Reading for April 29, 2010

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Author Disguises Experiment As Ridiculously Addictive Game [Fun]

Albert-László Barabási believes that "despite the seeming randomness of human behavior, humans actually act in very predictable patterns." He's so convinced of this theory that he posted an incredibly addictive game-like version of his book Bursts online as an experiment. More »

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Moved on from traditional #Thanksgiving folk music all day to spy movies all night. 1st up: "Where Eagles Dare" w/ Burton & Eastwood. - 4 hours ago
#Thanksgiving for us means waking up to #ArloGuthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" & playing American folk songs all day long. - 13 hours ago
#Occupy Seattle evicted? I'm sympathetic to #ows, but locally they dumbed it down to "a fight over camping" (@Elise81's line, not mine) - 1 day ago
#Occupy Seattle evicted? I'm sympathetic to #ows, but locally they dumbed it down to "a fight over camping" (@Elise 81's line, not mine) - 1 day ago
#FILM Taking our inner and offspring #muppets to see the new movie. Can't wait! - 1 day ago
#PHOTO "If They Enforced Bank Regulation Like They Do Park Rules ... We Wouldn't Be In This Mess http://t.co/7Jmvn3r3 #OWS - 3 days ago
#PRIVACY All the words Pakistan blocks from SMS'ing, including 61 variations of a**: http://t.co/aHnyjom0 - 3 days ago
Not yet #Thanksgiving and this $tarbucks is already playing the #Christmas soft-rock. Rly? - 5 days ago
OH on Broadway - Petitioner: "Do you have a minute for gay rights?" Pedestrian: "Honey, I have all night..." - 1 week ago
#PRIVACY #FreeSpeech Reject the Internet #Blacklist Legislation in the US http://t.co/js4clllI via @eff - 1 week ago

Android Dreams: Time-lapse Tokyo Homage to Blade Runner
[Video Link]. Boing Boing reader Samuel Cockedey created this lovely short, and explains: This is a tribute to Ridley Scott and Vangelis, whose work on Blade Runner has been a huge source of inspiration in my shooting time lapses. Please watch in HD with sound on! Shot over a year in Tokyo with a Canon 5dmk2, mainly in the Shinjuku area. Music: "Main Ti […]
Xeni Jardin
I Live in the Future and Here's How it Works, by Nick Bilton: an exclusive Boing Boing excerpt
Excerpted from I Live in the Future and Here's How it Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain are Being Creatively Disrupted @ 2011 by Nick Bilton. Reprinted by Permission of Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Does Your Surgeon Play Video Games? The next time you have surgery, ask your su […]
Nick Bilton
"Playa Time: Dust to Dust" - Burning Man 2011 Time Lapse
I favorited a YouTube video: (Watch in 1080HD!) (For prints and access to raw images signup at http://bit.ly/nWIisM) From dust to dust, this time lapse covers over 5 weeks including the preparation of the event, from before the trash fence erection and after basical... […]
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