/via Scientific American

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2016/jan/14/single-tasking-and-digital-mindfulness-tech-weekly-podcast

How can we use tech more wisely to make the most of our professional lives?

http://www.inma.no/ARTIKLER/Alle-artikler/Jostein-Magnussen-best-pa-atte-minutter

Torsdag 3. desember holdt INMA 8 Minutes of Digital Marketing-konferansen i Saga kino, hvor samtlige av de 35 inviterte speakerne ble bedt om å holde seg til åtte minutter. Av dem alle var det Jostein Magnussen i Netlife Research som ble kåret til den beste av publikum. På sine tilmålte minutter tok han et oppgjør med alle de nye begrepene som har sneket seg inn i markedsføringsbransjen.

/via Motherboard

Over the span of a month, Adam designed and built an accurate replica of the hedge maze architectural model from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The maze model, as seen in The Overlook Hotel, is only seen briefly, but reference screenshots from throughout the film allowed Adam to painstakingly recreate it. The project ended up as one of Adam’s more labor-intensive builds in recent memory!

Motherboard:

Despite their dystopian appearance, the group’s six mining farms encompass eight petahashes per second of computing power, whose brute force as of October accounted for 3 percent of the entire Bitcoin network.

Lisens: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/common-mythconceptions-worlds-most-contagious-falsehoods/

“Most contagious falsehoods” frå Information is Beautifull

Jerry Seinfeld får ein pris frå reklamebransjen, og nyttar høvet til å sei kva han meiner om dei.

I love advertising because I love lying…

… I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard won earnings to buy useless, low quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

/via kotke.org

Oversikt over kor langt antibiotikaresistensen har kome, frå Information is Beautifull.

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Why of all the days of the year, as numerous as the hairs of a cow, did the pope choose to come to the South on the very day we had planned to test our rockets?

– Kim In-yong, Nord-Koreansk rakettforskar

North Korea Says Rocket Launches Had Nothing to Do With Pope’s Visit

/via digg.com