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Make bad art.
austinkleon:
Neil Gaiman has released a book of his great commencement address, Make Good Art.
When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician — make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor — make good art. IRS on your trail — make good art. Cat exploded — make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks...
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A little Tumblr history from Marco →
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My life is much better now that I am following David Karp on the thing that he made. (And also my life is so much better because he made it.)
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Priceonomics Blog: Why is Science Behind a... →
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Scientists’ work follows a consistent pattern. They apply for grants, perform their research, and publish the results in a journal. The process is so routine it almost seems inevitable. But what if it’s not the best way to do science?
Although the act of publishing seems to entail sharing your research with the world, most published papers sit behind paywalls. The journals that...
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Feminism in video games
7nights:
This is the Sorceress from Vanillaware’s Dragon’s Crown. Lately, this character has been getting a lot of heat, becoming the new icon of sexism in video games. Are you offended by this character? Do you find it sexist? Well guess what, it’s not.
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April 2013
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Selling Your Hard Work
chrisbowler:
For anyone who has used PayPal to collect payments online, I have felt your pain. When it comes to trusting services to help you run your business, most web focused entrepreneurs have little desire to let PayPal keep their finances in order.
PayPal does have its advantages. It’s accessible in most countries, does not require a credit card, and is straightforward to use for the...
The Official White House Tumblr: The White House,... →
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whitehouse:
We see some great things here at the White House every day, and sharing that stuff with you is one of the best parts of our jobs. That’s why we’re launching a Tumblr. We’ll post things like the best quotes from President Obama, or video of young scientists visiting the White House for the science…
“And yes, of course there will be GIFs.” :)
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John Green's tumblr: When Things That Are Bad for... →
edwardspoonhands:
fishingboatproceeds:
Legislation is currently making its way through the U.S. Congress that would require online retailers to charge sales tax on domestic sales.
People who do not live in the U.S. will find this idea very confusing, so let me briefly explain it: In most of the world, consumption is taxed at a…
This more or less accurately sums up my feelings on this topic....
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Watchtessaviolet:
edwardspoonhands:
THIS. IS. INFURIATING.
I know that Good Morning America isn’t news, I know that they don’t matter, and I know that it doesn’t matter what they think about online video. But after watching this puffy hatchet job, I could not not post about it. Let’s just go through this point by point.
Jenna Marbles is the “Queen of Clicks.” This is a seemingly innocuous phrase,...
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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Jim Jarmusch (via archatlas)
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Apple stock movement: A short history lesson →
parislemon:
Speaking of Apple stock nonsense, here’s a great reminder by Abdel Ibrahim of The Tech Block:
The entire point of showing you these charts is not to give you some Jim Cramer buy signal. It’s to tell you to ignore the bullshit headlines that seem to be flooding the internet and newspapers. They come from analysts. Analysts with agendas to either inflate the price of a stock they own...
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Sex
Somewhere in a discussion about these matters, someone protested that this was “the ‘least sexy’ conversation” about sex that they had ever participated in. This remark seemed to me emblematic of the whole problem. Sexuality divorced from every other reality than the most obvious ones of attraction and pleasure. After much thought, I replied: Sex is about SO much more than “sexy.” Sex is about...
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Free Will and the Fallibility of Science →
s33:
Free Will and the Fallibility of Science
Mills Baker
One of the most significant intellectual errors educated persons make is in underestimating the fallibility of science. The very best scientific theories containing our soundest, most reliable knowledge are certain to be superseded, recategorized from “right” to “wrong”; they are, as physicist David Deutsch says,...
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complaining about the western fantasy aesthetic:...
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~~~skyrim is actually a pretty bad looking game~~~
yeah they kind of just went with the aesthetic that all the straight male gamers(TM) always go apeshit over and didn’t really do much else
plus that conservation of detail thing you tagged is something i wish more people thought about in designs. ragnarok online is a great example of not knowing when...
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