January 2010
24 posts
Soon, you will be building whuffie by wrangling auto-Googling blobjects known as spimes.
I just got that “SpaceTime Continuum” is the root for the term “spime” from @Bruces Sterling word for smart tools. http://tr.im/MdaK
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Ray Kurzweil Responds to the Issue of Accuracy of His Predictions
– http://bit.ly/7YX8A2
(via futureaware on twitter)
Man said he used health app on his iPhone to treat... →
randyhaddock:
Usually, when someone says their iPhone is a life saver, they are talking about the phone helping them find a good takeout spot or an emergency bathroom.
When Dan Woolley says it, he really means it. He used a medical app saved on his phone to treat a leg injury after the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince collapsed around him.
Woolley, who is from Colorado Springs, is one of the...
(via lumber:Clip Syndicate Video: Robot ‘Bride’ Used to Model Dress on Catwalk)
The fashion industry has been using robots for a long time.
Cory Doctorow blogs about Cluetrain Manifesto →
welfle:
One of my favorite bloggers, Cory Doctorow, talks about one of my favorite nonfiction books, the Cluetrain Manifesto. It is almost ten years old, and the publishers are releasing a tenth anniversary edition.
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E-books should be more than digital copies of a printed page… But the e-readers...
– Inventor and technology futurist Ray Kurzweil, discussing his interactive book software Bilo (via go)
Hmm. We’re still not sold; until this brings the full functionality of a Website, including the ability to fully share text/photos, this seems to be an expensive toy that isn’t better than print or...
ask Whuffie a question? →
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20 Sci-Fi films to look forward to in 2010 →
joshruben:
Most stoked to see:
Gondry’s Green Hornet
Robert Rodriguez’ Predators (w/ Adrien Brody!?)
Inception (obvs)
via io9
The ascendancy of the non-private person
ericmortensen:
claytoncubitt:
“Tiger Woods, described frequently as a “very private” person, was unable to keep his private life private. Why? Because he interacted with non-private people. The reason Kim Kardashian and the Jersey Shore denizens have risen to positions of prominence in popular culture is because they each epitomize the non-private person. They have nothing to hide, so nothing...
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More than a million people visited Disney free on... →
(via thedisneyvault)