Monthly Archives: November 2011

Twitter: @counternotions

counternotions The NYC Manhattan Grid extended to every point on Earth. http://t.co/nXlm0jGi (And that’s exactly how it should be.)

Twitter: @scareduck

scareduck Vaxil’s vaccine could keep about 90 percent of cancers from coming back. http://t.co/QCbuVvY4

Blog: Journal of a Programmer: Software Patents, Microsoft, Android, and Barnes & Noble

Software Patents, Microsoft, Android, and Barnes & Noble Bryan, Journal of a Programmer

5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation

5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation “But now, when we catch you doing that, we mock you and tell you to go flip burgers. And that’s bullshit. We told you your whole lives that those jobs were for idiots and failures. You think you’re too good for those jobs because that’s what […]

Which Glue Should I Use?

Which Glue Should I Use? From: I Love Charts

Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: What Happens If Iran Gets The Bomb?

What Happens If Iran Gets The Bomb? Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

National Basketball Players Association web site

National Basketball Players Association web site “Error 404: Basketball Not Found Please be patient as we work on resolving this. We are sorry for the inconvenience.”

Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #76

The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #76 Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Disruptive MBA: On the Triggers of Disruption

The Disruptive MBA: On the Triggers of Disruption Probably need to reread this one to understand it.

Twitter: @pkedrosky

pkedrosky This is pure @timoreilly: Insightful, surprising, literate and positive. Birth of the global mind – http://t.co/W8sgJnTC

Meaning in Life Is Logically Independent of Questions about the Supernatural

Meaning in Life Is Logically Independent of Questions about the Supernatural Big Think, Will Wilkinson

Twitter: @claychristensen

claychristensen Why education is ready for disruption, now – interview over @TheNextWeb http://t.co/XjKOv0SA via @InnosightInstit

Leonardo’s Formula Explains Why Trees Don’t Splinter

Leonardo’s Formula Explains Why Trees Don’t Splinter The graceful taper of a tree trunk into branches, boughs, and twigs is so familiar that few people notice what Leonardo da Vinci observed: A tree almost always grows so that the total thickness of the branches at a particular height is equal to the thickness of the […]

Blog: I Love Charts: A chart for songwriters. Put the root note in at (1) and fill in…

A chart for songwriters. Put the root note in at (1) and fill in… iwasaradio, I Love Charts

Blog: Dilbert.com Blog: Banks

Banks (author unknown), Dilbert.com Blog

The DIY Filmmaker’s Toolkit

The DIY Filmmaker’s Toolkit

YouTube: Nicholas Cage – Sankyo Pachinko ad

Nicholas Cage – Sankyo Pachinko ad hatsujoki

Transitions In Design

Transitions In Design Transitions are the subtle in-between details that we as human beings actually connect with and the reasons we fall in love with something rather than simply like something.

Michael Lewis and Billy Beane talk Moneyball. – Slate Magazine

Michael Lewis and Billy Beane talk Moneyball. – Slate Magazine ‘The book, Lewis agrees, is partly “about the intellectualisation of a previously not intellectual job.’

What If Middle-Class Jobs Disappear? — The American Magazine

What If Middle-Class Jobs Disappear? — The American Magazine Arnold Kling: “These trends serve to limit the availability of well-defined jobs. If a job can be characterized by a precise set of instructions, then that job is a candidate to be automated or outsourced to modestly educated workers in developing countries.”