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1 week ago
semioticapocalypse: Milwaukee public library ads

semioticapocalypse:

Milwaukee public library ads

1 week ago
(via Flavorwire » Haunting Portraits of Teenage Girls)

(via Flavorwire » Haunting Portraits of Teenage Girls)

2 weeks ago
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Old dog new tricks / sometimes those guys still can hook you — http://soundcloud.com/royksopp/ryxp-stronghold

2 weeks ago
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Everyone was supposed to have money. It was nothing to the company. It published pictures of funerals in the magazines and frightened the suckers, and then punched little holes, and the customers would lie awake to think out ways to raise the dough. They’d be ashamed not to have it. They couldn’t let the great company down, either, and they got the scratch. In the old days a man was put in prison for debt, but there were subtler things now. They made it a shame not to have money and set everybody to work.

Saul Bellow. Seize the day
3 weeks ago
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Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.

Tony Hsieh (via idonethis)
1 month ago
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If you talk to neuroscientists as a philosopher, you will be introduced to new concepts and find some go them extremely useful. One I found particularly helpful was the notion of metabolic price. If a biological brain wants to develop a new cognitive capacity, it must pay a price. The currency in which the price is paid is sugar. Additional energy must be made available and more glucose must be burned to develop and stabilize this new capacity. As in nature in general, there is no such thing as a free lunch. If an animal is to evolve, say, color vision, this new trait must pay by making new sources of food and sugar available to it. If a biological organism wants to develop a conscious self or think in concepts or master a language, then this step into a new level of mental complexity must be sustainable. It requires additional neural hardware, and that hardware requires fuel. That fuel is sugar, and the new trait must enable our animal to find this extra amount of energy in its environment.
Likewise, any good theory of consciousness must reveal how it paid for itself. (In principle, consciousness could be a by-product of other traits that paid for themselves, but the fact that it has remained stable over time suggests that it was adaptive.) A convincing theory must explain how having a world appear to you enabled you to extract more energy from your environment than a zombie could. This evolutionary perspective also helps solve the puzzle of naive realism.

Metzinger, Thomas. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books, 2009. (via carvalhais)
2 months ago

Instapaper 2 Evernote

1. Log into Instapaer, copy This folder RSS link at the bottom
2. Paste it here: http://fulltextrssfeed.com/, copy the resulting RSS url


Install rss2email script on your server

Download or install package, for Ubuntu it would be:

apt-get install rss2email

Configure RSS2email

r2e new you.12345@m.evernote.com

where you.12345@m.evernote.com is your secret Evernote email

Copy sample config file:

cp /usr/share/doc/rss2email/examples/config.py ~/.rss2email

set UTF-8 as your first encoding

If necessary, change the script to append the name of your Evernote notepad to each email’s subject line:

open /usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py in any text editor (for example, nano or vim)

replace this line:
msg['Subject'] = Header(unicode(subject), header_charset)

with this one:
msg['Subject'] = Header(unicode(subject+' @Instapaper'), header_charset)


Where Instapaper is the name of your Evernote notepad. You can also add tags, see description in Evernote’s blog.


Add RSS url from step to rss2email by executing this:

r2e add url_of_your_rss_feed

Run rss2email to test if it works:
r2e run

In a couple of minutes your recent Instapaper notes should appear in your Evernote.

Now add cron job:

crontab -e

add line:

*/360 * * * * r2e run

where 360 is number of minutes, meaning „run this script every 6 hours“


Remember there’s a limit of 50 emails to Evernote per day.

2 months ago
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– А что такое Бон с практической точки зрения? – спросил Аристотель Федорович. – Мы ведь люди в этом вопросе совершенно темные.

– Тренировка духа, – ответил Борис. – С целью обрести свободу от привязанностей. Только в реальности кончается тем, что вместо одной тачки с говном человек катит по жизни две – свою родную и тибетскую. Сначала на работе отпашет, как папа Карло, а потом сидит у себя в каморке начитывает заклинания на собачьем языке, чтобы умилостивить каких–нибудь нагов, которых ни для кого другого просто нету… И психоз бушует сразу по двум направлениям. А вообще там много всяких развлечений. Каждый практикует как хочет.

Виктор Пелевин. Тхаги
2 months ago
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Donnie Green himself had been a trader at Salomon Brothers in the dark ages, when traders had more hair on their chests than on their heads. He is remembered as the man who stopped a callow young salesman on his way out the door to catch a flight from New York to Chicago. Green tossed the salesman a ten-dollar bill. ‘Hey, take out some crash insurance for yourself in my name,’ he said. ‘Why?’ asked the salesman. ‘I feel lucky,’ said Green.

Michael Lewis. Liar’s Poker
3 months ago