Archives de l’auteur : kodiak
Skip diving
It’s hard to find bad food
Don’t leave a mess at the bins and don’t take more than what you can realistically eat /use.
… food that’s bad for your health (a.k.a. the cheap stuff) — it is rarely in the bins. Processed foods like sodas or snacks? Scarcely, if ever. Fruits and vegetables? Almost always.
Larissa Milo-Dale (@larashka): What I learned from a year of dumpster diving in Australia
Born on third base and thinks they hit a triple
The media glorifies entrepreneurs as dynamic people. The sobering reality is that the majority of them are just regular Joes with access to wealth.
A post by Nimmala titled Entrepreneurs Aren’t A Special Breed – They’re Mostly Rich Kids (via Kottke).
See also 7 Survival Tips For First-Time Entrepreneurs & You Can Be Born Poor And Still Make It In Life.
Just how predictable is human taste, anyway?
From The New York Times : If You Liked This, Sure to Love That – Winning the Netflix Prize
…shopping over the Web is not a social experience; there are no clever clerks to ask for advice. What’s more, because they have no real space constraints, online stores like Amazon or iTunes can stock millions of titles, making a stack search essentially impossible. This creates the classic problem of choice: how do you decide among an effectively infinite number of options?
…even though Netflix has a good deal of demographic information about its users, the company does not currently use it much to generate movie recommendations; merely knowing who people are, paradoxically, isn’t very predictive of their movie tastes.
The key feature here is the date: 2008. The Netflix contest folded in 2009.
(via Kottke, again)
Counting trains
Well actually not trains but traffic lights staying red too long, which translates into an Interstate Highway been close to let a train pass. This is the beauty: monitoring effects to identify facts.
Goshen Has A Train Problem And It’s Worse Than You Probably Thought (via)
Silo-hé!
Video-reportage by Kirsten Dirksen
Mobile house experiment on 13m2 built from an old grain silo and many re-used materials. A project by Jan Körbes and Denis Oudendijk.
Building Nederlands
All buildings in the Netherlands, shaded by year of construction. Data from BAG (January 2015), via CitySDK LD API. Map made with TileMill by Bert Spaan, Waag Society, inspired by BKLYNR. Map errors can be reported on the Kadaster’s website.
Hat tip to Joe (screengrab shamelessly hotlinked to his site). Joe’s a great inspiration those days. Check:
If at first you dont succeed… skydiving is not for you.
Blue?
Doesn’t want to be embeddded. Never mind; watch it on YT: Coyote & Crow at Washington Square Park NYC Original Song-« My Favorite Color »
Thks JDR!
Droits du lecteur
Le qu’en-lira-t-on (ou les droits imprescriptibles du lecteur) :
- Droit de ne pas lire
- Droit de sauter des pages
- Droit de ne pas finir un livre
- Droit de relire
- Droit de lire n’importe quoi
- Droit au bovarysme
- Droit de lire n’importe où
- Droit de grappiller
- Droit de lire à haute voix
- Droit de se taire
Daniel Pennac, Comme un roman, éd. NRF Gallimard, 1992, p. 145
La bêtise
La bêtise… Ah la bêtise c’est terrible. C’est la mauvaise fée du monde. C’est la sorcière du monde. C’est la bêtise. Il n’y a pas de gens méchants. Il y a des gens bêtes; mais c’est pas de leur faute. Il y a des gens qui ont peur; ça c’est de leur faute. Des gens qui ont peur et qui n’assument pas leur peur. Je crois que tout commence un peu comme ça. Mais enfin ça c’est à un philosophe de déterminer tout ça, c’est pas à moi…
Mais j’aime pas les gens… bêtes. Parce que la bêtise c’est de la paresse. (…)
Ah oui on ne me fera… On ne me fera jamais croire que… La bêtise c’est un type qui vit et qui se dit: « ça me suffit; ça me suffit, je vis, je vais bien, ça me suffit », et il se botte pas le cul tous les matins en disant : « c’est pas assez, tu ne sais pas assez de choses, tu ne vois pas assez de choses, tu ne fais pas assez de choses ».
C’est la paresse, je crois, la bêtise. Une espèce de graisse autour du cœur qui arrive, de graisse autour du cerveau.
Jacques Brel, interview à la RTB, 3 septembre 1979 (links to full archive, from which the above video is excerpted – soundtrack below)
https://soundcloud.com/dealerdemusique/midside-le-grand-jacques
Jojo (…)
Nous savons tous les deux
Que le monde sommeille
Par manque d’imprudenceSix pieds sous terre Jojo tu espères encore
Six pieds sous terre tu n’es pas mort