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Curious?
- How can we best improve life and culture in a world of accelerating change?How can we develop an educational culture of self directed learning fueled by insatiable curiosity?
Greetings wanderer! I'm Curious John. Are you curious, too? Let's play!
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- Nov 28, 11
Late one night that magical first week of #OccupyWallStreet I had the pleasure of meeting Isaac Wilder, one of the technical co-founders of the Free Network Foundation. I was immediately compelled by his ferver for open, economical, and decentralized networks— not to mention he had a pretty amazing beard. Over the last few months the foundation has been working against all odds to build prototypes for Internet infrastructure that’s theoretically more resistant to censorship and surveillance, as well as being more resilient in the event of natural disaster. I shot this video of Isaac a couple weeks ago for the FNF’s IndyGoGo campaign. They’re trying to raise $75K by the end of the year to build three FreedomLinks and support FreedomTowers as they’re deployed all over the world. If you love the Internet as much as I do you should really give the project a look and donate if you can. And of course, share this with everyone you know!
I’d like to thank Monica Ellis and Kirby Ferguson. This wouldn’t have been possible without their awesome Creative Commons contributions. :)
- Jul 05, 11
On July 14th I’ll be joining my brother on a 1,500 mile bicycle tour from Vidalia, GA to Omaha, NE. Averaging 71 miles per day, it will take us about 16 days to complete the 1,000+ miles from Atlanta to Omaha, making it the longest consecutive time spent together since we were kids. I’m overwhelmingly stoked… and a little out of shape.
Thanks to Chris Tavel over at Loose Nuts Cycles for hooking me up with a sweet training bike; Tomorrow I’m heading to the Silver Comet Trail for my first 100 mile ride just 9 days before full blown touring. I’m sure to be sore for days, but I’m hoping to recover in just enough time to keep up with these guys who have been training hard in the South Georgia heat for over 6 weeks. Will it be enough? Only time will tell.
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“Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.” — Linus Pauling
You’ve probably seen quadrocopters and marveled at their aerial acrobatics, but do you know how they work? Here’s a little breakdown.
Whatever shall I do with 20 of the fake mustaches I snagged from @scoutmob? Wear them, duh! #staycurious (Taken with instagram)
Who wants to loan me $200K for whole body cryonics? Once resurected I’ll be your servant for the first century of our newfound eternity– a fair trade, I think.
It is important to understand the extraordinary volumes of data being generated and how this will increase exponentially in the near future. In the course of a day, we generate the same amount of data as had been captured since the beginning of history up to the year 2003. Much of this is information attached to individuals. Our digital footprints and shadows are being gathered together, bit by bit, megabyte by megabyte, terabyte by terabyte, into personas and profiles and avatars – virtual representations of us, in thousands of locations.
From “Should we ditch the idea of privacy?” by Don Tapscott http://reut.rs/Kfvk7X- Conversations on Greyhound
- Dale from Arkansas: I'm an outlaw.
- Me: Oh?
- Dale: Yeah, I love my weed and alchohol.
- Me: I'm not big on either but you know what I do like?
- Dale: Meth!?
- Me: Uhhh, not quite...
- I was going to say chocolate. 0.o
To regret the past is to diminish the present and invalidate ones very existence.
Exploring morphing fractal geometry
Mesmerizing! Hands down the coolest fractal animation I’ve ever seen.
What are fractals? A fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat technical sense, on all scales. The object need not exhibit exactly the same structure at all scales, but the same “type” of structures must appear on all scales. A plot of the quantity on a log-log graph versus scale then gives a straight line, whose slope is said to be the fractal dimension. The prototypical example for a fractal is the length of a coastline measured with different length rulers. The shorter the ruler, the longer the length measured, a paradox known as the coastline paradox.
Go watch this..
björk biophilia app intro narrated by david attenborough (by bjorkdotcom)
“With Biophilia comes a restless curiosity, an urge to investigate and discover the illusive places where we meet nature.”
This boat was built from riveted together scrap metal and ran off an old car motor. Supposedly it was used once by Cubans who abandoned it in the Dry Tortugas after being granted US citizenship by touching US soil. (Taken with instagram)
It’s a bit hard to make out but that’s a crocodile in the moat around the Dry Totugas. (Taken with instagram)
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Status
- If technology allows us to automate a job, we ought not fret over the loss of said job, but rejoice in the liberation of a human.
- "Digital technology is our baby..." —James Harvey http://ow.ly/1L110d
- I'm so sick of all my Atlanta friends getting mugged and violently assaulted! Let's think outside the box here; What can we as a community do to lessen these occurrence other than retreat indoors and cower in fear?
- Spent the evening teaching little kids to slackline at this awesome square in downtown Cancun, (pics should be my timeline) then Mickey Mouse and about 10 Marios and Luigis took the stage for some kind of regatone dance off. It was amazing... Sooo, I'm not usually the "partying" type, but it's Saturday night in Cancun and we're headed out. Fiesta!
- "Buy the ticket, take the ride." Hunter S. Thompson
- So sick of overhearing men all like "Hey honey/darlin'/cutie/sexy, why don't you *assumptive patriarchal suggestion*" It's truly nauseating.
- Been stuck in the car for 6 hours. Back is not happy. I can haz robocar with tempurpedic mattress plzzz?
- I'm seeking the understanding necessary to be a great storyteller and the wisdom to know the stories worth telling. This is my intention.
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Tweets
- Atlanta CouchSurfers Meetup tonight at 7pm, 5 Seasons Westside. See you there! http://t.co/AIgn2I6x
- Sanctioning Corruption in the US Senate http://t.co/ajLoHyNu via @sunfoundation
- @DavidSagat haha, yeah...
- This person may have just taken douchebag to a whole new level. http://t.co/TCfjf9Xg
- @judiknight oh, you used @ifttt. Rad!
- And I keep hoping @twitter will do something cool w/ lists, but they've been virtually stagnant for forever. Meanwhile Facebook's improving.
- Say whaaaat!? @twitter won't let me follow more people until more follow me, but I'm obviously not a spammer; I'm just so curious... C'mon!
- @judiknight I noticed you just added me to your "engagers" list. Was that automated. If so, what service?
- @Maigh @chrisguillebeau @judiknight ah! how did i not know about this!? rushing out the door. is it too late?
- @zaren haha, no but I should!
- @BeParticular LOLSagan just made my day :)May 14, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @ChuckLivid @tweetbot! It's awesome.
- ran 2.4 mi http://t.co/ITjqcd2n
- Whatever shall I do with 20 of the fake mustaches I snagged from @scoutmob? Wear them, duh! #staycurious http://t.co/SJMTZBK8
- Avengers was cool... Wish Stark hadn't made it back through the portal. Would've been a great setup for "Iron Man, IN SPACE."
- Pre-movie commercial: "US NAVY. A Global Force For Good." Is that so? Nothing like a little #mothersday #propaganda.
- Mothers day movie with @judieroo. :) @ Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 16 & IMAX http://t.co/Cr0GRSjP
- But we're all just doing the best we can, aren't we?
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- Jan 2010 - PresentDigital Media Strategist / Curious John Media
- Jan 2005 - Jan 2008Sales / Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Interests:technology, entertainment, design, education, digital rights, human-computer interaction, mobile computing, storytelling, travel, intentional community, accelerating change, gaming
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- 1 tracks (20:11)Hand picked live performances from around the world, with a bit of info about the act, venue and hometown.
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Top ArtistsRyan AdamsRadioheadBeach HouseBand of HorsesBon IverLeonard CohenFleet FoxesGorillazPink FloydDeath Cab For CutieClem SnideThe ShinsShpongleKings of LeonM83My Morning JacketEmancipatorThe BeatlesArcade FireRilo KileySmoking PopesMuseNeil YoungRyan Adams & The CardinalsSimon & GarfunkelBen FoldsBen Folds FivemewithoutYouBroken Social SceneOutKastAirWhiskeytownBright EyesNada SurfThe Magnetic FieldsDavid BowieElliott SmithBelle and SebastianSpoonIron & WineModest MouseSufjan StevensBonnie 'Prince' BillyYo La TengoNeutral Milk HotelThe Mountain GoatsThe Black KeysR.E.M.TravisJohn Vanderslice
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Watched Repositories
- The official @github repository of the OpenPhoto frontend software. A photo sharing and photo management web interface for data stored "in the cloud" (i.e. Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles, Google Storage).116 forks / 714 watchers / Pushed May 18, 12
- Distributed and contextual social networking1355 forks / 6737 watchers / Pushed May 18, 12
- Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project169 forks / 541 watchers / Pushed May 17, 12
- A scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress.11 forks / 87 watchers / Pushed May 17, 12
- ThinkUp archives and analyzes your social media activity on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and beyond.361 forks / 1988 watchers / Pushed May 14, 12
- Boot to Gecko aims to create a complete, standalone operating system for the open web.118 forks / 730 watchers / Pushed May 14, 12
- A JavaScript library for providing multiple simultaneous, stable, fault-tolerant and resumable/restartable uploads via the HTML5 File API.36 forks / 756 watchers / Pushed May 11, 12
- Stomping out capitalism, one line of code at a time28 forks / 85 watchers / Pushed May 05, 12
- The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting – Scriptographer ported to JavaScript and the browser, using HTML5 Canvas. Created by @juerglehni & @jonathanpuckey100 forks / 1594 watchers / Pushed Apr 25, 12
- The Homepage of the Liberty Plaza Occupation1 fork / 11 watchers / Pushed Apr 25, 12
- 7 forks / 17 watchers / Pushed Apr 13, 12
- Drumbeat.org. Rewritten in Django and made better.88 forks / 46 watchers / Pushed Mar 19, 12
- Bootstrap Skin for MediaWiki. Bootstrap is an excellent toolkit by Twitter. This is a MediaWiki skin based off of that template.8 forks / 47 watchers / Pushed Feb 22, 12
- Platform to enable crowd aggregation and curation of video1 fork / 4 watchers / Pushed Feb 01, 12
- Stomping out capitalism, one line of code at a time1 fork / 8 watchers / Pushed Dec 22, 11
- A Foursquare (http://foursquare.com/) client for Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). THIS APP NO LONGER WORKS AND IS NOT BEING MAINTAINED.24 forks / 129 watchers / Pushed Nov 25, 11
- Information about #OWS technology, how to help, and how to use our code.1 fork / 5 watchers / Pushed Oct 26, 11
- A Kademlia-based DHT and JSON protocol for application meshing and eventing50 forks / 515 watchers / Pushed Oct 04, 11
- Version 2 is available (link below). Please don't use the old version anymore (will not be maintained)!25 forks / 137 watchers / Pushed Oct 13, 10
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Checkins
- 5 Seasons Brewing1000 Marietta St NW
- Urban Oasis B&B130 A-Krog St. Ste A
- eHire3500 Lenox Rd NE
- Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 16 & IMAX261 19th St NW
- Greyhound Terminal - Atlanta232 Forsyth St SW
- Envy Labs121 South Orange Ave Suite 1050
- Sweat Records5505 NE 2nd Ave
- Cristof's On McGregor10231 McGregor Boulevard
- Fort Myers BeachAnywhere!
- Justicia SocialAv. Rueda Medina
- Parque de las PalapasMargaritas
- Hostel Ka'behCalle Alcatraces#45 SM: 22 Mza:10 Lt:26
- Parque de las PalapasMargaritas
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- Sunn KroppChedrahui
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- Atlanta, GA, May 20122012-05-11 - 2012-05-11
- Cancun, Mexico, April 20122012-04-13 - 2012-04-13
- San Francisco, CA, December 20112011-12-29 - 2011-12-29
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