"Mirage-Effect" Helps Researchers Hide Objects →
Scientists have created a working cloaking device that not only takes advantage of one of nature's most bizarre phenomenon, but also boasts unique features; it has an 'on and off' switch and is best used underwater.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Alright, Fine, I'll Add a Disclaimer to My Emails →
This disclaimer exists for precisely one reason—to make this email appear more professional.
So many wonderful gems in this. Definitely my template should I be required to place a disclaimer in my emails.
Dumping DRM Can Increase Sales While Reducing Piracy →
Game theory, music, digital rights management, and a result that encourages content providers to become more consumer-friendly? Oh, how lovely.
I remember when Bill Gates got up on stage and showed a new feature in Microsoft Word that allowed you to visually draw tables in a document. Times were simpler then.
— Michael Lopp, Building Serendipity
Facebook finds it beneficial to keep its users dissatisfied while offering them a forum where they can express that dissatisfaction - just like the Democratic Party.
A video demonstration of the saturation of our world with designs, visuals, and advertisements.
(via Phil Coffman)
Facebook "Frictionless" Sharing →
It's information, certainly. Your friend listened to this song, read this article. Who, what, when. But why and how are equally interesting and important, yet completely missing.
Communication without context. Noise, not signal.
The Age of Insight →
Whereas the last century was about making goods - food, clothing, cars, toys - cheap and plentiful, the twenty-first century will be about making insights into what will truly make us better off.
This is a phenomenal piece that resonates so well with the entrepreneurial spirit I'm surrounded by right now and the beliefs, training, and education I was raised with. The assumptions of the last century about jobs, productivity, and economies are dying and the age of the industrial revolution and the age of mass production are being replaced by the age of insight.
China's state broadcaster isn't saying why the station ran the music to "America the Beautiful" during the gala live broadcast of the country's latest space launch.(via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)