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The Guardian’s China correspondent writes his farewell article as he leaves the country after ten years of reporting. It’s an intriguing résumé of what he experienced from what he calls «a front-row seat to watch 200-odd years of industrial development playing at fast forward on a continent-wide screen with a cast of more than a billion».
This is Instagram for pros. And totally analogue. Will need to try this sometime.
As technology advances, some sounds are lost or at least endangered. This little site is here to remember them. Lots of “oh, yes, almost forgot about this one!” guaranteed.
As the Arab Spring has turned into a complex chaos in Egypt, The West needs to send clear signals, The Economist argues. Namely that democratically elected Islamists are to be supported.
A great read on what we can learn from the Museum of Failed Products: embracing failure as failure, not only as a technique for achieving success.
Time is how you frame it. An exceptional keynote speech on decades, nanoseconds and heartbeats. Worth a few hundred heartbeats of reading time.
A diary for hasty times. For each day, there’s a (changing) short questionnaire to fill in. Like: «Your day was: a) making a point, b) sketchy, c) drawing a line.»
The rule is simple: On YouTube, you find any video. On Vimeo, you find the good ones. The Vimeo awards showcase some wonderful short films in thirteen different categories. All of them are worth your eyeballs, but if you have but little time, watch the winners of the categories Lyrical and Action Sports. And if you have a lot of time – there are also four non-winning finalists for every category right there to watch.
This promising (and important!) project aims at making terms of service understandable by classifying them and pointing out shady parts.
A fascinating read on a fact that was new to me: In long-distance running, humans are second to no other species in the world.
Make sense of what’s happening, and imagine what could be.
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