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If Bäco Mercat were any more of the moment, it would be a Pinterest page devoted to Tumblrs of itself, so that restaurant and metarestaurant could devour one another like Jung’s famous snake swallowing its own tail. Jonathan Gold/ LA Weekly I am eating here tonight. I think this means I am supposed to Instagramblrtweet…
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We talked about Massumi’s Parables for the Virtual today, with its inversion of object (player) and subject (ball) positions.
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… the biggest single reason [these players] were misvalued was that the experts did not pay sufficient attention to the role of luck in baseball success. Players got given credit for things they did that depended on the performance of others: pitchers got paid for winning games, hitters got paid for knocking in runners on…
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Like the men hanging from canvas wings and pushing off from soft promontories, Delsarteans knew enough to follow the natural momentum of their initial impulse; like the glider pilots, too, their performances were customarily short and self-consciously dramatic. But when Wilbur Wright in 1904 banked slowly over an Ohio field in his spindly biplane and…
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ibmsocialbiz: Networks and complexity. Organizations and societies evolved from tribes to institutions to markets to networks, each stage triggered by major societal changes in communications. The written word enabled institutions, the printed word fostered regional and global markets, and the digital word is empowering worldwide networks.
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The real obscenity is that people drink that water, that they have no choice but to bathe in it, and to bathe their children in it. You know that, and I know that. But if a massive surface mining operation in the vicinity of your house poisons your water table, and if your well water…
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mondonoir: “Mohr establishes a project, and like an engineer – sets about designing the limits/traits of his system.” [read the rest here] “Even though my work process is rational and systematic, its results can be unpredictable. Like a journey, only the starting point and a hypothetical destination is known. What happens during the journey is…
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32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow
32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow
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What kind of a problem is a library? It’s clear that for many people it is not a problem at all, only a kind of obsolescence. At the extreme pole of this view is the technocrat’s total faith: with every book in the world online, what need could there be for the physical reality? This…
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As Deloitte’s Shift Index shows, the average life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company has declined from around 75 years half a century ago to less than 15 years today, and heading towards 5 years if nothing is done. Why Did IBM Survive? – Forbes (via colin)