June 29, 2009
saar: I chat, therefore i am… In 2007 they let two chatbots, Alice and Jabberwacky, talk to each other just by starting with a first question. If this real, it’s maybe one of the best dialogs ever made in the entire internet. And I doubt, that there are a lot of humans who could have such a (good) conversation. You have to read it. (via nerdcore & zehnuhr)

saar:

I chat, therefore i am…

In 2007 they let two chatbots, Alice and Jabberwacky, talk to each other just by starting with a first question. If this real, it’s maybe one of the best dialogs ever made in the entire internet. And I doubt, that there are a lot of humans who could have such a (good) conversation. You have to read it. (via nerdcore & zehnuhr)

June 28, 2009
Joy Division, via sowingseeds: here are the young men
Joy Division, via sowingseeds: here are the young men
June 26, 2009
“ It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin (via maybeitsallok)
(reblogged from dethjunkie as a reference to make a pirate sword for Wander later)
(reblogged from dethjunkie as a reference to make a pirate sword for Wander later)
otto-obrien: OMJ 2009
otto-obrien: OMJ 2009
June 25, 2009
via scout too true

via scout

too true

standardgrey: god doesn’t (via robotsluvme)

standardgrey:

god doesn’t (via robotsluvme)
“ There is even something about the very movement from left to right that grabs the attention and holds it. Research finds that people or objects moving from left to right are perceived as having greater power (Maass et al., 2007):
- Soccer goals are rated as stronger, faster, even more beautiful when the movement of the scorer is from left to right, rather than right to left.
- Film violence seems more aggressive, more painful and more shocking when the punch is delivered from left to right, compared with right to left.
- Cars in an advert are rated as stronger and faster when they are moving from left to right, rather than right to left (take note advertising executives!).
Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Powerful and Shocking «  PsyBlog (via slantback)
otto-obrien: the ‘blue’ and the ‘green’ are the same colour… The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

otto-obrien:

the ‘blue’ and the ‘green’ are the same colour…

The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

June 22, 2009
“

Seung Sahn would say, “When you eat, just eat. When you read the newspaper, just read the newspaper. Don’t do anything other than what you are doing.”

One day a student saw him reading the newspaper while he was eating. The student asked if this did not contradict his teaching. Seung Sahn said, “When you eat and read the newspaper, just eat and read the newspaper.”
Essential Zen (via juliusseizure)
“ One of the things that is realized when you see the nature of the self is that what you do and what happens to you are the same thing. Realizing that you do not exist separately from everything else, you realize responsibility; you are responsible for everything you experience. You can no longer say, “He made me angry.” How could he make you angry? Only you can make you angry. That understanding changes your way of relating to the word and your way of looking at stress. You see that stress is created in your mental processing of your experiences. It usually has to do with separation. Whenever a threat, barrier or obstacle pops up, our immediate reaction is to pull back, to prepare mentally or physically to fight or run. If you become the barrier - become the fear, the pain, the anger - by experiencing it fully without judging or avoiding or running away, and then let it go, there is no barrier. Actually, there is no way to pull away from it; you cannot run away. There is nothing to run away from, it is you.
John Loori (via juliusseizure)
simko: Photographs by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia featuring models Hilary Rhoda and Iselin Steiro… OK, I might just be getting old. But since when is beauty, or even suggesting sex and lust not good enough any more to sell clothes and do we need to add an even more primal level to these images to be ‘effective’ (i.e. trigger any response in us to charge the product displayed with any meaning/ rlevance)? I do not like the direction this is taking.

simko:

Photographs by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia featuring models Hilary Rhoda and Iselin Steiro…

OK, I might just be getting old. But since when is beauty, or even suggesting sex and lust not good enough any more to sell clothes and do we need to add an even more primal level to these images to be ‘effective’ (i.e. trigger any response in us to charge the product displayed with any meaning/ rlevance)? I do not like the direction this is taking.

Perch - A Really Little Content Management System (CMS)
This looks really useful, and well designed.
“ News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
Lord Northcliffe via daring fireball
June 20, 2009
“ The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke (via psychotherapy) (via robot-heart) (via notemily)