“Fitbit for your vagina”
San Francisco-based Minna Life has a Kickstarter campaign for, not exactly a wearable device (I don't think), but certainly one that takes exercise and self-monitoring to new places: kGoal,
In case you were sad that your ring doesn’t notify you when you have new email
…the problem of “jewelry that doesn’t make noise when something in your digital life” has just been disrupted by the perfectly-named Ringly, a Brooklyn company founded by eBay
“we are together in a universe where two human beings can simultaneously understand the statement ‘if space is numeric!'”
David Auerbach writes in Slate about “coder’s high,” an “intense feeling of absorption exclusive to programmers:" [O]ne of the things I miss about programming is the coder’s high:
“giving everybody the same length of cable:” equalizing distance to obliterate time in HFT
High-frequency trading has long stood as a great example of how the physicality of computing really matters, contrary to companies’ breezy declarations that everything is in The Cloud.
Chess and mental exhaustion
This afternoon, I ran across this bit in Thomas Kuhn’s interview with Werner Heisenberg: [Arnold] Sommerfeld would always have very definite opinions as to what people should do
“Students will tweet for help… and expect an immediate response”
When I was working on my dissertation I spent a week at Exeter University. It’s a lovely place, I think-- I really saw nothing other than the library,
“Loneliness in old age doesn’t occur just because older people haven’t learned to use the internet”
The Guardian reports on a recent report from the “centre-right Policy Exchange think tank… [that] recommends £875m should be spent on training the 6.2 million mainly elderly people
“Video games are all about making choices, right?”
Ars Technica has a piece about the political affiliations of gamers. According to two polls sponsored by Reason magazine and “conducted in December 2013 and April 2014, gamers
How can we “help the Internet connect us to others in a more meaningful way?”
A few days ago, Zócalo Public Square asked me for a short answer to the question, "What do we need to do to help the Internet connect us
“any technological device can only help you if you use it properly”
The latest of Scott Meyer’s Basic Instructions is great: [h/t to Balloon Juice]