— Intellectual Ventures And The War Over Software Patents: Must read.
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Who doesn’t want to write a serious, scientific paper called “Lost in the Sauce”? Ha!
That particular quote comes from an article on DISCOVER Magazine online, but the link for this comes from Lloyd Morgan’s wonderfully curated Lone Gunman: In Search of the Infogasm. Another choice quote, this time from the linked WSJ article:
In addition, they found that tell-tale burst of gamma waves was almost always preceded by a change in alpha brain-wave intensity in the visual cortex, which controls what we see. They took it as evidence that the brain was dampening the neurons there similar to the way we consciously close our eyes to concentrate. “You want to quiet the noise in your head to solidify that fragile germ of an idea,” says Dr. Jung-Beeman at Northwestern.
Fragile germ of an idea! Love it!
Fellini.
Steak n’ Shake shuffle
There are some movies that are so bad that they feel like a vacuum of everything that’s right in the world, or they’re so lifeless and cliched that...
Robert De Niro
by Filip Peraić
Polaroids by Andrei Tarkovsky taken in Italy and Russia between 1979 and 1984.
that awkward moment when you realise you might not be the coolest dude in the room
