a life more ordinary

warbyparker:

Whoa. The MLA has officially devised a standard format to cite tweets in an academic paper. Sign of the times.

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neil-gaiman:

I am proud to live and Twitter in the Future.

Syzygy:

So here it is: Syzygy Group’s ‘20 Things’ In 2011 [click for larger].

Once again, we’ve taken 20 seminal (or just mental) events from the year on the internet and carefully weaved them together into a single illustration - this year crafted by Executive Creative Director, Peter Jaworowski. […]

I only got Nyancat, Duke Nukem, Anonymous, Rebecca Black, Minecraft, Egyptian elections, Steve Jobs, Wikileaks, lulzec, and the little Darth Vader kid from that wonderful Superbowl VW ad.

jssndrslr:

The Trinity of Personal Computing by Photo Giddy on Flickr.

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Gizmodo:

[…] Photographer Andrea Boettcher had a difficult job. The mother of the bride was terminally ill with cancer… when doctors told Ashley her mother had only days to live, she went other direction—she wanted everyone in her life in one place for her wedding day.

But what about her bedridden mom?

Andrea recounts a beautiful, and beautifully 21st century solution:

On the wedding day I showed up and saw the laptop in the ceremony venue, I was told [Ashley’s mother] was definitely not going to make it to the wedding but they were working on getting Skype set up for the ceremony. They did get it set up by the time Ashley walked down the aisle and and she witnessed the entire ceremony. It was beautiful and emotional and Ashley and [husband] Beau stopped and said a few words to her during the whole thing. After the ceremony they set the laptop up in the reception hall and people stopped by to chat and talk with her, she got to witness everything and it was amazing and sad all at the same time. A few weeks after the wedding Patty passed away but I know Ashley is so glad that because of technology she was able to share the day with her mother.

The next time you read some marketing bullshit about technology bringing people together, think about this—and what it can actually mean.

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[Lepht Anonym] is a biohacker, a woman who has spent the last several years learning how to extend her own senses by putting tiny magnets and other electronic devices under her own skin, allowing her to feel electromagnetic fields, or — if her latest project works — even magnetic north.

Since doctors won’t help her, she does it in her own apartment, sterilizing her equipment (needles, scalpels, vegetable peelers) with vodka. Good anesthetic is largely impossible to buy, so she screams a little, and sometimes passes out. […]

The Aberdeen, Scotland, native got her start about two years ago, experimenting first with RFID sensors under her skin that let her do things like lock a computer specifically to her signature. That was a decent start, but didn’t scratch the itch entirely. […]

She wants other people to share her DIY vision. It’s not the full transhumanist idea, it’s not immortality or superpowers — but even living without the gentle sensation of feeling the invisible is a difficult thing to imagine, she says. One of the implants stopped functioning once, and she describes it as like going blind. […]

This is insane, terrifying, brilliant and intriguing all at the same time.

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