Now I know
- Me: Are you talking to me?
- S: No. I was talking to myself. (playing Minecraft)
- S: Don't you know that I start the sentence with "Dad" when I'm talking to you?
In a given day we translate roughly as much text as you’d find in 1 million books. To put it another way: what all the professional human translators in the world produce in a year, our system translates in roughly a single day.
Uppleva.
Somebody that I used to know. /via Gina Trapani
So that’s why they bought Instagram.
The happy secret to better work | Shawn Achor at TED
Watch it! Worth it for the comment on averages in research alone.
via simplicitybliss.
Source: ted.com
Decisive.
+1
John Cleese - “A Lecture on Creativity”
John Cleese lectures on the topic of creativity.
Per Back to Work #62: Cultural Molasses.
Seriously: this wonderful video has had a huge impact on how I think about creativity. For years.
Unfortunately, the copy I’ve had and repeatedly enjoyed “fell off the back of a truck,” so I had no way to share it.
Now, (via danforth), I can finally share and highly recommend it.
And, I really, really do encourage you to watch. Really. All the way through. It’s just terrific.
Source: danforth
Will Kindle's Free Samples Change the Structures of Plots?
Search-engine optimization reshaped the craft of a good headline. Will Amazon’s book promotions have a similar effect on novels?
The book as an actor.
The Final Four Financial Institutions (Source: Mother Jones).
Neat. Does anyone have a similar chart for the Big 4 audit firms?
Source: plus.google.com
In space, however, gravity lets its hair down.
Source: theverge.com
Call it creative if you want, but this is what economic destruction looks like. Print newspaper ads have fallen by two-thirds from $60 billion in the late-1990s to $20 billion in 2011.
EIGHT years ago Facebook launched as an online social network connecting a small college community from a dorm room at Harvard University. Today the company has 845m active users across the globe and a wealth of data. One aspect of these data, which Facebook has shared with The Economist, shows a rough correlation between current global Facebook friendships and the old boundaries of once-mighty European empires.
