The Airportline: Observations

The Quote:
'Is it a dream, is it a lie, I think I'll let your decide' - Arcade Fire - Power Out

The Video:
If you think a music video should contain the same kind of American realism, coupled with the imaginary and absurd that made Magnolia into such a special movie, this video with Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg is something for you.

The bridge:
Our Dublin correspondent informs us that the Samuel Beckett bridge opened yesterday in Dublin. Looks very similar to the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam.

The word:
Continuous Partial Attention coined by Linda Stone in 1998 and describe the fact that many people never focus on only one thing, instead we multi task and sleep with our phones and always have our laptops so that we can chat with friends and what not.

'Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. It is different from multi-tasking. The two are differentiated by the impulse that motivates them. When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing. We give the same priority to much of what we do when we multi-task — we file and copy papers, talk on the phone, eat lunch -- we get as many things done at one time as we possibly can in order to make more time for ourselves and in order to be more efficient and more productive. To pay continuous partial attention is to pay partial attention — CONTINUOUSLY. It is motivated by a desire to be a LIVE node on the network. Another way of saying this is that we want to connect and be connected. We want to effectively scan for opportunity and optimize for the best opportunities, activities, and contacts, in any given moment. To be busy, to be connected, is to be alive, to be recognized, and to matter.' from Wikipedia