txt: The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
The Petabyte Age is different because more is different. Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud. As we moved along that progression, we went from the [...]
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definition: consume on merriam-webster.com
Main Entry:
con·sume
transitive verb
1: to do away with completely : destroy: “fire consumed several buildings”
2 a: to spend wastefully : squander b: use up: “writing consumed much of his time”
3 a: to eat or drink especially in great [...]
txt: Serendipity - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.
The word derives from Serendip, the old Persian name for Sri Lanka,[1] and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace [...]
youtube tag: net-art
txt + video: net-artist - a3sebastian on youtube.com
“I’m a net artist: It’s a cartoon video with the voice of a net-artist, looking for attention. He explains what net-art is, and the problems he has in order to arrive to people and to be considered as an art maker”
“now come to Venice, meet [...]
If you loved “Muto” have a look at the other videos by Blu, you’ll love them as well: always restless, always full of thoughts, simple and involving.
And go to www.blublu.org, his site deserves definitely a visit.
video: Child by blu on Vimeo.com
txt: Muppets - Mahna Mahna - Hiraeth on youtube.com
Hi! This video always brings a smile to my face, so I hope it does the same for you. YouTube suggested “wisdom” as an appropriate tag for this video. I completely agree.
Yes, the subtitles are in Swedish. Why? I don’t know. This thing has been sitting [...]
txt: Andy Warhol - Wikipedia
Warhol’s work from this period revolves around American Pop (Popular) culture. He painted dollar bills, celebrities, brand name products and images from newspaper clippings - many of the latter were iconic images from headline stories of the decade (e.g. photographs of mushroom clouds, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters). His [...]
“We must become the change we want to see in the world” - M.K. Gandhi
txt: Change - Wikipedia
Change can mean:
* The process of becoming different.
- Social Change
- Metamorphosis
[...]
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video: Lazy guy gets a lot of Money - playwithreactivity on youtube.com
txt: Creativity - from Wikipedia
Creativity (or “creativeness” 
is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts.
From a scientific point of view, the products of creative thought (sometimes [...]
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video: MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU
txt: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
We don’t need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re [...]
txt: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - By Clay Shirky
The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing– there were gin pushcarts working their [...]
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txt: www.woostercollective.com
woo·ster (noun) A street in the Soho section of New York City
col·lec·tive (noun) Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision.
The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating [...]
