February 2012
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BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep →
Today, most people seem to have adapted quite well to the eight-hour sleep, but Ekirch believes many sleeping problems may have roots in the human body’s natural preference for segmented sleep as well as the ubiquity of artificial light.
This could be the root of a condition called sleep maintenance insomnia, where people wake during the night and have trouble getting back to sleep, he...
I didn’t watch the Oscars this year…couldn’t bear to see an industry gasping for air on it’s death bed
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“How many more social-networking accounts does one need? Things have become so...”
– Joerg Colberg Conscientious | Feeling Social Enough Yet?
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“TED attempts to present itself as fresh, cutting edge, and outside the box but...”
– - Nathan Jurgenson, Against TED – The New Inquiry
There is a Disneyland feel to TED. A sort of creepy, contrived atmosphere, as if we are being primed for a peak experience or undergoing a secret ritual in techno-utopianism. And that feeling that great people are doing great things out there, so...
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“All companies want profit, but knowing what you ate for breakfast or storing the...”
– Egg Freckles | Why Apple Does Not Need a Social Network
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“If memory serves, globalization was sold as an opportunity to export the First...”
– Armine Yalnizyan - Why we’re seeing the ugly new face of capitalism - The Globe and Mail
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“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept”
– Henri Cartier Bresson
Why Sharpness is a Bourgeoise Concept in Street Photography — Eric Kim Street Photography
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“The marginal value of the last hour put into a business idea is usually much...”
– All or something - Jinesh Parekh (37signals)
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Cindy Sherman talks to Simon Schama - FT.com →
The American photographer on capturing the masquerade of daily life
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“To me Facebook already feels over. I really don’t feel like I’m missing...”
– - Dave Winer, Scoble: I’ll go down with the ship via Scripting News
Facebook is the new AOL, despite the market cap. But it’s headed for a hard landing for other reasons that Winer is pushing. Facebook will fail because of the imminent rise of social operating systems — future versions of iOS, Mac...