January 2010
142 posts
Heat death is closer than we thought! →
(fuckyeahphysics)
“Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to...”
– Bertolt Brecht
r/K selection theory →
@cascio In a world of diverse, distributed media, simple and replicable strategies will win out over complex and nuanced ones. r beats K…http://tr.im/LGWj in unstable environments, fecundity and rapid replication beats long maturation and complexity.
(Jamais Casico)
r-selection (unstable environments) :
In unstable or unpredictable environments, r-selection predominates as the ability to...
Best of all is night in a foreign country. Come sunset you leave some place because it’s turned out to be hopelessly boring, and you set out, let’s say, due south. Darkness is descending onto the plains, covering up their melancholy, and by ten in the evening you’re driving through pure black space. You can imagine all sorts of things to yourself; you can guess at the outline of the unseen...
“The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.”
– JP Getty (via John Perry Barlow:timoreilly)
“Steal this idea: using cookies, it’d be trivial to sort content into read and...”
– David Cole
“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said:...”
– Alan Kay (marco)
“A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself...”
– Gertrude Stein excerpted from the 1935 “Poetry and Grammar.” Depending on your perspective, see also lexical ambiguities or the value of voids. (roomthily)
