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“What do you get when the past crystallizes out of the future? According to a new model of the universe that combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the answer is: the present.” — New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future
“people who are looking to buy things online tend to behave in distinctive “cognitive styles” when presented with information: deliberative or impulsive, holistic or analytical, and visual or verbal” — You’ll buy more from web ads that know how you think
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“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.” — Brenda Ueland
“The minute you tweet, you sacrifice your privacy for the sake of some greater sense of connection, some greater sense of urgency. A tweet is a report, one that will subsequently be re-reported and re-interpreted.” — Mom updates Twitter as 2-year-old son is dying
“But no user actually wants to be aggregated - we’re all very good at multi-tasking now, thank you very much.” — Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless: Predictions for 2010: Mobile Winners and Losers
“With a large-scale attack on a popular global web service, it is the first time that cyber attacks have been used as part of a propaganda campaign to propel the global political agenda of a foreign government.” — Twitter Hack: Part Of Broader Iranian Strategy
“With one click Web 2.0 suicide machine takes you off all social networks so you can have a ‘real’ life again.” — swissmiss | Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
You can buy this cheesecake on the installment plan. (via Isaac Mizrahi…Cheesecake? « Fu For Thought)
“The member’s movie data exposes a Netflix member’s personal interest and/or struggles with various highly personal issues, including sexuality, mental illness, recovery from alcoholism, and victimization from incest, physical abuse, domestic violence, adultery, and rape.” — Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit Claims