October 2009
On Fear and Shame
racheladler:
When I think about my life, certain facts astound me.
It goes like this:
- I wanted to learn. But at eleven years old, when my father decided to teach me how to ride a bike, I was too embarrassed to be seen by my friends who all already knew how. So I said thanks but no thanks, wormed my way back into my room, and tucked my head into a book. I didn’t learn how to ride until I was...
P2P-like Tahoe filesystem offers secure storage in... →
“Tahoe is a secure cloud filesystem that is licensed under the GPL. Its distributed storage model, which resembles peer-to-peer networking, makes it possible to build a shared storage pool using excess drive capacity from multiple computers across the Internet.”
Cloud computing sounds interesting.
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when...”
– Oscar Wilde
(kari-shma§quote-book§brasilpop§hitrecordjoe)
Ten rules for being human
starryeyedgirl§loveorsomething§nishatneverland§candyflossandicecream§drsarah§juki
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments...
Passé, présent, futur ? →
Journal d’un geek (passé pro) en temps de crise. Intéressant ne serait-ce que pour le point de vue interne sur les conséquences d’une crise et d’un changement de propriétaire … et si vous avez du boulot à lui proposer, alors pourquoi pas ? Note : Je ne le connais pas. A vous de juger.
(À Hurukan : Age of the geek, baby.)
Time pocket (Dennis Oppenheim, 1968) →
RT @fouduroi @digitalyn So that’s it. Hadopi 2 is adopted. #killme
RT @Maitre_Eolas Charters : Eric Besson annonce qu’un réfugié a été reconduit de force de la Défense à Neuilly.
En mode synthèse soustractive.
fouduroi:
Regina Spektor - Us
… just because...
FUCK YOU tumblarity. excuse me for having a life.
(via starryeyedgirl)
Damn right.
Newsweek rounds up some great tweets to Obama's... →
hitrecordjoe§msg§arigreenberg§newsweek : Great curating Newsweek but please link to the actual tweets rather than just copying & pasting text. You are breaking the internet.
[BLDGBLOG] Biology at the border : an interview... →
“… We spoke to Bashford about the ways in which quarantine can both define and blur borders, the use of vaccination scars as health passports, and quarantine’s role in enforcing social hierarchy and racial prejudice.”
See also : (finally !) an interesting iPhone app° (I mean, other that the lightsaber one.)
Olena: Beautiful Minds →
digitalyn:
Beautiful minds, or Why do creative and/or intelligent people often suffer from some kind of mental illness? http://bit.ly/x9owe [from http://twitter.com/digitalyn/statuses/4532214274]
“…all the maps you have are of no use, all this work of discovery and...”
– … toutes ces cartes que vous avez ne sont d’aucune utilité, tout ce travail de découverte et d’observation ; il vous faut recommencer à tâtons, comme les premiers hommes sur terre ; vous mourrez peut-être à quelques kilomètres des boutiques les plus fournies …
...
Bioshock cometh to Macintosh land (just as I prepare to do so) ! Hail to the heroes ! (and to simultaneity.) http://snurl.com/sbx0g
Sometimes, talking with someone is like a game of poker you cannot lose : you throw yourself in and you come out elevated (tiny bits count.)
I say ‘poker’ and some spam account starts to follow me ? At least tumblr isn’t that pervaded (yet ?)
“Ce monde est fait de telle sorte qu’il faut que votre rêve soit tétu.”
– Matthieu Poitevin, en chair et en voix cette fois.
