May 2011
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Reblog with your Twitter name (if you want to)!
Because Tumblr and Twitter go nicely together.
To start off, I am inky.
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Chinese Prisons Forcing Inmates to "Gold Farm" in... →
Via technoccult.
Liu says he was one of scores of prisoners forced to play online games to build up credits that prison guards would then trade for real money. The 54-year-old, a former prison guard who was jailed for three years in 2004 for “illegally petitioning” the central government about corruption in his hometown, reckons the operation was even more lucrative than the...
New York Times: Duck Hunting on the Internet →
tl;dr: Duckface. Stop doing that.
Christian Rudder, 35, a founder of the dating site OkCupid, was so appalled by the amount of duckface on the site that he conducted a study to see which expressions best attracted prospective dates. He found that smiling drew more responses than duckfacing. “Unfortunately,” he said, “it’s just the pose people strike when they take their own picture because...
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A short TED talk on the hidden power of smiling.
“Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you’ll live – and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well-being?”
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ragbag asked: was rome justifiable in annihilating carthage as a nation?
ummhuraira asked: Which is your favourite vital organ and why? Which is your favourite "it's cool and everything but I could get by without it for a few days or maybe with a mechanical replacement" organ?
travors asked: Favourite Sci-fi movie?
guillee asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST ROBOTIC MEMORY?
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
I’m trying to make sounds that don’t exist in the real world, using...
– Amon Tobin
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The more I treasure a tool, the less likely I am to use it. I always scribble...
– Frank Chimero
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