↩ Jacob's Ephemerata

Sep 24

[video]

Sep 21

Attribution

It saddens me to see so many Tumblrites too readily posting awesome stuff—without making any effort to provide attribution for a piece.* When someone’s spent time creating the work you’re appreciating, surely expressing one’s gratitude if only by mentioning who they are and linking to their site is worthwhile… It may in fact be impossible, but like any journey, the very act of attempting it unleashes such plentiful discoveries along the way. :-D

Using Google Image Search to search for an image (right-click the image and copy URL, then click the camera icon on the search page to paste) is remarkably easy, and often effective.

* Withstanding memes and mashups, of course.

Sep 19

[video]

Sep 18

(via alevalentina)

Sep 16

(Source: zomgitsdanii)

Sep 12

Graphic by Daily Atheist; slogan by Victor Stenger.

Sep 11

[video]

“Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.” — Kevin Kelly; via Ben Hammersley’s ‘My speech to the IAAC’: «anything that is dismissed on the grounds of the technology-not-being-good-enough-yet is going to happen». «It remains, in too many circles, a matter of pride not to be able to programme the video recorder. That’s pathetic.»

Sep 08

The floodlit India-Pakistan border visible from space; The Daily Mail.

Sep 04

“[…] But I want to hear about things out there that they love. About loving the thing they’re building. There’s less of that.” — Caterina.net» Make things

Aug 31

[video]

Aug 29

‘Window-Dressing the West Village and MePa for #Irene: A Case Study’ «Apple’s bags are a handsome gray-green, hand-filled and -tied» via Eric’s posterous.

Aug 26

Empirical. [xkcd]

Aug 23

“A lack of availability of inexpensive shop-rentals is one very easily read warning sign of overcooking. I wish Manhattan condo towers could be required to have street frontage consisting of capsule micro-shops. The affordable retail slots would guarantee the rich folks upstairs interesting things to buy, interesting services, interesting food and drink, and constant market-driven turnover of same, while keeping the streetscape vital and allowing the city to do so many of the things cities do best.” — Cities in Fact and Fiction: An Interview with William Gibson: Scientific American

Aug 22

“« planning […] can lead to a false sense of security for entrepreneurs, and can discourage necessary business “pivots” along the way »” — ‘Is Planning Bad for Business?’ by Inc Magazine