If everything is a network, nothing is a network.
How the simplistic network diagram came to dominate our imagination and why we shouldn’t blindly go with the flow.
But if they cheat, we shoot ’em.
“(…) by using our service you help thousands of people to feed themselves and their families.”
Relevant: Breaking CAPTCHA with automated humans.
Number 7 will blow your mind be your friend.
11 Simple npm Tricks That Will Knock Your Wombat Socks Off.
Theoretically, anyone can access the web. In reality, disabled people are excluded.
The inaccessible web: how we got into this mess.
Music of the Spectacle: Alienation, Irony and the Politics of Vaporwave.
Another classic finding in psychology—that you can smile your way to happiness—just blew up. Is it time to panic yet?
How bad is this latest replication failure? It depends on your demeanor. If you read the study in an optimistic mood—let’s say, with a highlighter in your teeth and your lips pulled back into a smile—then perhaps you’d be inclined to think it’s just a local problem. Maybe there was something off about The Far Side cartoons, or the presence of the cameras, or the subject pool. In any case, you’d think the replication failure tells us this and only this: For one reason or another, one particular re-creation of one particular experiment, designed on the way to Mardi Gras in 1985, simply didn’t work.
Why Tim Berners-Lee is no friend of Facebook.
If there were a Nobel prize for hypocrisy, then its first recipient ought to be Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook boss. On 23 August, all his 1.7 billion users were greeted by this message: “Celebrating 25 years of connecting people. The web opened up to the world 25 years ago today! We thank Sir Tim Berners-Lee and other internet pioneers for making the world more open and connected.”
Aw, isn’t that nice? From one “pioneer” to another. What a pity, then, that it is a combination of bullshit and hypocrisy. In relation to the former, the guy who invented the web, Tim Berners-Lee, is as mystified by this “anniversary” as everyone else. “Who on earth made up 23 August?” he asked on Twitter. Good question. In fact, as the Guardian pointed out: “If Facebook had asked Berners-Lee, he’d probably have told them what he’s been telling people for years: the web’s 25th birthday already happened, two years ago.”
More than food days, unfortunately…
892 Hate Groups are currently operating in the US. Track them below with our Hate Map.
The Trouble with Chernoff.
The so called ‘Chernoff Face’ has become one of the most curious artifacts in the world of information visualization.
All the US Food Days.
214 days of the year are a food or drink day.