“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
—Carl Sagan (via minimalmac)
You will know us by the trail of lanterns (Taken with Instagram at 64 Plymouth Avenue)
Dolly on the scrounge (Taken with instagram)
“Knowledge workers are paid to bring their intelligence to bear on input, and improve things by doing that. The decision about what to do with an email and its contents, what it means in terms of the work and standards at hand, is knowledge work”
—via email from David Allen - Productive Living: What do you consider your work?
“Remember, kids – it’s not how you play the game that matters, but how prosaically servile you are in front of the cameras.”
—Charlie Brooker on Football and media - via m.guardian.co.uk
“I love that smell of emissions,” Sarah Palin, Fox News”
NHS protest nr. Steine (Taken with instagram)
Why Content Strategy and User-focused Copy needs to go all the way down to the text on a button - or why developers shouldn’t write copy.
Microsoft receive five times more income from Android than from Windows Phone!
Yep. A tidy passive income via IP infringement lawsuit. Bonkers.
“Microsoft has received five times more income from Android than from Windows Phone.
“Google’s Android seems the best thing that could have happened to Microsoft’s mobile efforts, ever.”
“Brains are by no means the only game in town; bacteria and plants of course flourish quite well without, and will probably outlive humans. But our ancestors took a different route, building bigger and more complex brains. Within such brains neurons communicate with each other by myriad connections. These fluctuating patterns can form representations of both the external world and the body state of the organism that owns them. Such brains enable their possessors to learn and remember, to recognise the present in the context of the immediate past and the imminent future. To Damasio this means that they are, or possess, selves. In animals with big brains, emotions – mere bodily responses – become translated into feelings, and with feelings, a mind – “a subtle flowing combination of actual images and recalled images in ever-changing proportions” – emerges from the brain. Many large-brained creatures thus have minds, however alien they may be to our own. But consciousness emerges only when – to quote the book’s title – self comes to mind, so that in key brain regions, the representational maps of sensory experience intersect with the encoded experiences of past that self provides. This, enabled by the evolution of language, makes possible autobiographical memory – the narrative of our lives that we humans all possess and which is the basis for consciousness.”
—Steven Rose summarises and reviews Damasio’s latest theory on consciousness and self - Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio - review | Books | The Guardian
Good Read: Frank Chimero - On Content
Every now and then someone smart (like Frank or Merlin or Christina) says something wonderful about content on the web, it fills me with joy, reminding me of my teenage years and wanting to be the world’s greatest journalist and writer.
Frank sums up the content-for-content’s-sake and Google-rankings-chase beautifully.
I too crave some proper, hearty, chunky soup.
