We think open is better than closed — not because closed is inherently bad, but because when it’s easy for users to leave your product, there’s a sense of urgency to improve and innovate in order to keep your users. When your users are locked in, there’s a strong temptation to be complacent and focus less on making your product better.— Google Public Policy Blog: Introducing DataLiberation.org: Liberate your data! (via fczuardi) 1 month ago
Fugazi - Arpeggiator (via ButterKnifeLtd)
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If we want businesses to be ethical, we have to reward the ones that are. By not enriching companies that want to take away our freedom and by rewarding those that respect us, we will be helping to bring about a better future.
The iPhone hype hides a basic problem with the product — Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) inside the iPhone means that it wont be under your control. Apple has built this “smart” phone to dumb you down.
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2 months ago[…] não sou um autor de farsas, mas um autor de tragédias. E a vida não é uma farsa, é uma tragédia. O aspecto trágico da vida está precisamente nessa lei a que o homem é forçado a obedecer, a lei que o obriga a ser um. Cada qual pode ser um, nenhum, cem mil, mas a escolha é um imperativo necessário.— Um, nenhum e cem mil (Luigi Pirandello) 2 months ago
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2 months agoI work on the book about women,” she wrote to Algren from Paris. “When it will be written, darling, men will know everything about women and so they will not be interested in them anymore.— Love Letters: LETTER FROM SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR TO NELSON ALGREN : The New Yorker 2 months ago
What It's Like To Die
Decapitation:
Beheading can be swift and painless but consciousness is believed to continue for a short time after the spinal cord is severed. Experts have calculated that the brain might remain functioning for seven seconds. Reports from guillotine executions in France cited cases where movements of the eyes and mouth were seen for up to 30 seconds.
