March 2012
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S.Paulo etc.: Marie Colvin's final dispatch from... →
spauloetc:
Below are the first few paras of the last report filed by the journalist Marie Colvin before she was killed on 22 February 2012. She was reporting from inside the besieged Syrian enclave of Baba Amr in the city of Homs, and died when the building she was working from, an unofficial media centre,…
S.Paulo etc.: Marie Colvin's final dispatch from... →
spauloetc:
Below are the first few paras of the last report filed by the journalist Marie Colvin before she was killed on 22 February 2012. She was reporting from inside the besieged Syrian enclave of Baba Amr in the city of Homs, and died when the building she was working from, an unofficial media centre,…
Artist suspends real clouds in the middle of the... →
poptech:
That’s not photoshop; that’s an actual cloud hovering inside an actual room. Artist Berndnaut Smilde merges art and science to create small man-made clouds that exist — albeit for just a moment — indoors.
(via singularitarian)
“I think that being Japanese means living with natural disasters. From summer to...”
– Excerpt from Haruki Murakami’s Catalunya International Prize acceptance speech from June 2011. Read the full speech on Senrinomichi.com. (via murakamistuff)
“[Politicians] are not the intellectual cream of the crop.”
– Miami Marlins president David Samson on the officials who funneled public funds to build the Marlin’s new stadium, without ever looking at their financial records. (via officialssay)
sarahintampa: Everything, Everywhere, All the Time →
emergentfutures:
Paul Higgins: great questions and huge need.
sarahintampa:
The web is a blessing and a curse: there is simply too much information. And it’s coming at us too quickly. Meanwhile, the tools we have to process the data flow are failing miserably, and yet, very few people are building us better ones. Instead, these days, it’s far easier to build the next…
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