CultureLab: Do we really need cash any more?. This is a review of a book that argues that we don’t need cash any more. It might be possible in 50 years. I think it is too much wrapped up in people’s ideas of security for people to let it go.
Marshall McLuhan on New Forms and Old Assumptions (1960) | Brain Pickings. If you like to learn things the link above is a good resource. Everything old is new right?
Twitter Users Congregate Based on Mood, Study Says – NYTimes.com. “Birds of a feather flock together?” I was surprised by what SharonMcEarchern said:
Hells bells, we still don’t even know what happiness is. Another recent research study found that college students were happier receiving praise rather than sex or money. Oh, come on now!
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Make: Online Japanese Gravity Marimba Plays Bach In An Ancient Forest. This is a remarkable video that shows a handcrafted rendition of Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.
Digging deeper into Apples Time Capsule failure figures Technology guardian.co.uk. Too many failures to suggest relying on as a strategy. I would suggest external/internal hard drives instead and Mac OS X Server . What is your data worth?