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How mobile phone usage differs geographically, and how the difference is lessening.

"I would prefer to go to a different world and the closest we have to that besides space travel is an inner world. It's not so much that I really love the act of sleep, but that I love that escape from reality, the potential for the impossible, removing myself from the stress of today’s culture world, from people talking all the time, etc."

"I had this vision of the future — a ruined empire, run by number crunchers, squalid and stupid and puffed up with phony patriotism, settling for a long slow decline."

Why I don't think I'm a curmudgeon for thinking the green Iran icons are a joke. "…if you believe for one minute that publicly agreeing with an echo chamber is changing anyone’s mind, behavior, or outlook, you need to stand up, locate your disused front door, walk the fuck through it, and then go spend a full (unwired) day doing something to actually help another person."

"One of the minor puzzles of American life is what question to ask people at parties and suchly to get to know them."

"An article with a ridiculous conspiracy theory propped up by selective and dishonest quoting. Presented to us by a publication that can’t be bothered to do elementary fact checking. This is the face of climate change denial."

"The most immediate revelation, of course, is that at some point next year revenues from gigs payable to artists will for the first time overtake revenues accrued by labels from sales of recorded music."

"Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library."

A good edit-in-place plugin for jQuery.

Portrait of the INTJ Myers-Briggs Personality Type: The Scientist

Great, of course.

Details on the new Oahu Bike Plan, which includes 600 miles of planned bike lanes and trails. They're trying to be pragmatic, which is nice. Here's hoping this actually happens. I'd be STOKED.

A running and jumping game with one button that I can't stop playing.

Stunning.

"I’ve long assumed that if you followed the news, the stories behind the headlines would become plain."

"When these rappers say 'no homo,' it can seem a bit like a gentleman's agreement, nodding to the status quo while smuggling in a fuller, less hamstrung notion of masculinity. This is still a concession to homophobia, but one that enables a less rigid definition of the hip-hop self than we've seen before. It's far from a coup, but, in a way, it's progress."

Nice bleedy exposures.

This is absolutely 100% true and if you don't realize it, you are dumb.

A mention of Clones of the Queen, the band I'm in.

"The rage and self-loathing associated with hipsters has become more annoying, more naive, and more artificial than hipsters could ever hope to be."

A great selection of VST and AU audio effects plugins for free download.

Great, modern, hip photography.

Post-crash style.

Playful and ironic photos and little installations.

"I wanted to high-five someone, but no one else was awake."

This is absolutely beautiful. "Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies."

Everything is going to be okay.

Figure out how much money you *need*, and get there, and while you're getting there and once you're there, act like you're rich. Seriously. Thanks, @ftrain, for the link.

Why are so many women willingly giving up their identities and letting their children take over? And are our children being overly coddled as a result?

Full-text transcript of President Obama's recent commencement speech at Arizona State University. This man can be downright inspiring.