Festliches Nurnberg = Baby-Bruder auf Triumph des... http://ping.fm/TOl4S

Cathedral of Light by Albert Speer (Nuremburg Zeppelinfeld,... http://ping.fm/YSxWB

"Fourth fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still." - Calvin Coolidge twuote

like the frog at the bottom of the well, we think the sky is only as big as the top of the well. - Zhuangzi twuote (think ancient)

like the frog at the bottom of the well, we think the sky is only as big as the top of the well. - Mao Zedong twuote (think big)

"we as a society put some big money in fixing hurt brains but less money in figuring out how to teach well brains." - Anne Herbert twuote

"privacy is personal" - @DSearls
http://ping.fm/YyO11 twech twuote

"Tomorrow... the most expensive process will be writing the app" - Jean-Louis Gassée http://ping.fm/jjI8a twech

i prefer to live in a country where the government is in awe of its citizens, and powerless against them.

"Sending archives into deep space doesn't seem too wacky when you think in those terms. Very deep space." - @DaveWiner http://ping.fm/VmrCH

"Jailing Thomas Edison in 1890 would not have darkened the night." - @WillWilkinson http://ping.fm/FbjgB twuote

"Netflix used an open-source network to launch an alternative distribution business without asking anyone for permission.” - Tim Wu twech

"companies as they grow never get more competent, they always get less." - @DaveWiner http://ping.fm/z1lnt twuote

"game developers revel in pain." - @TimBray http://ping.fm/Q6HHO twech

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said." - Peter Drucker

"Almost any institution, when faced with a situation where they’ll get harshly criticized..." http://ping.fm/cSFiv

"IQ testing became popular in an age when eugenics was still taken seriously" - @DSearls http://ping.fm/XNbxh twuote

"make users happy with your product as quickly as you can, and help them as much as you can after that." - Marc Hedlund http://ping.fm/fxx0Z

"Art isn't dangerous unless it tells the truth." - @Lola

"from 1980 to 2005, more than 4/5th of the total increase in American incomes went to the richest 1 percent." - N. Kristof NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF http://ping.fm/nVacW

WORD OF THE DAY: agora: (in ancient Greece) a public open space used for assemblies and markets. http://ping.fm/HFMxp twech

Benjamin Franklin never took a patent or copyright on any of his work. opensource twechie

a very clear trend in Apple’s product design is the simplification of parts that can break. - James Duncan Davidson http://ping.fm/B2DnV

an extension is worth a thousand words; don't use @Facebook, @Twitter, etc on open WiFi. http://ping.fm/R4JeK (via @ DaringFireball)

"Just because they can't draw doesn't mean they can't design." - @Rands amen twuote

Bouncing Water Droplet on a Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube... http://ping.fm/5fuBK

action is a levee against despair.

"It's hard for policy makers to understand that the Internet is an idea and not just another network." - @BobFrankston http://ping.fm/1KxA1

"At work you should only 'do stuff that matters'. At home you should do lots of stuff that doesn't." - @WillNoel

art will always survive economical, intellectual or technological change.

lowly ancient Athenian potters strove to outdo each other painting vases more for bragging rights and artistic expression than for pay. art

"Ask big questions and give them lots of space to respond." - @Rands

“it’s possible to be 100 years ahead of your own... http://ping.fm/VaqgI

smart people think about the future, but only a few manage to see it.

when one day is too much like the last, time slips away unseen.

contemplating precursory instances of online ID as personal singularity.

"It's easier to invent the future than to predict it." - Alan Kay twuote

"There are revolutions... being led online. They're just happening in new ways, and taking subtle forms." - Anil Dash http://ping.fm/Tvcio

"(mobile) carriers are greedy bumblers, short-term thinkers, technically and culturally incompetent" http://ping.fm/QcJct

"I fear that machines are ahead of morals, by some centuries." - Harry S. Truman

Putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider by Sixty Symbols http://ping.fm/r6mQh

"the fight between mobile device makers and the carriers... is the only real fight that matters." - Elia Freedman http://ping.fm/ANZJv

"We are the first technology. We are part inventor & part the invented. We... are the first cyborgs." http://ping.fm/sjNBR

"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." - @AndLewis http://ping.fm/wR9SC

Arctic Technology by Christian Houge http://ping.fm/WO2av

"Network technologies do not eliminate intermediaries. They spawn them. Networks are a cradle for intermediaries." http://ping.fm/2yLLu

"Network technologies do not eliminate intermediaries. They spawn them. Networks are a cradle for intermediaries." http://ping.fm/2yLLu

What people do in interesting times shapes the future.

"every attempt at building dams and filters on the internet is seen as pollution by the volunteers." - JP Rangaswami http://ping.fm/FQZrS

“For information to have power, it needs to be held asymmetrically. Preferably very very asymmetrically." - @Jobsworth http://ping.fm/oYwjN

little children will think we grew up in some frightful Dark Age, maybe visualizing some mashup of post-apocolyptic and TV Land.

i'm gradually forgetting what vinyl LPs were, and how we loved them so much. FIVE entire songs on one side!

"the warriors would ride on in that darkness they'd become" - Cormac McCarthy

"most problems confronting a network can be solved later or by others." - Jonathan L. Zittrain http://ping.fm/dTRvD

"they had the most opaque obstacle in the world between them and the truth: money." - Paul Graham http://ping.fm/iivEm

reading Cindy Cohn's "A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal" for the @EFF. http://ping.fm/8V4Iy

“Success hides problems.” - @EdCatmull http://ping.fm/wqbUu

"enough of life thrives on subtle instantaneous responses that one-eighth of a second kills intimacy and spontaneity." http://ping.fm/iJ5qx

"Rough impersonal guesswork is tolerable. Totally personalized guesswork is not." - @DSearls http://ping.fm/2d0dp

"The old style management can’t handle behavioral dispersion, inability to concentrate, compulsive..." http://ping.fm/CzbBd

Archway in the Blue City of Chefchaouen, Morocco by P.J.P.
  ... http://ping.fm/CZVTA

“dropping explosives on people from commanding heights... http://ping.fm/KEfei

"Mayday is in danger of being suffocated by spectators. Such events are for participants, not watchers." - Doc Rowe

"game rules... are a method for flattening hierarchy, increasing engagement, and just generally speeding things up." http://ping.fm/tUxKY

Riomaggiore [via Pixdaus] http://ping.fm/pI1rO

the colors of evening [via BigPicture] http://ping.fm/qtEKQ

breaching the ice [via BigPicture] http://ping.fm/C1q7u

under ice [via BigPicture] http://ping.fm/SgGrx

"If you aren't funny, you don't quite exist." - Jonathan Lethem (paraphrased)

"We tend to mistake a clear view of the future for a short distance." http://ping.fm/sy3Pq

Waterspout off the coast of California by MaldenDj
  ... http://ping.fm/mNmor

"No matter how smart or how speedy an organization is, it can’t get to where it wants to go..." http://ping.fm/xhUM8

Sandstorm in Riyadh by Peter Arthold http://ping.fm/OzygW

"Being at the top when the sands shift is a liability." - Kevin Kelly http://ping.fm/ycCsv

"Most Americans assume that we can’t compete ‘against cheap Chinese labor’ yet..." http://ping.fm/DI8Zb

"For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable" - Khalil Gibran http://bit.ly/dAaW9u

swimming where worlds meet 
[via An Exquisite Paradox] http://ping.fm/LobFN

"stop. it's the only sure-fire way to begin." - @Rands http://ping.fm/54hsH

do children ever scare you? 
via The Coldest Days Will Come, An... http://ping.fm/EYldQ

"Encourage borders, outskirts, and temporary isolation where the voltage of difference can spark the new." -Kevin Kelly http://bit.ly/9YdXtA

Scientists Confirm the First Direct Photo of an Exoplanet -... http://ping.fm/5Yo0R

flaming wind power http://ping.fm/Hfcfz

Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at... http://ping.fm/KONC8

Untitled, Cairo, 2008 by Simon Vahala 

[via Endless Forms Most... http://ping.fm/2v9Ay

"Math is the new Sanskrit, the new Latin." - Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho http://ping.fm/bWvqF

granted, bravado often requires confidence, @Rands.

i think @Rands is describing bravado, rather more than confidence.

Manufactured Landscapes - Edward Burtynsky http://ping.fm/jxpVi

Manufactured Landscapes by Edward Burtynsky
[via Kateoplis] http://ping.fm/ZHPQP

“Let us tear down half a city in one hundred days” -... http://ping.fm/hCobn

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." - Walter Elliott twuotes http://ping.fm/XZ33k

"Pissed off gets you moving, but never solves the problem." - @Rands

Hayabusa spacecraft reentering Earth’s atsophere (12 June... http://ping.fm/LrLso

A diagram of history, in one small country over a short span of... http://ping.fm/5HQSi

to empty your mind is to dig a well.

a fog frosted windshield obliterates the carefree racoon. (#foggy philosophy #2)

death is a problem only for the living.

the curative may not be preventative.

spiral stair with a view of the past [via Pure Blog... http://ping.fm/v3OHn

"An empty knapsack does not guard a frontier." - a Bulgarian soldier (1918)

Heart of grass via Loopier http://ping.fm/JlZV3

it looks like Photoshop, but it’s not: a massive sinkhole... http://ping.fm/7oKa0

"everything that Jobs has ever done in his career has suggested that he loves great products more than market share." - SBJ http://ping.fm/Rsw05

agreeing with @AppleOutsider that "people immediately understood iPad as a result" of introducing the iPhone first. http://bit.ly/diEoey

Israel’s siege mentality - The Economist http://ping.fm/Wo7Dv

rumble [via layylayy via centiweed] http://ping.fm/qh4ic

Salvation [via Unsubstantiated Rumors] http://ping.fm/cWl0k

"In order to go from a peak of local success to another higher peak, (you) must first go downhill." - Kevin Kelly http://bit.ly/bb2a7d

"Grammar is just a natural function of children’s brains, and they apply it to whatever they find." - DouglasAdams http://bit.ly/ds6t8Z

"Trade is to culture as sex is to biology. Exchange makes cultural change collective and cumulative." - @MattWRidley http://bit.ly/90d6kU

influential white man with a gun - photo by Loomis Dean (1960,... http://ping.fm/fcaM0

"real privacy issues... are part of a far bigger picture of how the world is changing." - @TimOReilly http://ping.fm/DERdt privacy

"Search is a science; without proper knowledge of its use, Search will become a voodoo controlled by a small elite..." http://bit.ly/bz2I4j

cats in a tree [via fencehopping] http://ping.fm/XLDUV

The Porcupine Mountains Waterfall, Michigan (via FenceHopping) http://ping.fm/HKA43

"The core product of the 'copy/paste company' is a service that breaks copy and paste." - @Gruber http://ping.fm/QMo9X

vertical garden at Melbourne Central (via ErinVision) http://ping.fm/NKyTT

The most successful part of Microsoft's Entertainment Group "has lost billions of dollars". - @NickWingfield http://bit.ly/9NIdRK

The Statue of Liberty As Seen from The High Line Magnified 700%... http://zulukane.com/post/628613143

"The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason." - T.S. Eliot (via http://ping.fm/1435y)

"it's not what I know that I'm worried about, it's what I don't know that's really interesting." http://bit.ly/aC4LCA

"Imagine getting access to all the data Google has about you, and everything they’ve learned based on observing you." http://bit.ly/ccnEcK

"The ability to get out the data you put in is the bare minimum... you should be looking for in tools (you use)." - Kellan Elliott-McCrea

"Only in hindsight is it obvious just how remarkable Apple’s platform development process is." - @Gruber http://bit.ly/ci3NYR

"the early Web browsers... hit the biggest 80/20 point ever in the history of User Interfaces..." - Tim Bray http://ping.fm/PWJXi

"iPhone OS is the first mass-market operating system where consumers are no longer afraid to install software." - @FraserSpeirs

reading Fraser Speirs' "Back In" about why he's returned to developing for the iPhone OS. http://bit.ly/bdZ5bm

"Money is like gasoline during a road trip; you don't want to run out of gas... but you're not doing a tour of gas stations." Tim O'Reilly

reading Max Chafkin's interview with Tim O'Reilly, aka "The Oracle of Silicon Valley", in Inc. http://ping.fm/8XHMO

"Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind."

reading Steve Job's Thoughts on Flash". http://bit.ly/baTLdi

"You can’t privatize what only works because it’s public." - Doc Searls http://bit.ly/d064WJ

"being a hotbed doesn’t scale... eventually these companies have to tap into the general talent pool..." - Dave Winer http://ping.fm/NWzCU

ZuluKane.com: From the Top of the Great Pyramid by Lee Miller, 1937 (via... http://tinyurl.com/3yym37r

ZuluKane.com: Saturn V Launch at 500 gorgeous frames per second (via Mark... http://tinyurl.com/2abnspt

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust (via @Judith12)

reading Marc Benioff's "Hello, iPad. Hello, Cloud 2." at TechCrunch. http://ping.fm/N6054

"Can shame survive in a world without privacy?" - Dave Pell http://bit.ly/cSBU9p

“What would privacy be like if it weren’t connected to shame?” - The Cluetrain Manifesto

the business model of Somali Pirates is impressively straightforward and, well, business-like, according to the U.N.. http://bit.ly/drb1UJ

"Some mistakes are so refreshing." - @OliviaDresher

"at this point, 'not a mobile company' is getting hard to distinguish from 'not a relevant company'.” - @Gruber http://bit.ly/bR53B2

ZuluKane.com: Blue Daisy still life by Jason Horowitz http://bit.ly/daUWvp

"If your investors say you need to force your users to use your stuff, fire your investors and keep the users." http://bit.ly/aNgNuU

"A professional is an amateur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach (via @Lola) training

looking at @ChrisMessina's slides for "ActivityStrea.ms: Is It Getting Streamy In Here?" http://bit.ly/92hZhN

reading @LouisGray's summary of @ChrisMessina's SXSW talk about "Activity Streams" building on Atom & RSS standards. http://bit.ly/cwoRS5

ZuluKane.com: Barinas in the shade by Clow el Ronin http://bit.ly/cF4E0w

on Twitter i am @ZuluKane. http://ping.fm/LCK6s

testing Ping.fm and Tweets on LinkedIn. does this appear twice? (click on view full profile at http://ping.fm/pOb73)

ZuluKane.com: Aerial view of Edinburgh (1920) - Alfred G Buckham... http://bit.ly/cY4OcB

"'Good question' means they don’t have the answer. Maybe it also means the best questions are unanswerable." - @DSearls http://bit.ly/9mQjdJ

"'Good question'... means they don’t have the answer. Maybe it also means the best questions are unanswerable." - @DSearls

ZuluKane.com: Dam by Leidorf http://bit.ly/d578yN

"if Apple had patented these things in 1984... A company called NeXT would have been blocked from creating NeXTStep." http://bit.ly/bCTqhn

[link] Zulu Kane - The Crab Nebula by NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A.... http://bit.ly/cXfvWD

ZuluKane.com: The Crab Nebula by NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (via Goddard... http://bit.ly/cXfvWD

freewill is not happiness. (though it could be the means.)

"micro information (works) because we have come to a point where readers/writers have access to any needed missing information." - B. Wayne

reading comments on @Rands' "A Story Culture". http://ping.fm/63AIg

"There is a natural fault line between bits and meaning" - @BobFrankston

"sacrificing companies for the greater good is the very essence of capitalism" - Bob Frankston (@BobFrankston) http://bit.ly/aQvnh6

"A network is like a country in that it is a web of relationships regulated by standards." - Kevin Kelly http://bit.ly/b9kur5

"Law is becoming irrelevant. The real locus of regulation is going to be computer code." - Lawrence Lessig http://bit.ly/b9kur5

"t’s not as though the iPad is going to murder curiosity." - Dan Moren http://bit.ly/9zsUP4

"The iPad won’t kill the computer any more than the graphical user interface did away with the command line." - @DMoren http://bit.ly/9zsUP4

"Apple and Adobe invented modern publishing together... they've been fighting like an old unmarried couple ever since." http://bit.ly/b4v5Mi

"Apple and Adobe invented modern publishing together... they've been fighting like an old unmarried couple ever since." http://bit.ly/b4v5Mi

"...humanity doesn’t want a computing experience it can tinker with; it wants a computing experience that works." http://bit.ly/b4v5Mi

reading @Zeldman's "Flash, iPad, Standards". http://bit.ly/b4v5Mi

reading John @Scalzi's "All The Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend". http://bit.ly/byIS6c

"The web, as a whole, is arguably the single most entrenched computer technology ever created. " - John Gruber http://bit.ly/bYDmQ7

now reading @Gruber's answer to "What if Flash Were an Open Standard?" http://bit.ly/bYDmQ7

yesterday, i read @DaveWinter's worries about Apple's increasing influence over web standards. http://bit.ly/bJVPnL

reading @StevenF's thoughts about "Old World and New World computing". http://bit.ly/9LXNlA

reading Andy @Ihnatko's "Hands-on with the Apple iPad – it does make sense" in the @SunTimes. http://bit.ly/bMfACl

"What you’re seeing in the industry’s reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock." - - @FraserSpeirs http://bit.ly/d8VPxv

"Our actions bridge the dimensions of difference between fantasy and reality." - @Lola

"...Flash will turn into something like Internet Explorer." - @Gruber http://bit.ly/aX8Khf

"big tech companies have been trying to get the genie back in the bottle. It's the nature of bigness and corporateness" http://bit.ly/d6CFLx

"some of us envisioned the world we live in today, only... the upside of networked thinking, never the dangers." http://bit.ly/d6CFLx

reading @DaveWiner's "Should we trust iPad?" http://bit.ly/d6CFLx (his links lead me, directly and indirectly, to some previous articles.)

"Many people will criticise the iPad for being a walled garden, but it has the open internet..." - @Jaggeree http://bit.ly/bfFtEv

reading @Jaggeree's "Why the iPad may be just what we need for Digital Inclusion". http://bit.ly/bfFtEv

"the Internet is an integral part of the iPhone OS (that) you can tinker with to your heart's delight" - @JoeHewitt http://bit.ly/9S7kjV

asking @Al3x: do you think the ease of modern development tools compensates for closing (abstracting away) the system to users?

comparing the different perspectives of hacker/tinkerers @Al3x and @JoeHewitt.

"the iPhone/iPad platform itself could hardly be more open to tinkerers of all ages." - @JoeHewitt http://bit.ly/9S7kjV

"iPad is an incredible opportunity for developers to re-imagine every single category of desktop and web software." http://bit.ly/9S7kjV

reading @JoeHewitt's post about the iPad. http://bit.ly/9S7kjV

"The iPad... (is) a detriment to the sort of hacker culture that has propelled the digital economy." - @Al3x http://bit.ly/db66lc

"The iPad is an attractive, thoughtfully designed, deeply cynical thing. It is a digital consumption machine." - @Al3x http://bit.ly/db66lc

thinking @LouisGray overstates "the iPad does about 90% of what you expect from a traditional $1,000 to $2,000 laptop". http://bit.ly/btsQz3

reading @LouisGray's "iPad Wins On Casual Computing, Content Consumption". http://bit.ly/btsQz3

reading @Gruber's "Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad". http://bit.ly/ddZPaw

"You have to appreciate... how well Apple plays the vertical game (and) how much we also need the horizontal one." http://bit.ly/cQD7RE

reading @DSearls' "Up the creek without an iPaddle". http://bit.ly/cQD7RE

reading @DSearls' "Up the creek without an iPaddle". http://bit.ly/cQD7RE

“Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” - Gertrude Stein (via @CruftBox's http://bit.ly/cnvDLb)

market domination by any proprietary system ultimately rallies competitors to open standards, the only viable alternative. (re: @PEGonTech)

reading @PEGonTech's "strategic implications of iPad". http://bit.ly/bG9ZHl

clearly, the MacBook Air was a bi-product of earlier development of Apple's iPad tablet computer.

ZuluKane.com: A yellow jacket nest engulfs the inside of a 1955 Chevrolet... http://bit.ly/6kPf1x

ZuluKane.com: "Many of the canyons and ravines in the San Gabriels — the Big Tujunga, the Pacoima .. http://bit.ly/6URMXy

"if you’re not slightly embarrassed by the first version of your product, you haven’t launched soon enough" - attributed to Reid Hoffman

ZuluKane.com: why growing local is inevitable - Jeff Rubin speaking at The... http://bit.ly/6ONT9S

"most interesting... is not the nodes on the network, but the type, density and flexibility of the connection between" http://bit.ly/7pcG5l

"it's easier to predict stupidity than cleverness." - Cory Doctorow http://bit.ly/68uQ5u

"The difference between success and failure is almost never just one factor. It’s the balance between many factors." http://bit.ly/7Mhwg6

ZuluKane.com: Kurt Vonnegut’s letter home after release from POW camp,... http://bit.ly/4SBJzc

"if I’m excited to play around with something, it probably doesn’t belong in production." - Maciej Ceglowski http://bit.ly/4X9aVp

"Uncertainty is a kind of liquidity." - Kevin Kelly http://bit.ly/7VQxYB

"I no longer to try remember facts, or even where I found the facts. I have learned to summon them on the Internet." http://bit.ly/7VQxYB

"My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest." - Thomas Jefferson

"outside of people that know what they’re doing, (Android is) leading the rest into a forest with wolves in the dark" http://bit.ly/59fXzJ

"We need MP3 for words." - @Chockenberry

"(the collective sigh of relief) leaks out through the weatherstripping of (Apple's) legendary Storm Door Of Silence" http://bit.ly/86qcez

"Where Google is about the wisdom of crowds, Facebook is about the wisdom of friends." - Elliot Schrage, Facebook VP http://bit.ly/5feJsB

ZuluKane.com: USS Macon ZRS-5 (1933 via x-ray delta one) http://bit.ly/7Gr9lW

reading at @Gruber's reasonable speculation about Apple's much alleged "tablet" portable computer. http://bit.ly/4XrM99