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thisistheverge: How two Valve engineers walked away with the company’s augmented reality glasses Three months ago, celebrated video game publisher Valve did something completely out of character: it fired up to 25 workers, in what one employee dubbed the “great cleansing.” At the time, co-founder Gabe Newell quickly reassured gamers that the company wouldn’t be canceling any projects, but it just so happens that one project managed to get away. Valve was secretly working on a pair of augmented reality glasses… and those glasses are still being built by two Valve employees who lost their jobs that day. 

"As recently as the year 2000, only one-quarter of all the world’s stored information was digital. The rest was preserved on paper, film, and other analog media. But because the amount of digital data expands so quickly — doubling around every three years — that situation was swiftly inverted. Today, less than two percent of all stored information is nondigital."

The Rise of Big Data | Foreign Affairs (via thisistheverge)

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emergentfutures: The Future Of Technology: What You Can Expect In The Next 50 Years Paul Higgins: A bit ridiculous but interesting to look at and think about Full Story: SimplyZesty
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thisistheverge: ‘Geography of Hate’ maps racism and homophobia on Twitter Twitter, even more than many other social media tools, can feel disconnected from the real world. But a group of students and professors at research site Floating Sheep have built a comprehensive map of some of Twitter’s most distasteful content: the racist, homophobic, or ableist slurs that can proliferate online. Called Geography of Hate, the interactive map charts ten relatively common slurs across the continental US, either by general category or individually. Looking at the whole country, you’ll often see a mass of red or what the map’s creators call a “blue smog of hate.” Zooming in, however, patches appear over individual regions or cities; some may be predictable, while others are not. 
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Imagine. Create. Build.: Growth, Engagement, Monetization

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I really should be working on a deck right now, but for the past weeks / months, I have been so focused on work that I need to take a step back. The idea I am about to write about is not fully developed yet, but doubt it that there is enough time to perfect it… so putting this down nonetheless.

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Stowe Boyd: What Drives Us?

stoweboyd:

I’ve been researching some background materials for the Socialogy book I am working on, and was digging into various theories on personality, organizational fit, and human motivations. This started as a modest collection of others’ ideas, but as you can imagine, it led to the outpouring of my own…

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bobbycaputo: How to Make Cocktails With Your Keurig
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eat-pure: Meal prep Sunday wooo - lunches/salads for the next three days: avocado, cucumber, sweet corn, cherry tomatoes, red bell pepper, spinach, marrow fat peas cooked in organic low sodium vegetable stock, with lemon juice and coriander (cilantro).
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isomorphismes: Population distribution of the United States in units of Canadas.
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dont-think-just-eat: Avocado with Smoke Salmon and pinch of pepper <3
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digg: bostonreview: Disney employment rejection letter to a woman, 1938. (Via Kevin Burg) Bet they’re real proud of this one…