Malcolm Gladwell — The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted.

“[Digital activism] shifts our energies from organizations that promote strategic and disciplined activity and toward those which promote resilience and adaptability. It makes it easier for activists to express themselves, and harder for that expression to have any impact. The instruments of social media are well suited to making the existing social order more efficient. They are not a natural enemy of the status quo.”

A post on turning pirates into customers by the creator of Minecraft.

“Large parts of the culture these days exists in a world where copies are free. Copying a physical book costs money, but copying a digital movie is free. […] No resources are lost, nobody loses any money, and more people are having fun. […]

All of society and economics is based on an old outdated model where giving something to someone would rid the original owner of their copy. […] For example, for every wheel in the market, someone had to make that wheel. With digital copies, you only need to make the wheel once. […]

If someone pirates Minecraft instead of buying it, it means I’ve lost some ‘potential’ revenue. Not actual revenue, as I can never go into debt by people pirating the game too much.”

“Enter the address of the home where you grew up.”

A Google Maps enhanced music video by Chris Milk for Arcade Fire, complete with beautiful boid swarming on the landing page.

Hypnagogia: “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming?”

DIY Magic. via

Also: The Ganzfeld Technique

“A progressive lending library of electronic components. An internet meme in physical form halfway between P2P zip-archive sharing and a flea market.”

John, a previous student of mine, made this weather-aware application and entered it in the Apps 4 Climate Action contest.

Enter your (Canadian) address to see the average rainfall in your area over the last 7 days. John’s site uses data from Environment Canada’s 1079 weather stations. (See the Rain Caddy About page for a map of all these stations.)

Open Data for the win.

Simple, addictive helicopter game written with HTML5 complete with source code.