Sean McBride

"archive.today is your personal Wayback Machine! It takes a "snapshot" of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears. This can be useful if you want to take a "snapshot" a page which could change soon: price list, job offer, real estate listing, drunk blog post, ... It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy. It also shortens URLs much like tinyurl, goo.gl and bit.ly do." - Sean McBride

"A chronology of one of our most inescapable metaphors, or what Macbeth has to do with Galileo." - Sean McBride

"I was recently asked to select my all-time favorite books for the lovely Ideal Bookshelf project by The Paris Review’s Thessaly la Force and artist Jane Mount. Despite the near-impossible task of shrinking my boundless bibliophilia to a modest list of dozen or so titles, I was eventually able to do it, and the selection included Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline (public library | IndieBound) by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton — among both my 7 favorite books on maps and my 7 favorite books on time, this lavish collection of illustrated timelines traces the history of graphic representations of time in Europe and the United States from 1450 to the present, featuring everything from medieval manuscripts to websites to a chronological board game developed by Mark Twain." - Sean McBride

Delicious. - Sean McBride

ordered - Todd Hoff

"The largest-ever study of natural language and its emotional capacity has found that the most commonly used words in human language across different cultures remain to carry positive connotations than negative ones. The study published in the journal PNAS is considered to be the first one to use a massive data to establish the Pollyanna hypothesis. It is a notion that states humans are fundamentally happiest when socializing." - Sean McBride

"They tested the hypothesis with a set of tools that were not available in 1969. The researchers have gone through Twitter, the New York Times, the Google Books Project, Google's Web Crawl, and a library of movie and television subtitles and song lyrics to come up with a list of around 10,000 most commonly used words in each of 10 languages. Languages included English, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Indonesian and Egyptian Arabic. In the next phase, the researchers asked native speakers of each of those languages to rate how they felt in response to each of those words on a nine-point scale." - Sean McBride

0. criterion 1. city+* 2. fame 3. importance for * 4. nation+* 5. number of links to * 6. number of mentions of * 7. strategic importance 8. wealth - Sean McBride

"The world now has a record 2,089 billionaires – and for the first time, India has more of them than Britain or Russia. The latest Hurun Global Rich List 2015 charts every dollar billionaire currently living in the world. It shows an additional 222 billionaires were created last year, almost a third of whom were in China. The US still holds the crown for most mega-wealthy residents, at 537. But China is not far behind with 430, having acquired 72 new billionaires in 2014." - Sean McBride

"It turns out that the "let there be light" moment in the early universe occurred much later than scientists previously thought, according to a newly published analysis of data collected from the European Space Agency's Planck telescope." - Sean McBride