Een jongen die met (als) een robot naar school gaat:
Other times it makes things that might be technically cheating a little harder, like in algebra one day, when the girl next to him tapped loudly on the microphone.
“Lyndon.”
“What?”
“I need your help.”
“Then give me the answer to number six.”
His math teacher was in the back of the room, but Lyndon’s volume carried. “I can hear you, Lyndon,” she told him.
Ongelooflijk.
(via NextDraft)
Ja, er is een risico bij windmolens. Als daar een accident gebeurt, een wiekbreuk in dit geval, dat is een guillotine. Als die ergens door een chloorleiding gaat, dan is dat een probleem van een grotere orde dan wat er in Doel kan gebeuren.
Windmolens zijn gevaarlijker dan kerncentrales.
Jan Bens, directeur van het Federaal Agentschap voor Nucleaire Controle.
(Bron: De Redactie)
Mat Honan van Wired:
Governments are too focused on democracy and rule of law. On Google Island, we’ve found those things to be distractions. If democracy worked so well, if a majority public opinion made something right, we would still have Jim Crow laws and Google Reader. We believe we can fix the world’s problems with better math.
Geniaal. En ook wel perfect verwoord hoe ik de laatste jaren naar Google kijk.
Google Glass parody video.
Anil Dash:
[W]hich made me think someone has the job at Twitter’s office of calling celebrities and asking them “Is this stupid tweet really from you?”
In the future all laptops will have touch built into them.
Joshua Topolsky at The Verge:
Think of it this way — if you get a text message or have an incoming call when you’re walking down a busy street, there are something like two or three things you have to do before you can deal with that situation. Most of them involve you completely taking your attention off of your task at hand: walking down the street.
In a sense, this Glass thing tries to solve some of the same problems as smartwatches are doing. Both are more like accesoiries to the smartphone, not trying to replace it.
Exciting times.
I always have some Bruichladdich whisky in my spirit collection. Currently I’m enjoying The Laddie Ten. Ever since I got introduced to them at the Leuven Whisky Festival, where people from the distillery present themselves to shopkeepers, I’ve been intrigued by the company. Them being bought by Rémy Cointreau last year was a strange thing, but could be something good in the end.
(via Daring Fireball)
J.D. Bentley exploring a thought I’ve had about my own blog here lately:
But the real trouble is in elevating oneself above all others by valuing one’s own opinions and experiences over the inherent worth of other people, people who seem somehow less human as words on a screen.
While I’m often (very) late linking to stuff, write very little and offer little to no inside information, I’m doubting to continue doing this. We’ll see where this takes us.
Saturday coffee ritual.
