Enjoy this marvelous, wonderful short… 4 mins 18 seconds or so. The Alchemist's Letter from Carlos Stevens on Vimeo.
Inequality via web search trends: easy places to live versus hard places to live.
These differences in search, which I have posted before, still astound me. Inequality in web search trends, by “easy places to live” and “hard places to live” Wow.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/upshot/inequality-and-web-search-trends.html?_r=1&abt=0002&abg=0 Pardon (more…)
Iceland… 4K, genetic experiments, utilitarian sculptures, and original hipsters…
They were the original hipsters. They love their sweaters, beards, lumberjack look, indie pop, and apparently The Big Lebowski. They also are markedly homogeneous, with a wildly close knit population (more…)
Et moi Et moi Et moi.
Jacques Dutronc – Et moi, et moi, et moi (1966) from Jessica Johnston on Vimeo. Jacques Dutronc, obviously….. ———— Seven hundred million Chinese and I and I and I With my life, my little (more…)
Ambient sounds to work and live by….
Are you working on a spreadsheet? Are you compiling? You’re compiling aren’t you? You might be just… needing some background that isn’t too foreground. Control rain, thunder, white noise, coffee (more…)
Alcohol. I gotta have a talk with you.
I am actively involved in making sure I am healthy! Go figure. NB: this is obviously in context of high blood pressure, and I didn’t do the ladies, and I am sorry for that. But this is CURIOUS!!! DATA! (more…)
To Work……… “An Horatian Notion by Thomas Lux”
The thing gets made, gets built, and you’re the slave who rolls the log beneath the block, then another, then pushes the block, then pulls a log from the rear back to the front again and then again (more…)
Twitter Glitch: Is this a timeline or an ad glitch? Is this even a glitch? No conspiracy, promise.
I commented on a Twitter ad with a snarky joke, as I am prone to do. Banksy has that whole “If ads are speaking to you in a public space, you have the right to respond”. .@acorns or make coffee at home (more…)
Electric cars charged on coal powered grids pollute 3x a normal gas / petrol vehicle.
This is crazy. I always thought it would be the batteries that were found out to be the worst part…. http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21636715-why-electric-car-may-be-much-dirtier-petrol-one-cleaner-what Sorta (more…)
Music as art vs commodity: The Free Market is definitely free from giving artists their proper royalties…
This kills me… about artists, licensing, royalties, etc. see attached. I have always been so curious about music as art, IE a personal compulsion that creates it vs desire to make money and be (more…)