Evren's ramblings
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Un nouveau traité mondial, l’ACTA, pourrait permettre à de grandes entreprises de surveiller notre activité sur Internet. Nous avons rejeté les projets de loi américains de censure — à présent, persuadons le Parlement de l’UE d’enterrer cette nouvelle menace. Ajoutez votre voix!

Flawed as it is, peer review is useful. It’s a first line of defense. It forces scientists to have some evidence to back up their claims, and it is likely to catch the most egregious biases and flaws.
The structures in Architecture Without Architects reveal a kind of purposeful, iterative, social design process that, while dating back centuries and originating in primitive cultures, offers a powerful parallel to contemporary shifts towards collaborative creation.
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But what we need right now in the ebook publishing industry is not more lock-in and more restrictive practices. It’s difficult enough to deal with the way that Amazon throws its weight around without having to do extra work to accommodate Apple’s control-freakery.
iBooks2: Not a silver bullet for publishers - Forbes by Suw Charman-Anderson
nickholmes:

“Don’t speak…none of that matters now.”

nickholmes:

“Don’t speak…none of that matters now.”

And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter | Brain Pickings. Click through. The whole letter is A-MAZING.