randomthings

parislemon:

stevekovach:

I’m so upset.

All things must pass.

:/

"[Tumblr is] not a blog, it’s a social network. ‘They’re perceived as an alternative to Wordpress or a blogging platform [but] it’s an enormous social network. People read Tumblr like they read Twitter.’ (There are 60-80 million new posts per day.)"

― Tumblr, and Union Metrics CEO Hayes Davis  (via courtenaybird)

Worth remembering, although it obviously does not mean that you can’t use Tumblr as a traditional blog.

“I had an engineer tell me recently that voice is going to replace everything. And I looked at him like, ‘In what universe?’ ” Bell said to me. “Yes, people like to talk, but if everyone is talking to everything all around them, we’ll all go mad. We’re moving to this world where it’s not about a single mode of interaction. … The interesting stuff is about what the layering is going to look like, not what the single replacement is.”

Undrar vilka som hinner först med att köpa upp Leap Motion, Apple eller Microsoft? Jag förutspår nämligen att det är en interaktionsteknik som kommer finnas i våra datorer i framtiden. Leap Motion kommer alltså inte ersätta mus och tangentbord. För som man kommer fram till i denna intressanta artikel, som visserligen handlar om mobilens framtid, kommer det inte vara EN interaktionsteknik vi kommer använda, utan flera.

Leap Motion löser två problem som touchscreen + dator har:

* Inga fingeravtryck

* Man behöver röra armen mindre, ett drag på några centimeter gör att man når över hela datorskärmen

Därför tror jag vi om några år sitter och viftar framför våra datorer.

motoriginal:

And now.. a short list of what the Volkswagen Type 1 is called around the world:

• Käfer
• Beetle
• Bug 
• Pichirilo
• Pulga
• Escarabajo
• Escarabat
• Frog
• Kodok
• Kever
• Vocho
• Volcho
• Volchito
• Fuscha, Fusca
• Fusquinha
• Fusquito
• Peta
• Focika
• Buba
• Brouk
• Sedan
• Jia Ké Chóng
• Choupette
• Kostenurka
• Brambar
• Boblen
• Bobbelfolkevogn
• Gravid rullestøjte (pregnant rollerskate)
• Hitlerslæden
• Cepillo
• Fakrouna
• Põrnikas
• Kupla
• Aaton Kosto
• Coccinelle
• Jin-guei Che
• Scathari
• Scaraveos
• Chelona
• Bogár
• Bjalla
• Ghoorbaghei
• Agroga
• Rag-gah
• Hipushit
• Maggiolino
• Kabuto-mushi
• Kifuu
• Vabole
• Vabalas
• Kura
• Kashima
• Bhyagute
• Foxi
• Pendong
• Kotseng Kuba
• Pagong
• Ba-o
• Boks
• Garbus
• Carocha
• Volky
• Broasca
• Buburuza
• Zhuk
• Volla
• Kewer
• Chróbak
• Hrosc
• Ibba
• Mgonga wa Chura
• Kobe
• Folka
• Bagge
• Bubbla
• Kaplambaga
• Tosbaga
• Con Bo
• Bhamba datya in Shona
• Tortuga
• Bocho o Rana
• Kuba (added by Landroverphilippines)

Some mean the same thing in different languages, others don’t. There’s a ton more that I can’t read or write too.

Wow. Just wow.

We ought to distinguish between the many flaws of Google Reader and RSS the technology, as RSS is the engine behind apps and services that we use every day. Flipboard, Zite, Instacast, Pulse, MacHash – they are all based on RSS feeds. Saying that “RSS is dead” is a facade for the need of easy page views.

RSS is more alive than ever.

wilwheaton:

parislemon:

fuckyeahmovieposters:

Skyfall

Submitted by finknottle

As soon as the credits roll on The Dark Knight Rises, this will be what I’m most looking forward to. 

(And then The Hobbit, of course.)

Blir ett bra film-år.

 Does the Internet make people lonely, or are lonely people more attracted to the Internet?