Facebook is pseudo-reinventing emoticons
Facebook is pseudo-reinventing emoticons
Yet Keltner thought that by incorporating some of the principles from Darwin’s seminal work on emotion, he could add a touch of the richness he felt existing emoticons lacked. “I’m naïve about emoticons because I’ve never sent one in my life, but I’ve looked at them–it’s just missing a lot of important things in our emotional lives,” Keltner says.
Sympathy, for example, can be hard to really get across in traditional emoticon form. “It’s an under-appreciated emotion in Western culture,” Keltner explains. “We now know what it looks like and sounds like because of science. They created this dynamic emoticon that when you see it, it’s really powerful.”
Yes, they’re called emojis and they have been around for quite some time now. Not that I don’t think this is a good idea, but the amount of press Facebook/Path stickers have received is irritating when you think that no one ever mentioned emojis.
Facebook is pseudo-reinventing emoticons
Yet Keltner thought that by incorporating some of the principles from Darwin’s seminal work on emotion, he could add a touch of the richness he felt existing emoticons lacked. “I’m naïve about emoticons because I’ve never sent one in my life, but I’ve looked at them–it’s just missing a lot of important things in our emotional lives,” Keltner says.
Sympathy, for example, can be hard to really get across in traditional emoticon form. “It’s an under-appreciated emotion in Western culture,” Keltner explains. “We now know what it looks like and sounds like because of science. They created this dynamic emoticon that when you see it, it’s really powerful.”
Yes, they’re called emojis and they have been around for quite some time now. Not that I don’t think this is a good idea, but the amount of press Facebook/Path stickers have received is irritating when you think that no one ever mentioned emojis.
Samsung gearing up towards 5G network
Samsung gearing up towards 5G network
Once commercialized, 5G mobile technology will allow users to transmit huge data files, like high-quality digital movies, “practically without limitation,” it said.
Cool news, then!
The European Union announced earlier this year a plan to invest €50 million, or $65 million, in research to deliver 5G mobile technology by 2020.
Oh, too bad.
Samsung gearing up towards 5G network
Once commercialized, 5G mobile technology will allow users to transmit huge data files, like high-quality digital movies, “practically without limitation,” it said.
Cool news, then!
The European Union announced earlier this year a plan to invest €50 million, or $65 million, in research to deliver 5G mobile technology by 2020.
Oh, too bad.
Jimi Hendrix, jamming with Miles Davis sent a telegram to Paul McCartney in 1969 as he thought it would be cool that they jam all together, with Tony Williams at the drums.
Unfortunately this never happened.
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Jimi Hendrix, jamming with Miles Davis sent a telegram to Paul McCartney in 1969 as he thought it would be cool that they jam all together, with Tony Williams at the drums.
Unfortunately this never happened.
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again. You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.
Hemingway’s Routine on Farnam Street.
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again. You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.
ScoreCleaner Notes
Would you like an app that writes automatically the musical notation of what you’re singing or playing (no chords though)?
Check it out.
Chinese DIY inventions.
The caption accompanying this one:
Chinese farmer Wu Yulu sits next to his robot “Lao Wu” at his home on the outskirts of Beijing, on September 3, 2003. Wu, who only managed to finish primary education, started to build robots for fun more than a decade ago.
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Chinese DIY inventions.
The caption accompanying this one:
Chinese farmer Wu Yulu sits next to his robot “Lao Wu” at his home on the outskirts of Beijing, on September 3, 2003. Wu, who only managed to finish primary education, started to build robots for fun more than a decade ago.
Amazon vs. Apple vs. Facebook vs. Google
What’s up with these?
They all want to be the uber-company. That is, a company which has a complete user experience with the following elements:
Hardware — mobile device(s)
An app ecosystem
Streaming media
Cloud services—at the least, as a delivery mechanism for the above
And why do these companies aspire to be competitive in all four of these areas? There are two reasons: The first is that a customer who starts using your hardware is more likely to (or may have no choice but to) use your software, and the reverse is also frequently true. All four of these companies (and, yes, Microsoft) have created their own “walled gardens,” which means that once you’ve bought media or apps from them, or uploaded data into their mutually incompatible services, you’re stuck. That’s by design: Having invested so much time and money into their ecosystems, the energy barrier for a consumer to switch to a competitor is so high that it gives each company room to maneuver and, if they have an advantage, maybe even gain market share. Ecosystem lock-in is like a ratchet on the size of your base of customers: Even if you mess up once in a while, it’s hard for your market to shrink, and every chance you differentiate, you can grab a few more people.
Amazon vs. Apple vs. Facebook vs. Google
What’s up with these?
They all want to be the uber-company. That is, a company which has a complete user experience with the following elements:
Hardware — mobile device(s)
An app ecosystem
Streaming media
Cloud services—at the least, as a delivery mechanism for the above
And why do these companies aspire to be competitive in all four of these areas? There are two reasons: The first is that a customer who starts using your hardware is more likely to (or may have no choice but to) use your software, and the reverse is also frequently true. All four of these companies (and, yes, Microsoft) have created their own “walled gardens,” which means that once you’ve bought media or apps from them, or uploaded data into their mutually incompatible services, you’re stuck. That’s by design: Having invested so much time and money into their ecosystems, the energy barrier for a consumer to switch to a competitor is so high that it gives each company room to maneuver and, if they have an advantage, maybe even gain market share. Ecosystem lock-in is like a ratchet on the size of your base of customers: Even if you mess up once in a while, it’s hard for your market to shrink, and every chance you differentiate, you can grab a few more people.
Dots - a game about connecting
Dots - a game about connecting
Are you playing Dots? If not you should. Here’s the strategy guide, courtesy of Quartz. If you think you can beat my high score, follow me on Twitter and compare (what? a cheap technique?)
Dots - a game about connecting
Are you playing Dots? If not you should. Here’s the strategy guide, courtesy of Quartz. If you think you can beat my high score, follow me on Twitter and compare (what? a cheap technique?)
What is it about lists that we find so irresistible? As far as I can tell, no one has tried to figure it out (though it’s possible there are psychologists who have solved the mystery, and I just haven’t seen their work). Maybe it has to do with the promise of something both finite and complete, distilling the world down to something you can manage and then be done with. The world is full of photos of cute corgis, but these 37 are the cutest, and once you’ve seen them not only will your day be a little sweeter but you need search no more for cute corgi photos. It could also be the attraction of something easy to read—because it’s broken into small pieces, you know it won’t require too much work to read, you’ll be able to skim it easily, and if you want to read part of it and then stop, you’ll be able to.
What is it about lists that makes them so compelling?
What is it about lists that we find so irresistible? As far as I can tell, no one has tried to figure it out (though it’s possible there are psychologists who have solved the mystery, and I just haven’t seen their work). Maybe it has to do with the promise of something both finite and complete, distilling the world down to something you can manage and then be done with. The world is full of photos of cute corgis, but these 37 are the cutest, and once you’ve seen them not only will your day be a little sweeter but you need search no more for cute corgi photos. It could also be the attraction of something easy to read—because it’s broken into small pieces, you know it won’t require too much work to read, you’ll be able to skim it easily, and if you want to read part of it and then stop, you’ll be able to.
Subtitles
A very nifty app for the Mac which automatically downloads the appropriate subtitles for your movies and TV shows. Developed by Alberto Garcia Hierro.
Subtitles
A very nifty app for the Mac which automatically downloads the appropriate subtitles for your movies and TV shows. Developed by Alberto Garcia Hierro.
The Stanford researcher Cheri D. Mah found that when she got male basketball players to sleep 10 hours a night, their performances in practice dramatically improved: free-throw and three-point shooting each increased by an average of 9 percent.
Daytime naps have a similar effect on performance. When night shift air traffic controllers were given 40 minutes to nap — and slept an average of 19 minutes — they performed much better on tests that measured vigilance and reaction time.
Longer naps have an even more profound impact than shorter ones. Sara C. Mednick, a sleep researcher at the University of California, Riverside, found that a 60- to 90-minute nap improved memory test results as fully as did eight hours of sleep.
Research confirms that, counterintuitively, relaxing makes you more productive. Of course, Thomas Edison knew that sleep is the key to success.
Artwork by Golden Cosmos
Go to sleep, relax.
