…the passing of the streetcars is a really sexy sound.
Atom Egoyan, in conversation with Peter Howell about his new film, Chloe.
The problem with non
Seth Godin: “If your non-profit isn’t acting with as much energy and guts as it takes to get funded in Silicon Valley or featured on Digg, then you’re failing in your duty to make change.”
This applies, really, not only to non-profits, but any form of public service as well. If you’re not moving forward to meet the needs of your clients, and anticipating what they’ll need next, then you’re not doing enough.
Alan Turing
here’s a toast to Alan Turing
born in harsher, darker times
who thought outside the container
and loved outside the lines
and so the code-breaker was broken
and we’re sorry
yes now the s-word has been spoken
the official conscience woken
— very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted —
and the story does suggest
a part 2 to the Turing Test:
1. can machines behave like humans?
2. can we?
For those who don’t speak nerd: The Turing Test.
(via Language Log)
No, no, hold on. Dr. King, I’ll let you finish, but you gotta know that I, Kanye West, have also had some pretty great dreams.
Cabel Sasser, summing up that fiasco quite nicely.
We did it the way we did everything. Not necessarily the right way, but our way.
Spike Jonze, on some of his earliest work in an article by Saki Knafo about the forthcoming Where The Wild Things Are.
