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Food Renegade: The Secret Ingredient in Your Orange Juice
Food Renegade: The Secret Ingredient in Your Orange Juice
All orange juice tastes the same because the juice from the oranges has its oxygen (and taste) removed for spoil-free storage and then ‘flavor packs’ are added to the flavorless juice. The flavor packs are loaded with supplementary chemicals but still technically qualify as ‘orange juice’, so there is no ingredient listing requirement for them. And: ‘Juice removed from the fruit is just concentrated fructose without any of the naturally-occurring fiber, pectin, and other goodies that make eating a whole fruit good for you.’ So don’t drink juice.
·foodrenegade.com·
Food Renegade: The Secret Ingredient in Your Orange Juice
WIRED Magazine: Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War
WIRED Magazine: Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War
The story of Jason Rohrer’s ‘Chain World’, a customized fork of Minecraft of which there is only a single copy available on a USB stick and which is meant to be played only once, following a strict set of commandments, and then passed on to someone else. It’s meant to be a game about religion.
·wired.com·
WIRED Magazine: Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War
NYTimes.com: How the Deficit Got This Big
NYTimes.com: How the Deficit Got This Big
With a chart that shows what actually happened. “In future decades, when rising health costs with an aging population hit the budget in full force, deficits are projected to be far deeper than they are now. Effective health care reform, and a willingness to pay more taxes, will be the biggest factors in controlling those deficits.”
·nytimes.com·
NYTimes.com: How the Deficit Got This Big
innovate: The HoPE Manifesto: How I Taught Myself to Code
innovate: The HoPE Manifesto: How I Taught Myself to Code
Basically, he advocates shutting yourself off from the world as much as possible for an initial boot camp-style stretch for as long as you can manage in order to really commit yourself to wrapping your head around the concepts of programming (Rails, in this case). I want to do this, but finding time away from other commitments isn’t something I’m especially suited to do at the moment.
·innonate.com·
innovate: The HoPE Manifesto: How I Taught Myself to Code
Repulsive Interactions: Patton Oswalt writes about the demise of nerd culture in Wired...
Repulsive Interactions: Patton Oswalt writes about the demise of nerd culture in Wired...
“Nerds will still be nerds, and trust me, their adolescences will still be awful enough to provide fodder for a lifetime of creativity and humor, if they’re lucky. The thing that everyone seems to forget is that nerddom, in its purest form, is a teenage affliction, something that many, if not most, people grow out of. They figure out how to be passionate about their interests without being smug and humorless about them. They learn to laugh at their past humiliations, and to celebrate this newfound comfort in their own skins, they proudly take on the epithet so long slung in their direction: they call themselves nerds. And that’s it. If done in the true spirit of awareness and goodnatured self-deprecation, the day you call yourself a nerd is the day you become an ex-nerd.”
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Repulsive Interactions: Patton Oswalt writes about the demise of nerd culture in Wired...
Clay Shirky: Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic
Clay Shirky: Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic
“The thing I really want to impress on my students is that the commercial case for news only matters if the profits are used to subsidize reporting the public can see, and that civic virtue may be heart-warming, but it won’t keep the lights on, if the lights cost more than cash on hand. Both sides of the equation have to be solved.”
·shirky.com·
Clay Shirky: Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic
The Daily: Label maker
The Daily: Label maker
“Still, for the Cool Kids, it comes down to one thing: Mountain Dew provides them with a fair opportunity to usher their music into the world. ‘Any other label, any other situation … you do all the work and they take all the money. I can’t sleep comfortably with that,’ explains Rocks. ‘I would take Mountain Dew any day of the week over that. Money comes and goes, you spend it stupid and it’s gone. But what we are doing, what we’ve made — no one can take that away from us.’”
·thedaily.com·
The Daily: Label maker
NYMag: We Must Be Superstars by Nitsuh Abebe
NYMag: We Must Be Superstars by Nitsuh Abebe
“And if you want to talk about pop music between 1980 and now, that issue—the question of who’s singing and who’s being sung to—is an important one. The study assumes that hit singles in the eighties and hit singles in the new millennium play the same role in our culture. But over the past 30 years, the weekly charts have seen changes a lot more significant than any surge of ego. It’s not just that pop’s audience has changed; it’s that its whole purpose has.”
·nymag.com·
NYMag: We Must Be Superstars by Nitsuh Abebe
Pitchfork: Articles: Kill Screen: Quidditch and How to Play
Pitchfork: Articles: Kill Screen: Quidditch and How to Play
“One challenge of adapting Quidditch to real life lies in transforming a literary invention into a balanced contest where skill and strategy matter. The greater challenge involves getting around the lack of, you know, magic. You can't fly. Neither can the bludgers, or the snitch. You can pretend to fly, though. And you can throw the bludgers. But the snitch is a problem.”
·pitchfork.com·
Pitchfork: Articles: Kill Screen: Quidditch and How to Play
Neatorama: Behind the Scenes of the USPS
Neatorama: Behind the Scenes of the USPS
“I love the idea of this project by web designer Matthew McVickar. He sent this camera in the mail with a message asking the postal workers to take pictures on the camera’s trip to its destination. The result is fun and educational, and it would be a great school project for any teachers out there.”
·neatorama.com·
Neatorama: Behind the Scenes of the USPS
thestar.com: Smile, you’re on camera mail! A camera’s journey across America
thestar.com: Smile, you’re on camera mail! A camera’s journey across America
I was interviewed by Debra Black at the Toronto Star this morning. “For Matthew McVickar the idea of sending a disposable camera attached to a piece of cardboard was intriguing. What kind of pictures would one get, he wondered? Would the camera make it to its destination?”
·thestar.com·
thestar.com: Smile, you’re on camera mail! A camera’s journey across America
Vulture: Bon Iver’s Indie Soft-Rock: Transcendent or Torpid?
Vulture: Bon Iver’s Indie Soft-Rock: Transcendent or Torpid?
Nitsuh Abebe dares to say Justin Vernon is a little boring. Reading this, I think I understand why people aren't as impressed or as moved by stuff like Bon Iver and The National as I am — it has a certain New England, autumn/winter feeling and I think a lot of its appeal is in its power to evoke that snowed-in cabin, that 2am rainy city street, that drunken goodbye that we experienced or imagined. That’s how it is for me, anyway.
·nymag.com·
Vulture: Bon Iver’s Indie Soft-Rock: Transcendent or Torpid?
NYTimes.com: Economic Scene: The Real vs. Imagined Deficit
NYTimes.com: Economic Scene: The Real vs. Imagined Deficit
“Eventually, the country will have to confront the deficit we have, rather than the deficit we imagine. The one we imagine is a deficit caused by waste, fraud, abuse, foreign aid, oil industry subsidies and vague out-of-control spending. The one we have is caused by the world’s highest health costs (by far), the world’s largest military (by far), a Social Security program built when most people died by 70 — and to pay for it all, the lowest tax rates in decades. “To put it in budgetary terms, the deficit we imagine comes largely from discretionary spending. The one we have comes partly from discretionary spending but mostly from everything else: tax rates, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.”
·nytimes.com·
NYTimes.com: Economic Scene: The Real vs. Imagined Deficit
NPR: The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi'
NPR: The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi'
“When a computer running an older version of XP can’t find any of its ‘favorite’ wireless networks, it will automatically create an ad hoc network with the same name as the last one it connected to—in this case, ‘Free Public WiFi.’ Other computers within range of that new ad hoc network can see it, luring other users to connect. And who can resist the word ‘free?’”
·npr.org·
NPR: The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi'