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thetriumphofpostmodernism: Naoyuki Sato, Apple Mac, 1987 http://thetriumphofpostmodernism.tumblr.com
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Deniz Vural
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But maybe going through that kind of tough, lonely experience is necessary when you’re young. Part of the process of growing up. The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grow stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter. Haruki Murakami, “Yesterday”
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Have faith that the writing process is where you learn rather than where you prove what you already know. Some tips on writing from The New York Times
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Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside…
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be…
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It was on this day, during this terrible and wonderful run, that a thought occurred to me, a thought which has never left me: I’ve always considered the question to be ‘Why am I alive? Why am I here? What’s the point of me?’ And to that I say: Who cares! Forget the why… I…
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Suggestions to Improve Screenshots on Android Wear
Michael Mahemoff once called screen capture functionality for iOS Apple’s Million-Dollar PR Gift to Developers. Written in 2011, Android still hasn’t learned that lesson. Here’s how to take a screenshot on your Android Wear device: Starting from the watch face, navigate to the desired screen on your Android Wear watch Switch to your Android phone…
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He felt deeply that California was the only place he could live. It’s the slanting evening light on the hills, the palette, the fundamental beauty. In his very soul, Steve was a Californian. He required the liberty it afforded, the clean slate. He worked under the influence, and the inspiration, of the sublimity of the…
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It speaks to some basic human needs, that there is a tomorrow—it’s not all going to be over in a big flash and a bomb, that the human race is improving, that we have things to be proud of as humans. No ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids—human beings built them because they’re clever…
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My mobile test lab, Android and Apple tablets and phones. Photographer’s loupe for pixel perfection. Google Nexus 9, Nexus 7, Nexus 5, Nexus S; Apple iPhone 5s, iPad mini.
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We are not ruled by stars; we are composed of their matter. We’re not steered by the movement of spheres; we are heavenly bodies projecting meaning into space and time. We’re not fated by gods and sprites and stories penned by the ancients; we are love in human form writing life upon the land. Laurie…
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Nichelle Nichols with real NASA astronaut Mae Jemison on the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation (“Second Chances”, 1993). Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to travel in space aboard the Endeavour on September 12, 1992. She has cited Nichols’ role of Lieutenant Uhura as her inspiration for wanting to become an…
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Concern for the soul is faulted for making us disregard the body, neglect our responsibilities to the Earth, and deny our kinship with other life forms. We share 90 percent of our genes with mice. Even the lowliest bacterium is our cousin. Why do we persist in imagining that there is some fifth essence in…