvine while being a little less controversial for awhile, here is a great essay and replies that I found via BoingBoing about the online collective such as wikipedia and such and whether it is good or bad.
Source: www3.hp.com
Ever wonder where the @ symbol comes from? I know I have. HP, of all companies, decided to do a little article on it. Certainly very interesting. Be sure to check out what @ is called in other languages aside from English!
Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Red, White and Blue
The Phaedrus72 Theme Song
Muse. A band not normally associated with keeping things short and simple.
Source: apple.slashdot.org
Amazing article on why Apple doesn't focus on gaming. It convinced me.
Source: abc.net.au
A new Australian study has shows female genital mutilation leads to an increased risk of death in newborn babies.
Source: treehugger.com
1. Global Warming doesn't exist. It's not happening.
2. Okay, it's happening, but humans are not causing it.
3.
Source: MSNBC
A recent survey conducted by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University indicates that Black men in America today are deeply divided over the way they see themselves and their country.
Never before has America seen such a generation as Generation Y (or "GenY" as we'll call her).
Source: ABC TV Catalyst
Real and fake smiles are controlled by different parts of the brain - unconscious for real, conscious for fake. Humans score well in spotting fakes. Facial analysis suggests that Mona Lisa's famous smile is a fake.
Having read Brian Ford's recent post, I felt inspired to write my own article highlighting a few not-so-famous albums I own that I can thoroughly recommend.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Melvyn Bragg is to host a new TV series, 12 Books That Changed The World, about the tomes which have shaped our lives.
Source: MWC News
Professor Walter A. Davis, great American writer, thinker: "The Amerika envisioned by Bush and Co. is bad enough ... the biggest problem about our ideological blindness is our blindness to it ... think ourselves free"
Source: motherjones.com
Restrictionists in Congress are trying to push legal immigrants, and even some naturalized citizens, to the edges of society. And the cultural message this sends to people here and people around the world—if you don’t speak fluent English, you don’t belong here.
With the new user column layout, I feel that Newsvine has become as much my "home" on the web as my blog. For that reason I'm moving a couple of the old articles I really care about from my blog to here. This is one of them.
With the new user column layout, I feel that Newsvine has become as much my "home" on the web as my blog. For that reason I'm moving a couple of the old articles I really care about from my blog to here. This is one of them.
With the new user column layout, I feel that Newsvine has become as much my "home" on the web as my blog. For that reason I'm moving a couple of the old articles I really care about from my blog to here. This is one of them.
Source: observer.guardian.co.uk
'I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony.
Source: msnbc.msn.com
-- Nobody doubts that our culture influences our sexuality and sexual expression.
Source: futureswatch.org
Social, political, economic, cultural, historical, and technological timelines of the world from 1750 to 2100.
Source: today.reuters.com
And yet, when a Republican gets in legal trouble, there seems to be a LOT of outcry from the media for that person to step down. Why is this not true in this case?
Source: sciam.com
Mahzarin Banaji wrestled with a slide projector while senior executives filed grumpily into the screening room at New Line Cinema studios in Los Angeles.
Source: physorg.com
If computers could create a society, what kind of world would they make?
Source: designobserver.com
Adrian Shaughnessy addresses advertising in design magazines that's aimed at designers, "Ads in the design press tend to be anodyne and patronising, especially in the way they speak about ‘creativity’ — a concept bandied about as if it were a new wonder-ingredient in breakf
Source: designobserver.com
Michael Bierut talks about the recent issue of plagiarism in the media (Kaavya Viswanathan) and how it applies to the design world. Could he have suffered from cryptomnesia?
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